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Metahaven @ San Serriffe, Nov 5

4 November 2015

Amsterdam-based strategic design agency Metahaven will launch their new book, Black Transparency with an event hosted at Amsterdam’s San Serriffe on November 5.

The theme of the book continues the agency’s interest in the conflation of aesthetics and politics in a hyper-connected world. Their previous books, Can Jokes Bring Down Goverments? (2013) and Uncorporate Identity (2010), consider the changing nature of visual practice within internet cultures. This book is based on their exhibition, held under the same name, Black Transparency held at Berlin’s Future Gallery in 2014.

Explored in both the book and exhibition is the concern of the way in which information openness is not a uninlinear or undifferentiated proposition. Such ideas will be expanded on in conversation withAmsterdam-based graphic designer and design researcher, David Bennewith, on the night.

See the Facebook event page for details.**

Header image: call.hollyherndon.com. Screen capture courtesy Metahaven.

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‘NOON ON THE MOON’ launch @ San Serriffe, Feb 14

13 February 2015

San Serriffe will be hosting the launch of fourth edition of the ‘Noon on the Moon’ poetic series on February 14.

The Amsterdam-based art book shop brings the launch on the ugliest day of the year – Valentine’s Day – perhaps as a means of channeling the forced sentimentality of the holiday into something actually meaningful.

The evening kicks off at 17:00 and the poetic series combines (like most things do these days) poetry, literature and visual art, challenging the traditional forms of narrative.

Initiated by Keren Cytter and co-edited with Fiona Bryson, the fourth edition is seasonally themed, interpreting the dreaded holiday in an abstract sense with poetry from Barry Schwabsky, Charles Bernstein, Judith Goldman and Dorothea Lasky, prose by Veronica Gonzalez Peña, and colorful romance covers illustrated by  Vicki Khuzami. Other contributors include Luna Miguel, Sophie CollinsKeith J Varadi and Dena Yago, amongst a dozen or so others.

See the San Serriffe website for details. **

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Events + exhibitions, Feb 9 – 15

9 February 2015

Shifting focus away from some standout festivals and fairs starting the year, the week beginning February 9 is a big one for one-off events and exhibitions. Kimmo Modig and Shana Moulton will be performing in Athens and Nottingham respectively, while Hannah Sawtell, Jenny Moore and PC Music‘s Finn Diesel are performing in London.

Also in the UK capital, are new exhibition openings at Jupiter Woods, Project Native Informant, Grove House and Vilma Gold, while Eloïse Bonneviot is contributing to art label Caustic Coastal‘s first digital commission and the Pale Journal Issue 1 is launching at Space with performances and readings from artists including Sophie Jung and Anna Zett.

In Berlin, Leslie Kulesh is presenting as part of a Hotel Palenque commission at Center, while Emmy Skensved and Grégoire Blunt are showing eStamina at Import Projects, along with texts from Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Beny Wagner, Susan Ploetz among others. There’s an app launch happening at American Medium in New York and a poetry series launching at San Serriffe in Amsterdam, while London-based artist Hannah Perry is opening an exhibition in LA.

There’s more so see below:

EVENTS

Oculus Book Talk: Architecture/Astrology, Feb 9

Radical Thinkers @ Tate Modern, Feb 9 – 10

Garrett Nelson @ Oslo10, Feb 10

Kimmo Modig @ LIFE SPORT, Feb 10

Paper Circuits @ The White Building, Feb 11

8 the app release party @ American Medium, Feb 11

FR€€ ₮HI₦G$ @ STCFTHOTS, Feb 12

Les Oracles @ XPO Gallery, Feb 12 – Apr 4

Ways of Something @ The Photographers’ Gallery, Feb 12

Eloïse Bonneviot @ Caustic Coastal, Feb 12

Giant Swan, Hannah Sawtell &c @ The Waiting Room, Feb 12

Shana Moulton @ Primary, Feb 12

Non-Threat Event @ T.Chances, Feb 12

Section 6.2 @ The Yard, Feb 13

Rundgang Party 2015, Feb 13

Pale Journal Issue 1 launch @ Space, Feb 13

Carl Palm @ Parallel Oaxaca, Feb 14 – Mar 14

Finn Diesel @ Edition Hotel, Feb 14

Sue Tompkins @ Young Team, Feb 14

NOON ON THE MOON launch @ San Serriffe, Feb 14

Leslie Kulesh @ Center, Feb 14

DEBBIE @ Resistance Gallery, Feb 14

Jenny Moore @ Serpentine Galleries, Feb 14

OPENINGS

Beatrice Loft Schulz @ Grove House, Feb 9 – 15

Ned Vena @ Project Native Informant, Feb 11 – Mar 22

Graeme Thomson + Silvia Maglioni @ The Showroom, Feb 11 – Mar 28

Queer Resistance @ RM Gallery, Feb 12 – 28

Common Grounds @ Villa Stuck, Feb 12 – May 17

Patricia L Boyd @ Occasional Table, Feb 13 – 21

Mariana Ferratto @ The Gallery Apart, Feb 13 – Apr 11

Premiums Interim Projects @ Royal Academy of Arts, Feb 13 – Mar 11

☁ Self ~ Storage ☁ @ EMBASSY, Feb 13 – Mar 1

Grégoire Blunt + Emmy Skensved @ Import Projects, Feb 14 – Mar 7

Marlie Mul + Life Gallery @ Vilma Gold, Feb 14 – Mar 21

COOL – As a State of Mind @ MAMO, Feb 14 – Apr 26

It is My Diamond Now @ Jupiter Woods, Feb 14 – Mar 1

Hannah Perry @ Steve Turner Contemporary, Feb 14 – Mar 14

Isaac Lythgoe @ Almanac Projects, Feb 14 – Apr 4

See here for exhibitions opening last week.

Header image: Shana Moulton, ‘SPF 2012’ (2013).

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