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Monthly Archives: February 2014

The Secret Lives of Mr. Smith and Ms. Tapner

Before you’re heading off tonight, two things, two secrets: Mr. Stan Smith stole a piece of the Brooklyn Bridge banks (for a reason), and Ms. Rosie Tapner ain’t no up-and-coming model, but a runner and rider and racer and drinker of copious cups of tea. Now you know.

THE TEMPLE OF HOLY SHIT

An appealing project named as Temple of Holy Shit by the young ‘multidisciplinary network’ Collective Disaster.
‘Temple of Holy Shit is a public waste installation with dry toilet, whose purpose is to convert the bio-waste produced by the park and its visitors into rich terra-preta soil for the gardens in and around the area.’

DEAR GREEN

Dear Green is the title of an exhibition which brings together artists from two cities, Berlin and Glasgow, in an ambitious large scale interdisciplinary show within the old good depot and railway station of Moabit. Spanning an eclectic range of work the show brings two communities of artists together for the first time. From moving image, installation [...]

TRUISM OF THE DAY 26: REBECCA SOLNIT

I have to admit I am not familiar with the work of US writer Rebecca Solnit – yet – but her interview in the latest issue of The White Review is one of the most engaging I have read in a while.

MONDAY MUSIC: THE NOTWIST

It only happens every five years or so that The Notwist release a new album, but when they do, it’s always a treat.

PAPER CUT STORIES

The sweet Frankie Magazine led me to the works of Sarah Dennis, the creator of these beautiful paper cut stories in traditional scherenschnitte and collage. Among many intricate dreamlike works, she has made a new take on a certain children’s book.

APOCALYPSE NOW?

These apocalyptic appearing press photos of the latest events in the Ukraine were published yesterday by the spanish newspaper El País.
Immediately touched by the anarchic brutality of a real event I started to notice that the images would arouse a certain sense for surreal beauty just at the same time they had a shocking impact [...]

STORE OF THE MONTH: RASTER EDITIONS / WARSAW

Poland is so close that we tend to take it for granted, when of course we shouldn’t, since beautiful things are happening eastwards. For instance with renowned Raster gallery in Warsaw, who some galleries here might actually want to take a closer look at, and let’s leave it at that. For lack of a decent [...]

Simon Evans: Toward where the daisies are

Partner in crime with mono.kultur for long and host to interviews with Cyprien Gaillard and Tilda Swinton, my favorite Elodie Evers just edited the first comprehensive monograph of Simon Evans’ unique artistic practice over the past 15 years.
Evans’ intensely worked drawings and collages were long known only to a small circle of curators and artists; [...]

REAL EMOTIONS: THINKING IN FILM

Ever since its inception, film has influenced our thinking about what the world is, and what it can be. As a mass medium that directly addresses human emotions, it affects collective experiences to the extent that films can be regarded not only against the background of reality, but can actually influence our view of it.
The [...]