Ongoing

June Broken Dimanche Press second issue of Kakofonie takes flyer format can now be found in Oslo Dublin Copenhagen London Dublin Berlin Paris Malmo Dusseldorf New York and on roofs at six in morning launched in Noble and Beggarman bookshops all over and made by FUK Laboroatories who now have bigger stronger more wooden offices in Stattbad Wedding Berlin where Broken Dimanche Press partied in June in offices and bar with contributors Darko Dragicevic and Agnieszka Roguski in attendence sekt and more sekt and to Dublin and Oslo we had bbq to SAY THANK YOU TO ALL WHO GAVE and used tippex (trademark) to give finishing touch and travelled by s-bahn with boxes of books and k a k o f o n i e s we travelled by car plane boat and train to islands where printers were we also slept on rooftops and gave speeches and ran around putting flye rs in shops and cafes in cities of Europe and posted wtih more to be posted soon TUSEN TAKK VIELEN DANK CHEERS NICE ONE MERCI we had fun with more to come fuck complacency etc long live European social democracy you know ikke sant

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Launch Kakofonie 002(Berlin): June 2, 8pm - ? Stattbad Wedding, Gerichtstrasse 61, S+UBahn-Wedding

Launch Kakofonie 002 (Dublin): June 5, 6-8pm Noble and Beggarman, South William Street 28, D2

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We are delighted to announce that You Are Here came second in the prestigious Europäischer Karlspreis für die Jugend. The award consists of €3000 and an invite to publisher Line Madsen Simenstad to visit the European Parliament in October. Dr. Hans-Gert Pöttering, former president of the European Parliament, pointed out in his speech awarding BDP, that the project highlighted not only the significance of Berlin in cultural and historical terms, but also the difficult situation facing young Belarussians. Associate editor John Holten accepted the prize on behalf of the BDP team. Whilst in Aachen he got to meet the Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkal: she said the book was 'very nice indeed'.

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The Kakofonie 002 is going to the printers this week. Format is going to take unique dimensions. Masthead by Siggi Eggertsson confirmed.

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Forthcoming book publication autumn 2010: Ann Cotten's first full length book in English.

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"'You are here', a book project including contributions from 14 young people across Europe, was today announced as the Irish winner which will go forward to compete for the Charlemagne European Youth Prize in Aachen in Germany on 11 May."

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Bernhard Cella has an interest in current forms of visual art, which
shift modes of production and distribution. Temporary settings mirror
real serviced. In 2007 he founded the >Salon für Buchkunst< in
Vienna, >An Artwork as Enterprise< According to Cella it functions as
>a kind of model-space on a scale of 1:1, in which changing
relationships among objects, people and artworks can unfold but being
not economical.< In 2009 Cella started an open call in the internet,
asking >Have you recently published an art book without ISBN< For his
Leipzig project Cella is going to show this idiosyncratic collection
of NO-ISBN, books without an ISBN number. Such books are difficult to
come by, because the publishers do not have recourse to the dominant
distribution channels. During the Leipzig book fair the start of the
multi-partied project will be marked by reading-performances of
Leipzig based artists. Over the course of the year, Cella will publish
a new book in Leipzig, which examines the phenomenon NO-ISBN between
the production of art, the aspiration towards autonomy and
professionalisation.

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The Kakofonie is happy to be featured at SALON FÜR KUNSTBUCH, Vienna. Mondscheingasse 11 1070 Wien

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Ann Cotten (AT), Anna Clemensensen Bro (DK), Agnieszka Drotkiewicz (PL), Martin John Callanan (UK), Volha Martynenka (BY), Francesca Musiani (IT), Christophe Van Gerrewey (BE), Urszula Wozniak (DE).

Broken Dimanche Press freut sich, die Veröffentlichung ihres ersten Buches You Are Here ankündigen zu können. Als Anthologie mit Essays, Kritiken, Belletristik, Photographie und Dramen zeichnet You Are Here ein engagiertes Europa von jungen politischen Aktivisten und Kulturschaffenden – ein Europa, welches mit dem 9. November 1989 in Berlin in Bewegung geriet. Mit Beiträgen in fünf Sprachen ist You Are Here von FUK laboratories™ (Berlin) gestaltet.

You Are Here

Edited by Line Madsen Simenstad and John Holten
Texts and artwork by Ann Cotton (AUS), Anna Bro (DK), Agnieszka Drotkiewicz (POL),
Martin John Callanan (UK), Volha Martynenka (BEL), Francesca Musiani (IT), Christophe Van
Gerrewey (BE), Urszula Wozniak (GER)

Design by FUK laboratoriesTM
9 November, 2009
English (with Polish, German, Belarussian, Danish)
ISBN 978-3-00-028868-5

Martin John Callanan Straße 9, black and white photo, from the series Grounds (Berliner Mauer)

From interrogating Nicolas Bourriaud's ideas of a new age of the altermodern to the daily life of a political actitivist in the World Bank-backed last dictatorship in Europe -Belarus, You Are Here goes a way to offering a sort of field book for contemporary Europe. A continent where young artists and activists blend forms and travel in their work, living in one country while all the while subtly interrogating their home countries’ traditions and expectations. A generation has come of age in a post- Wall Europe who no longer feel obligated to answer the national questions, but instead answer to their unique personal experience, one of borderless work and travel, mediated by translation and the Internet. Such instances of artistic, intellectual and activist projects are given space in You Are Here, offering the chance to see whether such young practitioners really are writing from a freedom and plurality born in 1989 back into a new, wider and pan-European tradition in 2009.

Berlin - July 22, 22h00, Rigaerstrasse 105

Oslo - August 6, 19h00, Grønlandshagen Grønlandsleiret

Berlin - THE NEW WORD FOR MODERN , 8pm. 15th August/ Glogauerstraße, 21 10999

Dublin - Tuesday 7pm, August 25 PYGMALION South William Street