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ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: THE BERLIN QUARTERLY

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Despite the title, the new Berlin Quarterly has little to do with Berlin at first sight, besides having its offices in town. Picking up on some of the dustier and quirkier visual elements of old-fashioned literary titles, the design of Berlin Quarterly doesn’t succeed as well as The White Review in translating these [...]

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MUCKED UP

Saturday, March 1, 2014

Bored with the usual cinema fare?  Look no further.  L’Enfant (or I suppose now l’adolescent or l’adulte depending on your feelings towards said provocateur) terrible Matthew Barney returns to the cinema fray with his operatic River of Fundament, a collaboration between him, several powerhouse thespians, Gaspard Noé, Jonathan Bepler, and…Norman Mailer?!  Premiered at the Brooklyn Academy [...]

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GODWIN

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Tracing Godwin is a project by artist Georg Klein, focusing on the story of Godwin, an immigrant from Nigeria. Godwin’s freedom of movement is regulated, nevertheless, by participating the project his narrative could be spread. By printing and hanging the poster with a code  − allowing one to listen the composed sound of him − [...]

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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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WRONG

Thursday, November 28, 2013

The ubiquity of digital art, variously manifested as prismatic gifs, Google Map collages, interactive apps/music videos, and photomanipulations, has proven itself beyond fact beyond fad as an expressive medium for both ends–grassroots and elite–of the creative world.  It’s not surprising then that a contemporary survey, long in coming, has finally emerged.  Impishly named, The Wrong, organized by [...]

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NATIONAL IDENTITY

Thursday, November 7, 2013

In the so called multicultural streets of Berlin, say, in this cacophony of nations,  – eating Pastel de Nata after several encounters with Eastern melodies reverberating through the neighbour’s window – how is German identity formed? Recalling the notions of nation-state, how othering continues? Who is ‘the nation’?Where/who is the margin? Starting from this Friday, [...]

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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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NERVE RAG

Monday, September 23, 2013

Though I’m sure many have heard of  (and read from) it, this post goes to Merve Verlag,  mono.kultur’s neighbor during the MISS READ Berlin Art Book Fair.  The quintessential philosopher’s publication since 1970, it has introduced to the intellectually voracious such venerable minds as Louis Althusser and Gilles Deleuze.  In contrast to the stagnancy that usually pervades academia, [...]

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