NEWS
2012.04.05>
The Proposal 'The Age without Master Copy - Critical Approaches towards Reproduction' (Feb, 2013) is Now Available to share in
PDF, which was submitted for Tripple Canopy, but not accepted.
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2012.03.16>
'Temporary Housing + Shelter' Revised 2nd Edition was launched at Lepzig Book Fair invited by Book Strage organized by Parapera (Tokyo) & Spector Books (Leipzig), the independent Publishers.
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2012.01.22>
Whatever Press launched new project named Whatever Records(web), which seeks to the relation between Architecture/Design/Art and Music/Sounds. Please Follow un on Twitter.
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2012.12.18>
We finished all of 'Temporary Housing + Shelter' as the collaborative project with split/fountain in NZ.
We designed our publication in NZ, and print & binded in Japan. The at first we join the Tokyo Art Book Fair by occupying the outdoor space.Next the project moved
to the New York Art Book Fair, and one more after the next week, it moved to Vancouver Art/Book Fiar.We joined the major 3 Art Book Fari this time. Thank
you for all coming and buying our publication. Now the publication
'Temporary Housing + Shelter' is out of stock but, we will launch the
second edition from the biginning of the next year at the Bookshops all over
the world and BOEK DECK.
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2012.09.30>
We are pleased that Dante
Carlos wrote about our booklet 'Temporary
housing + shelter' on the blog 'The Gradient' in Walker Art Center's website.
photo_Dante Carlos
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2012.09.22>
 photo_mediabus
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2012.09.05>
Whatever
Press & Split/Fountain
present the latest project "Temporary
housing + shelter" at
the Tokyo Art
Book Fair (TABF) 2012 (21st to 23nd,
September). The new publication regarding this
theme will be launched and available here. We also occupy the part of
its
place/space installating with Daikei
Mills & Xin Cheng, held in 'Gaien
campus, Kyoto University of Art and Design /
Tohoku University of Art and Design'.
Publication
Contributors:
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Invited by WP : Hirofumi Isoya
(Artist), Momoko Usuda (Editor), Mariko
Okazaki (Graphic Designer), Keisuke Kawaguchi (Architect), Fumie
Kikuchi (Artist), Masashi Kido (Editor / Whatever Press), Azusa Kobayashi (Graphic
Desinger), Gaku Shingu (Bookseller/Nanyodo),
Nariaki Chigusa (Architect,
Artist), Takeo Nakai (Gardener, Artist), Ryosuke Makitani(Architectural
engineer), Suzuko Yamada
(Architect), Lim Kyung Yong (Publisher + Bookshop manager/The book Society / mediabus)
* Invited by S/F: Henry
Babbage, Enrico Bravi, Xin
Cheng, Bopha Chhay, Kah Bee Chow,
Common
Sense, Daikei Mills, et al., Asumi Mizuo (split/fountain), HIMAA, Rob Hood, Toshiaki
Koga, Nell May, Michael
Parr, onne terre, Jun Tsujimoto, Layla
Tweedie-Cullen (split/fountain),
Blaine Western.
*Special ThanksFFutoshi Miyagi, Zines Mate, Patrick Tsai, Nayon Sung, Toshimasa Kimura etc.
*Photo_Nell May
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2011.09.18>
Our publication takes part in the Library of
Independent Exchange (L.I.E), taken place as part of Come to Ours
in Plymouth, UK (17th Sep – 21st Oct 2011).
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2011.09.12>
Some of our colleague joined "Approaches to What?"
as one of the organizers at Asahi Art Squire (2011/09/02). šPhotos
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2011.05.02>
BOEK DECK EXTRA presents Talk Session 'Several Key Words About TAKASHI
HOMMA's photography' as its 2nd Round Table at Utrecht/NOW IDeA (6th May 2011).
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Essay "FALLACY, REVISION, GENERATION" (Sep, 2010). Now Available in
PDF.
One of Research Plans written for Whatever Press.
* Text_Masashi Kido (Editor | Whatever Press)
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2011.02.10>
We finished our presentation 'Les Faux-Monnayeurs& Katanuki' in D
ai Y 03 at Claska.
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STUDY
SESSION & LECTURE
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SESSION 01 |
"Karel Martens & Werkplaats Typographie : Permutation, Medium
Specific, Generative Space" (20th, Dec, 2010 at NOW IDeA)
Speakers_Kiyonori Muroga (Editor in
Chief | IDEA
magazine), Toshiaki Koga (Editor | Whatever Press) , Toshimasa
Kimura (Designer
| Whatever Press)
Moderators_Masashi Kido (Editor | Whatever Press), Takashi Kato
(Whatever Press) / Cooperation_Hiroshi Eguchi (Utrecht/NOW IDeA | ZINES
MATE), Futoshi Miyagi (Utrecht/NOW IDeA | ZINES MATE)
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| BOEK
DECK LECTURE 03 |
"Toward Re-Editing Relationship - Extended Shapes & Forms :
To Re-intepretate Relational Aesthetics by Nicolas Bourriaud" (23rd,
Nov, 2010)
Speakers_Noriyuki Tsuji (Curator,
Translator | Art
Coefficient), Hideyuki Nakayama (Architect | Hideyuki Nakayama
Architecture), So Hashizume (Graphic Designer | sososo.com)
Moderators_Masashi Kido (Editor | Whatever Press), Toshiaki Koga
(Editor | Whatever Press)
* photo_Untitled (Sand ) (1993-1994) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres
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| BOEK
DECK LECTURE 02 |
"Active Use of Error : Misinterpretation, Overwriting and Play :
Looking Back on New Babylon of Constant Nieuwenhuys" (15th, Nov, 2010)
Speakers_Yoshikazu Nango (Sociologist | An Assistant
Professor at Tokyo
University), Jo Nagasaka (Architect | Schemata Architecture
Office),
Kozo Kadowaki (Architect | An Assistant Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan
University)
Moderators_Masashi Kido (Editor | Whatever Press), Toshiaki Koga
(Editor | Whatever Press)
* photo by Takashi Kato
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DECK LECTURE 01 |
"Transformation in Art Distribution & Dissemination / Galleries,
Art Fairs, Associations, Art Book Fairs, Independent Publishers" (3rd
Nov, 2010)
Speakers_Hideki Aoyama (Gallerist | Aoyama| Meguro, New Tokyo
Comtemporaries), Hiroshi Eguchi (Book Shop Owner | Utrecht, NOW IDeA, Tokyo
Art Book Fair), Toshiaki Koga (Editor |
Whatever Press)
Moderators_Masashi Kido (Editor | Whatever Press), Takashi Kato
(Journalist | Whatever Press)
* photo by Hiroshi Eguchi
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PUBLICATIONS
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"Temporary housign + shelter" (Sep, 2012) / Available
photo_Dante Carlos
*Editors:Masshi Kido, Momoko Usuda, Layla TC, Asumi Mizuo, Bopha Chahay
*Design:Laya TC
Publication
Contributors:
*
Invited by WP : Hirofumi Isoya
(Artist), Momoko Usuda (Editor), Mariko
Okazaki (Graphic Designer), Keisuke Kawaguchi (Architect), Fumie
Kikuchi (Artist), Masashi Kido (Editor / Whatever Press), Azusa Kobayashi (Graphic
Desinger), Gaku Shingu (Bookseller/Nanyodo),
Nariaki Chigusa (Architect,
Artist), Takeo Nakai (Gardener, Artist), Ryosuke Makitani(Architectural
engineer), Suzuko Yamada
(Architect), Lim Kyung Yong (Publisher + Bookshop manager/The book Society / mediabus)
* Invited by S/F: Henry
Babbage, Enrico Bravi, Xin
Cheng, Bopha Chhay, Kah Bee Chow,
Common
Sense, Daikei Mills, et al., Asumi Mizuo (split/fountain), HIMAA, Rob Hood, Toshiaki
Koga, Nell May, Michael
Parr, onne terre, Jun Tsujimoto, Layla
Tweedie-Cullen (split/fountain),
Blaine Western.
*Special ThanksFFutoshi Miyagi, Zines Mate, Patrick Tsai, Nayon Sung, Toshimasa Kimura etc.
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- "LLOVE
Catalogue" (Oct, 2010) / Out of Stock
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for Critical, Curatorial, Conceptual Publication based in Tokyo, Japan.
We pick up something to
press and disseminate them into the public sphere for the new era.
Founded in 2010.
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