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Monthly Archives: September 2013

OPENING BERLIN ART WEEK

Monday, September 16, 2013

OPENING BERLIN ART WEEK
Tomorrow, September 17, 2013, 7 pm, Auguststraße, Berlin-Mitte
Dates: September 17–22, 2013
Berlin Art Week kicks off together with the joint exhibition Painting Forever! with an outdoor celebration on Auguststraße. Join for an exciting evening program on the main stage and additional live acts and additional offerings at the local galleries, institutions, bars, and restaurants to celebrate the start of six days of art [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: DEERHUNTER

Monday, September 16, 2013

Deerhunter are back with a new album which is worth mentioning for its title alone: Monomania.

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CONVERSATIONS WITH GHOSTS

Sunday, September 15, 2013

‘Late in 2010 the folks at Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) asked me if I was interested in collaborating with a modern classical composer on a song cycle. The idea sounded so scary I said yes straight away before I could talk myself out of it.’ (Paul Kelly)

Conversations With Ghosts, is a hauntingly beautiful [...]

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GENTLEWWWOMAN

Saturday, September 14, 2013

The sister title to beloved Fantastic Man – living proof if proof were needed that independent magazines can do just fine in face of the Vogues in the world, thank you – appropriately called Gentlewoman, have not only just released their new issue fronted in bold black and white, they’ve also launched a rather fantastic [...]

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‘SAY_____’

Friday, September 13, 2013

Since the advent of industrialization, man has belabored the destruction of human identity in the technological sinkhole, enmeshed in metal, wires, and electricity and ever growing to the beat of Moore’s law.  The insistent currency of interchangeable events, status, and messages meted out by social networking sites presently fill the absence of the harder personal [...]

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FLEX

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Berlin Art Week is coming up next week, and before we go off for an art overkill, why not start a bit earlier with a contemporary art ‘gymnastic excersise’ for a warm-up with the Berlin-based artist Hella Gerlach. By engaging in a dialogue with the architectural, physical and social body, Gerlach transforms the gallery space [...]

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Under the influence of Boardwalk

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Stranger things have happened, but I wonder why we didn’t mention yet how much we love Boardwalk…

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‘ALL WE EVER SEE OF STARS ARE THEIR OLD PHOTOGRAPHS’

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

For those who have not heard of it yet, Prix Pictet is the premier international photography competition focusing on the  environment and sustainability.  Founded in 2008 by Pictet & Cie, it rewards the most outstanding photographers based on the annual theme–one with CHF 100,000 and another with a photo commission (the honor aptly named the Commission). [...]

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ENOISMS #03: MICROSOFT

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

It’s one of the interesting details about Brian Eno that even though he works mostly in the shadows, most people will be much more familiar with his work than they realise – having an album by U2 or Coldplay on their iPod, or almost by default if they used a PC in the 90s, since [...]

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SILENCE/SOUND

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Evolution of Silence, Matthias Lohscheidt. 2013.
Degeneration of sound to the finer development of listening pleasures.
Might be interesting to read with Luigi Russolo’s Art of Noise.

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