The Brecht and Cruikshank Schnitzelshanke
Nov. 28th, 2004 09:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomus
Openings at Kunst-Werke always make for a great free party. Last night's was for a new show called 'Now and Ten Years Before'. It's about 'culture production' in squats and other semi-legal spaces in Berlin and New York, and looks at developments like gentrification in Mitte and the East Village over the last ten years. Kunst-Werke is closely tied to New York thanks to director Klaus Biesenbach's role as chief curator at PS1 in Queens, and KW parties always have a strong New York atmosphere which makes me a bit nostalgic. Tonight's was no exception -- videos about squats full of drag queens, OTT performances from bands called Shanke, Teardrop and Hanky who presented the kind of exciting sheets of white noise and screaming I used to hear from local scenesters like Spencer Sweeney's Actress when I lived in NY. I can't tell you which of those three the pink band pictured was, but someone told me they were from Hamburg. (Click the photo to see a little video of their performance.)
The bottom two photos show me sitting next to an artwork called 'Wifi Hobo', part of an installation called 'The Brecht and Cruikshank Schnitzelshanke (Jazz House, Cellar and Spaghetti House)' by Nils Norman and Stephan Dillemuth. The blurb tells us the wifi hobo is sitting outside 'a clandestine club located in London's murky pre-culture-region boho zone, in the outer reaches of East London. The scene is set where the remains of the day mingle and mosh. The audience, slipping into the primordial ooze of art and politics, slowly enter the play...' The other photo, where it looks like I'm caught in a big spiderweb, is in a big blobby wire creche out in the KW courtyard, next to the bamboo garden.
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Date: 2004-11-28 02:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-28 03:08 pm (UTC)I was insulted to say the least!
(Also, I'm not creepy and/or obsessive, I honestly don't know where the dream came from, which is why I thought I'd share it with you. Ok, I'm done now.)
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Date: 2004-11-28 03:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-28 05:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-28 05:45 pm (UTC)W
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Date: 2004-11-28 09:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-28 09:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-28 10:14 pm (UTC)they are great!
(i played alongside them at the london scala, the night before)
oliver (bruno) is trememdously well dressed at all times, as he used to work for a tailors!
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Date: 2004-11-28 10:15 pm (UTC)in Berlin
Date: 2004-11-29 04:46 am (UTC)As a friend of mine prepares to visit Berlin, this post has prompted me to ask: what else will be happening in the city over the next few months?
Also, are the websites/places you linked to in last years sublet offer still relevant?
Sam
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Date: 2004-11-29 07:42 am (UTC)Interesting use of the word mosh. Seeing you use it in a less-than-literal way like that made me wonder if it was actually an old word meaning "mix-up" or "throw together", but it turns out it was birthed directly from the 1980's American hardcore scene. The OED hazards a guess that it's a corruption of "mash".
Moshing is such a well-worn cultural image, I wouldn't be surprised if more and more people started using it to mean mixed together until it transcended all vestiges of its original meaning (violent dancing).
Perhaps future linguists will look back on this post as one of the first uses of mosh in this way. Of course, with such a metaphoric image they could never be sure exactly what you meant by it, but the OED editors often do the same thing with metaphoric word usage from Shakespeare.
However, the most likely scenario is that most digital information will be lost as computers continue to change and advance. Maybe you should be printing these out!
Re: in Berlin
Date: 2004-11-29 08:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-29 08:36 am (UTC)i am jealous like you don't even know!
i like the little video..thank you!
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Date: 2004-11-29 08:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-29 09:56 pm (UTC)Spirderweb
Date: 2004-11-30 09:02 am (UTC)Deta!
That's one of the truest self-portraits we've seen in 'Click Opera' yet. Momus spinning a web of associations on the Internet, so that an increasing fraction of google searches will trap the unsuspecting. The image would be even better if you had your powerbook with you, like the image to its left.