Read all about computer art performing, our new Berlin
showroom, not very avantgarde gays, and a Pirna club-art experience
with Ellen Alien.
January 21th, Wednesday
ast week's Kunstsupermarkt portrait
performance results are appearing
online bit by byte, some of them turned out real good.
Some models disagree, but the more you disregard that, the more you
might be making something interesting not just to them. You know, i
read that Mona Lisa returned her portrait because she thought her smile
was freaky.. (Haskell- "Patrons & Painters")
Coming sunday we'll be casting tulip models again at the
exhibition's finissage.
January 6th, Tuesday - Portrait
art
reparing a portrait artmaking event
at the Kunstsupermarkt shop coming sunday. We'll be live
analogue-digital painting & printing the day away in a loungy
setting (original, i know) to live electronic musak by Strassmann.
In an effort to "mend the artist-patron relationship that was so
carelessly destroyed by avant-garde posturing" (press text), we will
photograph the gallery visitors, then have them sit around watching
artistic processing. After all, people love watching other people work,
not only in pornography or construction, but why not in art as
well?
Why don't you just read the (german) press release here.
Have been silk-screening too for the first time, wasn't
as hard as i expected.
And i spent some nice self-centered days updating the report section of
this site with many press articles.
Now even i am bored of me.
December 20th, Saturday - Subway
art
ust back from Dresden where we put
up a Club-art presentation at an event in an old factory (feat. Ellen
Alien, the momentary queen of old factory land). It had a mobility
theme and featured animated maps.
Set up a 12 x 2 meter animated projection piece
involving nine slide projectors preparé. I had wanted to
put text to the "stations" along the trajectory; make it a road map
along all kinds of sexual deviation, but Paulus didn't think it
suitable for children.
We had a fine time; having lunch for one euro in the
most beautiful G.D.R. canteen on an industrial wasteland, and staying
with a brilliant hip hop kid who did great rhymes and recited poetry
while serving us home-made Schnapps.
December 13th, Saturday - Recycle art
he Kinzo Klub
hosted a very well organized art & design market & lounge called
"3 & 33". There were no christmas candles and the like offered, but
only the usual hip, well,"Zeitgeistscheisse" one of the artists dubbed
it. An inflation of shoulder bags made out of recycled materials;
artwork using the Berlin "Fernsehturm" (the hallmark Eastberlin tv
tower) etc. -this whole hip culture is pretty stagnant at the moment..
There was a lounge version of the last supper with the
dj as Jesus, taking central position at a huge low table surrounded by
the audience lolling about on couches.
Nice also: club visuals for the home from Fifi Labouche,
and paintings from Mr.Zeitgeistscheisse himself. Afterwards we went
to the Laeckerlounge
where we had been mysteriously invited. It had an Asia theme, pretty
classy and professional, with lots of nice touches, but the deco was
cheap with lots of lifted artwork of dragons.
Berlin felt so wonderfully Eastern-european again today
somehow.
December 11th, Thursday -
Rembrandts"R"Us
igitally produced a comic children's portrait
on request. Might be a good idea for the portrait business-art: If the
parents don't want any, maybe the children will. We'll just go for the
niche market created by art collecting kids. They'll have us paint
hamster portraits in no time, and we just run with the pocket money.
Where will it all lead?
December 6th, Saturday - Club art
hecked out an event at the Heeresbaeckerei,
one of Berlin's more interesting places for arty uncommercial parties
and exhibitions. Some just call it culture-disco though..
It was presented by the Lebensfreude
crew, they are specialists in underground electronic music and parties,
and have a great music sampler in the making. (It has a great selection
an will be presented on the 28th, with Laudert live, and dj Suzie Wong
of Apotheke-Mitte
fame)
At their party Monitor.automatique
did a monumental mirrored video projection of an ever moving Berlin
cityscape with the dome and the unavoidable "Fernsehturm".
Then we went to a gay place, but the boys there were much less
eccentric, and you couldn't talk about anything much beyond fashion or
pharmaceuticals. They don't even talk about sex much, now what kind of
gay is that? Heterosexuals seem more avant garde now.
December 4th, Thursday - Business
art
rom today until june 2004 we have
our own showroom window at Berlin's Sony center at Potsdamer Platz. It
is part of an art windows event organized by the Artefakt agency called
"durchzug".
Press release here. Reviews in german here.
Check back in a few days to find out what happened.
Read all about computer art performing, our new Berlin
showroom, not very avantgarde gays, and a Pirna club-art experience
with Ellen Alien. 
igitally produced a comic children's portrait
on request. Might be a good idea for the portrait business-art: If the
parents don't want any, maybe the children will. We'll just go for the
niche market created by art collecting kids. They'll have us paint
hamster portraits in no time, and we just run with the pocket money. 
ast week's Kunstsupermarkt portrait
performance results are 
reparing a portrait artmaking event
at the Kunstsupermarkt shop coming sunday. We'll be live
analogue-digital painting & printing the day away in a loungy
setting (original, i know) to live electronic musak by 
ust back from Dresden where we put
up a Club-art presentation at an event in an old factory (feat. Ellen
Alien, the momentary queen of old factory land). It had a mobility
theme and featured animated maps. 
he 
hecked out an event at the 
rom today until june 2004 we have
our own showroom window at Berlin's Sony center at Potsdamer Platz. It
is part of an art windows event organized by the Artefakt agency called
"durchzug". 