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REFLEKTOR DISTORTION

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Opening tonight: Reflektor Distortion by our first ever cover star, Carsten Nicolai, at Galerie Eigen+Art, experimenting with hree states of a reflection: mirroring, distortion, and disturbance. Sounds like prime Nicolai to us, and see you there.
Carsten Nicolai: Reflektor Distortion
21 April – 28 May 2016
Galerie Eigen+Art
Auguststraße 26
D – 10117 Berlin

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OPEN FORM

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Today, 12.11.2015, 19 h:
ARCH+ FEATURES 42: OPEN FORM
Lecture and film screening
With Axel Wieder and Florian Zeyfang
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststrasse 69, 10117 Berlin
The concept of the “Open Form”, initially formulated by Polish architect Oskar Hansen (1922–2005) at the XI. CIAM congress in Otterlo, NL, became hugely influential as an early example of participatory [...]

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Monologue of a predator drone

Saturday, February 14, 2015

We have seen consumer drones used for choreographical endeavors and music contextualization from above. Frensh philosopher Grégoire Chamayou inquires in the less creative but more destructive use of military predator drones.
Essentially, by combining modern weaponry in unmanned vehicles with remote video monitoring, military forces have found a way to project power which is entirely risk-free for [...]

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I DON’T CARE ABOUT CONTEMPORARY ART ANYMORE

Friday, October 10, 2014

David Byrne, his funny and precise usual self, on a lacklustre art world.
Artwork by Marcel Storr

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McSweeney’s first ever student short story contest!

Friday, August 22, 2014

If you are a fan of McSweeney’s

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BOFILLTOPIAS #03: LA MURALLA ROJA

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

La Muralla Roja – The Red Wall – is an apartment building by Ricardo Bofill constructed in 1973 on the Mediterranean coast near Alicante in Spain, and in vicinity of La Manzanera, an equally odd if aesthetically quite different Bofill landmark building. La Muralla Roja reads like an intellectual exercise gone havoc: drawing inspiration from [...]

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TRUISM OF THE DAY 29: WILL SELF

Thursday, July 10, 2014

The aging enfant terrible of British literature, Will Self, in a rather great essay on Chernobyl for Port.

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DESIGN DETAILS: MONO.KULTUR #35 MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

We were obviously going to talk about this some time ago (and where did that time go again?), but then it’s never too late to talk about design, nor about Marina Abramović. So this is what we were thinking when we immersed ourselves deep into the complex worlds of Marina and trying to translate those [...]

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TRUISM OF THE DAY 27: ROBERTA SMITH

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Art critic heavyweights Roberta Smith and Jerry Saltz – coincidentally also a couple in real life – talk about their craft, writing as a form of thinking and the state of the arts, in Interview.

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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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