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february 22, tuesday "crystal palace"   resden's city center
boasts a wild example of retro-constructivist (some say
de-constructivist) architecture, built by Coop Himmelb(l)au at a space where many
building styles clash very nicely. It is named "Kristallpalast",
meaning Crystal Palace, a title that is given new subversive meaning by
a string of house & techno parties that are being organized there.
At one of those, yesterday, we presented a projection installation.  The gorgeous glass & concrete structure now hosts a muliplex cinema, giving it a depressive high street air with its jingle bells soundtrack still echoing through its vast empty spaces, but, hey, they might go bust in time and you know of course what they do to fight inner city malheur in Germany, -bring in some art. This would be a great museum for, like, mobilées, I mean video & club art with all of those black boxes... As much a sculpture as a buiding, it is extravagantly crooked, seeming to glide away sideways, inside it is like a set out of Dr Calligari. It fits perfectly in, no, goes way beyond the Eastgerman tradition of imaginative concrete buildings.  I suppose the architects might have been influenced by it too, the concept for the structure being conceived in the early 90's.  Installation pix will be up soon in the "event report" section of this site.
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