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COLD TURKEY – AN INVITATION

Saturday, March 6, 2010

From April 1st to 30th, 2010 a drug detox residency will be offered by Hotel Marienbad at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. Artists, curators, critics and all those professionally related to the arts are invited to apply. The Hotel Marienbad suite offers a confidential retreat secluded from the public eye. Your drug detox [...]

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SEPTUAGINT

Monday, March 1, 2010

15 years, 70 issues - that should be ample reason to celebrate. See you tomorrow night at Civilist.

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TATI x CHOMET

Saturday, February 27, 2010

The Illusionist is the latest animation from Sylvain Chomet, the man who directed The Triplets of Belleville. It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival last week.
Some notes:
1. It is based on a screenplay that Jacques Tati wrote 54 years ago. The screenplay is believed to have been written as a message to the daughter [...]

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TONIGHT IN BERLIN

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Beach House are playing at cosy Roter Salon in Berlin tonight. This Baltimore based band is a mono.kultur favourite, as previously seen here, here, here, here and here.
Roter Salon, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, 10178 Berlin. Starts 10 pm. www.roter-salon-berlin.de/

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EARLY YEARS

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Contemporary art is having its moment in Poland these days. Museums get built, and new public as well as private institutions emerge. Artists’ names become common knowledge, their practice—previously ignored or misinterpreted—is widely understood and accepted today. It speaks for itself that the most central tract of land in the Polish capital will soon [...]

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CIVIL ACTION

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Coming up: the first event at Berlin’s Civilist.

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VERY MONO

Monday, February 15, 2010

‘Collapse’ is a documentary that describes our civilisation on the verge of destruction. It follows the course of a single interview conducted over a few days in a basement somewhere in LA, during which Michael Ruppert – a former LA police officer and investigative journalist – sets out a bleak vision for [...]

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TURN YOUR RADIO ON

Friday, February 12, 2010

Tonight the exhibition Sounds / Radio – Art – New Music, curated by Marius Babias, Gaby Hartel, Frank Kaspar, and Katrin Klingan, opens at n.b.k. in Berlin:
During the age of the historical avant-gardes, the arts formed a mutually enriching synthesis before the separation and specialization into individual disciplines set in during the 1930s. Radio was [...]

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GO WITH THE FLOE

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Even though it’s probably way safer to stay inside and just read about Walking In Ice, you should really come down to Motto Mitte tonight (see below) and check out Sam’s reading. Here’s a review I wrote about And yet, and yet… when I first discovered his little publishing enterprise:
Fittingly enough, the first little piece [...]

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MOTTO VS. MITTE

Monday, February 8, 2010

For everyone who cannot be asked to come down to Kreuzberg during these Siberian weather conditions, Motto will now come to you.

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