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REFLEKTOR DISTORTION

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

OPEN FORM

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 [...]

Monologue of a predator drone

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 [...]

I DON’T CARE ABOUT CONTEMPORARY ART ANYMORE

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

McSweeney’s first ever student short story contest!

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BOFILLTOPIAS #03: LA MURALLA ROJA

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 [...]

TRUISM OF THE DAY 29: WILL SELF

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

DESIGN DETAILS: MONO.KULTUR #35 MARINA ABRAMOVIC

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 [...]

TRUISM OF THE DAY 27: ROBERTA SMITH

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.

ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: THE BERLIN QUARTERLY

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 [...]