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COLOMBIAN POSTSCRIPT

Saturday, September 5, 2015

If you are following our Instagram feed, you will have seen that we spent a week in Bogotá for a workshop at the impressive Utadeo university. Now that we’re slowly recovering from our Colombian hangover, it’s time to send a quick thank you towards the design department for inviting us in the first place, to [...]

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ADVICES FROM THE WISE ONES

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

The extravagant pervert, legendary director John Waters has precious advices, indeed, such as: ‘If you go home with someone, and they don’t have any books, don’t fuck them.’ In an old interview dating back to February, 13 2014, when his exhibition at Sprüth Magers Berlin was going on, Waters talked about ‘finding friends, beating the [...]

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HUMBABA

Saturday, April 18, 2015

Besides the well-known Greek mythology, Mesopotamia hides epics consisting of several myths. The Epic of Gılgamesh from Ancient Mesopotamia, is one of them which is written in Sumerian and Assyrian. As the first written language in the world, Sumerian has no reminiscence to any language in the world.
Apparently, the well known stories in the Bible, Torah [...]

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MONO.PUNKT #28: SINGAPORE ART BOOK FAIR 2014

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Art book fairs are popping up like mushrooms in autumn, and the most imminent gathering is scheduled for this weekend, on the tropical shores of Singapore. Preceding the blossoming Singapore Art Fair, the Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore has invited a range of fine publishers from all over the world to present their goods, alongside [...]

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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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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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WHAT DREAMS

Monday, March 24, 2014

For those who have been keeping up, you might remember Tilda Swinton’s the 8½  Foundation, mentioned in her now sold out interview with mono.kultur. Named after the eponymous Fellini film, the Scotland-based foundation was inspired by the musings of  her then eight-and-a-half years old son and dedicates itself to gifting free benchmark films to children at [...]

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REACTION

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Reaction LX is a gathering for design students organized by MEDS. Previous workshops by this non-profit student organization took place in Alanya, Istanbul and Ljubljana in 2010, 2011 and 2012. This time, two-weeks workshop, is held in an abandoned old prison in Lisbon where 250 attendees have also been living together as a commune. Besides daily [...]

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HOW TO ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS

Saturday, July 20, 2013

It was of course only a matter of time until someone invented something like The School of Life – we all might know our history dates and our algebra, but how to sustain a meaningful relationship? How to navigate daily life with all its pitfalls and uncertainties? These and many more questions that we all [...]

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MARMITE

Saturday, May 25, 2013

You can divide the world into those who like and those who don’t like Marmite, or at least the Anglo-Saxon world, since the rest of us are likely not to have heard of Marmite ever before. So for the uninitiated, the BBC’s Good Food section (and I can hear a roar of cynical sneering coming [...]

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