…second backyard or on billboard-framed green spaces. “We are not here for fun!” combines some of these approaches and puts them into a larger urban context. A radio play based on interviews with over 30 protagonists of the time shows correlations that were characteristic of the creative subculture of the 90s. In conjunction with the exhibits, a part of a city’s history arises, that has so far hardly been described and the various talks open up a…
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…a center for Culture later. You can see the show “We aren’t here just for fun” there right now, a fantastic review of the subculture of Berlin in the 1990th. (29.06.-25.08.2013) Artists and Musicians were the peaceful form of an urban guerrilla in those days. Old factories got invaded and were getting spaces for music and art performances. Techno and Trance was the sound of Berlin. Beside Discotheques like Tresor and beside the Love Parade small…
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…leaves his trademark moniker and walks away – with a smile. “I am creating fun and beauty out of something society considers gross and disgusting,” he says. “Garbage is hated, ignored, considered smelly and rotten. But for me it has become a place to create monsters, to make fun of politicians and the humourless.” De Pajaro moved to London to escape the economic crisis in Spain and restrictive laws outlawing street expression. “Painting trash in…
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…accorded the CoA a value befitting a work of art. More cheeky but no less funny was Robert Rauschenberg, the great American pop artist, who when he was unable to make it to an exhibition of his work in Scandanavia in 1961, sent instead a telegram with the words “THIS IS A PORTRAIT OF IRIS CLERT IF I SAY SO” (raising the very pertinent question of whether he was actually saying so). Some like the French Fluxist exponent Ben Vautier gave certificat…
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…However, the message that he repeatedly pushed, on the subversive power of fun, eventually attracted a lot of supporters. He was finally arrested in May of ’68 when he drove his Fiat Topolino into the hall of the central railway station in Hamburg. On it was written, FREE EIFFE REPUBLIC and he started to decorate the tiles with triangles. He was quickly arrested, ushered away in handcuffs and taken under press coverage to the psychiatric hospi…
Read More…ersity in front of the Golden Horn. It was a great afternoon with a lot of fun, great people and inspiring encounters! It would not have been possible without the help of: Asena Hayal, Tan Cemal Genac (for the trailer and support during the match), Sabine Küper-Büsch, Thomas Büsch and Louisa Döderlein, thank you to all of you. Also a big thanks to: Philosophy Football FC from the UK, Dynamo Windrad from Germany and Ayazma Football Club from Turkey…
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…ues with contemporary fine arts like in the exhibition We are not here for fun! which took place in 2013 focusing on subcultural structures in Berlin in the 90s and their cultural productions. Julia Lazarus, a German artist in residence currently working in Istanbul supported by the Grant of the Berlin Senate, will talk about Haben und Brauchen (to have and to need), an initiative establishing a consciousness and self-concept concerning what disti…
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…lmmaker and editor of experimental fiction, Stuart Home has operated – for fun and giggles as much as for aesthetics and activism – as a conceptual indigent, quasi-occultist, propagandist for psychic warfare. Rich in farfetched juxtapositions, his prolific output often connects the knuckles-and-raunch pulp fictions of early ’70s with Situationist critique, and puts the comic, burning brutalism that ensues to keenly-observed satiric effect. What’s…
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…but also our needs to share and feel connected. She thought it might be a fun collaborative resource for other folks out there in the same boat, so she turned it into a collaborative google sheet, shared it with folks in the experimental film community, and it took off. Indeed, the international experimental film community, as well as internet-based artists started to make public and add their own films and videos on the collaborative Google Shee…
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