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FUNHOUSE

Friday, December 20, 2013

Peter Pan (or for that matter, Marina Abravomic) is not the only one getting the Bob Wilson treatment.  Working with Dissident Industries Inc, theater’s hallowed maverick, Robert Wilson has constructed video portraits–or caricatures?–of an odd population, including stars such as Isabelle Huppert and Brad Pitt to a…horned frog and Boris the porcupine (above).  Though the stylistic [...]

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OPENING BERLIN ART WEEK

Monday, September 16, 2013

OPENING BERLIN ART WEEK
Tomorrow, September 17, 2013, 7 pm, Auguststraße, Berlin-Mitte
Dates: September 17–22, 2013
Berlin Art Week kicks off together with the joint exhibition Painting Forever! with an outdoor celebration on Auguststraße. Join for an exciting evening program on the main stage and additional live acts and additional offerings at the local galleries, institutions, bars, and restaurants to celebrate the start of six days of art [...]

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SILENCE/SOUND

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Evolution of Silence, Matthias Lohscheidt. 2013.
Degeneration of sound to the finer development of listening pleasures.
Might be interesting to read with Luigi Russolo’s Art of Noise.

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LAST CHANCE: KADER ATTIA AT KW

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Last chance to see the exhibition Kader Attia REPAIR. 5 ACTS at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin before it closes end of this week!
Photo: Kader Attia, REPAIR. 5 ACTS, installation view, Act 4: Nature: MIMESIS AS CONTROL, courtesy: the artist, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Galleria Continua, Galerie Krinzinger, photo: Tina Wessel

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BERLIN ATONAL 2013

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

I must begin by admitting total ignorance of a festival that last took place when I was two years old. That being said, the impressive six day programme for the first Berlin Atonal since 1990 is rapidly challenging the allure of the nearest lake/swimming pool/cool shower in this gorgeous summer heat.
Boasting a challenging array of [...]

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CONNECT FOUR: THE BET

Friday, July 5, 2013

Betting in the form of speculation has been a ubiquitous element in the financial crises of recent years. The belief in the calculability of our future continues to dominate politics and society. What potential does the bet harbor today? And what is at stake? The Bet addresses these questions with an exhibition and a performance [...]

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WHITE BOUNCY CASTLE

Saturday, June 29, 2013

William Forsythe, whose work we’ve mentioned before, is now featuring the installation White Bouncy Castle at the Berliner Festspiele / Foreign Affairs. White Bouncy Castle is part of his Choreographic Objects and ‘an examination of choreography in everyday life’. The best thing is you really get to bounce in it.
William Forsythe: White Bouncy Castle
Lokhalle Schöneberg [...]

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