joaoflux / digital / analog / culture

Four artist groups participated in a discussion panel at Sophiensaele in Berlin Mitte on September 16. (more…)

“Stadtplandienst vs. Me” is a video based on a court trial about a copyright violation that “Stadtplandienst“, an online map service, accused me of. On Wednesday, September 17 (20h / 22h) there will be a screening at the YOUin3D.com Headquarters, Hannoverscher Str. 3, 10115 Berlin.

After the premiere on Wednesday I will post the video here.

A while ago I a caught a fragment of a conversation between two elderly ladies in a public swimming pool: “My husband also died when he was in his forties. And? Did he miss much?”

Probably not, I’d say.

This is how the guide and master of ceremony at the Museum of American Art describes the history of modernism in art.
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A couple of days ago I had lunch across the street from good old Tachels, the former squat that became famous in the 90s. After a rather traumatic experience I had organizing an exhibition there back in 2001, I did not follow the development of the situation there during the last couple of years.

Waiting for my food and a not having anything to read with me a picked up one of the Tacheles Programs (I never see them anywhere else. Is it possible that they only manage to distribute it in their direct neighborhood?). The first sentence that caught my attention translates “scrap and bankruptcy aren’t art”. In a short text on the front page Tacheles e.V. distances itself from the scrap in their backyard. They claim that Fundus, the investor who bought the building a long time ago, tries to damage the reputation of Tacheles and teams up with small-time criminals to do so. According to Tacheles e.V. “Drug dealers and worse” use the territory for “deployment”.

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The Soundcloud release party (May 11, 2pm - late) was the kind of very Berlin party that is quite rare in Berlin these days. Their office in the attic of Postfuhramt has a terrace from which it is possible to climb on the roof.
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