Date: November 28 (Thu), 2024 17:00 - 18:00
Venue:Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Foyer (1F Next to museum shop)
Admisson Fee: Free
*Please be advised that a valid TABF entry ticket is required to attend this event. Tickets will go on sale from Tuesday, November 14th at 12:00pm.
Language: Japanese and English
Speaker: Anne König
Guest: Przemysław Strożek
Guest: Jonathan Schmidt-Ott
Spector Books publishing practice is settled squarely in the intersection of art, theory, and design. It has published 653 titles since it was founded by Jan Wenzel, Markus Dreßen and Anne König in 2001 in Leipzig/ Germany.
Anne König will talk about selected titles from the program, which show the broad spectrum of topics covered by the publishing house: from photography to art and film. Among the titles she will be presenting are Archive of Dreams. A Surrealist Impulse (2024) which was co-edited by Przemysław Strożek. The Polish art historian will speak about the book which was published in conjunction with the exhibition for the Archive of the Avant-garde in Dresden and the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Surrealism this year. The Berlin-based photographer Jonathan Schmidt-Ott will join the conversation with his new photobook: St. Gil, where he captured immediate surroundings, glimpses of life in contemplative compositions of people and places.
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*If there are any seats remaining, tickets will be available for purchase on the day of the event.
Profile
Anne König
Anne König is a publisher and author based in Leipzig. In 2016 and 2018 she co-curated with Jan Wenzel the f/stop Festival for Photography in Leipzig. She is the editor of all Jonas Mekas’s books in the Spector Books program and co-curated a retrospective celebrating the avant-garde filmmaker’s centennial at Arsenal in Berlin in 2023. She is currently working on the book I Am Trying to Remember. A Research on Jonas Mekas.
https://www.arsenal-berlin.de/kino/filmreihe/jonas-mekas-100-years-of-cinema-arts-and-politics/
Przemysław Strożek
Dr. habil. Przemysław Strożek – Associate Professor at the Art Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw), and Research Associate and Curator at the Archiv der Avantgarden - Egidio Marzona, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. He is currently a fellow at the Japan Foundation. He has curated numerous exhibitions, including a show on Polish-Moroccan artistic relations during the Cold War (Zacheta - National Gallery of Art), and the opening exhibition of Archiv der Avantgarden in Dresden entitled Archive of Dreams (May-August 2024). He is one of the editors of the catalog Archive of Dreams published by Spector Books which accompanied the exhibition:
https://spectorbooks.com/book/archive-of-dreams-en
Jonathan Schmidt-Ott
Jonathan Schmidt-Ott, a former film scholar and technician with a vested interest in Gestalt psychology, greatly advocates the “next moment” and the gap between image, reality, and the imagined truth. For him, a photograph is never discretely bound. Rather, it is a moment plucked from limitless life that, though recontextualized, remains an index to all the lives and experiences that intersected on the way to its making—and all those it touches when viewed. Perhaps this concept accounts for the tranquility present in even his most intense pictures, the oppression of a singular narrative replaced by a holism that accommodates everyone and then some. (Patrick J. Reed)
