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Monthly Archives: July 2013

TEHERAN OUTLAWS

Iranian indie rockers Langtunes from Teheran who are banned from playing in their home country made it out with the help of the Culture Department and are playing 20 gigs around Europe. On Friday August 2nd they’ll be at Amiga Club in Berlin.
02.08.2013 @ Amiga Club
Costs 5 Euro
Mengerzeile 1-3
12435 Berlin (Alt-Treptow near Görlitzer Park)

MONO.KULTUR #34: BRIAN ENO

Dear Friends,
in times of heatwaves and frolicking in the sun, we unleash our latest and newest issue in all its colourful splendour, with no less than musical polymath Brian Eno, and what’s more, in conversation with his daughter Irial in a uniquely intimate father/daughter setting that makes it all the more charming and fun – [...]

A GLIMPSE INTO THE EVENING

Preparing our new issue for subscriptions tonight…

MONDAY MUSIC: GHOSTPOET

Ghostpoet is a treat, and Meltdown certainly one of the best tracks of his already impressive sophomore album Some Say I So I Say Light. Sweet video, too…

SUNDAY BBQ COOKING

These beetroot & feta burgers from Green Kitchen Stories come highly recommended to make, bbq and eat!

Movin’ On

Life is good and full of options once again: Next week you can spend all that money you saved this weekend (because you didn’t dare leave the house thanks to that heatwave) on lots of fine Forward Motion lots (all for a good cause, of course), and even though taking off your clothes (or playing [...]

MONO.KULTUR #34 / SOUNDBITE 03

Coming out next week: mono.kultur #34.

CLOSED CIRCUIT

For one of his recent art projects The Invisible Clerk (2013), Ciprian Muresan copied sculptures selected from the collection of the National Museum of Art in Cluj, which unites Socialist Realist ideas with (if ever so modest) forms of resistance with classical approaches to art & collecting before World War II. When Muresan’s work was [...]

BERLIN ATONAL 2013

I must begin by admitting total ignorance of a festival that last took place when I was two years old. That being said, the impressive six day programme for the first Berlin Atonal since 1990 is rapidly challenging the allure of the nearest lake/swimming pool/cool shower in this gorgeous summer heat.
Boasting a challenging array of [...]

STORE OF THE MONTH: KUBRICK / HONG KONG

The idea of the good old cinemathèque feels very last century, and yet, maybe they are the last fortress of cinema to resist the dominance of super hero boredom on screen. Even more importantly for a city like Hong Kong, where one can count the number of outlets for independent culture on one hand. So [...]