A commercial wholetrain, with an adhesive design of the urban artist Shepard ‘Obey’ Fairey, who recycles socialist movement graphics from the past for his succesful imagery. “Unstoppable”: The powerful arrogance of urban art in alliance with money. This is an advertising for a semi-private museum about urban art in Berlin: Urban Nation. The museum is…
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” ― Albert Camus Short Note: This October in Berlin – Neükolln was something different, especially the last days which were actually even better than the summer days.. Therefore we have every reason to celebrate and write about it. The walks outside have met discussions…
The Shituationist Institute proudly presents: PERFORMANCE //Lucas Elliot Fakegruber (Shituationist Institute) – Dark Surfaces. Inside the Rave Situation The uniformity of the rave situation is the basis for precise deviance. Entrusting oneself to the concept: After setting the time frame, the sound and light and crowd then create the rugged line of the evening with…
“Nothing to Hide” is a film started by Marc in April 2015 with a journalist colleague of him, Mihaela. At that time They were working on different digital related issues (Marc for instance was focusing on the economical issues of Big Data, Mihaela more on privacy). They started attending more conferences (CPDP, re:publica, CCC..)…
In case you wondered why it is so hard to find a flat in Berlin, isn’t it supposed to be cool AND crazy AND cheap? Short explanation, it’s capitalisation, the Berlin myth is a collectively produced marketing sheme that is programmed to go out of hands. Our special brand of gentrification, where there is not…
This is one of the best music videos I discovered since years. I find few minutes to write about this new project I recently listened for the first time. We will Fail is a project of artist Alexandra Grunhölz. She debuted with two part album called Vestorung released on MonotypeRec. Music of We will Fail…
It has been a while since my last post about upcoming events in Berlin. A series of reasons for that. Berlin contemporary electronic music scene has dramatically commercialized last years. At least this is my opinion. Boring crowds, esoteric people, boring line ups, expensive fees compose the current situation. Perhaps I am getting a little…
In April 1941, Nazi Germany started its military assault against Greece, coming to the aid of fellow Axis power Italy, who had unsuccessfully invaded the country in the previous year. Almost two years later, on 15 March 1943, the Nazis and their allies launched the first train transport at Thessaloniki Railway Station in order to…
Short note: I was planning to make a short post yesterday concerning the Berlin Feminist Film week but it didnt work out.This year the festival is taking place from 8th to 14th of March 2016 in various venues around Berlin. Keep an eye out for the program and find the stuff on facebook. Several good films…
Certainly one has also to be watchful with people calling themselves communist or anarchist and, to be on the safe side, always suppose that they do a lot of nonsense. However, to get back to the topic, communist literature always was better than left literature, so to say Goethe better than Grass. The interview was…
Shituationist Institute highly recommends this event in Berlin that will take place in Laidak Boddinstrasse 42. Rare footage material from the beginning of the 20th century explores the lives of ordinary people in the midst of dramatic changes that transformed the Balkans: ethnic and religious co-existence of different peoples during the Ottoman Empire ended with…
I was from the lucky ones. A cue of approximately 700 meters long, of people waiting outside Berghain with a little chance to enter was outrageous. Personally I had a guest list by a friend of a friend etc.. so I had to wait only one hour, so I survived the cue. Something that I…
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