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Monthly Archives: March 2015

MONDAY MUSIC: JAMIE XX

As Jamie XX is gearing up to release his solo album this summer, a look back to one of the tracks, Sleep Sound, and its wonderful video by artist Sofia Mattioli dancing along with deaf children.

WOLF GANG

‘In the heart of Berlin’s Neukölln, a new film space is spreading its wings and wants to be shared with you. Located in what was once a brothel, it is a place of wild ideas and primal courage. w o l f engages with cinema and aims to be a home and a learning ground for [...]

XERROX 03

Xerrox has always been one of my favourite series by our very first cover star, Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto. A project largely based on copying and rerecording ambient sounds and transforming the loss and distortion of sonic information into the piece itself, Xerrox creates a new take on ambient music, soothing and aggressive at [...]

SODOMY

Censorship has been a hot-topic, no matter what the medium is. Last week, MACBA’s director Bartomeu Marí decided to cancel the show The Beast and The Foreign, due to Ines Doujak’s work , Not Dressed for Conquering that depicts former Spanish king Juan Carlos and Bolivian Labor leader Domitila Chúngara during a sodomy act with a dog on [...]

PRINT IS DEAD. LONG LIVE PRINT

It is not every day that we have the honour to be included among ‘The World’s Best Independent Magazines’, and needless to say, we’re thrilled. The latest of coffee table books on independent publishing, Print is Dead. Long Live Print by Ruth Jamieson compiles in one nifty volume a perfect survey of everything that is [...]

KIM GORDON X THE HAPPY READER

Kim Gordon of mono.kultur #33 fame stars in issue no.2 of The Happy Reader. The coolest girl in a band, Kim Gordon, talks books, music, writing, art and bad TV habits.

MONDAY MUSIC: IBEYI

French-Cuban twin sisters Ibeyi are all the rage these days, and nicely so.

HI BYE

Why hasn’t anybody done this before? This ingenious video by Jacob T. Swinney juxtaposes the first and last shots of 55 films. More often than not, the comparisons are startling, and you wonder how many of these films were shot with their finales (and beginnings) in mind.

Propelled

Here’s why those Californian canvas shoes seemed so strangely appealing all these years, strangely appealing even to those who might have never touched Canadian maple in their sorry lives. Thanks, Greg Hunt.

ART WATCHING

After a long sleepy winter break Art lovers can finally start planning their full-on gallery opening tours. For this weekends waverers in Berlin the ultimate must-see show tonight is the group exhibition at Micky Schubert. The opening of  her new space in Berlin’s Tiergarten area starts with a performance of the Glasgow-based artist and the former [...]