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RAUL LEMESOFF
WEAPON OF MASS INSTRUCTION
Starting with an automobile made to resemble a tank, the Argentinian artist Raul Lemesoff created layers of shelving all over it, filling every available space with books. »
MUSIC / ARTS
PIANO BASS DRUM
APPROPRIATION OF A PIANO
Piano Bass Drum: an experimental music night setting out to explore the potential of the live piano in an electronic dance context. »
ARTS
PAINTING REALITY
BREAKING THE RULES FOR BEAUTY
Rosenthaler Platz - in 2010, Berlin-based Dutch artist IEPE enlisted an anonymous team, recruited from the PLATOON NETWORK, to execute both live painting and art happening in the afternoon traffic. »
ARTS
MARK JENKINS
CAST ON THE WORLD STAGE
After inventing his own technique of casting objects using packing tape and plastic wrap, placing the resulting tape sculptures in situ creates surreal urban theater for any passerby. »
MUSIC
LOTIC
MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK
The name of Houston-born, Berlin-based producer Lotic’s new release of 8 tracks of unsettling experimental dance concrète is Agitations, but that could be a motto of sorts. »
ARTS
JUNKHOUSE
LIVING CITIES
As Junkhouse, Korean painter and street artist Su Young brightens up the city landscape and gallery walls with a distinct, deceptively cute comics-derived style of malleable characters. »
ARTS
JOHNY DAR
RENAISSANCE MAN
It’s rare to find artists who can work fluently across a number of different fields, both aesthetically and commercially, but American polymath Johny Dar has achieved this organically. »
DESIGN / ARTS
JEONGMOON CHOI
DRAWING IN SPACE
While the virtual world tends to usurp the physical one these days, Jeongmoon Choi has created a unique way to merge the two. »
DESIGN / ARTS
IREGULAR
TURN ME ON
Five years in and Daniel Iregui’s Iregular studio have already established themselves as an essential node in their home base of Montreal’s art and technology communities. »
ARTS
EMELI THEANDER
REVEALING MONSTERS
You can trace the progress of Emeli Theander’s work, probably even from her art school years in Berlin—when, fresh from her native Sweden, she supported herself by selling screen prints at flea markets. »
DESIGN
BLUE & JOY
NEW PLANS OF EXISTENCE
Blue and Joy was initially two comic book characters but has developed into the name for their art career in its entirety. Now, after ten years, that encompasses an interdisciplinary media project exhibiting all over the world in a number of different mediums. »
COMMUNICATION / DESIGN / ENTERTAINMENT
LET THE GAMES BEGIN
A MAZE.
One form of digital creativity that rarely gets mentioned in art circles is gaming. A MAZE. is the organization that addresses that. A MAZE. provides a platform and meeting space for the culture. »