Blog entry and photos by SP Williams – in Berlin; Saturday, May 21, 2011.
In ‘Mythos Incorporated’, Eckart Hahn puts classical symbolism and mythic force to the test. He paints over the subjects with current day objects such as plastic bags, or masks them in ‘marketing colors’, such as the sickly McDonald’s yellow that I connect with cheeseburgers, childhood and constipation.
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Blog Entry by Clare Ros– in Berlin; Friday, May 20, 2011.
This class, offered at The Public School Berlin, will explore the exchange in theoretical and cultural production between Los Angeles and Berlin during the last 100 years. Beginning with the exodus of Jewish intellectuals during WWII, and looking at the effect of the such exhile on the formation of the American avant garde, the first part of the class will seek to chart the influence of many German emigrants in Los Angeles.
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Blog Entry by Corinna Kirsch– in Berlin; Thursday, May 19, 2011.
I’m a fan of re-historicizing avant-garde figures whose works have fallen by the wayside. Jack Smith’s films are more erotic than Kenneth Anger and even a little messier. Every time I walked into Barbara Gladstone this week, the galleries were packed with an attentive audience. Artists Ryan McNamara, A.L. Steiner, and T.J. Wilcox were invited to utilize previously unreleased cinematic material by Smith to create contemporary works influenced by Smith’s mysterious, mythic, and performative approach to film making.
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Blog entry and photos by Jeni Fulton – in Berlin; Tuesday, May 17, 2011.
It is now 40 days since Weiwei was arrested, and his show at the gallery neugerriemschneider serves as a reminder that the culture wars are not over, they have merely relocated. Weiwei’s installation of reassembled trees (Tree, 2011) and white porcelain rocks (Rock, 2011) is intended to invoke associations with traditional Chinese gardens, sites of contemplation and reflection.
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Blog entry and photos by SP Williams – in Berlin; Monday, May 16, 2011.
With a jogger, a bottle, and a puddle on the street as it’s actors, the stories unfold either with an absurd suspense, an illusion of finality, or a feeling of unending entrapment.
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Blog Entry by Henna Räsänen – in Berlin; Sunday, May 15, 2011.
After finding our way to an unmarked inner yard of Brunnenstrasse 196, we made our way through a relaxed skater crowd to find an impressive collection of sticker art. Framed and exhibited were pieces from notorious street artists such as Obey and Prost, side by side with commercial stickers and anonymous artwork.
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Blog Entry by SP Williams – in Berlin; Saturday, May 14, 2011.
For those who still believe that WASTED GERMAN YOUTH is more of an art project than a tshirt label have the chance to prove themself even maybe right by checking out the 2006 WE CAME TO FUCK piece from paul snowden at the group show with Philippe Decrauzat and Olivier Mosset at Nymphius Projekte.
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Blog Entry by Corinna Kirsch– in Berlin; Wednesday, May 11, 2011.
Kraus takes banal and inanimate objects, then recombines and alters them in a way to imbue them with emotion and a resemblance to living things. For her “ice lamp,” she sealed a light bulb with silicone and then stuck it inside a cube of icy water and ink, causing the lamp to slowly wither and melt away. Regarding this work, Kraus has said: “When you see the lamp, there is something extremely sad about it.”
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Blog Entry by SP Williams – in Berlin; Tuesday, May 9, 2011.
This huge space, self-dubbed ‘the experimental culture generator’, holds much potential for future creative collaborators right in the heart of Wedding. Creatives of all kinds are encouraged to contact Mica Moca with ideas for future events.
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Article by Jeni Fulton in Berlin // May 9, 2011
The visitor winds her way through the tight corridors in near darkness, twisting and turning to reach the centre. Corners loom unexpectedly, the floor rises and dips. The artists want to put the viewer in a calm, meditative mind-state, to better…[read more…]
