1. Kunstverein’s Brunch Lunch Launch presents Ginger&Piss #1

    June 17, 2010
    by Jeanne-Salome Rochat
    art, magazine talk, performance, SB people, writing/litterature

    With contributions by Elvira Belafonte, Hula Capellinni, Billy Male and G. Alonso Oeuf !!!

    27 June 2010, 2–5 pm
    Performance by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy starting at 3.30 pm

    Ginger&Piss is Kunstverein’s in-house magazine – a cross between an academic journal and a darts club newsletter. Ginger&Piss (the name a misquotation of Lawrence Weiner) is published twice yearly, with the first edition appearing in a short run. Each issue contains a maximum of five or six contributions of varying length, appropriate to the individual subject matter.

    The remit of Ginger&Piss is simple; to offer an outlet for authors to say what they feel is vital (and not necessarily at all related to the art world) but were unable, unwilling or too afraid to publish previously. The concept dictates that each contributor writes under a pseudonym. The editors guarantee full anonymity.

    The use of pseudonyms can be considered an answer to the cowardice of the art world, albeit a somewhat hypocritical one. By providing a platform for candid critique but at the same time allowing the author to hide behind a pseudonym, Ginger&Pisss recognizes its own complicit cowardice. In fact, Ginger&Piss fully embraces its somewhat misleading bravery, but maintains that it makes sense for now, for the current cultural climate­.

    Loud is the subject of the first issue and it is a broad – probably far too broad – theme (if a theme at all). In fact Quiet might have been more appropriate. But perhaps a clear, ‘honest’ voice is better suggested by volume than whispering.

    Krist Gruijthuijsen & Maxine Kopsa

    Kunstverein’s website, for more information: http://kunstverein.nl

  2. Who is who, and why do they do it?

    May 26, 2010
    by Jeanne-Salome Rochat
    discussion, magazine talk, reality, writing/litterature

    Early writers of pulp science fiction use pseudonyms for a variety of reasons. There are three main types, which are the collaborative pseudonym, the floating pseudonym, and house names. A collaborative pseudonym is one that stands for two or more authors who work collectively on a story. A floating pseodonym is one that is available to anyone who wants to use it. A house name is a variation of a floating pseudonym, where a publishing company will often use such a name to cover the fact that there are two contributions by the same author. Another reason might be that the contributor does not want others to know he or she has stories published in a certain framework.
    I am currently looking for one.

    Photography by Yata Pessino.

  3. O.K. festival in Arnhem (16 – 17 – 18 april)

    May 10, 2010
    by Jeanne-Salome Rochat
    design, discussion, magazine talk, reality, traveling

    3 days, 100 magazines, 1100 visitors and 1 dog.

    Pretty O.K.

  4. our friends of Some/Things interviewed by our friends of Lurve

    May 9, 2010
    by Maxime Buchi
    blogging, magazine talk, media

    http://www.lurvemag.com/notes.php?id=565348074

  5. Before there was A MAGAZINE, there was NºA

    May 1, 2010
    by Dan Thawley
    fashion, magazine talk

    NºA featuring Dirk Van Saene

    A MAGAZINE curated by have just released their very first archive online, from when the issues went ABC instead of 123!

    It all began with NºA featuring Dirk Van Saene, an initiative by Walter Van Beirendonck in Antwerp in 2001. See the issue here, and follow A BLOG featuring Dirk Van Saene. Stay posted for:

    NºB featuring Bernhard Willhelm – June 2010

    NºC featuring Hussein Chalayan – July 2010

    NºD featuring Olivier Theyskens – August 2010

    NºE featuring Viktor & Rolf - September 2010

    …and the impending announcement of the newest curator for A#10, released in print on 10th October, 2010.

  6. TONIGHT at 6.30pm @ Motto Berlin.

    April 29, 2010
    by Jeanne-Salome Rochat
    art, discussion, magazine talk, media, traveling

    Anfang gut, alles gut. Beginning good. All good.
    Presentation of the first Fanzine with a short introduction, sound recordings.

    Actualization of “Pobeda nad solncem“ (Victory over the Sun) (1913) with contributions by Thomas Baldischwyler, Mareike Bernien & Kerstin Schroedinger, Nine Budde, Ruth May, Avigail Moss, Peter Wächtler, Susanne M. Winterling

    The futurist opera “Victory over the Sun”, which was written and staged in 1913 in Petersburg wanted to “establish a collective work on the basis of word, painting and music”. Those are the words of the opera’s authors, the painter Kasimir Malewitsch, the musician Michail Matjuschin and the poets Alexeij Krutschenych and Welimir Chlebnikov, who wanted to create an “antiharmonious” work – against the spirit of their times.
    In Beginning good. All good, an actualization of „Pobeda nad solncem“ (Victory over the Sun), will translate this programmatic on the basis of the historical text and documentation of its stagings and reception into the present. The project brings together about 40 artists, musicians, theoreticians and people from other disciplines in order realize the exhibition project in May 2011 – one year after the publishing of this issue. With the project we would like to dismantle the opera’s self-enclose form into those artistic fragments and traces, which seem to correspond with the present, to than reconstruct them as actualized reformulations. To make the pre-production visible, we will produce a series of three subsequent fanzines for may 2010, october 2010 and january 2011.

    The project is initiated by Nina Köller and Kerstin Stakemeier.

  7. O.K. Festival: 16 – 17 – 18 April (Arnhem, NL)

    March 12, 2010
    by Jeanne-Salome Rochat
    europe, magazine talk, media, reality, SB people

    O.K. Festival is the first event in the Netherlands that offers a survey of independent magazines from all over the world. Under the title ‘Welcome Magazines’ O.K. Festival presents the energy and the visual explosion of strange, beautiful and original magazines.

    We won’t be there in person but Sang Bleu 5 will…

    Villa Sonsbeek
    Tellegenlaan 3
    
6814 BT Arnhem