Beton

Vienna, Salzburg/Austria — Graphic Design Studio

Beton is a graphic design studio founded and consisting of Benjamin Buchegger, Daniel Car and Oliver Hofmann, based in Vienna and Salzburg. They create visual identities, exhibition design, books, editorial design and websites for clients in the broad field of the cultural sector. »We believe that a design solution can be found in the given problem; often this solution is not the answer to a question, but rather the proposed question itself.«

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Articles with and by Beton:

Editorial

Membrane – Boundary & Connectedness

by Schlosspost

A membrane is employed as a boundary-object and as a site of connectedness. Looking at this dual character of the membrane, the discussion in this issue is about flows, exchange, permeability, and translations, as well as about restraint, rejections, and protected areas.

Poem

this rage must have a name

by Vinicius Jatobá

A roaringly powerful poem by Brazilian writer Vinicius Jatobá on the impetuous elemental forces from the beginning of the creation of the continents to their division by the oceans.

Curator’s Statement

Porosity: Pulse, Flow, Ebb

by Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard, Felwine Sarr, and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

The three curators of the festival »Membrane – African Literatures and Ideas« intend to refresh the flow of words, images, ideas, people, and notions from Africa, from the many Africas into the rest of the world.

Programmatic Festival Statement

The Need for Mutual Permeabilities

by Literaturhaus Stuttgart, Institut français Stuttgart, and Akademie Schloss Solitude

The organizers of the festival »Membrane – African Literatures and Ideas,« explore the possibilities within which permeability in thinking, speaking, and acting is the basic condition of change.