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

[electricwitch.livejournal.com]

I like pictures.

Does this mean it´s time for me to break out my only KKK macro?

[dzima.livejournal.com]

enough of you, momus. doesn't hisae have a flickr, mate?

[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...)

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

I thought that you had to explain that you're not an Arab... But the KKK?

[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!

The funky funky eyepatch

[qscrisp.livejournal.com]

You've probably seen this already, but...

[electricwitch.livejournal.com]

speak for yourself.

[violet-hemlock.livejournal.com]

Live mp3's and pictures are pretty darn good.

Re: The funky funky eyepatch

[imomus.livejournal.com]

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[(Anonymous)]

Can you imagine that the sort of gentrification that overtook Prenzlauer Berg will eventually invade Neukolln and Wedding?
The fact that so much of the present population of Wedding exists below the poverty line is not good but would it be a shame to see these areas lose their present character to yuppification.
Berlin fortunately does seems to resist these tides better than most cities but once avaricious property investors start targeting a city - as is the case with Berlin - it would only seem to be a matter of time.
Thomas S.

[(Anonymous)]

Hello Momus,

Will you ever be coming back to Los Angeles?

-Memo
http://urbanmemo.blogspot.com/

[microworlds.livejournal.com]

I will tell you what he told me:
he simply hasn't been invited here! He would come if a) accommodation was paid for, b) rooms were paid for, or c) there's a solid venue he can play/speak at.

He can sleep in my Hello Kitty decorated bedroom if he wants, all we need is airfare and a venue!

[microworlds.livejournal.com]

that or should be "and"

[imomus.livejournal.com]

There are unique conditions here -- like the fact that almost 90)% of Berlin residents rent rather than buy -- that prevent areas seeing speculative see-saw development patterns.

Re: The funky funky eyepatch

[microworlds.livejournal.com]

Yes, I almost ran into things (literally, actually) while trick or treating with my brother. Dressed as you, of course. Plus, it got in the way when I was trying to focus the lens on my camera. :(