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Monthly Archives: October 2013

MONIE MORE MUSIC

Because you need a bit of a punk prayer to uplift the post-debauch haze and back-to-school daze.  Drop your shades and get your schwagger back with VUKOVI.

MONDAY MUSIC: JAMES BLAKE

James Blake’s Overgrown ranks of course highly on our 2013 in Sound favourites, so tomorrow evening poses a dilemma for Berliners: go see James Blake at Tempodrom or Nicholas Jaar’s new project Darkside at Berghain?

Synecdoche, Denton, TX

Never ask a man band if he’s they’re from Texas: Midlake got rid of their old singer, and the forthcoming album Antiphon grows bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger with each and every listen.

MONO.PUNKT #24: SALON LIGHT / PARIS

La littérature and les beaux arts are part of French culture as much as, say, a glass of red wine and a fat chunk of camembert, so it’s no surprise that Salon Light, the annual art book fair organised by CNEAI, should already invite to its 10th anniversary, celebrated in style with a pompous nuit [...]

AEON

Aeon Magazine publishes one essay every weekday online under categories such as Living Together and Altered States. Thought-worthy and easily time-consuming.

THE NEW YORKER FESTIVAL

Conversations with Marina Abramovic, Noah Baumbach, Michelle Williams and mono.kultur interviewee Kim Gordon to just name a few (!) as well as panel discussions on a span of different topics; one about first-person filmmaking with Miranda July (another mono classic)- all this and plenty more at The New Yorker Festival starting today and lasting the weekend. Sigh. oh [...]

COLLABORATION

Collaboration is an ongoing performance series by William ‘Bilwa‘ Costa and Jasmin Schaitl. In their own words collaboration ‘explores the correlation between, and the potentials of; transformation, alteration, duration and ephemerality’.
Collaboration #1, #2 and #3,  took place in mo.e (Vienna), Friday Exit (Vienna), Grünthaler 9 (Berlin). The appealing point of the series is their simplicity: everyday movements, [...]

BLOGGING IN 2013

One of the most interesting categories in the annual Lead Awards is “Weblog of the Year” – the list of nominations give you get a feeling of what topics get a lot of resonance in the public eye. This year’s winner has been mentioned here before – congratulations to What Ali Wore by Zoe Spawton. [...]