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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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MONDAY MUSIC: BLEACHERS

Monday, April 14, 2014

We were going to post the new video by Bleachers, I Wanna Get Better, directed by girl(friend) Lena Dunham, but alas, we can’t watch it – because we live in Germany. Anyone here will be familiar with the words coming up as above, which refer to a stalemate between the German GEMA, a notoriously bureaucratic [...]

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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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APOCALYPSE NOW?

Saturday, February 22, 2014

These apocalyptic appearing press photos of the latest events in the Ukraine were published yesterday by the spanish newspaper El País.
Immediately touched by the anarchic brutality of a real event I started to notice that the images would arouse a certain sense for surreal beauty just at the same time they had a shocking impact [...]

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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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GODWIN

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Tracing Godwin is a project by artist Georg Klein, focusing on the story of Godwin, an immigrant from Nigeria. Godwin’s freedom of movement is regulated, nevertheless, by participating the project his narrative could be spread. By printing and hanging the poster with a code  − allowing one to listen the composed sound of him − [...]

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Watching the Berlinale

Thursday, February 6, 2014

The 64.Berlinale started today, presenting national and international films, shorts, new talents, retrospectives,…
A corporation with the German television channel ZDF allows you to follow the event online: here
Film still of the short film Birds, directed by Ulu Braun

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CHRISTOPH SCHLINGENSIEF EXHIBITION

Sunday, January 12, 2014

The show Christoph Schlingensief – a real highlight of the exhibition program of KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin – provides an insight to Schlingensief’s comprehensive work and is only on view until January 19, 2014 – don’t miss it!
His radical demand for reaction, his uniquely inventive imagery, his almost obsessive overexertion and challenging [...]

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Time to unconnect

Monday, January 6, 2014

This is not new, in fact Aram Bartholl’s concept of the Silver Cell is ten years old now. But as personal data management is likely to become common sense just like safe sex has in the 80s, the concept of this connectivity condom reminds us that we should all start looking into which data we [...]

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THE PUNK SINGER

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Rebel girl Kathleen Hanna is back! The lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the riot grrrl movement. She became one of the most famously outspoken feminist icons, a cultural lightning rod. Her critics wished she would just shut-up, [...]

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