Book Launch: Landmark Saturday 28.01.2012 // 1900

Ctrl+Z Publishing is pleased to present Anja Ulset´s Bergen Art Guide, a visitors’ guide a series of imagined works of art, located throughout the public realm of the city of Bergen, Norway. The book features works by artists such as Daniel Buren, Thomas Hirschhorn, Franz Kline, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Robert Smithson, documented by emerging Bergen-based artists Anja Ulset. For the publication, Ulset has engineered a framework for tracing, highlighting and undermining our understanding of recent art history and notions of public art. Besides Ulset’s photo’s, Bergen Art Guide also included a contextualizing essay by Berlin-based curators and writers Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh.

To order the book, go here.

Anja Ulset recived her MFA from Kunsthøgskolen in Bergen in 2010. She has exhibited her artworks and publications at Bergen kunsthall, Bergen; Bergen Kjøtt, Bergen; Knipsu, Bergen; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Kurant, Tromsø, among others.

Aileen Burns in an art historian and curator, and Johan Lundh a curator, writer and translator. They have recently curated exhibitions and projects for FormContent, London; Overgaden ICA, Copenhagen; and Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen.

Carlos Motta
We Who Feel Differently

Ctrl+Z Publishing and Gallery USF, Bergen are pleased to present “We Who Feel Differently” (wewhofeeldifferently.info) a new database documentary, book, and online journal by artist Carlos Motta.

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Launch Events

Thursday, May 19, 2011, 7pm
Gallery USF, Bergen
Georgernes Verft 12; gallery-usf.no

Panel Discussion with: Deniz Akin (Gender Researcher), Tone Hellesund (Researcher, Uni Rokkan Centre), Carlos Motta, Annika Rodriguez (Intl. Advisor for The Norwegian LGBT Association) and Arne Skaug Olsen (Curator).

Friday, May 20, 2011, 7pm
Torpedo Books, Oslo
Trelastgata 3; torpedobok.no

Panel Discussion with: Heidi Eng (Professor, Diakonhjemmet University College), Carlos Motta, Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad (Trans Activist) and Arne Skaug Olsen (Curator).

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We Who Feel Differently
…People are not provoked by those who are different. What is more provoking is our insecurity: When you say, “I am so sorry but I am different.” That’s much more provoking than saying “I am different,” or “I have something to tell you, I can see something that you cannot see!” With these words, Norwegian Trans activist Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad situates sexual difference as a unique opportunity rather than as a social condemnation.

“Difference” is a way of being in the world, and as such it represents a prospect of individual and collective empowerment, social and political enrichment, and freedom. Freedom implies the sovereignty to govern oneself: Being human is being beyond parameters, being without sex or gender constraints.

Has this ideal been attained in the four decades of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Queer and Questioning politics?

“We Who Feel Differently” features Interviews with fifty queer academicians, activists, artists, radicals, researchers, and others in Colombia, Norway, South Korea and the United States about the histories and development of LGBTIQQ politics in these countries. The interviewees have been active participants in the cultural, legal, political, and social processes around sexual difference; they frame the debates and discuss the mainstream LGBT Movement’s agenda from queer perspectives. Interviewees include: Mx. Justin Vivian Bond, Douglas Crimp, Emily Roysdon and Edmund White (USA); Kim Friele, Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad and Åse Rothing (NO); CHOI Hyun-sook, MONG Choi and PARK Kiho (KOR); María Mercedes Gómez, Diana Navarro and Esteban Restrepo (CO).

The Book (wewhofeeldifferently.info/themes.php) (co-edited by Carlos Motta and Cristina Motta) presents five thematic threads drawn from the interviews and puts forth an assemblage of queer critiques of normative ways of thinking about sexual difference.

The Journal (wewhofeeldifferently.info/journal.php) is an online publication that presents in depth analyses of LGBTIQQ politics. The first issue, “Queerly Yours: Thoughts and Afterthoughts on Marriage Equality,” presents commissioned essays by activists and academicians: Bruno Bimbi (AR), Ryan Conrad & Jazmin Nair (USA), Shelly Eversley (USA), Kheven LaGrone (USA), Nick J. Mulé (CA), and Senthorun Raj (AU).

“We Who Feel Differently” attempts to reclaim a queer “We” that values difference over sameness, a “We” that resists assimilation, and a “We” that embraces difference as a critical opportunity to construct a socially just world.

Carlos Motta (b. Bogotá, Colombia, 1978) is an artist whose work has been presented in venues such as Guggenheim Museum, New York; MoMA/PS1, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá; Museu Serralves, Porto; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; and “X Biennale de Lyon.” Motta is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and a member of the faculty at Parsons The New School of Design and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.

Ctrl+Z Publishing ogTorpedo Press ønsker velkommen til lansering og boksamtale om Boel Christensen-Scheels bok Kjartan Slettemarks Nixon Visions. Boka er andre utgivelse i essayserien Karavane, hvor forfattere fra ulike fagfelt skriver om kunstverk som har hatt innvirkning på sin tid og bidratt til å utvide kunst- og samfunnsdebatten.

Om Kjartan Slettemarks Nixon Visions
Fra 1971 til 1974 arbeidet Kjartan Slettemark med en serie som senere er blitt hetende Nixon Visions. Portrettet av den amerikanske presidenten Richard Nixon ble brukt som gjennomgangsfigur i performance, maleri, politiske aksjoner, workshops og sosiale happenings på en måte som både var radikalt nyskapende og sterkt provoserende. Boel Christensen-Scheel undersøker hvordan Slettemark i Nixon Visions bryter ned motsetningen mellom liv og kunst til en performativ eller ”bred” estetikk der estetikk, personlig følelsesliv, politiske ytringer inngår i en sameksistens. Nixon-serien kan forstås som en protest og en personlig reise for Slettemark; en reise hvor han identifiserer seg med mennesket Nixon og bruker kunsten som en iscenesettelse av egen persona og ambivalente forhold til makt. Forfatteren leser også Nixon-serien i forhold til det Felix Guattari kaller en schizoanalytisk subjektforståelse, og ser på hvordan Nixon-serien bærer bud om en neo-eksistensialisme i kunsten, dvs. en flermodal og åpen kunsterfaring som vender seg mot selve livet i dets kompleksitet.

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Boel Christensen-Scheel er Ph.D.-stipendiat i teatervitenskap ved Universitetet i Oslo, hvor hun har arbeidet med avhandlingen “Mobile Homes – Aspects of Situatedness and De-Situatedness in Contemporary Experimental Practice and Theory”, om sosialitet og tilhørighet i den performance-relaterte samtidskunsten. Hun har hovedfag i kunsthistorie om former for (betrakter)deltakelse i kunsten, og har skrevet for tidsskrift som kunstkritikk.no, Øjeblikket, Morgenbladet, 3T, Artes og Paletten. Hun har også oversatt Nicolas Bourriauds Esthétique relationelle (Presses du réel, 2001) til norsk utgave i Pax’ serie Artes.

Torpedo Press og Ctrl+Z Publishing ønsker velkommen til lansering og boksamtale om Boel- Christensen-Scheels bok Kjartan Slettemarks Nixon Visions. Boka er andre utgivelse i essayserien Karavane, hvor forfattere fra ulike fagfelt skriver om kunstverk som har hatt innvirkning på sin tid og bidratt til å utvide kunst- og samfunnsdebatten.

Les mer her

Torpedo Press og Ctrl+Z Publishing ønsker velkommen til lansering og boksamtale om Victor Linds Monument av Erling Moestue Bugge. Boka er første utgivelse i essayserien Karavane, der forfattere fra ulike fagfelt skriver om kunstverk som har hatt innvirkning på sin tid og bidratt til å utvide kunst- og samfunnsdebatten.

Les mer her

Welcome to Hordaland Art Centre Friday September 11th at 20:00!

Winter 2008 Ctrl+Z Publishing was approached by the Bergen Kunsthall with a request to edit a publication on the occasion of the Bergen Biennial Conference in September 2009 which would in some way mirror the local art scene’s response to the City of Bergen’s proposal to create a Bergen biennial. The anthology Localised is rooted in, but edited independently from, this conference.

Read more here

Ctrl+Z Publishing is proud and happy to announce the release of Collected critisism by Erlend Hammer (Norwegian only), which features all his art reviews from 2005 to 2008, as well as introductions by Ina Blom, Jon Refsdal Moe and Johanne Nordby Wernø.

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The release, in conjunction with B-Open, will be at Kaffemisjonen, Øvre Korskirkeallmenning 5 in Bergen, Wednesday November 19th, at 20.30. There will be a q+a-session with Erlend Hammer and the new director of Fotogalleriet Leif Magne Tangen, music and refreshments.
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Ctrl+Z Publishing is non-commercial and project based. Its publications are made for and by artist groups, artists and curators in the self organized field. Ctrl+Z is based in Bergen, Norway and run by artist Arne Skaug Olsen and curator Anne Szefer Karlsen. Our aim is for Ctrl+Z to be an active part of the region’sart scene, and at the same time connect our publishing policy to national and international practice and discourse. Ctrl+Z Publishing equals artistic practice with discourse, and aim to focus on and contest the both by concentrating on publication as an arena for development and mediation of contemporary art. Ctrl+Z is itself part of the self organized field, its profile is transient and the back catalogue is not defined by one aesthetic, political or institutional programme. Our main concern is to independently investigate structural conditions for art production, art mediation and art discourse in the form of printed matter. All our publications are designed by Ole Kristian Øye.
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