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FISCHGRÄTENMELKSTAND

Thursday, June 24, 2010, posted by tw.

For FischGrätenMelkStand – the final project at Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin – the artist John Bock has developed a masterful meta-structure within which he installs works by 61 artists. An eleven-meter-tall walk-in steel construction creates a range of spatial situations over four levels, linking the individual works into a kind of Gesamtkunstwerk, or total artwork.

With Franz Ackermann, Pawel Althamer, And Also The Trees, Heike Aumüller, BARarchitekten, Matti Isan Blind, Anna und Bernhard Blume, Brandlhuber+, Björn Braun, Pavel Büchler, Andreas Bunte, Matthew Burbidge, Nina Canell, Franziska Cordes, Björn Dahlem, Discoteca Flaming Star, Sean Edwards, FAT KOEHL, Martin Fletcher, Saul Fletcher, Karsten Födinger, Heiner Franzen, Mathew Hale, Raimund Harmstorf, John Hejduk, Gregor Hildebrandt, Anuschka Hoevener, Sergej Jensen, Stefan Kern, Martin Kippenberger, Harald Klingelhöller, Lachenmann, Ludwig Leo, Sergio Leone, Klara Lidén, Adrian Lohmüller, Lone Haugaard Madsen, Paul McCarthy, Sandra Meisel, Isa Melsheimer, Meuser, Matt Mullican, Ascan Pinckernelle, Julian Rosefeldt, Egill Sæbjörnsson, Michael Sailstorfer, Albrecht Schäfer, Christoph Schlingensief, Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, Armand Schulthess, Andreas Slominski, Sven Temper, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Kara Uzelman, Edgar Varèse, Vinyl Terror & Horror, Franz West, Ingrid Wiener, Iannis Xenakis, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Heimo Zobernig.

FischGrätenMelkStand
curated by John Bock
Opening: July 1, 2010, 8 pm
Dates: July 2 – August 31, 2010

Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin
Schlossplatz
Berlin

John Bock: FischGrätenMelkStand, 2010
Photography by Jan Windszus
Courtesy: Klosterfelde, Berlin / Anton Kern, New York

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THE SEA, THE SEA

Thursday, June 24, 2010, posted by kvr.

Also tonight is the launch event of our friends at Ein Magazin über Orte (A Magazine about Places) who will be presenting their seventh issue dedicated to an appropriately summery place this time: the sea. Expect no less than beautiful images, a precise layout, cozy essays. Hosted by our friends at Do You Read Me?!, who coincidentally, have prepared some very interesting reading lists by some very interesting people on their blog – who would have thought that Sissel Tolaas is into science fiction?

Ein Magazin über Orte #07: The Sea
Launch Party
June 24 2010, 19h

Do You Read Me?!
Auguststrasse 28
Berlin

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DYSFASHIONAL

Wednesday, June 23, 2010, posted by kvr.

Our current cover star Sissel Tolaas will be exhibiting at the group show Dysfashional opening tomorrow night at Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Exploring ‘the boundaries between fashion and art’ might sound a little noughties by now, but then again, you can’t really argue with a line-up including Maison Martin Margiela, Raf Simons, Hussein Chalayan, and, and, and. Sounds like a dream team of fashion to us – exhibiting no fashion, apparently.

Dysfashional
Opening June 24 2010 from 18 h
June 24 – July 17 2010

Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin

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MONO.KULTUR IN MELBOURNE

Wednesday, June 23, 2010, posted by sr.

Check out our friends, the really delightful and very cool Third Drawer Down in Melbourne, Australia. Third Drawer Down functions as a showroom, design studio, museum and retail space with objects either hand picked from various popular cultural contexts or made by Third Drawer Down for leading Museums around the world. Alongside issues of mono.kultur you can find wonderful things like these Kiki Smith pillowcases and this Fairy Tale in the Glass and this fabulous baby suit by Douglas Gordon and all these really great tea towels and this Ed Ruscha beach towel and this Giant Corn Cob Stool and heaps more!

Third Drawer Down
93 George Street
Fitzroy  3065
Victoria
Australia

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032C WEL.COM.E

Tuesday, June 22, 2010, posted by kvr.

‘A temporary website – a relaunch is about to happen’, was the punchline on our friends‘ at 032c magazine’s website for, oh, about the last four years. But just in time for midsummer solstice, you can finally find a spanking brand new redesign of their cyberspace presence, featuring an extensive online archive of previously published articles, an internet store and random thoughts and ideas. Beta Beta Beta they say, beautiful we say.

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Z100

Tuesday, June 22, 2010, posted by ub.

Today would have been Konrad Zuse’s 100th birthday who built the world’s first freely programmable computer Z1 in 1936 and the first  turing-complete computer Z3 in 1941. He didn’t declare it magic, nor did it fit in a pocket. But it served (not only) Zuse very well who claimed he only invented the computer because he was too lazy to calculate himself. Being of Kreuzberg roots this type of pragmatism can easily be imagined. Today, McDonalds hosts the site where Zuse originally put together his Z1 before the war. They use computers, too, yes. But there is a more competent place to find about Zuse these days.

When Konrad Zuse met Bill Gates in 1995 to portrait the software tycoon he told Gates he never thought one could make money by creating software. Zuse was a creative engineer, not a sales pioneer.

A more complete feature on Zuse can be found at FAZ (German only though).

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OH YEAH…

Monday, June 21, 2010, posted by rh.


… it is that time of year again. The Lido gig is going to be one of the wildest things happening this summer.

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EUROPEAN FIELDS

Sunday, June 20, 2010, posted by kvr.

Art and sports usually make for uneasy bedfellows, but as we know, there are always exceptions to the rule: in the case of football, it’s worth having a closer look at photographer Hans van der Meer’s beautiful studies of the European obsession with football. Somewhere between landscape photography and documentary reportage, van der Meer has been traveling across the provinces of his native Netherlands and her neighbours, taking a distant but precise look at local football culture. In framing and aesthetics reminiscent of the Düsseldorf school of photography, he succeeds in extracting a subtle and quiet beauty from a generally loud and rowdy mass obsession by going back to the very roots of football: with van der Meer, it’s simply man against man, far from the arenas of the current World Cup hype.

All photographs from ‘European Fields’ by Hans van der Meer, published by SteidlMack

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BEYOND PETROL

Saturday, June 19, 2010, posted by kvr.

And if you’d prefer to get creatively involved in the political protest against BP’s sloppy handling of their oil drilling, the ubiquitous Greenpeace have launched an open competition in redesigning BP’s annoyingly green logo. Abuse at your leisure.

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LET’S SEE WHAT YOU CAN DO, BLOGOSPHERE!

Saturday, June 19, 2010, posted by fr.

A month ago, the offshore platform Deepwater Horizon exploded leading to one of the most horrible environmental disasters ever, with no end in sight. Years ago, a guy named Werner Kroh invented a powder called GEES-61 which sounds quite useful for these days: The idea is for the powder to merge with oil, to sink to the ground and then to disappear. No clue how that works, but apparently it did in previous experiments, as detailed in the above link. Does the White House know about? Or BP?

Let’s let em know! And get rid of all of this oil, which is rumored to equal the spill of Exxon Valdez every five days – no number for the faint-hearted. And there are still approx. 7 billion liters left to leak, which could – in the worst case scenario if that’s even possible – continue to release oil until April 2013, maybe 2014.

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