TextFields is an investigation into the metaphysical worlds between text and space.

We are interested in the possible forces that text can generate within a spatial and formal context.

Exploring the sensual energy of unfocused and charged textual forms, we want to understand where do fonts and space lose their limits, where do they become forces and vectors in a field, and where this field is perceived as a field for the unfamiliar; a field without a perceived centre, a field where the inherent qualities of both are dismantled, where the reader, the voyeur and the visitor are intertwined, and where in this lies the emergence of a field of text.

via TextFields.

Figures of Speech (Formation of a Crystal) by Falke Pisano

Title: Figures of Speech (Formation of a Crystal) by Falke Pisano
Location: Hollybush Gardens – London E2 9QP: www.hollybushgardens.co.uk

Description: Figures of Speech (Formation of a Crystal) by Falke Pisano

Exhibition 22 April – 7 June

Private View 21 April 7 – 9 pm. There will be a performance during the
opening at 7.45 pm.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-04-21

Falke Pisano is immersed in both the written and spoken word. In her practice ideas and concepts, proposed through language, are juxtaposed with abstract objects. A dialogue of affect and effect is initiated between object and concept – one affecting the other – forming the potential of a third proposition, in a continuous process of production. Pisano’s works can be perceived as bringing together concerns of abstract modernism and conceptual art. Figures of Speech is an umbrella title that refers not only to this exhibition but to a larger body of works that includes Pisano’s recent and forthcoming oeuvre. Like a series of proposals, the scheme for this show is set out in diagrammatic drawings that show four ‘speaking’ positions. It’s core consists of the text-based performance Figures of Speech 1, 2008, which originates from three earlier works; The Complex Object, Object and Disintegration: The Object of Three and O Eu e O Tu / The I and the You. Here Pisano considers different possibilities for agency within an artistic practice, questioning how agency can be structurally transferred from the artist and into the artwork. The performance will take place during the exhibition opening. In material terms the ‘speaking’ positions will become hanging wall based works – part costume, part wall sculpture and part collected sculptural elements. By referring to these sculptures as ‘them’ and ‘what they can do’ Pisano suggests we perceive these sculptures as acting subjects and authors of meaning. The structure of the hanging sculptures/costumes will be flexible so that they can be expanded/taken apart and constructed into one sculpture or be worn and de-constructed. These works are in a constant state of potential, where they may evolve into or be used to form a performance situation, which would also involve the central table piece in the show. Each of the positions emerge from previous works within the Figures of Speech series. Interested in how meaning is produced and to what extent it is ‘contained’ within the artwork, Pisano experiments with placing works in different contexts and relational compositions. Suggesting that mean- ing is not fixed Pisano often returns to older works to re-consider them, testing whether they can pose new questions in different situations. One concept can be used to give form to multiple objects. ‘Old’ forms can re-appear in new contexts – as if time and experience had given these objects self-awareness, they appear to be questioning their own meaning. The hanging sculptures are held in a tension between their past existence and their potential future. The imagination of – or the actual activation – of these sculptures opens up a situation of interaction in which these ‘speaking’ positions meet on equal terms. This method of engaging and activating old forms breaks a sense of linear progress. Rather than critiquing the old in search of the new Pisano suggests a different approach to criticality. Pisano’s works can be seen as constantly becoming – holding the potential of proposing new voices when activated in new relational situations. Falke Pisano (B.1978, The Netherlands) lives and works in Berlin. Forthcoming exhibitions include: Talkshow, ICA, London, May, Making Worlds curated by Daniel Birnbaum for the 53rd Venice Biennale, Modernologies and The Malady of Writing, both at MACBA, Barcelona September and October. Previous Exhibitions include: Organon on The Wave, with Benoît Maire, at Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, 2009, Show me, don’t tell me, Brussels Biennale, Brussels, 2008, Time Crevasse, Yokohama Triennale, Japan, 2008, Principle of Hope / Matter of Fact, Manifesta 7, Italy, 2008.

(via tlktlk.)

SuperMarketo is now DesignMarketo

SuperMarketo is a platform for the diffusion and promotion
of fresh-ground-breaking-up-and-coming designers and their own production.
We are based in London, but we like to think we are actively working everywhere.
We organise events like FoodMarketo and have a shop online: DesignMarketo.

We believe in the value of small series of objects designed and crafted/produced with love and pride by talented friends. We would like them to reach an audience as large as possible and this is the reason why you are reading those lines. We hope you will enjoy the few objects we selected and also the people behind them.

Supermarketo is now open

Satellite technology reveals how the network of city streets is being pushed to the edge of capacity. Watch the GPS traces of 380 London taxis over the course of a single day.

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☼ Nice Events in London / Jost Hochuli: Systematic book design?

Jost Hochuli: Systematic book design?
Location: Bridewell Hall, St Bride Foundation
Description: The adjective ‘systematic’ (from the Greek word ‘systematikos’) means, in one dictionary definition: ‘proceeding from a system, methodical, planned; corresponding to a system’. Systematic book design thus means: book design that follows a plan fixed before the work begins. A conscious, rational procedure sooner or later reaches an end: the unconscious – or that which is a matter of feeling – plays a large and often decisive role in design. Using examples from some of his own works, Jost Hochuli will try to show where the irrational has resolved rational decisons.

After this talk Jost will be happy to answer questions both on book design and aspects of typographic detailing, the subject of his new book ’Detail in typography’. Copies of this book published by Hyphen Press will be available for on sale on the evening at a specially discounted rate.

About the speaker

Jost Hochuli is a Swiss typographer and graphic designer. After study at the Kunstgewerbeschule St.Gallen, he trained as a compositor with the printer Zollikofer and at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich; his education was completed in 1958–9 in Adrian Frutiger’s class at the Ecole Estienne. Since then he has practised as a freelance graphic designer, eventually specializing in book design. In 1979 he co-founded the co-operatively run publishing company VGS Verlagsgemeinschaft St.Gallen, for which much of his book design work has been done. He has taught at the schools at Zurich and then St Gallen since 1967. As writer and editor, his books include Book design in Switzerland (1993), Designing books (1996), and a major monograph on his work: Jost Hochuli: Printed matter, mainly books (2002). An English-language edition of his Detail in typography was published earlier this year. He has edited and designed the annually published ‘Typotron’ series of booklets (1983–98) and the Edition ‘Ostschweiz’ (from 2000).

Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2008-11-27

DOT DOT DOT 17

Dotdotdot 17 – Day 1

Title: DOT DOT DOT 17
Location: The Studio, Embankment Galleries, Somerset House, The Strand, LONDON
Description: James Goggin (and others) will itemize ways of reading in London, 2008
Richard Hollis will listen to the image
Will Holder will speak of the poetics of concrete poetry and documenting
the work of Falke Pisano
Mike Sperlinger will introduce Stefan Themerson & Language
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2008-10-29

Dotdotdot 17 – Day 2

Title: DOT DOT DOT 17
Location: The Studio, Embankment Galleries, Somerset House, The Strand, LONDON
Description: Jennifer Higgie and Johnny Vivash will read from (and around) Carnival
Theory, a play-in-progress
Dan Fox will play an extended version of Refracted Light Through Armory Show
Agency will recount the copyright case of Papa Hemingway
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2008-10-30

Dotdotdot 17 – Day 3

Title: DOT DOT DOT 17
Location: The Studio, Embankment Galleries, Somerset House, The Strand, LONDON
Description: David Reinfurt will explain Naive Set Theory with an overhead projector
Malcolm McLaren (in absentia) will talk to Mark & Stephen Beasley (in
absentia)
Stuart Bailey will describe the science, fiction of E.C. Large, and
inaugurate the republishing of 2 novels
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2008-10-31

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(via tlktlk.)

Last week’s mention of raw eggs and sausages turning up in compost brought a flood of letters and emails: BBC – Radio 4 – Gardeners’ Question Time – Foxes

Via Amandine on Skype

Monument Of Doubts by Knut Henrik Henriksen (private view)

Title: Monument Of Doubts by Knut Henrik Henriksen (private view)
Location: Hollybush Gardens
Description: Knut Henrik Henriksen has developed a practice that employs a set of rules and restrictions as a means to investigate the potential of sculptural language. The formal aspects of the work emerge from measurements that come either from architectural specifications or pre-exist in mass-produced materials and formats. There is, it could be argued, a sort of latent democracy to this approach – the artist’s hand is curiously held at bay as the shapes emerge from a template, that once drawn offer endless possibilities – the construction of which is often in the hands of a third party producer.

Start Time: 6:30
Date: 2008-09-06

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Solo Show at KK Outlet First solo show titled 'Le Nouveau Riche' at KK Outlet, London. From the 4th to the 14th of September 2008.

Damien Poulain solo show at KK Outlet
* KK OUTLET is a multifunctional office combining a communications agency with a shop and gallery space. KK OUTLET is set up by the Amsterdam based communications agency KesselsKramer, an international group of nearly 40 people working for a broad local and worldwide client base as well as its own initiated projects.
** Damien Poulain is a french London based graphic designer and art director who specializes in print-based projects including books, small-run publications and record sleeves. Ongoing projects include t-shirts for 2K by Gingham, handcrafted set design for magazines such as Tank, Arena Homme+ (among others), as well as website design.

Michael Marriott