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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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ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: THE BERLIN QUARTERLY

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Despite the title, the new Berlin Quarterly has little to do with Berlin at first sight, besides having its offices in town. Picking up on some of the dustier and quirkier visual elements of old-fashioned literary titles, the design of Berlin Quarterly doesn’t succeed as well as The White Review in translating these [...]

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HAUNTING HANDS

Thursday, March 6, 2014

What power-crazed, voyeuristic creatures we are! The way the camera is continuously moving backwards from bizarre scenes of humans involved into scientific or ritual activities, indicating, gazing or even wordlessly shouting (what is the red-mouthed, lightly dressed model telling us?) at you, Pursuit by French DJ Gesaffelstein throws [...]

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PAY-PER-MINUTE CAFE

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

A lovely place in London has just opened by Ivan Mitin called Ziferblat, London’s first pay-per-minute cafe, Ivan began this idea in Moscow, opening his first cafe, he now has a few scattered across Russia and now London. The ideas simple, rather than paying for your nice piece of cake and coffee you pay 3p per [...]

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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 CANARIES

Saturday, December 21, 2013

In the list of ‘The Best Photography Books of 2013’ of Dazed Digital, Thilde Jensen’s The Canaries − depicting several sorrowful situations of MCS (multiple chemical sensitivity) patients − is intriguing. One of the realities of 21st century…

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WRONG

Thursday, November 28, 2013

The ubiquity of digital art, variously manifested as prismatic gifs, Google Map collages, interactive apps/music videos, and photomanipulations, has proven itself beyond fact beyond fad as an expressive medium for both ends–grassroots and elite–of the creative world.  It’s not surprising then that a contemporary survey, long in coming, has finally emerged.  Impishly named, The Wrong, organized by [...]

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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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FESTIVAL OF DANGEROUS IDEAS UPDATE

Monday, November 25, 2013

If you missed out on attending this year’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas you’re still in luck as you can now watch all the talks and discussions here!

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