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September 11

Sunday, September 11, 2011

One Hundred
There was a door because I opened it.
It was the muse. It had a human face.
It had to have to make the three parts fit.
The Cosmos Poems was fire that filled the space
With fire in Life on Earth. The sky
Became a blue lake I was bathing in,
But it was fire. The sun was burning. [...]

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kunst aufräumen

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Tidying up on a Sunday can be a nuisance or a necessity, depending on how you look at it – but somebody’s got to do it.
Housework done by Ursus Wehrli

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JUST A THOUGHT

Saturday, September 10, 2011

… winter’s going to be upon us soon enough, is all I’m saying. (image source).

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SNEAK PEEK: MONO.KULTUR #28 WITH BLESS

Friday, September 9, 2011

We finally, finally got around to taking some product shots of our new issue featuring the delicate minds of fashion / design / lifestyle producers Bless, exquisitely divided into two separate booklets in one, designed by Manuel Raeder – who, on a side note, actually gives a talk tonight at our friends at Motto. And [...]

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history and imagination

Friday, September 9, 2011

The International Literature Festival Berlin has kicked off with an impressive program of 180 events over 11 days.
Tonight Javier Cercas reads from and talks about his latest book The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination. Read Gideon Lewis-Kraus’ excellent review in n+1.

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Tem gwef tem gwef dr rr rr

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Everything is mysterious and perpetually in motion—that’s what João Maria Gusmão (b.1979) and Pedro Paiva’s (b. 1977) works seem to be suggesting us. A central source of inspiration for the Portuguese artist duo are the surrealist writings of the little-known French author René Daumal (1908-1944), who bemoaned the loss of myth [...]

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from a wide angle

Thursday, September 8, 2011

This week a host of writers have come forward to say something about the events of 11 September 2001, and to provide some kind of account of the events since. This one looks at the event obliquely. Is it is easier to write when you aren’t staring into the abyss? Or is it just that a [...]

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READING ROOM

Thursday, September 8, 2011

In the middle of this week’s art frenzy with Berlin’s abc art fair opening yesterday, here’s a little oasis to recover: bang in the middle of the city’s new art hotspot around Potsdamer Strasse, our friends at Do You Read Me?! are opening a new space, as of tomorrow evening. First up: their excellent reading [...]

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NETWORKING TOMORROW’S ART FOR AN UNKNOWN FUTURE

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Sounds good – it’s the mission motto of THE ICAS SUITE (ICAS: International Cities of Advanced Sound). Founded by Berlin festival CTM, 30 organisations and festivals on 5 continents joined forces to (co-)create projects and foster discourse, and thereby promote artistic development at the interface of music, art, technology and society. During the second Berlin [...]

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BLESS SHOP BERLIN SPECIAL OPENING HOURS

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Current mono.kultur cover stars, BLESS have extended the opening hours of BLESS SHOP BERLIN this weekend. In addition to their usual Thursday opening hours, BLESS SHOP BERLIN will be open every day from the 7th-11th of September, between 4-8pm. You’re invited to visit and see the new BLESS pieces and enjoy the Moscow flavor that has recently [...]

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