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Monthly Archives: September 2013

MONDAY MUSIC: DJANGO DJANGO

In case you ever wondered what the infamous Wall of Death in Allahabad, India, was about, look no further. Oh, and utterly addictive: Django Django.

THIS IS WHAT I LEAVE YOU AFTER MYSELF

In post-war Europe the polish sculptor Alina Szapocznikow (1926-73) experimented with new materials such as polyester resin to create casts often of her own body, a body that had been exposed to war and decease. The casts, imprints, she reassembled into surrealistic, affecting montages. This Is What I Leave You After Myself is part of [...]

GIBCA

Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art presents Play! Recapturing the Radical Imagination in hopes of raising questions of institutional boundaries and those of the mind in relation to art and creating under subtitles like Art & Crime and The Politics of Play. International artists and influential pioneers like Carolee Schneemann and Guerilla Girls will take part as well [...]

MONO.PUNKT #21: ART KREUZBERG

Kreuzberg has been our home since the very early days of mono.kultur, so of course we won’t say no to an invitation to participate at the annual Art Kreuzberg where the closed doors of artists studios and other cultural spaces miraculously open. Come and visit us at our friends’ space Erd im Feuer, a former [...]

COMING APART

‘Well, we just kind of listen to each other. Sometimes I really like to stop playing and just listen to Bill. I enjoy his playing because he’s so good. It is always so amazing when I actually realize what he is doing. Some of the things partly form songs, but most of what we do [...]

TRUISM OF THE DAY 21: CARL ANDRE

True, how true. Sculpting legend Carl Andre.

ENOISMS #02: BLOOM & SCAPE

If anything becomes obvious from our new issue with Brian Eno, then it’s that here is a mind endlessly at work detecting and uncoding context, different relationships between people, technology, events. In short, the things accountable for culture.
So it’s not really surprising that Eno, who is probably the most forward-looking, future-embracing person we’ve ever come [...]

MONDAY MUSIC: AUSTRA

I wish there were some sort of personalised messaging service that keeps you up to date on the activities of bands whose music you like – for example, I totally missed the release of Austra’s second album Olympia this summer…

FESTIVAL OF DANGEROUS IDEAS

Festival of Dangerous Ideas
2 – 4 November, 2013
Sydney Opera House
Australia