we posted 160 blog entries in 2006. many things happened! here is a brief review of the most important PLATOON.operations in 2006:

february: etoy.corporation leaves the PLATOON.host
the international art-collective arrived with their container in summer 2005 (movie). during these last 8 month we had a lot of fun but also a lot of exchange of ideas and we made friends!

within their general meeting here in berlin and afterwards they worked a lot on mission eternity (a death cult for the information age)

here is a small movie of their departure.







march: the minimum wage campaign
PLATOON developed and realized this nation-wide campaign for the german trade union ver.di.
within this campaign we developed internet communication via weblogs and a special form of street protest.

this campaign is still going on and we have to work on it also in 2007.






may: confidential CIA.prison detected
next to our area in berlin-mitte walter gitmo offered public tours thru a former CIA.prison for terrorists. this theater play hosted by PLATOON irritated a lot of people!























june: the world cup @ PLATOON.area
maybe the most exhausting operation PLATOON realized during the last 7 years! we built an arena for almost 500 people around our pool and placed a monster LED-panel for the members of our club. within few days our place was overwhelmed by people who wanted to join the club. for 4 weeks we had a 24/7 operation in providing drinks, food, fun and security. every evening there was a never ending party for this hot summer spectacle. thank you all again for making this happen!

short movie of world cup @ PLATOON





july: pecha kucha @ PLATOON
we hosted our first pecha kucha event on the PLATOON.area. a fast and furious presentation panel: each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each - giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. this keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show their work.














soni riot
PLATOON.anna presented her 6-months-work-diploma 'soni riot'. PLATOON oversaw her work as a second corrector. the result: a hard rocking vj-act!











pool saison
after the world cup the summer arrived again and we started the pool saison for the people around us. the pool was open to the public 6 days a week.



























the end of the summer festival
PLATOON.marcello ended his internship with a music-festival-project. he worked out a big line-up of bands and organized the whole event. thank you!






















october: PLATOON.asia
after our first secret trip in april 2006 (we didn't post any entries about it) to seoul/korea we had a second 3 week trip to hong kong: entry 1 . 2 . 3 / beijing: entry 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 / seoul: entry 1 . 2 . because of an invitation of adidas asia/pacific we researched some facts and developed some ideas for them. we will see what will happen in 2007 ;-)) but we are sure: there will be a second PLATOON in seoul soon! stay tuned!

























november: hugo boss prize, new york
after the asia trip we had to fly immediately to new york for another operation. we did the video-documentation for the biannual art prize at the guggenheim museum. we made several interviews and trailers for the hugo boss website. the challenge was to create a serious and art related documentation and edit it within hours.
















december: recover for 2007
after this rocking and exhausting year we just made our upcoming plans for 2007.
what will we do in real life?
what will we do in asia?
what will we do in second life?
how will we survive the next party?

thank all of you for escorting us within this blog and supporting our ideas worldwide.

stay tuned for the next operations!