The Best Surprise Is No Surprise
copyright: 2006 e-flux, JRP|Ringier, participating institutions
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4-color printing, 316 pgs.</p>
ISBN 10: 3-905770-05-9<br>
ISBN 13: 978-3-905770-05-6 </p>
e-flux and JRP|Ringier are pleased to announce the book launch for a new publication, entitled The Best Surprise Is No Surprise. The book launch will take place at the unitednationsplaza, Berlin, on Saturday, January 27, 2007, from 2 pm.
Over the past several years, electronic communications have had a transformative effect on the public discourse on contemporary art by removing temporal and geographical barriers to the flow of information and, for the first time, putting local exhibition makers and institutions in contact with an international art public unmediated by the univocal perspective perpetuated by the few leading art journals.
The Best Surprise Is No Surprise covers a 7-year period beginning in 1999, and chronicles communiqués for exhibitions, publications, events and symposia chosen from the archive of electronic announcements originally distributed by e-flux, and selected both by the e-flux readers and by some of the most active international curators, artists, critics and art historians of our time, including:
Zdenka Badovinac, Ariane Beyn, Mircea Cantor, Binna Choi, Elena Filipovic, Liam Gillick, Jörg Heiser, Jennifer Higgie, Jens Hoffmann, Eungie Joo, Samuel Keller, Francesco Manacorda, Viktor Misiano, Naeem Mohaiemen, Jessica Morgan, Molly Nesbit, Ernesto Neto, Natasa Petresin, Brian Sholis, Nancy Spector, Christine Tohme, Barbara Vanderlinden, Octavio Zaya, and Tirdad Zolghadr.
The book, published by JRP|Ringier press, contains an essay by Daniel Birnbaum and an interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Anton Vidokle & Julieta Aranda.
The Berlin book launch will be a day-long event comprised of presentations, discussions and screenings aimed to revisit and explore in depth some key recent cultural events included in the book, ranging from the RAF exhibition at KW, the East Art Map project and book, the passing of Collin de Land, Leon Golub, Harald Szeeman and Igor Zabel, the amazing CAC television program, a mobile exhibition that took place aboard the Trans-Siberian Express, an edible installation by Pierre Huyghe and Rirkrit Tiravanija at Portikus, workshops in Tehran, the ephemeral exhibition at the Holiday Inn hotel in Chinatown which led to the founding of e-flux and many other remarkable events.
Presenters will include Julieta Aranda, Inke Arns, Daniel Birnbaum, Adam Carr, Christian Jankowski, Christian Nagel, Gabriele Horn, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Natasa Petresin, Tirdad Zolghadr, and Anton Vidokle. For program schedule please scroll down.
The presentations will be followed by a party at the Salon Aleman (the bar at the basement of unitednationsplaza) from 10 pm till the last person leaves.
Admission is free. All are welcome.
Program:
Saturday, January 27th, 2007
2:00 pm – Daniel Birnbaum and Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle.
3:30 pm – Gabriele Horn: the making of the RAF exhibition at Kunstwerke.
4:00 pm – Inke Arns: the EAST ART MAP project.
4:30 pm – Adam Carr: “EN ROUTE VIA ANOTHER ROUTE,” an exhibition aboard the Trans-Siberian Express.
intermission
6:00 pm – Tirdad Zolghadr: “Ethnic Marketing” workshop and exhibition.
6:30 pm – Daniel Birnbaum: “In the Belly of Anarchitect”, a project by Pierre Huyghe and Rirkrit Tiravanija’s at Portikus.
7:00 pm – Christian Nagel, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Natasa Petresin and Christian Jankowski remember Colin De Land, Leon Golub, Igor Zabel and Harald Szeeman.
10:00 pm till dawn: Party at Salon Aleman (hosted by Eduardo Sarabia and Julieta Aranda)
For further information regarding the publication and the launch please contact JRP|Ringier, e-flux or unitednationsplaza
We hope to see you!
JRP|Ringier
Letzigraben 134
CH-8047 Zürich
T. 41 (0) 43 311 27 50
F. 41 (0) 43 311 2751
www.jrp-ringier.com / info@jrp-ringier.com
unitednationsplaza
Platz der Vereinten Nationen 14a
Berlin 10249 Germany
T. 49 (0)30 700 89 0 90
F. 49 (0)30 700 89 0 85
www.unitednationsplaza.org / magdalena@unitednationsplaza.org
e-flux
53 Ludlow Street
New York City
10002 USA
T/F 212 619 3356
www.e-flux.com / liz@e-flux.com
JRP|Ringier books are available internationally at selected bookstores and the following distribution partners:
Switzerland: AVA Verlagsauslieferung AG, 8910 Affoltern a.A., buch 2000@ava.ch; www.ava.ch
Germany and Austria: vice versa Vertrieb, D-10405 Berlin, info@vice-versa-vertrieb.de;
France: Les Presses du réel, F-21000 Dijon, info@lespressesdureel.com; www.lespressesdureel.com
UK: Art Data, London W4 5HB, info@artdata.co.uk; www.artdata.co.uk
USA: D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers, NY 10014, dap@dapinc.com; www.artbook.com
Other countries: IDEA Books, NL-1011 RK Amsterdam, idea@ideabooks.nl; www.ideabooks.nl
Asia: D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers and IDEA Books
