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Written by Perpetual Art Machine
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Tuesday, 21 March 2006 |
Stencil Graffiti Book Party:
Caroline Koebel & Kyle Schlesinger present Schablone Berlin
Saturday, March 25 2006
6:00pm - 8:00pm
The Bowery Poetry Club, NYC
308 Bowery @ Bleecker, right across from CBGB's
F train to Second Ave | 6 train to Bleecker | 212-614-0505
http://www.bowerypoetry.com/
Schablone Berlin (2005: Chax Press) is an artists� book as well as a book of documentation, presenting stencil graffiti from the streets of Germany�s most international metropolis. The book consists of over 100 color photographs showing not only the graffiti, but also its placement within the confines of the city. The introduction examines the semiotic and performative aspects of stencils as a populist form of writing within the contexts of art history, media and urban anthropology. Post-Face by Dennis Tedlock.
The Critical Art Ensemble writes: "This art and text project by Caroline Koebel and Kyle Schlesinger is a loving drift though the streets of Berlin to examine and to be inspired by its raw, lively, lustful, sometimes esoteric stencil culture. Exquisitely photographed, this work plays in the in-betweens of poetics and politics, the trivial and the insightful, the amusing and the disturbing, the immediate and the aloof. One way or another, this book will seduce you."
Johanna Drucker writes: "Contemporary trackers on the trail of an
esoteric species, Koebel and Schlesinger have captured a gallery of
transitory signs from the surface of Berlin's walls. The very sign of
urbanism, these swiftly made images depend on a community of knowing
readers to recognize their codes, nod, and signal back across the space
of time and geography. The city is the site, scene, of a whole system
of traces and communications. The marks show their ephemerality and
questionable legality in the very stealth mode of their production.
Stencilled, spray painted, rapidly produced, they haunt the walls with
their fading imagery, semaphore signals in a common but
still-specialized system, introducing their alternative image-speak
into the regulated zones of public discourse. A beautiful collection,
thoughtfully framed by its introduction."
Caroline Koebel is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and curator on
faculty in Media Study at SUNY Buffalo. She is also a < href ="http://www.perpetualartmachine.com/index.php?option=com_gallery2&Itemid=50&g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=4411>[PAM] participant.
Kyle Schlesinger is a poet,
scholar, book artist, and proprietor of Cuneiform Press.
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