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Monthly Archives: October 2012

MONO.KLUB #39: ECHOES OF VOICES IN THE HIGH TOWERS

Monday, October 15, 2012

Dear Friends,
after months and months of gathering images, words, funding, papers, thoughts, data, and oh so much more, the time has come to finally present our first ever artist publication with, of course, Robert Montgomery. Large in format, big on images, and beautiful with words, it is the first comprehensive publication on Robert Montgomery’s works [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS

Monday, October 15, 2012

Some stirring Monday morning music, with recently released Cut the World, the latest single from Antony and the Johnsons, directed by Nabil, starring Willem Dafoe, Marina Abramović and Carice van Houten. It was originally a written opera for Marina Abramovic, entitled The Life and Death of Marina Abramović. Truly gruesome but great video and single.
You can find Nabil’s directors cut [...]

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HUSTLE AND BUSTLE

Sunday, October 14, 2012

1920s… Years of Charleston and Flappers like movie star Louise Brooks; cabarets and Dada! After being overwhelmed by Mike Nelson’s work in the newly discovered abandoned cabaret theater from 1920s in Berlin’s Gartenstrasse, bumping into Thames and Hudson’s new publication Berlin in the 20s was a nice coincidence. The book is starting with a description [...]

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ECHOES OF VOICES UPDATE #09

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Yesterday, a large portion of our project with Robert Montgomery was printed – it’s always the moment when you see the sheets coming out of the press and everything is all right and they look beautiful and slowly the pressure lifts off your shoulders and you remember why you wanted [...]

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NIHILISTIC OPTIMISTIC

Friday, October 12, 2012

In 2011 Tim Noble and Sue Webster exhibited their work Turning the Seventh Corner at the very noteworthy gallery Blain Southern in Berlin. This golden work of intricacies, of hidden gems and debris created astonishing shadow portraits on the walls. Blain Southern has four galleries of which two of them are in London. Now it’s time [...]

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Curating is the new criticism

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Curatorial Practices have never been so discussed, criticized and theorized as lately. From books from the likes of Sternberg Press, i.e., to articles in blogs, online journals, etc. the subject seems to quickly start entering everyone’s sphere of reading and debating. I leave you with a quick reading list of some of my latest and current favorite [...]

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Lazy Screenprinting in Berlin

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Next Thursday, October 18, 2012, a print and publishing enterprise called FREISTIL will be opening a workshop/showroom in Berlin. They own a risograph – I’ve been excited about that machine for 2 years now! They will develop and produce their own projects and offer the machine for use to other designers (most probably not for [...]

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TUESDAY MUSIC: GRIZZLY BEAR

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

When we released our glorious (can we say that without sounding preposterous? Maybe just this once…) issue with Chris Taylor of mighty Grizzly Bear almost exactly one year ago, he mentioned how nice it was to be in the studio again with his friends to work on the follow-up of their successful Veckatimest. Fast forward [...]

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DESIRE DESIESE DEVISE

Monday, October 8, 2012

If you are in Hamburg these days, don’t miss this excellent exhibition of Monica Bonvicini’s prolific production of drawings, collage and textual work at the Falckenberg Collection! A visit of the show is possible through an advanced reservation for a guided tour here.
Excerpt from the website of the Falckenberg Collection:
Monica Bonvicini, renowned for striking installations, [...]

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KOHEI YOSHIYUKI

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Kohei Yoshiyuki’s infamous series The Park attracts and repulses in equal measure. Shot with infrared film in the 1970s, the images capture illicit gay and straight coupling, and the voyeurs who liked to watch, in three different Tokyo parks. The work is grainy and raw, clearly belonging to the Provoke era; flashes of bodies emerge [...]

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