Saw this book on Node Berlin, and based on the cover, it looks brilliant. Here is what it is: “This book by visual artist Marius Engh revolves around Teufelsberg, an artificial hill on the outskirts of Berlin made from rubble after the Second World War. During the Cold War period, the hill was also the site of a major American listening station. The book consists of research material, on-location photographs by the artist, as well as works connected to these images. The photos from the listening station are printed on red coloured paper, a method that was used as a means of copy protection in the time of black and white copy machines.”
Jaybo in Berlin, going Jordan, going upside down… for some reason, we really like this. He says about his piece:
” the jordan
in the terminate thing. crashing , wings trashing.
flesh ripping, squashing , pigeon gasping
feeling trapped in. Laughing! still eyes flashing
Heroes dead collapsing,
is consume a religion , you asking
thoughts from my piegeonhole.”.. Jaybo
Its amazing, but does anyone know who the Michael Jordan of hacking is? There is a group called the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), which seems odd that they even meet up be known… because isn’t the point of hacking to not be known? Or is it fun to be all Mark Zuckerberg and have a face?
The CCC met up in Berlin late last year for their annual conference, Dutch hacker and entrepreneur Rop Gonggrijp gave the keynote speech… saying:
“Most of today’s politicians realise that nobody in their ministries, or any of their expensive consultants, can tell them what is going on any more. They have a steering wheel in their hands without a clue what – if anything – it is connected to. Our leaders are reassuring us that the ship will certainly survive the growing storm. But on closer inspection they are either quietly pocketing the silverware or discreetly making their way to the lifeboats.”
This is what Anne de Vries and Billy Rennekamp did for their exhibition at The Future Gallery in Berlin, Germany in October of 2010. We love a good basketball exhibition…
Nothing like a symbol of oppression and totalitarian rule to make a comeback with tourists. Sure, its fucking easy to show up from Palo Alto and look at the “great history” of the Berlin Wall has a historical document, but goddamn, if you lived in East Berlin during the time the Wall blocked you from your loved ones in the West, that fucking trend of tourists getting enjoyment out of your misery should make you firebomb someone’s ass. Oh, you like this wall? Fuck you, Americans. How typical of people! Let’s celebrate the real misery of others… let’s visit a Concentration Camp while we are at it.
We think about water all the time, especially the next 100 years when we start to have water wars that are so epic and grand that most of the world will be involved. Unless, of course, we start getting smarter. This new exhibition, Water—Curse or Blessing: Encouraging Architectural Projects in Asia-Pacific, opens at Aedes am Pfefferberg in Berlin, on September 9th and will present “a series of urban, infrastructural, architectural and planning proposals for east, south and southeast Asia. It is essential to highlight that over 50% of the world’s population lives in cities and 90% of those individuals live near substantial bodies of water.”
As DesignBoom notes, “the presented proposals were generated by a sampling of architects and urban planners to assist the affected countries in coping with their water related issues. topics addressed by these proposals include rainwater harvesting, desalination, flood protection and other infrastructural improvements to contribute to improved water management.
This is a nice video on the subject of Australian artist, Anthony Lister, who has shown at our FIFTY24SF Gallery twice in the past. Guess he went to Berlin to show, and had a week to prepare the whole body of work… and someone made a video of it. . . .
Sure, Muslim German-Turkish, living in Berlin model/actress Sila Sahin looks all wholesome here, but she is getting heat from her Muslim family for posing naked on the cover and inside German Playboy magazine. “I did it because I wanted to be free at last,” she said. “These photographs are a liberation from the restrictions of my childhood.”
As the Daily Mail reports, “Ms Sahin’s declared intention was to used the controversial Playboy photoshoot as a call to action for other Turkish girls who suffer the effects of their strict backgrounds, where women’s choices are often limited, husbands are chosen for the girls and chastity closely controlled.”
Who is not excited about a 30-minute short film from Spike Jonze and the Butler brothers based on the Arcade Fire album, The Suburbs, titled “Scenes From the Suburbs,” where it is about “A group of suburban youths. Back then, in the summer, so long ago. They couldn’t leave town because outside the country was at war and the military controlled life and all gateways. The teenagers wander aimlessly about town. Winter is a long way off. And love and longing and friendship still mean– everything.”
We are excited. Very. Jonze’s film will open at the Berlin International Film Festival this week.
The legendary Mode 2 has a showing with German artist, Superblast, opening at Studio 44 in Berlin tomorrow, but its not one of those long and winding road kind of shows. This is over on Sunday.
