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Monthly Archives: August 2011

MONO.KULTUR #28: BLESS

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Dear Friends,
we’re step by step catching up on our schedule, and thus happy to announce our new issue mono.kultur #28 for a summer that’s a little slow on sunshine – the upside being that you might just as well cuddle up in bed and let our issue’s guests Bless take you on a 360° panoramic [...]

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FIGHT CLUB

Monday, August 8, 2011

Bratwurst + Beer + Boxing at Berlin’s finest beer garden = pretty good deal… at least if you’re not already pigged-out and hungover from Saturday’s amateur soccer + Grill Royal Wurst mayhem, I guess.

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To promeneur with the social guarantee

Sunday, August 7, 2011

If you happen to pass by Zurich these days consider a quick trip to the country side. Out on a farm just 30 minutes from the centre of Zurich the migros museum has set up dependance on a farm. Check it out!

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The Devil and Daniel Johnston

Saturday, August 6, 2011

The Guardian did a Q & A with Daniel Johnston – who seems to be much better. He’s going to play at this year’s Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire, from 12-14 August.

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YOU WILL SEE A HOUSE AND A GARDEN

Friday, August 5, 2011

Group show opening tonight in Berlin Neukölln. Brazilian artist André Sicuro will be showing his prize winning video Mídia Obsoleta.

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The problem with ideas

Friday, August 5, 2011

The first problem with ideas is that they so rarely become anything more than fireworks in the brain. Few make their way from the brain to the notebook, and even fewer still make the leap from notebook to reality. That of course invites a debate about the notion of reality – does it not arguably [...]

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YOUNG SOULS

Friday, August 5, 2011

Continuing on the theme of peculiar dancing, have a look at Dean Chalkey’s short film on the phenomenon of Northern Soul, as commissioned by the rather great 125 Magazine. And if you’re based in London, you still have a few days left to catch the accompanying photography exhibition at Youth Club Gallery, which should be [...]

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KILLING THE WINTER MOOD – FRIKK Festival 2011 & ONEBEAT

Thursday, August 4, 2011

From 8th to 17th of August, FrIKK Festival will be happening at the Bethanien, right in the heart of Kreuzberg. The festival is a non-profit project that aims not only to give a platform for artists (working within all sorts of media) to show their work as also to donate all the profit to the [...]

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FIRST READING

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Syliva Plath’s novel The Bell Jar was the first dangerous book that I ever read. This was the book that taught me that I should guard myself against literature, because novels will speak to me directly in the hours before I go to sleep, they will use my own voice, and they may never directly [...]

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WHY FRIDGES?

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Films are being shown on fridges, in London. Here’s why.

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