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THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Again, it is Apple Macintosh that put goosebumps into my skin today. Because after having thought about the iPad not more then an hour or two, these guys made me do it again. The once punk-rock-on-silicium dream of being different whilst also knowing it turns out to lead into a blind alley of thoughts like I’m-nothing-without-a-soon-achieved-world-supremacy or [...]

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Happy Birthday, Rudi

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Today would have been Rudi Dutschke’s 70th birthday. Time to think about long marches, institutions, and most certainly of revolutions.

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VOCODED DATA

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Next month’s recommended read is going to be published here - oh, and here.

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TURN YOUR RADIO ON

Friday, February 12, 2010

Tonight the exhibition Sounds / Radio – Art – New Music, curated by Marius Babias, Gaby Hartel, Frank Kaspar, and Katrin Klingan, opens at n.b.k. in Berlin:
During the age of the historical avant-gardes, the arts formed a mutually enriching synthesis before the separation and specialization into individual disciplines set in during the 1930s. Radio was [...]

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NONE THE WISER

Friday, December 25, 2009

I’ve come to really appreciate Christmas, but mostly for the reason that it affords the luxury of time: time to sleep in, time to talk to people you have lost sight of for a while, time to read that issue of mono.kultur you never got around to finishing, time to think, time to kill time. [...]

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AND NOW

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

and now. Female artists from the GDR
The exhibition and now traces the work of a selected group of female artists from the GDR – among which some have been discussed only sparsely in the overall German art historical field. 
The exhibition shows work from the 1980s made under ’socialistic conditions of production’ and as well [...]

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THE WHEEL

Friday, November 6, 2009

This coming weekend Erika Arzt and Juan Linares will attempt to reactivate the wheel of the Spree-Park in Berlin’s Treptower Park. A former technician of the Spree-Park will arrive to Berlin with the intention to re-activate the wheel. If he should succeed, they will have the wheel turning on Sunday, November 8, all day long. Due to technical and [...]

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Friday, October 30, 2009

Today, the 29th of October 2009, it is the already 50th birthday of a little kind a guy who managed to entertain generations all over the word to tears.
He was born in France, although his father is a native Italian, still travels a lot as well as far, loves to eat boar and is strong [...]

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HERE & NOW

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Tehching Hsieh: One Year Performance 1978-1979
The Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf currently shows 100 Years (Version #1, Duesseldorf), an exhibition sketching the development of performance art over the past century (in collaboration with P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center/MoMA and Performa, New York). Conceived as a research project that would provide an overview of the most significant [...]

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40 YEARS NGBK

Thursday, September 24, 2009

CONGRATULATIONS!

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