(The Institute of Wild Archives)
at the Villa Arson in Nice, France
Galerie Carrée — Galeries du patio et des Cyprès
17 February  – 28 May 2012
http://www.villa-arson.org

This exhibition will bring together around thirty contemporary works that all have in common original and unique archiving systems both in their form and content. They are outside of the usual classifications in science or history. Each archive creates its ranking methods, its own categories, functions and uses.

åbäke (France – Sweden – United Kingdom), Eva Aeppli (Switzerland), Bertille Bak (France), Andrea Cera (Italy), Collective JukeBox (France), Sylvie e Sharif Defraoui (Switzerland), Patrick Everaert (Belgium ), Christoph Fink (Belgium), Ryan Gander (Great Britain), Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige (Lebanon – France), Susan Hiller (United States), Christoph Keller (Germany), Mike Kelley (United States), Alexandre Lenoir (France) Matt Mullican (United States), Daphne Navarre (France – Austria), Anna Oppermann (Germany), Dan Peterman (United States), Julien Prévieux (France), RangeT Kit (France), Michael Riedel (Germany), Alain Rivière (France) Ian Simms (South Africa – France), Jules Spinatsch (Switzerland), Tatiana Trouvé (Italy – France), Patrick Van Caeckenbergh (Belgium), Franz Erhard Walther (Germany), Tamara de Burgr Wehr & Joshua (Switzerland – United States).

Members of the Institute of wild archives: Jean-Michel Baconnier, Christophe Kihm, Eric Mangion, Florence Ostende and Marie Sacconi.

6 NOV 2011 – 26 FEB 2012

In October 2009 Casco initiated ‘The Grand Domestic
Revolution – User’s Manual’(GDR) in response to
an invitation from ‘Utrecht Manifest: Biennial
for Social Design’ to develop a project that
would question and challenge the very notion
of social design. With the aim of re-articulating
and exercising notions of the social, the public
and the commons, and departing from the grounds
of the domestic sphere, GDR evolved into a
long-term research platform and residency
exploring the urgent domestic concerns of
today and the potential transformative
ways to engage them.

THE EXHIBITION INCLUDES WORKS BY
Agency, Ask! (Actie Schone Kunsten)
with Andreas Siekmann, Sepake Angiama &
Sam Causer, Pauline Boudry /Renate
Lorenz, Doris Denekamp & Arend Groosman,
Domestic Workers Netherlands (part of
FNV Bondgenoten) with Matthijs de Bruijne,
Paul Elliman with Na Kim, Hans van Lunteren
and Rob van de Steen, Casco-HKU
Creative Lab ‘Extended Family’,
Andrea Francke, ‘Our Autonomous Life’
with Nazima Kadir, Maria Pask and an
evolving cooperative cast, Shiu Jin,
Mary Kelly, kleines postfordistisches
Drama, Germaine Koh, Graziela Kunsch,
Wietske Maas, Gordon Matta-Clark,
Travis Meinolf, Emilio Moreno, Read-in,
Martha Rosler, Helke Sander, Kateřina Šedá,
Kyohei Sakaguchi, Patricia Sousa, Xu Tan,
Valerie Tevere & Angel Nevarez, Mirjam Thomann,
Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Jort van der Laan,
Agnès Varda, Werker Magazine, Vincent
Wittenberg and Haegue Yang.

Exhibition design is by Ruth Buchanan and Andreas Müller. Exhibition map and
signage is developed by Åbäke. Curated by Binna Choi and Maiko Tanaka.

« Graphic Design: Now in production »
Visit this major international touring exhibition who explores how
graphic design has broadened its reach dramatically over the past decade,
expanding from a specialized profession to a widely deployed tool.
—Walker Art Center, Minneapolis,
October 22, 2011–January 22, 2012
—Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Governors Island, New York,
May 16–September 2, 2012
—Hammer Museum, Los Angeles,
September 30, 2012–January 6, 2013
—Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas,
July 19–September 29, 2013
—Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), North Carolina,
October 24, 2013–February 24, 2014

VALID TIL FURTHER NOTICE

Green roof dream team, John Little, Dan Monck, Duncan Kramer & Dusty Gedge, make beautiful, essential products which sometimes have green roofs. Visit them for advice, workshops, bike parking and more:

www.greenroofshelters.co.uk

« South London Black Music Archive »

Have you ever experienced music in South London? come to Peckham Space and contribute to an andecdotal map of venues, record shops, pirate radio stations, gigs et cetera we made for artist Barby Asante. Barby’s limited edition 12″ vinyl artwork ‘Legacy Tunes’ is also available, with photography by Erika Wall.

South London Black Music Archive by Barby Asante aims to celebrate, preserve and investigate South Londoners’ personal relationships with moments in black music history.

NOV 2011 — NOV 2012
« American Psycho (Chicago) »

MacLean 705, a project space located within an office atrium of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is pleased to present American Psycho by the UK-based design group, Åbäke. American Psycho consists of a series of business cards which are derived from a scene in the novel American Psycho, where they go on and on about . . . their business cards.
Bone vs. eggshell?
Silian Rail vs. Romalian?
Letterpress vs. raised type?
Åbäke’s strategy is to take a conversation about business cards and turn it into a discussion about the rhetoric of visual information design by placing the discussion back at the very point where it started: on a business card.

MacLean 705 is a project space devoted to short-term exhibitions that explore the space of art and human relations. Currently on view is Nico Dockx’s audio project, Erased Rirkrit Tiravanija Demonstration Drawing. The projects are organized by Joseph Grigely and administered by the Department of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  The space is open when the door of MacLean 705 is open, and by appointment. Please contact jgrigely@saic.edu for further information.

(from the press release)

9 DEC 2011 — 19 FEB 2012
« The Victoria & Alferd Museum at MUSEUM SHOW PART 2 »
Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA, UK
here
Following on from Part 1 (24 September – 19 November) Museum Show Part 2 is the second chapter of Arnolfini’s Museum Show, a major historical survey of museums created by artists. Museum Show – a ‘museum of museums’ perhaps – presents a comprehensive selection of these highly idiosyncratic, semi-fictional institutions. It is the first ever exhibition to chart this particular tendency in contemporary art.

The Victoria and Alferd museum is a not-for-profit institution founded by Prune Victoria, Ingalil Alferd and åbäke. The collection is based on personal curiosity, an interest for mistakes and tautological anomalies. The Victoria & Alferd Museum does not own any of the items but wish to share the availability of the associated stories. We do not see time, space, ownership or fiction as an obstacle to the collection.

OCTOBER 2011

« Marc l and Jacob »
Eastside Projects billboard, 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham B9 4AR, UK

visible 24h/day
—
Rock Drill by Jacob Epstein was dismantled by its sculptor as a reaction to the horrors of the first world war. It was resurrected in 1974 by Ken Cook and Ann Christoper RA for a Vorticist exhibition. The latter is usually on display at Birmingham city museum, less than 45 minutes away by walking from Eastside Projects.

http://www.eastsideprojects.org

« Visitor »
If you are in Kanazawa, go and see Peter McDonald’s work at
the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Salon, Venue: Long-Term Project and other locations
Disco, Venue: Gallery 13 and other locations from 18 June
http://www.kanazawa21.jp

« Kate McGarry »
The gallery has moved into a brighter, better space.
The second show is Francis Upritchard’s.
Kate has planned to be in this space for three years
Go there
http://www.katemacgarry.com/

« Chaumont Festival Catalogue »
The catalogs of the Chaumont Festival have been given special attention. “They are a complement to this year rather than the summary shows, explains Stephen Hervy. They have original content, work with specific formatting. The London collective Åbäke, in charge of their design, has produced two catalogs of the Festival. The French and English do not have the same dimensions (32.5 vs. 23.5 x22cm x16, 5cm, B5 size standard for Anglo-Saxon) or exactly the same texts, or the same typographic games. The English version contains the layout of the graphic magazine DotDotDot, the French version of the format and typography of a booklet of Olivetti.
http://www.cig-chaumont.com/festival-2011/index-en.html

To buy the chaumont catalogues go here:
http://www.pyramyd-editions.com/chaumont/livre/chaumont-2011

« HaZaVuZu »
This book documents a form of cabin fever experienced by Istanbul based collective Ha Za Vu Zu during their fifty eight days residency at the Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes. Frac becomes a Solaris—manifesting hidden, nightmarish concerns for each member to confront, their satellite 
accomodation is the hovering research centre from which Ha Za Vu Zu make daily attempts to communicate, while the self-aware planet studies their responses to its psychological experiments. The works shown are grouped by theme and include reference, documentation and final works. Jean-Marc Huitorel’s essay What is to be Done? / Che Fare? contextualises the work. Ha Za Vu Zu were invited to participate in the « 23e Ateliers Internationaux du Frac des Pays de la
Loire » 
by Vasif Kortun, interviewed in the book by Céline Condorelli.

The book is sold direct through the Frac Payes de la Loire:
<documentation@fracdespaysdelaloire.com>

And in Istanbul through Robinson Crusoe:
info@rob389.com, +90 (0)212 2936968

« The sign of the vandal »
is a series of books, dvd, cd and other documents borrowed
from local libraries and rental shops which are autographed by
the authors and finally returned to the shelves. We are proud to
add « My Dinner with Andre » signed by Wallace Shawn and
Andre Gregory, London 2011 to the collection.

« The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art » signed by Arthur C. Danto, 2006
« Gran Turismo » signed by The Cardigans’ Nina Persson, 2008
« Learning from Las Vegas » signed by Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown, 2009
« Swiss Graphic Design » signed by Richard Hollis, 2008
« The Graphic Language of Neville Brody» signed by Neville Brody, 2010
« Meaning Liam Gillick » signed by Liam Gillick, 2011
« Works from the Beginning of the Sixties towards the End of the Eighties »
signed by Lawrence Weiner, 2011
« Dangerous When Sober » signed by Michael Chapman, 2011
« My Dinner with Andre » signed by Shawn Wallace and Andre Gregory, 2011

Designers for Japan, bringing designers
and imagemakers together for our friends in Japan.
In association with Creative Review.
All profit from D4J print sales will go to The Red Cross / Shelterbox.
http://designersforjapan.com/

« Utopia in Utopia »
is the original text by Thomas More set
in the typeface of the island of Utopia.
http://dentdeleone.co.nz

« Invisible chairs »
for Per Hüttner and Elias Arnér’s (In)visible Dialogues.
Available just after the series of conferences.
This chair comes with the book or the book comes with the chair. Following the tradition of nailing dissertations and thesis to be publicly viewed and potentially critisised, this chair is only complete with the suggestion of its use as a reading piece of furniture. It is based on Jonas Bohlin’s seminal postmodern classic the Concrete chair from 1981 but glows (in-the-dark) from its own aura of infra-thin when not in use. Ideally, come to one of the four dialogues every Sunday at Konst akademien, Stockholm. More details on www.invisibledialogues.org

« …avec Excoffon »
Posters in the centre of Marseille, France.
Patricipants: Åbäke, Fiona Banner, Martin Firell, Ryan Gander,
Liam Gillick, Stéphane Le Mercier and Laure Prouvoust.

IFF’s next project is in part a celebration of the centenary of Roger Excoffon (1910—1983), the Marseille typographer & graphic designer responsible for numerous classic fonts such as Banco, Mistral, Antique Olive, Choc and others. IFF has commissioned a number of artists and designers to create new text posters which relate, utilize or appropriate some aspect of Excoffon’s work. The resulting posters will be displayed around Marseille and also as an exhibition.

To buy the poster visit
http://dentdeleone.co.nz/books/david-attenborough-prime-minister

« Slow Alphabet: r & e »
in Vorn (Germany) & in Nero (Italy)
Visit www.vornmagazine.com
http://www.neromagazine.it/n/

Past issues of Slow Alphabet
‘B’ in Sugo #0, Ma Edizioni, p.19, 2003 (IT)
‘W’ in Idn: three: volume 10: #3: flight of fancy ii, last page special insert, 2003 (HK)
‘C’ in Sugo #1, Ma Edizioni, p.112, 2004 (IT)
‘A’ in Ryuko Tsushin #498, p.86, 2004 (JP)
‘a’ in IDEA #309, last page of special insert, 2005 (JP)
‘R’ in Graphic magazine #7, p.156, 2005 (UK)
‘H’ in Lodown #45, p.138, 2005 (DE)
‘K’ in Cream, Summer edtition #01, p.12, 2005 (HK)
‘L’, in Math #2, p.16, 2005 (UK)
‘Ä’ in Tecknaren #2, p.17, 2005 (SE)
‘X’ in [kAk), p.21, 2005 (RU)
‘E’ in Esquire #19, no 7, p. 80, 2005 (JP)
‘Q’ in Composite, 2005 (JP)
‘M’ in Grafik #129, p.68, 2005 (UK)
‘N’ in Art4d, #116,  p.88, 2005 (HK)
‘3’ in Axis #116, p.112, 2005 (JP)
‘G’ in Groove #96, p.51, 2005 (DE)
‘Pilcrow’ in Metropolis M #6, p.13, 2005 (NL)
‘m’ in Muoto, p.39, June 2005 (FI)
‘F’ in SP06, August 2006 (NZ)
‘ST’ in Cream #05 of the summer edition, 2006 (HK)
‘ÿ’ in Periodiek #3, p.6, 2006 (BE)
‘9’ in LUX, p.52, September 2007 (PT)
‘U’ Ultrabold, p.35, 2007 (UK)
‘P’ in Useless #6, p.39, 2007 (UK, USA)
‘G’ in Slimvolume Poster Publication, 2006/2007 (UK)
‘g’ in Arnolfini bulletin Sept 2008 (UK)
‘S’ in Slanted #6 Herbst, s.17, 2008 (DE)
‘I’ in Quotation #1, p.18, Autumn 2008 (JP)
‘=’ in Concept Store magazine #01, p.51, 2009 (UK)
‘O’ in iconographicmagazine, p.12, 2009 (ES)
‘j’ in Laser, p.91, 2009 (DE)
‘Z’ in ME Magazine, p.47, 2009 (USA)
‘ö’ in design?design!design…, p.34, 2009 (SE)
‘*’ in Wallpaper, 2009 (UK)
‘T’ in Iaspis Forum on Design and Critical Practice: The Reader, p.119, 2009 (SE)
‘V’ in Mousse #23, p.59, 2010 (IT)
‘D’ in ARC RCA magazine, p.35, 2010 (UK)
‘s’ in Book catalogue, chapter 13, 2010 (UK)
‘Å’ The Sound Graphics Catalogue, p.1, 2010 (JP)
‘r’ in Vorn #6, 2010 (DE)
‘ß’ in Some Magazine #0 Autumn, p.30, 2010 (DE)
‘Q’ in Graphic Worlds exhibition catalogue. (page / date to be confirmed)
‘n’ Nico magazine #5, p.217, 2010 (Luxembourg)
‘1’ In ‘State Your Business’ Breda, Netherlands
‘e’ Nero 25, Winter 2011 (Italy)
‘d’ Decreet, Holland 2011 (the Netherlands)
‘w’ Autoportret 2011 (Poland)

« Skills Exchange: Urban Transformation and the Politics of Care »
involves artists working in collaboration with elderly people,
market traders, care workers and young people to swapp skills
and develop ideas for social and architectural change. Work will
be presented at the Sackler Centre of Arts Education at the
Serpentine Gallery during this winter. Janna Graham is the
Education Projects Curator
—
Åbäke & Markus Miessen, Westmead Care Home
Barby Asante, Inspire, Southwark
Marcus Coates, St John’s Hospice, Westminister
Beatrice Gibson, Camden Homes for Older People
Tom Hunter, Age Concern, Hackney
www.serpentinegallery.org

« L’ile de La Répétition »
a glossy publication based on Benoît Maire’s
L’Ile de La Répétition (Repetition Island) and L’Espace Nu
soon available: 3 euros or £3 + shipping
www.dentdeleone.co.nz

« I am still alive #21 »
in Graphic Design: Now in Production
catalogue published by Walker Art Center
buy it here

#1 in Rebel Magazine 2, automne hiver 2001–2, insert poster p. 50 (Fr)
#2 in Super, Welcome to Graphic Wonderland, Thomas Bruggisser and Michel Fries, 2003, ISBN 3-89955-005-6 (Ch)
#3 in Communication What?, Ma Edizioni, pp 120–7, 2002 (I)
#4 in IDEA 297, 2003 pp 99–114 (Jp)
#5 in Sport and Street, April 2003 (I)
#6 in Sugo 0, Ma Edizioni, pp 16–25, 2003 (I)
#7 in idn:2003:three:volume 10:number 3: flight of fancy ii special insert (HK)
#8 in Sugo 1, Ma Edizioni, pp 112–9, 2004 (I)
#9 in A Magazine 1, Flanders Fashion Institute, 2004 ISBN 90-77745-01-7, pp 75–80 (B)
#10 in Graphic Magazine 7, Bis, 2005 ISBN 90-6369-092-4, pp 149–56 (UK)
#11 in IDEA 309, pp 31–8, Feburary 2005 (Jp)
#12 in Lodown 45, March 2005 (D)
#13 in Math 2, May 2005, www.posikids.org (UK)
#14 in CREAM, Autumn Edition 2005 Issue.02, pp 231–47, 2005 (HK)
#15 in CREAM, Summer Edition 2006 Issue.05, pp 250–66, 2006 (HK)
#16 in Spring X Maison Martin Margiela 6, 2007–2008 edition (J)
#17 in Apartamento Magazine, Issue 01, pp 49–64, 2008 (I)
#18 in Cream, Edition 2008 Issue 09, (HK)
#19 in Graphic #11 (KR)
#20 in Tar Magazine (US/I)

« Back Cover »
This magazine includes a dialogue we had with Richard Hollis.
www.editions-b42.com

« European Cultural Policies 2015 »
Still relevant for a few more years.
Download the pdf version of the book here:
www.iaspis.com

« In Alphabetical Order »
Merci pour la patience de ceux qui ont acheté ce livre
sans en connaitre la nature ni quand il serait fini.
Si vous habitez à Paris, veuillez aller chez castillo/corrales
pour recevoir votre livre en échange de votre coupon.
merci
Åbäke & Åureliän Froment
www.dentdeleone.co.nz