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Category Archives: religion

SHARDS OF TIME: NORTHERN IRELAND, 1981

As we are on the verge of releasing our next issue, here is a short excerpt from our still current and not to be missed mono.kultur #37 with war photographer James Nachtwey talking about his first big assignment on the civil war in Northern Ireland in the early 1980s:
You once mentioned how [...]

THE BLUE FLESH

Besides narrations of Christianity − Pieta or crucification − and depictions of Hindu deities, Don Pablo Pedro’s tempting paintings are reminiscent of miniatures − Levni, end of 17th Century, Ottoman Period as an example − or 16th century anatomy drawings. A third eye evocative of a bleeding vagina, several faces protruding from the same surface [...]

Good night series_B

Middleage philosophy by Anselm von Canterbury ad absurdum.
Here is Jorge Luis Borges and his geniuos parody on the ‘onthological’ evidence of god.

CONSECRATED

In Residence: Ricardo Bofill
The architect of holy,dystopic, fairy-tale spaces…

Treasures of Graz

Discovering my small, but with 270.000 inhabitants second biggest (home-)town of Austria through a brand new web blog I am totally surprised about what neat, new and partially forgotten treasures it has got. One special you should know about is the smallest gallery space (probably world-wide), the very much beloved ‘Stadtpark-Hansis’ and a curch window [...]

MUCKED UP

Bored with the usual cinema fare?  Look no further.  L’Enfant (or I suppose now l’adolescent or l’adulte depending on your feelings towards said provocateur) terrible Matthew Barney returns to the cinema fray with his operatic River of Fundament, a collaboration between him, several powerhouse thespians, Gaspard Noé, Jonathan Bepler, and…Norman Mailer?!  Premiered at the Brooklyn Academy [...]

LAST CHANCE

Only on view until tomorrow, October 21, 2012, noon – 7 pm:
Wael Shawky. Al Araba Al Madfuna
Recipient of the Ernst Schering Foundation Art Award 2011
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststrasse 69, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
Photo: Wael Shawky, Cabaret Crusades: The Path to Cairo, 2012
Courtesy the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut / Hamburg

GIGOLO’S HAND ON A SILK STOCKING

Writer of amazing texts and books such as ‘Against Interpretation’, ‘Marat/Sade/Artaud’, ‘Illness as Metaphor, and AIDS and its Metaphors’ or the exuberant essay for ‘Story of the Eye’, marvelous book of Georges Batailles. Tea with Thomas Mann, dinner with (Herbert) Marcuse, sex with F, thoughts on books, religion, life and lots were hidden in Susan [...]

DIARY OF ME

This post is not for you, or maybe it is, depending on whether you share our editing team’s other half’s passion for a certain R. Kelly, who has been popping up embarrassingly often on these pages recently. But we are not the only ones with this particular weakness, because news just arrived that our colleagues [...]

NO CHURCH IN THE WILD

A great song by Jay Z and Kanye West! The wonderful video is by Romain Gavras who is also the director of M.I.A’s ‘Bad Girls‘.