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HUMBOLDT JUNGLE

Saturday, February 27, 2016

For Berliners, the story of the desctruction of the monumental GDR Palast der Republik in favour of rebuilding its predecessor of the Humboldt Schloss in all its architectural insignificance is a depressing example for city politics lagging miles behind the vibrancy of Berlin. But Berlin is also a city renowned for its stoic subversion, and [...]

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IF IN LONDON…

Thursday, September 24, 2015

This week’s recommendations are two events taking place in South London, both highlighting the work and music of producer Terre Thaemlitz aka DJ Sprinkles. Café OTO presents an evening of talk, video and audio with Thaemlitz, starting with a multi-media reading of “Naisho Wave Manifesto” (“Secrecy Wave Manifesto”), which Thaemlitz produced for the first issue [...]

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ACUD OFFENES HAUS 2015

Friday, September 11, 2015

It’s been a little over a year that Acud, that veteran among independent arts spaces in Berlin, has been taken over by a new generation with fresh ideas under the heading Acud Macht Neu. All the more reason to join them this weekend for their first anniversary party tomorrow, offering a tasty musical line-up, naturally, [...]

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COLOMBIAN POSTSCRIPT

Saturday, September 5, 2015

If you are following our Instagram feed, you will have seen that we spent a week in Bogotá for a workshop at the impressive Utadeo university. Now that we’re slowly recovering from our Colombian hangover, it’s time to send a quick thank you towards the design department for inviting us in the first place, to [...]

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THE PYGMALION EFFECT

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

As the holiday season is coming to an end, we are still looking for reasons to stay or even to go back to some of our favorite spots this summer. Cyprus for instance has not only a multilayered history, but also an eclectic contemporary art scene. Part of it is Neoterismoi Toumazou, a former novelty [...]

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POLICING OF OUR BODIES

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Terre Thaemlitz has commented on the changes to Japan’s controversial Fuueihou law via a statement on her website. The post responds to the “Declaration On the Future Of Japan’s Club Culture”, signed by 40 Japanese DJs on the same day that the 67-year-old law was officially changed by the Japanese government. She argues that it has “no purpose other than [...]

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S.O.S. – ART SAVES THE WORLD

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

No plans for the weekend yet? Don’t miss the festival 48 STUNDEN NEUKÖLLN, presenting a myriad of approaches to the festival’s theme in 2015, “S.O.S. – Art saves the world” in the form of around 350 artistic projects at approximately 220 venues. In addition, some 90 studios and galleries will be open to visitors as [...]

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WHERE THE PLACE BEGINS

Friday, May 22, 2015

Our friends at Neue Berliner Räume run a curatorial project that has made it part of their mission to explore Berlin as a gigantic exhibition space, organising interventions in various and ever changing places (for instance in 2012 with Robert Montgomery, which led to our collaboration on the accompanying artist’s book).
For the past few months, [...]

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Snowden Memorial (removed)

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Street art going “museum-quality” sculpture: Artists secretly installed an Ed Snowden monument in Brooklyn Park. But officials were quick to remove it.

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UFERSTUDIOS

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Berlin is an incredible city, and ever since we started organising our popular mono.klub series to accompany specific issues, we’ve made a point of moving to different locations around the city, out of curiosity as well as for an element of surprise. This Friday, for our screening of Gus van Sant’s Elephant, we will head [...]

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