It’s a bit late to be hyping this now. Or perhaps we are just very foresighted.
In any case, Plural Projekt was/is (will be again) a Dresden-based artists collective started by five students from the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts: Anna Grützner, Diana Welmeier, Denny Brückner, Patricia Detmering, and Benjamin Hummitzsch. After a year of planning and organizing, the ragtag band grew from 5 to 40 to 60. This September, presented a month long series of works and lectures on philosophy, science, and of course, art under the heady–ahem–headings Reality, Immediacy, Nature, and Transhumanism.
It’s over now, but these young artists are plowing on ahead to bring the Projekt to Dresden and Leipzig.
What you can do.
Since Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) turned 20 this weekend, let’s start this week with some rap news: That guy who played Michael Lee in The Wire has apparently been calling himself Mack Wilds for a while, and though his R&B-type stuff is in parts cringeworthy, at least he also features what any Mac(k) should feature: Cheese.
It’s the book we would have liked to publish, but money beat us to it: Talking Fashion, a compendium of interviews, ranging from Raf Simons to sound designer Michel Gaubert, from Showstudio master mind Nick Knight to vogueing icon Willi Ninja, and looking at the fashion industry from all angles, handsomely compiled over several years for German Spex magazine by its former editor Jan Kedves. Sweet.
“You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.” How is this possible when someone you dearly loved for 21 years is gone…? Laurie Anderson made the most powerful and intense dedication of love to her recently deceased husband Lou Reed, by writing an essay. It is a farewell, but it is also the most genuine way of talking about a relationship to someone.
When you marry your best friend of many years, there should be another name for it. But the thing that surprised me about getting married was the way it altered time. And also the way it added a tenderness that was somehow completely new. To paraphrase the great Willie Nelson: “Ninety percent of the people in the world end up with the wrong person. And that’s what makes the jukebox spin.” Lou’s jukebox spun for love and many other things, too – beauty, pain, history, courage, mystery.
One of our all time favourite desigeners, Martino Gamper, whom we dedicated our Issue #32, will have his first ever exhibition in Scotland, hosted by The Modern Institute. ‘Tu casa, mi casa’ addresses Gamper’s interest in the psychosocial connotations of furniture and use of space. Opposed to a typical gallery presentation, where objects appear stark and decontextualised, Gamper has created an environment within which we are welcomed. The gallery is used a hybrid living space, complete with a wood-burning stove, day bed, table, chairs, carpets and lamps. Gamper’s house is a beautiful homage to craft, design, and domestic functionality.
Martino Gamper ‘Tu casa, mi casa’
Preview: 08 November 2013 / 7 pm
09 Nov. 2013 – 25 Jan. 2014 The Modern Institute
3 Aird’s Lane
Glasgow G1 5HU
In the so called multicultural streets of Berlin, say, in this cacophony of nations, – eating Pastel de Nata after several encounters with Eastern melodies reverberating through the neighbour’s window – how is German identity formed? Recalling the notions of nation-state, how othering continues? Who is ‘the nation’?Where/who is the margin? Starting from this Friday, Berliner Herbstsalon, organized by Shermin Langhoff, Çağla İlk, Erden Kosova and Antje Weitzel, will be examining similar questions as the launch of Maxim Gorki Theater’s new season with the new directors Shermin Langhoff and Jens Hillje. Besides the exhibition, there will be several performances at the weekend.
Opening: 8.11.2013, 10 pm
8.11-17.11.2013
Palais am Festungsgraben, Berlin
Performances:
Saturday 9–Sunday 17 November, 15–20h
Neue Wache: Yael Ronen
Palais am Festungsgraben: bankleer, Teresa María Díaz Nerio, Hans-Werner Kroesinger, Otobong Nkanga, Laila Soliman
Brinkmannzimmer: Nevin Aladağ
Sunday 10 November, 12–16h
Maxim Gorki Theater, Foyer: Ahmet Öğüt – 1st International Conference of the Silent University
We mentioned The Modern Magazine by magCulture’s Jeremy Leslie before – if in Berlin, come and hear the man himself talk about his views on the ‘New Golden Era in Print’, tonight at the Reading Room.
The Modern Magazine
Jeremy Leslie in conversation with Kati Krause
on Thursday, the 7th of November, 7pm
do you read me?! Reading Room Potsdamer Strasse 98
10785 Berlin-Tiergarten
As Berlin’s stalwart pioneers of electronic music at Raster-Noton are gearing up for a label night at Berghain this Friday, time to spend some time on Diamond Version, the latest collaboration by label founders Carsten Nicolai aka alva noto (and the first artist to grace a mono.kultur cover) and Olaf Bender aka Byetone.
You have arrived at mono.blog by mono.kultur magazine. mono.blog is a rather eclectic summary of the things that are currently on our collective minds.
Very soon indeed: mono.kultur #35…
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