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Bongout Showroom: Ghana Movie Posters

fe — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:17:06 +0100

The ‘Ghana Movie Posters’ show in the Bongout showroom is a collection of paintings, certainly unfamiliar to the art – college trained eye. The exhibition consists of the actual promotional posters for the cinema in two towns in Ghana - Accra and Kumasi. The cinema industry is a term to describe the mobile cinemas there that in material description can be reduced to a TV monitor, a VCR and an electricity generator.

Alice Miceli: Is It Possible To Touch The Invisible?

julie — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:16:17 +0100

Alice Miceli is not your ordinary artist. Her work consists more of science than of art, but don’t think in any way that her pieces are cold or inhuman. Truly, they show sometimes the worst in humanity, destruction that laid an area of 30 km bare and uninhabitable, but congruously an immense hope for the future. Miceli’s work now is an in-progress project stretching from her home country of Brazil to here in Germany, to the Exclusion Zone surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant in the Ukraine and Belarus; she hopes to capture images of radiation, something that no one has yet done before.

Two Coins: The House Is Burning on DVD

ir — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:44:03 +0200

To start with one of those names: Walter Benjamin famously described involuntary memory using the example of Proust's madeleine: with one bite of a pastry, the narrator's remembered youth, associated in his mind with the taste of a delicacy, enlarges (a lot). In The House is Burning, involuntary memory occurs as a kid going to war watches his girlfriend rolling Lucky Strike cigarettes, reminding him of his mother's habit.

Strictly Personal: Tony Parsons - David Wojnarowicz

pe — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:37:11 +0100

In Zeiten wie diesen scheint die einzige beständige Option die Vergangenheit zu sein. Das Wort Nostalgie wollen wir hiermit freundlich unterschlagen. Nostalgie bedeutet ja, dass den nur noch in der Erinnerung lebendigen Lebensoptionen nachgefühlt wird, wobei die beiden Autobiografien von David Wojnarowicz (Close To The Knives) - Musiker, Autor, Junkie, Stricher - und Tony Parsons (Als Wir Unsterblich Waren) - Working Class Selfmade Man, Musikschreiber u.a. für den NME, Ex-Ehemann von Julie Burchill und alleinerziehender Vater - bestenfalls eine Form von Sentimentalität (bei Parsons) durchscheinen lassen, was wiederum in der heutigen Zeit oftmals als zu intim und persönlich abgetan wird. Absolut zu unrecht, übrigens.

Richard Hell: Godlike - small and clear glimpses

ck — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:16:42 +0100

Hell, best known for his outstanding work during the seventies with the Voidoids and Television, has carefully crafted his second novel Godlike, published last year on Akashic Books under Dennis Cooper`s Little House on the Bowery series. The novelette is structured as the notebooks/novel of a hospitalized writer reflecting back on his Lower East Side love affair twenty years prior with a rather off-putting teenage poet. The plot and characters are based loosely on the late 1800s poets love affair between Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud set in the grime of early 1970s New York.

The Monks - I Hate You (...but call me)

pe — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:56:24 +0200

Mit der chronologisch sehr gut erzählten Dokumentation The Transatlantic Feedback holen Lucia Palacios und Dietmar Post nach, was lange überfällig war: Die Geschichte der frühsechziger Trash-Beat Band The Monks, die es in ihrer aktiven Zeit auf nur ein einziges, aber im retrospektiven Impakt gewaltiges und fulminantes Album brachten, wird hier chronologisch und im Zusammenhang mit den sozial-politischen Ereignissen der Sixties aufgerollt. The Monks waren 5 GI´s, die als Nicht-Musiker ab 1961 in der Coleman-Kaserne bei Hanau nahe Frankfurt a.M. auf die Idee kamen, künftig ihre Freizeit als Beat-Band zu gestalten.

Sonambiente 2006: Filmreihe im Kino Babylon

pe — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:01:36 +0200

Ausserordenlicht gut ausgesucht und in zwei Blöcken zusammengestellt war die Filmereihe der Sonambiente. Am Montag Abend, dem 10. July 2006, spielte das Kino Babylon Mitte Hans Richters Fluxus-Frühwerk »Dreams that money can buy« (USA 1944), dessen surrealistische Traumsequenzen vor allem durch die in das Narrativ eingebundenen Readymades von Marcel Duchamp oder dem charmant-skurrilen Vortrag von Man Ray zum Soundtrack von John Cage, Paul Bowles, Edgar Varèse oder Duke Ellington besticht: »It´s about the matter of principles«.

replays

pe — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:44:35 +0100

play them all at once.