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Category Archives: resistance

TEHERAN OUTLAWS

Iranian indie rockers Langtunes from Teheran who are banned from playing in their home country made it out with the help of the Culture Department and are playing 20 gigs around Europe. On Friday August 2nd they’ll be at Amiga Club in Berlin.
02.08.2013 @ Amiga Club
Costs 5 Euro
Mengerzeile 1-3
12435 Berlin (Alt-Treptow near Görlitzer Park)

SUMMER OF UNREST

These images speak for themselves. Vice Magazine was on site the day it all kicked off.

#OCCUPYGEZI SUPPORT

#Occupygezi attracts more and more support from all over the world. Berlin residents can show solidarity tonight by joining the fundraising event Weeboogie 4 Istanbul, with musical support by Juke Ellington, Salute and Paul Pre. Resist with music and pizza!
Weeboogie 4 Istanbul
At Chesters / 10 pm
Glogauer Str. 2, 10999 Berlin

SOLIDARITY

Protests in Turkey are going on while the type of gas used by the police is constantly changing. First it was burning eyes, make one puke; then the one that hurts the skin… The last but not least is affecting the ability to think properly. Bring it on Mr. President!
The violence of the police increase. [...]

THIS IS WATER

Now that the words by one David Foster Wallace have been tragically limited, we treasure each one of them, especially when they talk directly to us and about our lives (which they usually do anyway), as in his 2005 speech to a graduating class at Kenyon College. Prime Wallace with his pitch black humour that [...]

THE CITY IS WILDER THAN YOU THINK

As works are beginning on realizing Kater Holzig’s ambitious new utopia on the former premises of its legendary previous incarnation as Bar 25 right by the river Spree, they will be guarded for the entire summer by Robert Montgomery’s wonderful light piece The City Is Wilder Than You Think, thanks to AJL Art. And we [...]

TOWER TRANSFORMATION

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 [...]

PARALLEL LINES [...THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER CROSSED]

Parallel Lines (…That Should Have Never Crossed) is a personal photographic gesture on a general sense of unease in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008 when, for just a moment, the underlying power structures of our modern societies were exposed by the failure of the economic system to maintain [...]

MONO.POSITION #06: PARALLEL LINES [...THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER CROSSED]

Dear Friends,
not only are we launching our first artist book tonight (aw, let’s try that again: TONIGHT!), but I will also participate in a group exhibition opening this Saturday as part of the Berlin Month of Photography. The independent project space Galerie Weisser Elefant invited photography project Uncommon Place to curate a group exhibition with [...]

REVENGE OF THE RINGS

Doesn’t that remind you of… Well, yes. And they are getting more, getting stronger, getting better – until their day has come.