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Monthly Archives: February 2012

IT’S NICE THAT

Friday, February 17, 2012

Anyone who is already familiar with the rather brilliant design culture blog It’s Nice That will have second-guessed by now that it’s a solid fixture on our daily morning Internet itineraries, but the real highlight comes on Fridays, as it should, when it’s time for The Weekender.
That’s when pants come down and it’s time to [...]

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Walk of life

Friday, February 17, 2012

A message from Hamish Fulton, walking artist:
“I think that global warming comes about as a result of the fact that we don’t consider other life forms. We think: only humans. Obviously it’s a stupid point to make, but the Internet only applies to human beings. You can’t have ants using the Internet. It is something [...]

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12-MINUTE SYMPHONY

Friday, February 17, 2012

Having ready his new EP Kindred, Burial again makes the heart of the two-step-loving beat faster. It’s easy enough to take a talent such as Burial for granted, but his latest EP surpasses even himself. There is no other way than using superlative terms for the three-track piece. Listen. Then you do it again. Again. And [...]

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CHINESE WHISPERS 23

Thursday, February 16, 2012

A lovely review of mono.kultur in the current issue of British design bible Creative Review, featuring also a fantastic story on the world’s best advertising slogans of all time.

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HIGHWAY PORTRAITS

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Isn’t everyone familiar with those moments when you are sitting in your car, early morning, waiting at a traffic light, catching an unexpected glimpse into the neighbouring car? It’s an oddly private moment in an extremely public space, which is probably the reason why Diego Gimenez‘ brilliant series of Highway Portraits feels so enchanting. We [...]

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RUMPSTI PUMSTI

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Would you like to hear the voices of  Man Ray, Tristan Tzara or Andre Breton? Rumpsti Pumsti is a record shop working as a small gallery also. The last three events at the shop/gallery were a Wolf  Vostell exhibition, a performance related to sound by Toine Horvers and film screenings about Raoul Hausmann and more.
Rumpsti Pumsti
Weserstrasse 165
12045 [...]

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EXPRESS FIGHT CLUB (VERSION IV)

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Posttheater is as an interdisciplinary performing arts unit. They present multi-media performances, theater and dance. Caffee was performed in Dock11 few days ago and there will be another Berlin premiere on the 23rd of February.
‘Is it dance? Media art? Or Performance art? post theater does not worry about labeling. As long as the result is a disturbing, intense, and [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: KINDNESS

Monday, February 13, 2012

We’re into kindness, generally speaking, but also particularly into Kindness, the one-man-band, if for no other reason that their (his? But who are the others?) video made us laugh, particularly from about two minutes in, when they drop the music and the entire thing mutates into some weird and hilarious mockumentary spoof. Kindness are (is?) [...]

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Richter Magnitude

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Starting today, Neue Nationalgalerie stages a large scale exhibition of heavyweight Gerhard Richter’s work. To participate in the spectacle, make sure to buy your tickets in advance. Well in advance on the weekends.
Gerhard Richter. Panorama
12. Februar – 13. Mai 2012
Neue Nationalgalerie
Kulturforum
Potsdamer Straße 50
10785 Berlin

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YOU KILLED ME FIRST

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Nightmarish scenarios of violence, dramatic states of mind, and perverse sexual abysses – the films of the Cinema of Transgression that were consciously aimed at shock, provocation, and confrontation, bear witness to an extraordinary radicality. In the 1980s a group of filmmakers from the Lower East Side in New York went on a collision course [...]

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