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A LETTER FROM THE PAST

Saturday, April 4, 2015

God bless the Internet, that treasure chest of little jewels hidden among piles of rubbish. Of course, 2010 did eventually get made, but it took another 14 years. Happy Easter!

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THE FUTURE OF THE PAST

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Remember those? For his project The Long Lines, photographer Spencer Harding spent a few weeks photographing dozens of ‘microwave towers’ in California, now defunct relics marking a turning point in telecommunication when phone signals were first transmitted via the sky rather than the earth.
Photography: The Long Lines by Spencer Harding

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MY OWN PRIVATE I DON’T KNOW

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Photograph by Skylar Williams (for Purple Fashion)
Eckhaus Latta once again proved their inventive and avant garde take on fashion at this years New York Fashion Week FW 2015. Being reminiscent of a certain nostalgia paired with the flair of contemporary twenty-somethings, the runway show merged into an artistic performance. The FW collection was also presented [...]

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MONO.KULTUR EXCERPTS #02: MICHAEL BALLHAUS

Saturday, February 7, 2015

The Berlinale Film Festival opened two days ago, which is always an exciting time for the city – somehow the mood changes for a few days. Legendary cinematographer Michael Ballhaus – longtime collaborator for Martin Scorsese – was one of the few German ‘exports’ to succeed in Hollywood and an important father figure for the [...]

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SHARDS OF TIME: NORTHERN IRELAND, 1981

Saturday, January 17, 2015

As we are on the verge of releasing our next issue, here is a short excerpt from our still current and not to be missed mono.kultur #37 with war photographer James Nachtwey talking about his first big assignment on the civil war in Northern Ireland in the early 1980s:
You once mentioned how [...]

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OSTALGIA REVISITED

Friday, January 16, 2015

It’s one of the curiosities in life that the world’s largest collection of East German design and objects should be housed in Los Angeles, of all places. While nostalgia for the DDR is mildly frowned upon in Germany, America has a little more distance and can just revel in the charme of the past. A [...]

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NOW EAT MY SCRIPT

Saturday, December 6, 2014

From today on until February 15, 2015, KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin presents the video installation NOW EAT MY SCRIPT (2014) by Mounira Al Solh.
In the work the artist engages with the moment where fragments of history and biography meet. She takes the transit of a sacrificed lamb in the trunk of her [...]

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SHARDS OF TIME: 9/11, NEW YORK

Saturday, November 29, 2014

With so many other things going on, we should not forget about our current and hugely inspiring issue #37 with war photographer James Nachtwey. Every now and then, we will publish a few images that he talks about in our interview or elsewhere. We’ll start with elsewhere, because as you might have noticed, Nachtwey is [...]

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HISTORY IN A TIME OF HYPERCIRCULATION

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

History in a Time of Hypercirculation
Public event by Spike Art Quarterly in their new editorial offices and exhibition space in Berlin
Monday, December 1, 2014, 7 pm
Round-table discussion with DIS, curatorial team of the 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art; art historian Susanne von Falkenhausen; and artist Hito Steyerl, moderated by Spike editor Kolja Reichert:
Where does the impression [...]

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BERLIN ATONAL

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Tonight opens the 2014 installment of Berlin Atonal – a legendary festival of 1980s West Berlin pioneering electronic music that went on hiatus after the fall of the wall, only to return again in 2013 in founder Dimitri Hegemann’s new space, the impressive former power plant Kraftwerk Berlin. Launching with Ensemble Modern interpreting Steven Reich, [...]

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