Articles
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Spunk Seipel
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stickers
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01.02.2008
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TAKAKO KIMURA
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| Stickers! Sticky pictures! Little stickies! Several years ago, an entire industry sprang up to offer children—primarily girls, understandably—countless images placed on tiny, moderately small, and sometimes even notably larger stickers. In themselves, these stickers have no value whatever: kitsch-pictures, the same sort as the pictures that young collectors once scraped off of the papers stuck… |
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Folke Köbberling / Martin Kaltwasser
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urban design
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01.02.2008
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HYBRIDRAUM. 7 DIRECTIONS FOR THE CITY OF TODAY.
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| HybridSpace – Seven Directions for the City of Today, 2007
Installation with two video loops, HybridSpace Movement (9 Min.) and Seven Directions for the City of Today (10 Min.), user instruction flier and construction caravan parked on Hansaplatz.
Over a period of several months, Martin Kaltwasser and Folke Köbberling performed a series of public interventions engaging with the material, social… |
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Ivan Mečl
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essay
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01.02.2008
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FULLNESS, PLURALITY, AND INNER FREEDOM
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| The current social situation is by far more complicated and treacherous than the overly sophisticated leftist or right wing regimes of past centuries, where you eventually had the opportunity to tell and verify good apart from evil. In the present times one can stay blind for a lifetime, because the ever-changing and elastic situation fills up every gap of our needs and possibilities. At the same… |
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Jiří Přibán
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essay
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01.02.2008
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CULTURE CHOKES; ART LIBERATES
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| Art’s defense against the public’s furies
We all surely know Kafka’s short story Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk very well. Josephine can please the crowds with her art, although the Mouse Folk are not entirely musical, and don’t really care for music or singing at all. Everyone finds her singing unique, even though in reality it’s not singing but really just squeaking. But so what… |
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Ivan Mečl
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visions
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01.02.2008
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VISION OF A CZECH CULTURAL APOCALYPSE IN TWO ACTS
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| Dear readers,
That which takes place on the following pages, can easily be re-enacted on the stages of many proving grounds that remain after complete loss of identity, to imitate the dances of their mammoth neighbors in vain attempts at an original gesture. These include, say, the happenchance enrichment of Slovenia, the unjust impoverishment of Moldavia and the complete incomprehension of… |
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Milan Kozelka
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visions
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01.02.2008
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EGON’S PROPHECY
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| (dedicated to unknown perpetrators)
If my theory contradicts the facts, all the worse for the facts. (Hegel)
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A motley crew has gathered at At the Painters', a wine bar in Prague’s Malostanská district.
“In a few years’ time, the art scene is most likely going to look like this,” pronounces Egon Bondy to members of the Tvrdohlaví (Stubborn Ones) artist group and others attending the get… |
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S.d.Ch.
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visions
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01.02.2008
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THE VYŠEHRAD SÉANCE
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| Or The Secret Journey
of K. H. Mácha and V. Hanka
(A forest, a lake in the distance, a stag stands very close, giant mussels, corals, and pine cones lay scattered on the ground. Dawn. He enters the stage in the middle of a creative monologue…) K. H. MÁCHA: …the voice of a turtle-dove invited to love …no … to love the voice of turtle-dove’s invited – yes those are the words! This is some… |
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S.d.Ch.
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out - drama
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01.02.2008
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DOMAIN OF THE MEDIOCRITY GENIUS
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| A heuristic salon farce in Four acts
THE MEDIOCRITY GENIUS – Geniadij Mediokritov (pastor, bourgeois, Negro coffee salesman, musketeer)
FEMINA MASKULINOVNA – his wife
THE PARAMOUNT GENIUSES – Dr. Kafka, composer Wolfgang
THE GRUBINESS GENIUSES – Ed Entertainment, Paulie Porno
Budgie
Cockatiel
Scarlet Macaw
Monster
Act 1.: PRELIMINARY
Home salon of MEDIOCRITY GENIUS with a French-style window,… |
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Tomas Ullman
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urban design
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01.02.2008
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UTOPIAS UNDER HERITAGE PROTECTION – HANSAVIERTEL IN BERLIN
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| "The problem of rationalization and typification is only a secondary problem. Rationalization and typification are only the means, and can never be the end. The problem of the new residence is, in essence, a spiritual problem, and the disputation surrounding the new residence only a part of the great struggle towards a new form of life."
Mies van der Rohe (Introduction to the exhibition catalogue… |
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