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Monthly Archives: July 2012

THE DESIGN FILES

Every day I enjoy reading The Design Files.

DIE SON SIEN ALLES

Viviane Sassen is most known for her Parasomnia series, parts of which were recently included in MoMA’s annual New Photography exhibition, but I recently stumbled across her older Die Son Sien Alles work, which is just as strange and wonderful. Shot during several trips to the townships of Cape Town, they depict the ramshackle inventiveness [...]

ULTRA NICE

Ladies and gents! This week’s highly recommended music comes from Frank Ocean, who created an eclectic contemporary R&B album with channel ORANGE:

mono.kultur x Studio B recap

In case you missed mono.kultur’s soccer night at Studio B…

CYNTHIA GIRARD, PONTUS LINDVALL AND GUESTS

Cynthia Girard, Pontus Lindvall and guests (James Greenway, Tilda Lovell, Bjorn Perborg and Sarah Ryan).
21 July – 1 September, 2012.

Opening, Friday 20 July, 7pm
September
Adalbertstrasse 8 / Aufgang B
Berlin

STORE OF THE MONTH (REDUX): POST

Obviously we love bookshops here at mono.kultur, but most of those we write about follow the same model: stock from a variety of publishers, chosen selectively, covering a range of topics. Rarely does a store veer from this time-tested way of doing business.
POST, in Tokyo’s Yoyogi Village (an “urban retreat“), is different. They hit on [...]

GRAND BOUCLE MOTHER DRUCKER

Mother Drucker, which opened about a year ago just around the corner from our studio, is the kind of place that in the age of the supposedly all-consuming, all-replacing Internet by all means should not exist. Dedicated to the art of screenprinting, it is part gallery, part workshop, as long as it involves manual labour, [...]

MONDAY MUSIC: PASSION PIT

Take a Walk, taken quite literally by director-to-watch David Wilson for Passion Pit’s latest single, and if my walks were as energetic as a bouncing ball’s, hey, the world would look so much prettier.

A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING

When we published our lovely issue #25 on American author, publisher and cultural jack of all trades Dave Eggers, he implied that he was finally working on a new novel with an original story – as opposed to his two previous political biographies What is the What and Zeitoun – which, almost two years later, [...]

OBSERVING WITHOUT PERSPECTIVE

Miniatures create a new world by abandoning perspective. Various spaces positioned side by side tell several stories in one plane. Levni, one of the most famous Ottoman miniature artists who lived in 18th century, was known for his humorous way of depicting women figures or the intrigued life in the Ottoman Palace with its festivals [...]