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FRIEDRICH

Recently, Paris based choreographer and musician Morgan Belenguer has been working on his new music project Morgan Friedrich. Influenced by a Romantic disillusionment and the writings of Bruno Latour and Philippe Descola on anthropocene, Loseground is the first track of the upcoming album Natureisdead.
‘Friedrich is a character more or less imagined. He is a romantic [...]

IF IN LONDON…

This week’s recommendations are two events taking place in South London, both highlighting the work and music of producer Terre Thaemlitz aka DJ Sprinkles. Café OTO presents an evening of talk, video and audio with Thaemlitz, starting with a multi-media reading of “Naisho Wave Manifesto” (“Secrecy Wave Manifesto”), which Thaemlitz produced for the first issue [...]

Sparks

Says Bukowski:
(…) it needn’t be much, just a spark.
a spark can set a whole forest [...]

POLICING OF OUR BODIES

Terre Thaemlitz has commented on the changes to Japan’s controversial Fuueihou law via a statement on her website. The post responds to the “Declaration On the Future Of Japan’s Club Culture”, signed by 40 Japanese DJs on the same day that the 67-year-old law was officially changed by the Japanese government. She argues that it has “no purpose other than [...]

BALLET GOES NOISE

Our all time favorite noise-heroine Kim Gordon had an interesting collaboration last year, when she was commissioned to compose music for a ballet initiated by artist Nick Mauss. Inversions was first performed at Frieze Projects 2014, now the audio is to receive a limited edition vinyl release. Exclaim reports that Music for Inversions: A Live [...]

HUMAN COMMA BEING –  THE CLASS

Dafna Maimon is a Finnish-Israeli video and performance artist based in Berlin and currently a resident at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Her recent video and performance hybrid project Human Comma Being is concerned with identity constructions that challenge definitions of the self, the other and the body, acknowledging our living or technological doppelgangers and missing limbs. During [...]

UNTIL OUR HEARTS STOP

‘The performers are ‘freaky insiders’, forced to connect in uncomfortable, yet playful ways. Navigating between naivety and despair, they are dreamers who long for reality. In a world in which they fade away and disappear, they feel the urge to seek new forms of appearance.’
Until Our Hearts Stop is the new production by choreographer Meg [...]

Guilty Pleasures

A lot of times, the tracks you’d call “guilty pleasures” are so much better than the ones you’re “o-f-f-i-c-i-a-l-l-y” supposed to love (before midnight, sober etc.)… (V. Maier pic, btw.)

Propelled

Here’s why those Californian canvas shoes seemed so strangely appealing all these years, strangely appealing even to those who might have never touched Canadian maple in their sorry lives. Thanks, Greg Hunt.

VOTE FOR THE COMMUNITY

Support our favorite local radio station Berlin Community Radio and help them win funding to sustain their amazing project! The voting for the ‘Crowd for Berlin Media’ is on until 12 March. BCR is all about the community, so hurry up and click the heart button!