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MONDAY MUSIC: DJANGO DJANGO

Monday, September 9, 2013, posted by kvr.

In case you ever wondered what the infamous Wall of Death in Allahabad, India, was about, look no further. Oh, and utterly addictive: Django Django.

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THIS IS WHAT I LEAVE YOU AFTER MYSELF

Monday, September 9, 2013, posted by jb.

In post-war Europe the polish sculptor Alina Szapocznikow (1926-73) experimented with new materials such as polyester resin to create casts often of her own body, a body that had been exposed to war and decease. The casts, imprints, she reassembled into surrealistic, affecting montages. This Is What I Leave You After Myself is part of Art of Memory, a series of exhibitions also featuring works by Cecilia Edefalk and Gerard Byrne among others.

Art of Memory
Bonniers Konsthall
September 4th- November 24th
Stockholm, Sweden
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GIBCA

Monday, September 9, 2013, posted by jb.

Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art presents Play! Recapturing the Radical Imagination in hopes of raising questions of institutional boundaries and those of the mind in relation to art and creating under subtitles like Art & Crime and The Politics of Play. International artists and influential pioneers like Carolee Schneemann and Guerilla Girls will take part as well as political voices of Sweden such as comic artist Liv Strömquist currently acknowledged for her contribution to The Knife’s latest album. The festival has featured names like Tino Sehgal and Jenny Holzer while consistently having created a large platform for upcoming artists.

September 7th- November 17
Röda Sten, Göteborgs Konsthall (among other venues)
Gothenburg, Sweden
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MONO.PUNKT #21: ART KREUZBERG

Friday, September 6, 2013, posted by kvr.

Kreuzberg has been our home since the very early days of mono.kultur, so of course we won’t say no to an invitation to participate at the annual Art Kreuzberg where the closed doors of artists studios and other cultural spaces miraculously open. Come and visit us at our friends’ space Erd im Feuer, a former funeral parlour turned gallery and furniture space.

Saturday 07 September 2013, 14-21h
Sunday 08 September 2013, 13-20h

Graefestrasse 90
10967 Berlin
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COMING APART

Wednesday, September 4, 2013, posted by kvr.

‘Well, we just kind of listen to each other. Sometimes I really like to stop playing and just listen to Bill. I enjoy his playing because he’s so good. It is always so amazing when I actually realize what he is doing. Some of the things partly form songs, but most of what we do is pretty much improvised every night – the lyrics and everything.’ is what Kim Gordon had to say about her current project Body/Head with free noise guitarist Bill Nace. And improvisation caught on tape sounds like this – their first album, Coming Apart – which is Kim Gordon’s first since the days of Sonic Youth (and rather great, we should add) – now on stream at Pitchfork.

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TRUISM OF THE DAY 21: CARL ANDRE

Wednesday, September 4, 2013, posted by kvr.

True, how true. Sculpting legend Carl Andre.

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ENOISMS #02: BLOOM & SCAPE

Tuesday, September 3, 2013, posted by kvr.

If anything becomes obvious from our new issue with Brian Eno, then it’s that here is a mind endlessly at work detecting and uncoding context, different relationships between people, technology, events. In short, the things accountable for culture.

So it’s not really surprising that Eno, who is probably the most forward-looking, future-embracing person we’ve ever come across, should apply his talents to app design, exploring even further his interest in self-generating music. Together with Peter Chilvers, he released the wonderful Bloom which had quite an impact on the visual appearance of our issue, and more recently Scape, which goes even deeper into ‘learning’ musical systems.

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MONDAY MUSIC: AUSTRA

Monday, September 2, 2013, posted by kvr.

I wish there were some sort of personalised messaging service that keeps you up to date on the activities of bands whose music you like – for example, I totally missed the release of Austra’s second album Olympia this summer…

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FESTIVAL OF DANGEROUS IDEAS

Monday, September 2, 2013, posted by sr.

Festival of Dangerous Ideas
2 – 4 November, 2013
Sydney Opera House
Australia

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TSF 2013

Saturday, August 31, 2013, posted by rh.

For those in Berlin today, there’s Torstrassenfestival with tons of bands etc., including some guy called Black Cracker (yes, that’s her, formerly a girl supporting Bunny Rabbit! See below!), Saroos, Robot Koch and a few dozen others.

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