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Monthly Archives: May 2012

ENDS OF THE EARTH

Personally, I really love land art, so I wish I could go and see the apparently epic exhibition Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974 at LA’s MOCA museum. In the meantime, since the world of science is slacking a little as far as the advancement of physical bilocality is concerned, thank MOCA for [...]

PERADAM

One of the most interesting things John Kelsey has written about is the modern labor/time complex, especially in the arts. His point, in “Escape from Discussion Island” and other essays recently collected in Rich Texts, is essentially that members of the contemporary culture industry are always, already at work. Our downtime is commodifiable to the [...]

THE JOY OF COLOUR

Colour, of course, is essential, metaphorically and quite literally. As is language, and when the two meet, weird things can happen. We like to entertain ourselves by coming up with odd ideas for our subtitles to divide up those rather lengthy interviews we feature in mono.kultur – from chess moves to classic comic gap fillers [...]

MONDAY MUSIC: THE INVISIBLE

Rather genius:  The Invisible’s forthcoming new album Rispah.

HARRELL FLETCHER’S INTERVIEWS WITH CHILDREN

Another interview - Interview #4 between Harrell and his four-year-old daughter Beatrice.
Beatrice: I want to be a dentist, I mean a hair doctor.
Harrell: What does a hair doctor do?
B: They brush people’s hair and look in there to see if they have any mice in their hair. (She tries to spin my chair around.) You need [...]

TIME IS OUT OF JOINT. BORIS MIKHAILOV.

Not much time left now to see photographs by the Ukrainian-born artist Boris Mikhailov at the Berlinische Galerie. Last day of the exhibition is tomorrow, May 28th. Take the opportunity to see the sometimes documentary, sometimes conceptual and always striking photos. They will leave an impression.
If you can’t make it to the last day of Mikhailov’s [...]

2012 Beach Road North

Joseph Riippi’s new novella A Cloth House is too good to be true.

BLACK BOX

I’ve recently and finally got around to reading Jennifer Egan’s hyped novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, which at first I was highly skeptical of but ended up loving. Egan treads a fine line between high and low, but won’t shun a spoonful of pop if it works, so it’s not really surprising that [...]

GRAPHIC DESIGN: NOW IN NEW YORK

Graphic Design: Now in Production was a monumental survey on contemporary design and its development within a changing digital world put on by the Walker Art Center last year, and which will now open at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in New York. And we’re honoured to have mono.kultur come along and be included in the [...]

MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON

Here is the legendary filmmaker Maya Deren (1917-1961) who worked with Duchamp back in 1943. Besides her stunning surrealist films, this astonishing woman was also a theorist, choreographer and a writer.