Unpublished Issue celebrates nowiswere’s 2-year existence as an online contemporary art magazine and is its first engagement with a live on-site audience. Unpublished Issue will echo the framework of nowiswere’s online presence by inviting writers, artists and curators to present insights into their momentary and subjective involvement with contemporary art and cultural production. But contrary to the constraints of nowiswere’s online manifestation which is bound to the written word and to 2-dimensional visual production, Unpublished Issue aims to explore the possibilities of the live encounter by hosting performative, interactive lectures and a showcase of visual work.

Fatos Ustek and Veronika Hauer (Founders & Editors of nowiswere) will kick off the event with an editorial introducing their conceptual and practical framework for publishing an online art magazine. Following Hauer/Ustek’s presentation, Skopje based artist & curator Yane Calovski will speak about his recent work with the Tate Collection. A screening of the film Ballad in Plain D by the Berlin based artist Anita Di Bianco will follow Calovski’s presentation. The evening will close with an investigation into the conditions of free time, free labour and the temporalities of contemporary cultural projects with the London based writer Mara Ferreri who will facilitate a collective mapping of present work/life conditions with the aim of opening a debate on time, contradictions, and the dictates of needs and desires with participants.

We look forward to meeting you in person.

As always: Spread the word!
Veronika Hauer & Fatos Ustek, Editors Nowiswere

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Unpublished Issue celebrates nowiswere’s 2-year existence as an online contemporary art magazine and is its first engagement with a live on-site audience. Unpublished Issue will echo the framework of nowiswere’s online presence by inviting writers, artists and curators to present insights into their momentary and subjective involvement with contemporary art and cultural production. But contrary to the constraints of nowiswere’s online manifestation which is bound to the written word and to 2-dimensional visual production, Unpublished Issue aims to explore the possibilities of the live encounter by hosting performative, interactive lectures and a showcase of visual work.

Fatos Ustek and Veronika Hauer (Founders & Editors of nowiswere) will kick off the event with an editorial introducing their conceptual and practical framework for publishing an online art magazine. Following Hauer/Ustek’s presentation, Skopje based artist & curator Yane Calovski will speak about his recent work with the Tate Collection. A screening of the film Ballad in Plain D by the Berlin based artist Anita Di Bianco will follow Calovski’s presentation. The evening will close with an investigation into the conditions of free time, free labour and the temporalities of contemporary cultural projects with the London based writer Mara Ferreri who will facilitate a collective mapping of present work/life conditions with the aim of opening a debate on time, contradictions, and the dictates of needs and desires with participants.

We look forward to meeting you in person.

As always: Spread the word!
Veronika Hauer & Fatos Ustek, Editors Nowiswere

This year’s abc becomes ‘def — drafts establishing future’, and presents the work of over 80 artists on their visions for art projects in public space. These works are to feature concepts for utopian or viable projects to be realized in Berlin or elsewhere. In accordance with the theme of abc, the CMYK presents Utopia for Sale.

The title of the exhibition, Utopia For Sale, is taken from a text by critic Frederic J. Schwartz. His work describes ‘what happened to the Bauhaus when its products went beyond the world of “theory” and discursive debate and confronted the real, non utopian capitalist economy that actually existed in Weimar Germany’.

From this starting point, we seek to examine the result of the introduction of ‘Utopia’ into the market economy. The market has a unique way of uniting art and industry, under which these utopian practices are articulated by laws, manipulated by experts, and tested by profits. Therefore the difference between a utopian versus a revolutionary project resides in our capacity to reform these laws instead of being expropriated by them.

The selected issues will be on sale turning the exhibition space into a temporary bookshop. The temporary bookshop is conceived like an experimental platform to test how the art production deals with the market and its distribution rules. The CMYK and Archive Kabinett invited GRID, an art collective based in São Paulo and Berlin to curate the display of the exhibition during abc.

Participating magazines among the others: A prior, Afterall, Archive Journal, Chimurenga, Ctrl+P, Dot Dot Dot, E-flux journal, Fillip, Frieze, IDEA arts + society, Internationalistisk Ideale, Metropolis M, Mister Motley, Mono.Kultur, Mousse magazine, n.paradoxa, Not Announced, Nowiswere, Pages, Paper Monument, Pavilion Magazine, Proximity, Reartikulacija, Script, Site, Spike, Springerin, Texte zur Kunst, The Happy Hypocrite, The Mock and other superstitions, TkH – Teorija koja Hoda, Zehar.

Exhibition Dates: September 23 – 27, 2009

Location: Akademie der Künste Berlin, Hanseantenweg 10

Opening Date: September 22, 2009, 7pm (upon invitation)

Sixth issue includes Maze by Fatos Ustek; Zero Panorama by Maartje Fliervoet; Notes On Dashed Lines (In Their Relative Importance) by Manuel Singer; After Talk by Manuela Zechner; Nature Morte – The Cycle The Autobiographical Show by Tatia Skhirtladze; The Time Between the Two: Simon Pope’s ‘A Common Third’ Danielle Arnaud, London by Lisa Skuret; Psycho Studies by Daniela Paes Leão; Old Ideas – Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel Curated by Silberkuppe by Adeena Mey; DeLorean dream back to life in a gallery Sean Lynch, DeLorean: Progress Report Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin by Rana Ozturk; Mirror Montage by Eline McGeorge. Cover is commissioned by Cevdet Erek, cover Layout design by Veronika Hauer.

The fifth issue includes: Double-trouble. Uncertainty in Rudolf Steckholzer’s photographs by Adeena Mey; When the world is thinking about you by Iddo Drevijn; DANGLING FUTURES AND CREATIVE WORK Here comes the Carrot Bloc! By Mara Ferreri; Untitled, 2008 / Kleines Planetarium, 2009 / Ich Ich, 2008 by Kay Walkowiak; Struggles of Recognition by Jurga Daubaraite; Undercover Brick in the Wall: The Testimony of Soldier Z32 by Ghalya Saadawi; Instructions For Films by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler; THE YOUNG PEOPLE VISITING OUR RUINS SEE NOTHING BUT A STYLE. FormContent at GAM, Turin by Catherine Borra; “Edit Board for the series ‘Nothing Surprising’ 1”,and “Edit Board for the series ‘Nothing Surprising’ 2” by Ali Taptik; Queer Art of Sodomitical Sabotage, Queer Ethics of Surfaces: Em­bodying Militarism, Masculinity, and Turkish Modernity in Erinç Seymen’s Portrait of a Pasha (2009) by Cuneyt Cakirlar; talk talk: The interview as artistic practise Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz by Veronika Hauer. Cover is specially comissioned by Cenker Kokten.

Fourth Issue includes: Black Box by Julius Pasteiner; A Leopard, Some Monkeys, Numerous Butterflies, Dozens of Peacocks and a Sublime Vista* by Edward Clydesdale Thomson; ‘I’m Thinking of You’ Franko B by Lisa Skuret; POST-PROPAGANDA An introduction by Jonas Staal; EMPTINESS IN THE POST-COMMUNIST CONDITION : Struggles of Self-Definition by Jurga Daubaraite; Gulliver’s Travel into an Art Installation: On History, Identity and Difference Yinka Shonibare, MBE – Egg Fight by Rana Ozturk; Hurvin Anderson Peter’s Series 2007 – 2009 by Marianne Mulvey; Tu Zeng by Fatos Ustek; Looking at digital pictures: The image as part of an epistemological system by Claus Gunti; Leap into Imagination The Islanders: An Introduction by Charles Avery by Rieke Vos; Smadar Dreyfus Mother’s Day by Fatos Ustek. Image based contributions by Jelena Martinovic; Martijn in’t Veld, and Rudolf Steckholzer. Cover commissioned by Tanja Widman.

Originally published May 2009.

Third issue includes: Prologue by Veronika Hauer, Return Upon Return by Fatos Ustek, Is there sincerity in hollow speech? by Marianne Mulvey, Suh Yong by Jan Lemitz, Emptiness in the Post-Communist Condition by Jurga Daubaraite, Legacy and désaffecté spaces by Mara Ferreri as well as image-based contributions by Mandla Reuter, Hildegard Spielhofer and Jonas Zukauskas. Cover commissioned by Young In Hong.

Originally published January 2009.

The second issue includes: The schizophrenia of Stefano Boeri by Mara Ferreri, T’ain’t what you do by Claire Louise Staunton, Who is afraid of the Real? by Tobias Hering, Proposal for an Imagined Artwork by Gernot Wieland, Susan Hiller by Margit Neuhold, Schindlertryangles by Oona Peyrer-Heimstätt, Sehgal versus Darwin by Jurga Daubaraite, Martina Steckholzer by Veronika Hauer, Europe – A Grand Narrative by Fatos Ustek, Art in Armenia by Rana Ozturk and Image based contributions by Nicole Miltner, Martina Steckholzer. Cover commissioned by Yane Calovski; cover layout design by Povillas Utovka.

Originally published October 2008.

The first issue includes: The Location of Now by Charles Heller; Laughing a loss of critical distance by Veronika Hauer; The visible and the invisible by Flora Peyrer-Heimstatt; How to overcome geographical attributions of art practice OR how to construct a whatever-community by Fatos Ustek; I will have spoofed the future by Manuela Zechner; It says what it does on the tin by Adeena Mey; reviews and texts on Stefan Saffer, Sarah Beddington, Taku Sugimoto, Jimmy Robert, Can Altay by Marianne Mulvey, Ola Wlusek. Maria Diekmann, Veronika Hauer and Fatos Ustek, respectively; an immediate release by Heman Chong; and a special image contribution by Henriette Heise. Cover commissioned by Rudolf Steckholzer.

Originally published May 2008.