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TURIST

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Force Majeure (or Turist, which is its original title) is the latest film of Ruben Östlund; director of previous films such as Play and Involuntary. Force Majeure examines the consequences of a father’s decision to run for his life and leave his family behind when nature comes crashing in at a ski resort in the [...]

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ASLEEP IN THE SKY WITHOUT DYING

Friday, July 4, 2014

A handful of poems for the weekend: a new series of billboards by our dear friend Robert Montgomery are now hovering in the pale skies of Los Angeles, and we can’t think of a more appropriate city to host Rob’s delicate words.
All images by Robert Montgomery

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JAPAN SYNDROME

Monday, May 19, 2014

Three years after the tsunami in northeastern Japan and the damage to the nuclear reactor in Fukushima, many people, including a growing number of artists, have got beyond the agony and speechlessness that set in after the disaster. They are starting to recognize that the catastrophe uncovered many hitherto undisclosed rifts within Japanese society, and [...]

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CLUBLAND REVISITED

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Contemporary dance culture has deep roots in the LGBT communities. However, it seems that this background is still largely unrecognised today. Terre Thaemlitz aka DJ Sprinkles is therefore a major figure within the club scene. By making this very origin visible and talking about the issues around this discourse, she is also one of dance [...]

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POSITIONING THE BODY

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Throughout the 1980s and early ’90s, Kim Gordon—widely known as a founding member of the influential band Sonic Youth—produced a series of writings on art and music. Ranging from neo-Conceptual artworks to broader forms of cultural criticism, these rare texts are brought together in this volume for the first time, placing Gordon’s writing within the [...]

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CHRISTOPH SCHLINGENSIEF EXHIBITION

Sunday, January 12, 2014

The show Christoph Schlingensief – a real highlight of the exhibition program of KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin – provides an insight to Schlingensief’s comprehensive work and is only on view until January 19, 2014 – don’t miss it!
His radical demand for reaction, his uniquely inventive imagery, his almost obsessive overexertion and challenging [...]

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SOME PEOPLE ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Name: David Simon
Age: 52-53
Occupation: Writer/producer/showrunner; former journalist
Status: Dangerous
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Q: What makes an idea ‘dangerous’?
An idea is dangerous when it claims a simple, painless solution to complex, fundamental problems.
Q: Which technological or scientific advancement excites you most?
The notion that the internet’s shared and rapid-fire marketplace of ideas might vanquish fundamentalist religion of all kinds within a [...]

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THE NEW YORKER FESTIVAL

Friday, October 4, 2013

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 [...]

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GIBCA

Monday, September 9, 2013

Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art presents Play! Recapturing the Radical Imagination in hopes of raising questions of institutional boundaries and those of the mind in relation to art and creating under subtitles like Art & Crime and The Politics of Play. International artists and influential pioneers like Carolee Schneemann and Guerilla Girls will take part as well [...]

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FESTIVAL OF DANGEROUS IDEAS

Monday, September 2, 2013

Festival of Dangerous Ideas
2 – 4 November, 2013
Sydney Opera House
Australia

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