A monstrous tweefest
Oct. 11th, 2006 09:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusAnyone who knows me knows I love rather unthreatening, twee, brightly-coloured, childish and playful events and environments. So I'm delighted to announce that the mother of all tweefests opens in Berlin today: the Pictoplasma character conference.
I'm actually off to London tomorrow, so I won't be around to see dancers from the Sasha Waltz company doing an over-the-top pop opera performance with various cosplay furries on Saturday at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. Or any of the talks, for that matter -- they start tomorrow.
But I will be able to catch the character walk, in which dozens of shops and galleries in Mitte become temporary lairs for the friendly monsters Pictoplasma exists to facilitate and promote. In over 30 Mitte locations, all day today, you can see work by everyone from Shobo Shobo to David Shrigley. The character walk starts at Trailerpark on the corner of Alte Schoenhauser Strasse and Linienstrasse, and everything's open from 11am.
There's also a party tonight at 103 Club, Falckensteinstrasse 47 in Kreuzberg, starting at 10pm. It's a "celebration of Magic, Luck, and Friendship" in which you can "play with characters from another dimension" and "be transported to a surreal adventure... gaze upon the visual delights and observe the spirits or venture down below for a full sensory romper room installation of Cloud City, a tactile playground like you've never experienced before". The installation is by Friends With You, the peaked, painted shaman I, Mischa Shoni and Mumbleboy witnessed at the opening of that "tunnel of twee", the Giant Robot Store in New York last year.
I'm actually off to London tomorrow, so I won't be around to see dancers from the Sasha Waltz company doing an over-the-top pop opera performance with various cosplay furries on Saturday at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. Or any of the talks, for that matter -- they start tomorrow.
But I will be able to catch the character walk, in which dozens of shops and galleries in Mitte become temporary lairs for the friendly monsters Pictoplasma exists to facilitate and promote. In over 30 Mitte locations, all day today, you can see work by everyone from Shobo Shobo to David Shrigley. The character walk starts at Trailerpark on the corner of Alte Schoenhauser Strasse and Linienstrasse, and everything's open from 11am.
There's also a party tonight at 103 Club, Falckensteinstrasse 47 in Kreuzberg, starting at 10pm. It's a "celebration of Magic, Luck, and Friendship" in which you can "play with characters from another dimension" and "be transported to a surreal adventure... gaze upon the visual delights and observe the spirits or venture down below for a full sensory romper room installation of Cloud City, a tactile playground like you've never experienced before". The installation is by Friends With You, the peaked, painted shaman I, Mischa Shoni and Mumbleboy witnessed at the opening of that "tunnel of twee", the Giant Robot Store in New York last year.
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Date: 2006-10-11 07:29 am (UTC)I love dark, threatening, sardonic and playful events and environments.
urbandictionary.com says...
Date: 2006-10-12 05:23 am (UTC)1. twee (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=twee)
Something that is sweet, almost to the point of being sickeningly so. As a derogatory descriptive, it means something that is affectedly dainty or quaint, or is way too sentimental.
In American English it often refers to a type of simple sweet pop music, but in British English it is used much more widely for things that are nauseatingly cute or precious. It comes from the way the word sweet sounds when said in baby talk.
Belle and Sebastian are the Beatles of twee.
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Date: 2006-10-11 12:27 pm (UTC)Risa Sato what about
cheers
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Date: 2006-10-11 02:18 pm (UTC)...that'll be FUCKIN right!
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Date: 2006-10-11 02:54 pm (UTC)Don Hertzfeldt's gonna be there! If you haven't seen it, I recommend watching 'Intermission in the Third Dimension'. It's on YouTube... unfortunately I can't link to it because my job's firewall has that blocked.
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Date: 2006-10-11 08:57 pm (UTC)twee with TEETH
Date: 2006-10-11 05:10 pm (UTC)i really like the photos in your post though that last one makes me think of a frightning combination of a blow-up doll and a bear trap...
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Date: 2006-10-12 05:48 pm (UTC)Why can't I be there?!