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Monthly Archives: March 2010

INTERVIEWS, THE REAL THING

Monday, March 22, 2010

Normally, the formula is quite simple: You (or a journalist) meet(s) someone, there is a talk, a conversation going on. You are talking, possibly bullshitting a little, arguing, maybe provoking – shortly, you have an interview. We at mono.kultur love and live these very moments, and do our best to present the achievements in the [...]

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Writing is fun

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Axe Cop is written by five year old Malachai and drawn by his adult bother Ethan. It is about cops and fruit and guns and babies and unicorns and the transfigurative power of biting.
Here.

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A BIT OF WAR HORROR FOR EVERYBODY

Friday, March 19, 2010

The thing about war nowadays is that it seems so abstract. Everybody is excited about current Oscar-awarded Best Film The Hurt Locker, BBC footage of combat operations on the evening news might just look like your boyfriend playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – or the other way around, nothing new to that. Maybe [...]

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TEMPELHOF, THE LATE DAYS

Thursday, March 18, 2010

And speaking of mountains in Berlin, we’re still devastated by the Berlin Senate’s refusal to consider architect Jacob Tigges’ proposal on erecting a mountain on the vast landing strip of historic Tempelhof airport, which was closed down in 2008. The area lies in the center of Berlin and it is still undecided what the city [...]

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Kreuzberg, the early days

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Even before Kreuzberg was invented in 1820, people enjoyed hanging out around Schinkel’s memorial which marked the highest elevation of Prussia’s capital at the time: 66 meters above sea level. At the time, even the trend aware Vice Magazine could not foresee Kreuzberg to host Berlin’s centroid at 52.502778/13.404167 from 1996 onward, nor did enyone [...]

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THE ARTIST IS PRESENT: ADDENDUM

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

And if you’re not in New York but still want the visceral thrill of Marina, you can watch her live! While the performance really must be seen in person (every sway of her body sends shivers down your spine), the video gives some sense of the scale at which she is operating. She is sitting [...]

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THE ARTIST IS PRESENT

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

If you happen to be in New York until May 31, 2010, don’t miss the performance retrospective The Artist Is Present of Marina Abramovic at the Museum of Modern Art, a four-decade survey of her work, with quite an impressive live performance in the atrium.
To get an idea of the show, read the articles of [...]

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ALEXANDER GRONSKY

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Russia always seems so full of bleak, post-apocalyptic cityscapes. I think it’s time to buck up and make the trip.
Photography by Alexander Gronsky

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FANTASTIC WOMAN

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

We’ve mentioned this before, but the new sister title to the immensely popular Fantastic Man fashion magazine, The Gentlewoman, is about to hit the newsstands these days. Not that another fashion magazine is exactly what the world has been waiting for, but then again, anything that the power duo Jop van Bennekom & Gert Jonkers [...]

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P.A.M. / STRANGE PLANTS

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

With a fondness of strange things, P.A.M. (aka Perks and Mini) have recently released their Spring/Summer Garden of Earthly Delights collection. The Melbourne design duo Perks and Mini (aka Shauna Toohey and Misha Heollenback) are known for their eclectic and cutting-edge clothing line P.A.M., installations, collaborations, artworks and PAMBooks which is a small independent publisher with [...]

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