Novel


Publication Launch, Exhibition, Filmscreenings

Organised by Alun Rowlands and Matt Williams


Double Feature mit/with: Art Word Lovers - Writings by Artists, Curators and Art Writers from Berlin


Drucksache Kunst / Printed Matter Art - Art Publications and Art Publicism in Berlin 2008

Series of art publication and art publicism events during the weekend of Art Forum Berlin, 2008



31 October - 3 November 2008, 14:00 - 18:00

Eröffnung / Opening: Friday, 31 October 2008, 12:00 - 14:00


Anna-Catharina Gebbers | Bibliothekswohnung, Ziegelstr. 2, 10117 Berlin




Novel 


Novel - Issue one

Newspaper Journal

Edited by Alun Rowlands and Matt Williams

Designed by James Langdon

24cm x 33cm, 42 pp.

London 2008

ISBN 978-1-906424-07-7


Contributors to Novel Issue One:

Ei Arakawa, Edwin Burdis, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Steven Claydon, Henry Flynt, Megan Fraser,

Anna-Catharina Gebbers / Luis Jacob, Barry MacGregor Johnson, Michael Krebber, Sam Lewitt,

Scott Lyall, Alastair MacKinven, RH Quaytman, Hannah Sawtell, Mark von Schlegell, Michael

Stevenson / Jan Verwoert, Josef Strau

 

Novel draws together artists writing, texts and poetry that oscillate between modes of fiction and

criticism. A cacophony of voices, that is the primary condition of writing, seek to break the habitual

methods of representation and productions of subjectivity. Disconnected from any unitary theme

these texts coalesce around writing as a core material of a number of artists exploring language and fiction. This fiction acts as a speculative force, no longer defined by what is said, even less by what makes it a signifying thing, but perhaps as a mode that exists parallel to the visual.


Here, art writing is an apparatus for knowledge capture, informed by theory, film, politics and

storytelling; writing as parallel practice, different, tangential; writing as political fiction; writing as

another adventure on the ‘skin drive’, renegotiating unfulfilled beginnings or incomplete projects –

that might offer points of departure. Amidst the insinuated narratives and materialised visions there

is a concern for writing and the impossibility of fiction which is at stake. Novel asks us to think of

writing as something distinct from information, as at least one realm of cultural production that is

exempt from the encompassing obligation to communicate.

 

The launch event, readings and screenings will be staged at Anna-Catharina Gebbers |

Bibliothekswohnung, library and project space for art exhibition, performance art, literary and

philosophical readings.  A former GDR apartment off Berlin-Mitte’s Friedrichstrasse, the apartment

will be the loci for reading, furnished with artworks and related films that augment the fictioning

of a scenario. This scenario will be the summation of multiple experiences and anxieties that

demands new forms of critical fiction. These new strategies require an active protagonist, a

polymath who can amalgamate them with fluency. Fiction is not made up, it is based on everything

we can learn or use; a zone in which all sources of knowledge are valid.



Exhibiting Artists:

Alastair MacKinven

Rupert Norfolk 

Hanna Schwarz 

Cheyney Thompson

Franz West



Film Screening:

Duncan Campbell

Luke Fowler & Kostin Kopper 

Megan Fraser

Sascha Hahn

Judith Hopf & Deborah Schamoni

Nils Norman & Stephan Dillemuth


We would like to thank all of the artists for participating and the following galleries for their kind

support; Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Miguel Abreu Gallery, Arndt & Partner Gallery, Daniel Buchholz Gallery, Cabinet, Gisela Capitain Gallery, Dicksmith Gallery, Greene Naftali, Hotel, Modern Institute, Christian Nagel Gallery, Croy Nielsen, Overduin and Kite, Reena Spaulings, Sutton Lane, Vilma Gold and Zabludowicz Collection.


For more information email: info@novelpublication.org or visit www.novelpublication.org




Edition available at info@novelpublication.org:

Alaister Mackinven, i / no man (2008), limited edition print (10 + 5 artist proofs)

150.00 GBP (framing not included)


Invited by Alun Rowlands and Matt Williams


Double Feature mit / with: Art Word Lovers - Writings by Artists, Curators and Art Writers from Berlin


Drucksache Kunst / Printed Matter Art - Art Publications and Art Publicism in Berlin 2008

Series of art publication and art publicism events during the weekend of Art Forum Berlin, 2008



31 October - 3 November 2008, 14:00 - 18:00

Opening: Friday, 31 October 2008, 12:00 - 14:00


Anna-Catharina Gebbers | Bibliothekswohnung, Ziegelstr. 2, 10117 Berlin


Cover image: Alastair Mackinven, i / no man (2008)
(available as limited edition print without text)
Cheyney Thompson, Rupert Norfolk, Hanna Schwarz, Franz West
Installation view, 2008
(Anna-Catharina Gebbers | Bibliothekswohnung)
Rupert Norfolk Untitled (Black and white Tapestry), 2008, Cheyney Thompson, Untitled, 2008
Installation view, 2008
(Anna-Catharina Gebbers | Bibliothekswohnung)
Franz West
Onkel Sessel, 2000 
metal, textile 
87 x 64 x 58 cm /34,25 x 25,2 x 22,83 in
Alastair MacKinven
i / no man, 2008
limited edition print (10 + 5 artist proofs)
(Install. view: A-C Gebbers | Bibliothekswohnung)
Stephan Dillemuth & Nils Norman, I’m Short, Your House (2007)
(Other films by Duncan Campbell, Luke Fowler & Kostin Kopper, Megan Fraser, Sascha Hahn, Judith Hopf & Deborah Schamoni; Installation view: Anna-Catharina Gebbers | Bibliothekswohnung)