23 new photographs

[imomus]

23 new photographs are uploaded to the iMomus Flickr page, detailing with texture rather than text my meatspace doings since I got back last week to Berlin.



The photographs mostly cover art openings; I had to write a trial column for an Austrian art magazine which may employ me as a regular Berlin correspondent, so I went (for the first time!) to Wedding, Berlin's other up-and-coming creative district (my own beloved Neukolln being the one I've mostly talked about here) and was most impressed by the Kolonie Wedding events, and especially by the East Europeans and Russians participating. I get the impression that Poles, Serbs, Romanians and Russians are the only people really exicted, these days, about art as a source of off-kilter energy, rather than a status symbol or investment.

There was also a great series of shows and openings at Kreuzberg's art treasure house, the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien. Currently, apart from the usual shows by their residency artists, there are two wonderful exhibitions there, Fluxus East (printed ephemera from the Fluxus movement, and especially its abortive East European offshoots) and Take Me To the Edge of Heaven at Kunstraum Kreuzberg, an all-women show containing work by Kei Takemura and many others (I particularly liked the clothes art of Cécile Belmont).

The photos also document a YouTube party at Sunshine Wong's flat, a studio visit to Luc and Tomoko's place, a game of French billiards with Tomo from Kyoto and Naoko Ogawa (who's put up a website since I blogged about her jewelry!), some silly clothes from Momus and the concept of "post-occupancy" courtesy Rem Koolhaas.

I know, I know, this blog used to be all about concepts, but I've spent so much of this week generating text for art magazines (interviewing Paul Noble in Ramallah, for instance, for Art World) that right now all you're getting is live mp3s and photos. Sorry!

Comments

[imomus.livejournal.com]

No, she doesn't. She once had a blog, long ago, but couldn't be bothered with it. And she refuses to tell me the address of what's left of that one!

[dzima.livejournal.com]

That's too bad. You can tell her that the Click Opera regulars want know about her old blog too! (and no one here is a perv, we can reassure her...)

[imomus.livejournal.com]

She tells me the old one is still online, but locked. No-one can read it. She also says that she would never post photos of herself even if she had a blog (very Japanese, that!) Which she actually does, just a blog of links she likes. But that's secret too!

[electricwitch.livejournal.com]

speak for yourself.