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METAMORPHOSE

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

The unexpected encounter with the demon Humbaba – the guard of Cedar Forest whose intestines are on his face – from the epic of Gılgamesh triggers one to think about our perception of body, the Zeitgeist and the representations in various cultures… Nowadays, the notion of body is in a vigorous metamorphose with the digitization, [...]

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A Manz World

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Thinking about Bodil Manz’ thin-skinned ceramic inventions makes me feel all jittery inside… and just imagine she’d do a similar see-through model that nods to the mono.kultur logo…

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Read What You Want! A Reading Club… in the Ringbahn S41.

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Read What You Want! is a hybrid between a book club and a reading club, that also focusses on the importance of space. The event is an experiment on how people inhabit spaces, both printed, as in the pages of a book, and physical, by our surroundings in the city. It is planned as an [...]

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STREET CAT DELUXE

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Nowadays in Vdrome: Street Cat Deluxe by Ovidiu Anton
“The recent transformation of the city of Istanbul is critically analysed by a heterogeneous group of inhabitants of the Turkish metropolis. Discussing such topics as the impact of tourism, the effects of gentrification, and the results of urban policies on their daily lives, the single individuals also [...]

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“IS THE MUSEUM A BATTLEFIELD?”

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Filmmaker, visual artist, author Hito Steyerl asks:
“…armed forces fire flares to add to the confusing scene of giant smoke plumes, ambulance horns, and faces illuminated by mobile phone screens. At the Cultural Center, a brilliant, all-female group of culture workers and municipality officials discusses the role of art with me. I pan to frame [...]

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MONO.PUNKT #26: NEW YORK ART BOOK FAIR 2014

Friday, September 26, 2014

It is precisely 18:01 now, meaning that one minute ago, across the big pond, the doors opened to this year’s installment of the mother of all art book fairs, obviously in New York and where else? We imagine a stampede of book lovers, wallets in hand (last year, all ATMs in the vicinity of PS1 [...]

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WROOOOAW

Thursday, September 4, 2014

The exhibition of the  Berlin Graphic Days 2014 was visually dominated by the colourful silkscreen prints in six parts by Hza Bažant from Czech ‘Hura Collective’. Hygienická Stanice is the name of the gallery that stands behind those simply amazing handmade prints on Japanese paper – each piece a part of story that lies behind [...]

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McSweeney’s first ever student short story contest!

Friday, August 22, 2014

If you are a fan of McSweeney’s

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THE IMAGINARY MUSEUM

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Despite the unnecessary effects, one can also encounter interesting articles or projects via facebook. A new discovery by the suggestion of the blog crap=good is MUSEE MUSEUM in Brussels, influenced by  The Imaginary Museum of Andre Malraux. It is “a temporary museum in a specific neighborhood where the houses are seen as the archive cellars [...]

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Historic Mobility & the Emergence of Cultural Hotspots

Friday, August 1, 2014

Art historian Maximilian Schich and design researcher Mauro Martino illustrate the historic mobility of intellectuals. The animation connects birth and death places through the centuries. It reveals the emergence of cultural hotspots like Rome, Paris as well as German Kleinstaaterei and the conquest of the new world.

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