Interview by Graham Haught – in Berlin; Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014
Stanka Koleva, a Bulgarian photographer based in Berlin for the last six years, told me over email that she would like the interview to take place in Tempelhof, an abandoned airport that is now a public park …[read on…]
A few months ago I was tutoring a university student from Freie Universität on writing essays in English. At some point, after the lesson was over, we began talking about…[read on]
MAXIM GORKI THEATER “Giving Contours to Shadows” – GROUP SHOW Series: May 24 – Jul. 27, 2014 Performances: Monday, May 28; 8pm Foyer and Studio Я, Am Festungsgraben 2 (Click here for map) Wednesday, May 28, 2014 8TH BERLIN BIENNALE Exhibition: May 29 – Aug. 03, 2014 Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 28; 7-10pm At all Berlin Biennale venues […]
Blog entry by Graham Haught in Berlin; Tuesday, May 20, 2014.
Gegen Festival of Light took place on May 2 at Kit Kat Club. A torrent of shirtless men and skinny women with bleached hair gathered around the swimming pool, waiting with cigarettes and drinks until they felt ready to dance….[read on…]
Blog entry by Graham Haught in Berlin; Saturday, May 3, 2014.
There was a clear reason why I went to Lido in Kruezberg last Wednesday, April 23rd. Potentially it was the same reason everyone was there, swirling through doors with glasses of beer and cigarettes poking through long hair, draping down shirtless backs…[read on…]
Blog entry by Graham Haught in Berlin; Monday, Mar. 03, 2014.
Walking into Mind Pirates, in Kreuzberg on February 20, I was immediately confronted by Berliners lounging in black clothes and smoking cigarettes—all cast into an atmosphere of dark lighting (perhaps intentional). As I grabbed a beer, drone music clogged the high vaulted ceilings as Subterranean Rain performed a thirty-minute set. [read on…]
Blog post by Graham Haught – in Berlin; Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014.
On February 12, the Boiler Room in Stattbad Wedding was packed tight with a range of clubbers and beautiful women who knew how to dance. Filtering through the series of side rooms in the club, I came to the dance floor, which was palpitating….[read on…]
Article by Graham Haught – in Berlin; Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014.
We currently exist in a highly performative time period enhanced, complexified, and rearranged by the Internet. Questions of localized identity, sexuality, and aesthetics are all thrown onto a flat neoglobalized plane of subjectivity. Yung Jake discusses the conception of Tumblr, the role of the artist as…[read on…]
Article by Graham Haught – in Berlin; Friday, Feb. 07, 2014.
On Wednesday January 29th, transmediale launched Art Hack Day at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Art Hack Day – curated in conjunction with L.E.A.P. – took place within the framework of a 48-hour “challenge,” wherein…[read on…]
Blog post by Graham Haught – in Berlin; Monday, Jan. 27, 2014.
Walking into Madame Claude Bar in Kreuzberg you feel as if you are in a very Berlin kind of labyrinth as you slink from one stairwell to the next, wedged between tight corridors thick with the smell of beer and smoke…[read on…]
C/O Berlin – the city’s foremost exhibition space for photography which recently moved to the Amerika House in Charlottenburg – is hosting the 9th year of…[read on]
