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JAPAN SYNDROME

Monday, May 19, 2014

Three years after the tsunami in northeastern Japan and the damage to the nuclear reactor in Fukushima, many people, including a growing number of artists, have got beyond the agony and speechlessness that set in after the disaster. They are starting to recognize that the catastrophe uncovered many hitherto undisclosed rifts within Japanese society, and [...]

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CLUBLAND REVISITED

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Contemporary dance culture has deep roots in the LGBT communities. However, it seems that this background is still largely unrecognised today. Terre Thaemlitz aka DJ Sprinkles is therefore a major figure within the club scene. By making this very origin visible and talking about the issues around this discourse, she is also one of dance [...]

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EUROPA EUROPA

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

The Knife is currently writing music to an anti national cabaret, which will premiere later this summer. The cabaret is a collaboration with the art group Ful and together they are taking a stand against migration policies across Europe while honoring and celebrating those who cross the boarders. Keep and eye out for Europa Europa.

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NEAR/ON/IN THE RUBBLES

Monday, February 17, 2014

The legendary and mysterious Teufelsberg in Berlin, meaning Devil’s Mountain, will be a station of several performances and actions for this year’s Month of Performance Art. The co-laborer  of the festival Richard Rabensaat invites performance artists to create ’site-specific and site-responsive actions’ near/on/in the artificial mountain made out of the the rubbles of The Second World [...]

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How You Sound

Saturday, February 1, 2014

If you’re not interested in skateboarding, go read some Bill Murray (no joke) – but if you are, even remotely, don’t watch (okay, do watch), but more importantly: LISTEN to this.

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CLUB DECONSTRUCTIONS

Sunday, January 26, 2014

The perfect night out in London! Harmonic Series presents a special PAN showcase at the Southbank Centre. It’s a celebration of PAN’s new audiovisual direction, and five years creating adventurous electronic music. The line-up includes: A new collaborative piece by Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey and legendary sound artist Florian Hecker, the club deconstructions of [...]

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POSITIONING THE BODY

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Throughout the 1980s and early ’90s, Kim Gordon—widely known as a founding member of the influential band Sonic Youth—produced a series of writings on art and music. Ranging from neo-Conceptual artworks to broader forms of cultural criticism, these rare texts are brought together in this volume for the first time, placing Gordon’s writing within the [...]

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MOVE & SCALE

Monday, January 20, 2014

If you are out and about in Lower Saxony this weekend, don’t miss Hella Gerlach’s performative intervention Move and Scale (cancelset) at the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim! Within the framework of a series of events called ‘Von den Dingen’ (About the Things) organised by the Kunstverein Hildesheim, Gerlach will engage with the ancient Egyptian [...]

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THE POLITICS OF FOOD

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Raed Yassin, Self Portrait with Foreign Fruits and Vegetables, 2012
‘The Politics of Food brings together 22 artists, curators and thinkers from across the globe to explore an array of strategies that address the history, politics, economics and ethics of food production, consumption, distribution and display.’

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ANIMAL NOISES

Monday, December 2, 2013

Want a new Flight of the Conchords-esque fix?  From the considerably colder climes of Norway emerge Ylvis, brothers here to teach you the sounds of the forest.

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