‘When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.’ R.J. Palacio Wonder
I came across this really lovely book, Wonder while at a ‘Tell me what to read’ session at the Brisbane Writers Festival this year. It is a book written for 9-12 year olds but it wonderfully crosses over to an adult read too!
Jorinde Voigt
Jorinde Voigt
While the craft of classical music courts notoriety for its mathematical complexity, its interpreters often express themselves in literary rambunctiousness and visual cues, relishing in matching timbres with colors, flourishing upon movements hippos and dancing flora a la Fantasia. Floating above the soup of sentiments, Jorinde Voigt charts soundscapes according to an invented emotional notation, you can say. The result is the elegant Ludwig van Beethoveen Sonata 1 -32 (2012), a series of drawings based on the master’s sonatas that belies the intellectualism underlying its creation, surging with an animal vitality akin to a building wave or a starling murmuration. Voigt’s method is complex, with a sonata’s schematics centrifuging from the central axis while contingent details–for example, are ‘geographical or social’–radiate at the outskirts. Her codification doesn’t limit itself to classical music, and the artist de- and reconstructs with characteristic meticulousness chinese erotica and Goethe’s Faust. Her opus represents a uniquely Voigtian language that while skating at novelty’s edge, maintain discipline enough to come across as effortless synesthesia as the best of Cy Twombly or Arshile Gorky.
There have been odd attempts on Adolf Wölfi’s or John Cage’s compositions: fitful, always different. How would you play Voigt’s drawings? On my part, I would really like to see her take on Berlin techno.
Because you need a bit of a punk prayer to uplift the post-debauch haze and back-to-school daze. Drop your shades and get your schwagger back with VUKOVI.
James Blake’s Overgrown ranks of course highly on our 2013 in Sound favourites, so tomorrow evening poses a dilemma for Berliners: go see James Blake at Tempodrom or Nicholas Jaar’s new project Darkside at Berghain?
Never ask a man band if he’s they’re from Texas: Midlake got rid of their old singer, and the forthcoming album Antiphon grows bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger with each and every listen.
La littérature and les beaux arts are part of French culture as much as, say, a glass of red wine and a fat chunk of camembert, so it’s no surprise that Salon Light, the annual art book fair organised by CNEAI, should already invite to its 10th anniversary, celebrated in style with a pompous nuit blanche, opening tonight at 19h and closing tomorrow morning at 7h in the morning. Never one to turn down a party, we will for the first time be officially part of Salon Light, represented by our friends at Motto. Bonne anniversaire and bonne chance for the next ten years!
Salon Light
October 05 / 19h to October 06 2013 / 7h
Gymnase des Pyrénées
296 Rue des Pyrénées
75020 Paris
Aeon Magazine publishes one essay every weekday online under categories such as Living Together and Altered States. Thought-worthy and easily time-consuming.
Conversations with Marina Abramovic, Noah Baumbach, Michelle Williams and mono.kultur interviewee Kim Gordon to just name a few (!) as well as panel discussions on a span of different topics; one about first-person filmmaking with Miranda July (another mono classic)- all this and plenty more at The New Yorker Festival starting today and lasting the weekend. Sigh. oh The New Yorker.
Collaboration is an ongoing performance series by William ‘Bilwa‘ Costa and Jasmin Schaitl. In their own words collaboration ‘explores the correlation between, and the potentials of; transformation, alteration, duration and ephemerality’.
Collaboration #1, #2 and #3, took place in mo.e (Vienna), Friday Exit (Vienna), Grünthaler 9 (Berlin). The appealing point of the series is their simplicity: everyday movements, such as dragging small objects, stepping slowly with some restrictions − one is allowed to move back and/or forth whilst the other is left and/or right − or using simple materials such as charcoal or microphone cable. After a research of approximately two days, the encounters and correspondence between two bodies is essential. The traces as a result of (re)action in the space after, say, 3 or 6 hours duration generate an installation at the end − what happens is fortuitous.
Recently, the artists have been developing the 4th performance − that will take place in Apartment Project Berlin − in their residency at Im_flieger (Vienna). Bilwa and Jasmin will be connected to each other with long thin wires and contact microphones. After a duration of 6 hours the audience would be able to see the transformation of two bodies and/in the space.
Apartment Project Berlin
06.10.2013, 14.00-20.00
Hertzbergstrasse 13
12055 Berlin
One of the most interesting categories in the annual Lead Awards is “Weblog of the Year” – the list of nominations give you get a feeling of what topics get a lot of resonance in the public eye. This year’s winner has been mentioned here before – congratulations to What Ali Wore by Zoe Spawton. The runner-up should be awarded not only for their content, but also for their name: Pomme des Garçons – well done.
