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TOWER TRANSFORMATION

Thursday, February 14, 2013

How to renovate council housing and tower blocks in a contemporary way has been a pet obsession of French architects Lacaton & Vassal for quite some time now, and successfully so. See the results and arguments for it tonight at the DAZ, where they will exhibit their recent transformation of Parisian apartment block Tour Bois [...]

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IMAGE ATLAS

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

The Image Atlas is a recent project by Taryn Simon, and her first venture into the digital realm, but bearing all her signature interests in politics, society, cultural differences and visual representation. Based on a simple premise: if we experience the world more and more through the Internet, and through images in particular, what impact [...]

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UNIDISPLAY

Friday, January 25, 2013

Some people have all the luck: MMK Frankfurt is opening a new exhibition by our first cover star Carsten Nicolai, tonight.
Carsten Nicolai: Unidisplay
25 January – 05 May 2013

MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst
Domstraße 10
60311 Frankfurt am Main

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THIS WILD IDEA

Thursday, December 20, 2012

This year, as any year, really, there has been lots of coverage of that wild beast called the United States of America, place of our fantasies and projections alike for the last century or so. But our fantasies or projections, or Hollywood movies for that matter, don’t necessarily come anywhere close to reality, which is [...]

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POSTSCRIPT: MONO.KLUB #40

Friday, November 30, 2012

A second book launch for our publication with Robert Montgomery that couldn’t have been more different from our initial launch party in Berlin: instead of the grand party in the former swimming pool, an intimate conversation between Robert and myself, which was fun, interesting and very direct, discussing our book, the Berlin summer project, why [...]

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VONNEGUT WISDOMS

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Kurt Vonnegut, that titan of American literature, would have turned 90 last Sunday, had he not died of head trauma after falling down a flight of stairs five years ago, which seems like peculiarly appropriate death for someone who has dedicated his life to the blackest of satire. So it goes. He left behind not [...]

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SMELLSCAPE

Thursday, September 6, 2012

As of next week, chances are you will be seeing lots of people lurking around the two cities of Kansas City, Kansas side and Missouri side, with their noses down on the ground and voraciously sniffing, taking notes, exchanging meaningful glances and typing into their iPhones. What could be the meaning of it all?
As it [...]

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FESTIVAL OF DANGEROUS IDEAS 2012

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Festival of Dangerous Ideas
28 – 30 September, 2012
Sydney Opera House
Australia

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ANATOMY LESSONS

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Vienna-based sociologist Christina Lammer initiates an unusual experiment in a lecture hall at Charité hospital:
The auditorium is transformed into a theater space and plastic surgeon Manfred Frey, internist Michael Häfner, abdominal surgeon Peter Moeschl, and pediatric neurosurgeon Ulrich Thomale give lessons in the form of lecture performances and painting actions and thus provide insights into the [...]

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PRIVATE READINGS

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

There is something utterly beautiful about people reading you a story – after all, it’s not without reason that it’s often one of the favourite things that children like their parents to do, and children know about fun, after all.
So what a great idea to curate a festival that does just that: people reading to [...]

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