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  • Ulrike Gerhardt, Susanne Husse (Hg.)

    The Forgotten Pioneer Movement: Guidebook

  • SCALE

    Einrichten und Zonieren. Raumkonzepte, Ausbau, Materialität

  • Susanne Hauser, Claus Dreyer (Hg.)

    Das Konkrete und die Architektur

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    Urbanism and Dictatorship. A European Perspective

  • Chris Tedjasukmana

    Mechanische Verlebendigung. Ästhetische Erfahrung im Kino

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    State of Insecurity. Government of the Precarious

  • Robert Delaunay

    Sonia Delaunay. Fashion and Fabrics

  • Maria Zinfert (Hg.)

    Siegfried Kracauer. Fotoarchiv

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    Wege der Moderne. Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos und die Folgen…

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    Lina Bo Bardi. Built Work. Obra construida

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    Function Follows Strategy. Architects' Strategies from…

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    Beautiful Data

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    Weltausstellung

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    Immanuel Kant. Kritik der Urteilskraft

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    Metageschichte der Architektur. Ein Lehrbuch für angehende…

  • Florian Böhm, Annahita Kamali

    Everything is Connected. Home Collection (Vitra)

  • Eva Diaz

    The Experimenters. Chance and Design at Black Mountain…

  • Honore De Balzac

    The Physiology of the Employee

  • Francesco Spampinato

    Come Together. The Rise of Cooperative Art and Design

  • Marc Bedarida (Ed.)

    Le Corbusier. Aventures Photographiques

  • Ricardo Flores & Eva Prats

    Thought by Hand. The Architecture of Flores & Prats

  • Sylvain Margaine

    Forbidden Places, Volume 2: Exploring Our Abandoned Heritage

  • Mark Leckey

    On Pleasure Bent

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    Open Form. Space, Interaction, and the Tradition of Oskar…

  • Maria Zinfert (Hg.)

    Sigfried Kracauer. Photographic Archive

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    Der entfesselte Blick. The Unfettered Gaze: Die Brüder…

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    Begriffslexikon zur zeitgenössischen Kunst (Ausgabe 2014)

  • Peter Blegvad

    Kew. Rhone

  • Reinhard Seiss

    Harry Glück: Wohnbauten

  • Matthew Gandy

    The Fabric of Space. Water, Modernity, and the Urban…

  • Catherine De Zegher

    Women's Work. Is Never Done

  • Sophie Berrebi

    The Shape of Evidence. Contemporary Art and the Document (…

  • Simon Denny

    New Management

  • Henning Schmidgen

    Hirn und Zeit. Die Geschichte eines Experiments 1800 - 1950

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    The Long March Of Pop. Art Music and Design 1930-1995

  • Chris Kraus

    Torpor (Roman)

  • Gerald Raunig

    DIVIDUUM. Maschinischer Kapitalismus und molekulare…

  • Marc James Léger (Ed.)

    The Idea of the Avant Garde And What It Means Today

  • Jean-Luc Godard

    Jean-Luc Godard/JLG: Selbstporträt im Dezember

  • Dombois, Fliescher, Mersch, Rintz (Hg.)

    Ästhetisches Denken. Nicht-Propositionalität, Episteme,…

  • Emily Pugh

    Architecture, Politics, and Identity in Divided Berlin

  • Markus Grob

    Dächerstreit: Flachdach/Steildach

  • Klingan, Sepahvand, Rosol, Scherer (Eds…

    Textures of The Anthropocene. Grain Vapor Ray

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    The Past's Threshold. Essays on Photography

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    Cabins. Hütten. Cabanes

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    Bug Report. Digital war besser

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    Bauhaus Weaving Theory. From Feminine Craft to Mode of…

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    Affordable Living. Housing for Everyone

  • Slavoj Zizek

    Trouble in Paradise. From the End of History to the End of…

  • Renée Green

    Other Planes of There

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    The Architecture of Use. Aesthetics and Function in…

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    Hystericizing Germany

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    Can Jokes Bring Down Governments? Memes, Design and…

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    Retracing the Expanded Field

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    Der Klang der Familie: Berlin, Techno and the Fall of the…

  • Francesco Garutti (Ed.)

    Fairland. Explorations, Insights and Outlooks on the Future…

  • Dante Bini

    Building with Air

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    Die Sprachen der Banlieues

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    Was ist dein Streik? Militante Streifzüge durch die…

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    Lebbeus Woods, Architect

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    The Grand Domestic Revolution Handbook

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    My Belgrade (2nd Edition)

  • Frances Stracey

    Constructed Situations. A New History of the Situationist…

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    Educating Architects. How Tomorrow's Practitioners…

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    Lina Bo Bardi 100. Brasiliens alternativer Weg in die…

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    The Choreographic

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    It's Playtime

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    Le Langage Hypermoderne de l'Architecture

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    Modetheorie. Klassische Texte aus vier Jahrhunderten

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    Interieur und Bildtapete. Narrative des Wohnens um 1800

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    Designing Everyday Life

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    Neubau Forst Catalogue

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    Art and Politics Now

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    Symptom Design. Vom Zeigen und Sich-Zeigen der Dinge

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    Auto - Self-representation and Digital Photography

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    Edgewise. A Picture of Cookie Mueller

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    Zeig her, Führ vor, Tausch ein: Performance - Art -…

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    Live Forever. Collecting Live Art

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    Villas 60-70 en France

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    Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century

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    Soviet Space Dogs

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    Macht des Materials / Politik der Materialität

  • Jörg H. Gleiter

    Ornament Today. Digital Material Structural

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    His Master's Voice. Eine Theorie der Stimme

  • Jonathan Crary

    24/7: Schlaflos im Spätkapitalismus

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    Real Estates. Life without Debt

  • Sylvie Estrada

    Setting the Scene - Exploring Set Design

  • Andrew Feenberg

    The Philosophy Of Praxis: Marx, Lukács And The Frankfurt…

  • Mark von Schlegell

    Ickles, Etc. Critical Spatial Practice 5

  • François Laruelle

    Non-Photographie / Photo-Fiktion

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    Metamorphology

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    The School of Public Life

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Monte Carlo Club

THE MONTE-CARLO CLUB combines references to geo-political conflict with everyday iconographies and art-historical clippings. In this mixture of images one will find tattoos and embroidery, anthropological illustration, cut-outs from art-history books and fashion-magazines, pornography and advertisements for guns. The combinations of these images form webs of connections. Not as clear-cut dialectic arguments, but rather in the way that the shape of mushrooms corresponds with that of hot-air-balloons and stacked naan-bread. Or how the shape of a mouth corresponds with the look of tattoos on the backs of punk-rockers and the bodies of South-American Indians.
These combinations work across the diversity of things and images that constitute THE MONTE-CARLO CLUB: video, collages, objects, exhibition, text and the book. Motives and images are repeated, copied directly or with the difference of being out of focus or just a detail. These are differences that accentuate the complexity of difference itself, also as a problem of sameness or coherence. Staging a web of connections, whether it is within a collage or in the extended space of the project, is highly suggestive. This suggestiveness is however kept on a probative level. It is neither naively utopian nor ironically mocking; although the work will at points adopt the structures of both utopianism and irony. The project works as a series of tests, examining the possibilities of art in a landscape of different structural approaches or modes of engagement. Significantly so, also in the way Tapia frames his project by changing the palatial stone floor of the gallery to a chequered linoleum, equally reminiscent of a homely kitchen, the virtual reality of early computer generated 3-d and the even earlier virtual spaces of renaissance perspective.
In science-fiction familiar conflicts are transported into the different setting of the future, but the individual elements that constitute this future are most often only superficially different from things we know.
The root of the difference lies in the fabric of time and space that ties everything else together. This way the disfigured and abstract notion of time and space will often constitute the difficult circumstance of the plot, as well as being the primary condition of the literary construction itself with its’ projections between past and future. In that, science fiction shares certain of art’s classical interests in relations between form and content in time and space. One could even take it a step further and compare the mechanics of the central motif in science fiction, the paradox of time and space, with an idea of artistic autonomy. In science-fiction the construction will offer endless dramatic potential in how fictional characters can be split into identical doubles, dissolved slowly or disappear into another dimension. These dramas being, of course, only smoke-covers for the more real danger that the literary construction itself will suffer the faith of splitting into doubles, dissolving or disappearing into another dimension. Or to put it more plainly, collapse due to its’ own unlikelihood.
Such are also the fears and promises of the mechanism, that Tapia examines when he finds a “sculpture” in the photograph of a person hiding under a blanket sticking out an arm. Or a “totem-pole” in a tower of paper cups put together with duck-tape by a street musician for collecting gratuities of passers-by. Or when he - by means of a snapshot - includes in his collection a fantastically disgusting incident of three boiled eggs in dark sauce left on a cardboard beer-mat in a window-sill underneath a flower-like curled-up napkin. By scissoring old postcards Tapia will create a strangely illogical rock-formation, and by turning upside-down a photograph of a crystal bird figurine in a shop-display, he will make an odd landscape, still accurately priced at “486”. These are all quite ephemeral and coincidental constitutions of form in unlikely contexts. Like small paradoxes of order existing both because and in spite of an environment that denies the possibility of such things.


Javier Tapia
Monte Carlo Club
Eigenverlag, 2008
25,00 €