
KAMERA Cahier N° 7. Sergej Vutuc
- Publisher
- AVARIE / Labor Neunzehn
- Year
- 2023
- Specifications
- Soft cover with omega staple binding
21 x 14.5 cm
24 pages
Black and white plates
Papers Fedrigoni Sirio Rough Pearl 210 and Arena White Rough 120
Typeface Magister by Aldo Novarese, 1966
Cover letterpress by Archivio Tipografico, Turin
Digital and letterpress print by Moglia
75 numbered copies, each with a red acetate print and a fragment of leftover reel
Photocopies on 16 mm and Super 8, photographs and layout by Sergej Vutuc
Curated, edited and designed by Giuliana Prucca and Valentina Besegher Scotti
A special edition issue curated, designed and published by AVARIE, Paris, and Labor Neunzehn, Berlin. It accompanies the KAMERA programme while remaining an independent object to collect. The central idea that directs the montage of these small volumes is the interplay between addition and subtraction: a missing image from the projection, or an unreleased second taken from an artist's work, expanded over twenty-four pages, with a piece removed directly from the show enclosed in every copy. The editing sets up a dialogue between frames and performed writings drawn from texts, scripts, storyboards and notes, so that the exhibition is extended into a physical space.
KAMERA is a programme of experimental moving images and printed matter held in a former GDR building in Berlin. Each event shows a retrospective of one artist over four days, alongside a small display of their publications or works on paper, and sets out to foster a critical dialogue between different formats.
Originally from the former Yugoslavia, Sergej Vutuc has been part of the punk and skateboarding community since the mid nineties, driven by a do-it-yourself ethic and by alternative cultures. His work begins by documenting the overdevelopment of modern society and the privatisation of public space, and leads into an exploration of the image, of motion and sound, and of human happenings such as performances, events and productions. The machine is a tool rather than a technique: copiers become musical instruments, noise emerges as a publication or meets the visual in Super 8 and 16 mm.