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FOOTBALL CULTURE 02

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Meanwhile, on yet another side of the planet, or Japan, to be precise, our football-crazed friends at Juuichi – who put together some beautiful exhibits for a mono.kultur-hosted evening during the Euro Cup 2012 – are hosting not one but two exhibitions dedicated to football graphics and paraphernalia. In Tokyo, alas, but then you can [...]

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Treasures of Graz

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Discovering my small, but with 270.000 inhabitants second biggest (home-)town of Austria through a brand new web blog I am totally surprised about what neat, new and partially forgotten treasures it has got. One special you should know about is the smallest gallery space (probably world-wide), the very much beloved ‘Stadtpark-Hansis’ and a curch window [...]

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BEAUTEOUS CAMELS

Monday, June 23, 2014

Istanbul, Beirut, Belgrade or Sofia… Which one is the new Berlin? Leaving the unnecessary discussion behind, one shall focus on what comes from those idiosyncratic geographies.
The musician Gaye Su Akyol, one of the cool women of the band Seni Görmem İmkansız, has released her solo album. Develerle Yaşıyorum (I have been living with Camels) is [...]

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Keep on Pushin’

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

If you’re familiar with names such as Barbee or Duffy, Shiloh or Salman, Hensley or Natas, this one’s clearly for you, but Ricki Bedenbaugh’s “Keep on Pushin’” is fun to watch even if you’re not.

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THE WORLD IN PICTURES

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Always a defining moment for the state of photography is the announcement of the winners of the Sony World Photography Awards – that great mixture of entries of young and old, professional and amateur, covering all aspects of current photography, from reportage to advertising. Photographer of the Year is Sara Naomi Lewkowicz, for her disturbing [...]

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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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Are We Having Fun?

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Berlin’s annual Gallery Weekend is coming up, and this year Pointer Footwear and Lodown Magazine joined forces to revive an old institution, one that’s located right next to an even older institution that’s about to die after 121 years in business: good ol’ 95 Gallery – this is what it looked like back [...]

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COLORADO HOUSE

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Colorado House is a small publishing company that focuses on beautiful, heart-warming editions based on collaborations with writers, artists, technicians and craftspeople. Their mission – my heart’s sparkling – to advance ’small, unlikely ideas that are in ongoing danger of being lost, forgotten or ruled out’. The first edition of ‘TIMES’ is available on their [...]

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ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: RIPOSTE

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

It’s a frequent sore point for us that the men/women ratio of mono.kultur features tends to be at 3:1, and we’re sometimes struggling even to that end. It has certainly nothing to do with that there aren’t as many talented and interesting women out there, but when it comes to having made a name for [...]

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A School For Design Fiction — Book Launch @ Motto

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Book launch tomorrow, Wednesday 19th, at Motto Berlin.
From 7pm, a short reading and screening.
‘A School for Design Fiction’, by James Langdon, was convened on 8 November, 2013 at Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig. This itinerant school employs the curious genre of ‘design fiction’ to assert storytelling as the primary function of design, assuming that every [...]

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