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Monthly Archives: June 2015

MONO.KULTUR EXCERPTS #03: SISSEL TOLAAS

Friday, June 19, 2015

We’re onto our very last box of our wildly scented issues mono.kultur #23 with Norwegian scientist and artist Sissel Tolaas, excuse enough to lighten up a rainy weekend with a brief excerpt from a conversation that is refreshingly thought-provoking. And smell-intensive, as we say in German, since the issue is an experiment in print, including [...]

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HEAVY PETTING

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Or: another thing WWW can reveal to make you feel less special.
This video from Paris-Berlin art collective Neozoon is a work impossible before the internet, not just technologically. Mined deep and wide from Youtube, it makes you wonder–what was the first pet video? How and when did people learn the correct way to articulate [...]

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SMALL WONDERS

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

At the 8-Ball Zine Fair in New York, Peradam Press was, as its name infers, a hidden treasure. The modest title works with artists to publish original literature and occasionally fabricate objects. While Peradam has been around for only three years, it has built a sizable roster. What’s most telling of Peradam’s probable longevity is [...]

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STORE OF THE MONTH: MZIN / LEIPZIG

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Leipzig is Germany’s unofficial home of books, with its long history of book production, the renowned university for design and ‘book art’ and, of course, the international book fair. So it comes as no surprise that it should have a fine bookstore such as mzin dedicated to independent art and magazine publishing that caters to [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: BJÖRK

Monday, June 15, 2015

We posted the trailer for this a few months ago – before Björk’s exhibition at MoMA was shredded into a tousand pieces – and here is finally the real thing: her 10 minute video of Black Lake conceived especially for the show, special effects galore.

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FIRE AND FORGET. ON VIOLENCE

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Tonight the group exhibition Fire and Forget. On Violence, curated by Ellen Blumenstein and Daniel Tyradellis, opens at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. “Fire and forget” comes from military jargon, and is a term for weapon systems that are no longer used in direct combat with an enemy but are launched from a [...]

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Bad books, in bad places

Friday, June 12, 2015

Read What You Want is no book club.
You come. You bring a book. You read.
That’s it.
It’s a fuckyeah to real books.
Bad books?
Banned books
Badly written books
Softcore books, and those hardcore books
Stolen books
Those goddamn raunchy books that I stole from your dad
Bad places?
Your uncle’s places
Dark & dirty places
Filthy places
Inappropriate places
Or a bad cemetery
Sunday 14 June. 14:00
‘Kirchhof [...]

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PUBLIC LIBRARY PORTRAITS OF CALIFORNIA’S HOMELESS

Friday, June 12, 2015

“On a recent visit to the Sacramento library, the high number of homeless patrons I saw there surprised me. Seeing them in that quiet space, consumed by traditional media, I was struck by the difference between them and most of society with its 24/7 connection to streaming digital media. I began this project to take [...]

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VICTORIA

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Another thing going down in Berlin: tonight opens Sebastian Schipper’s highly anticipated rollercoaster of a film, Victoria, which snaffled all the buzz during the Berlinale film festival. It tells a classic story of a (nightlife) adventure turned nightmare, but it tells it all in one single, uninterrupted take. Sounds like a crazy undertaking in and [...]

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Goings On

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Lots going on in Berlin these days: A “Richtfest” right where NgoroNgoro went down (meaning there’s a pool nearby!), some wicked Fathers from Scotland, and Cee Cee goes all real world for a few days.

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