von Rabenau Kai, Hrsg. MONO.KULTUR #46 Francis Kéré - Of Clay and CommunityBerlin ( Deutschland): mono.kultur, 2018( Zeitschrift, Magazin / Heft) 48 S., 20x15 cm, ISBN/ISSN 1861-7085 Techn. Angaben Drahtheftung, gedruckt auf verschiedenem Papier, teilweise farbig ZusatzInformation In our most colourful issue yet, we step into the life and work of architect Francis Kéré, known in equal measure for his lighthearted and innovative architecture, his remarkable background, and his infectious sense of optimism. Kéré has completed numerous projects both in Africa and beyond, including schools, medical centres, cultural institutions, and temporary installations, such as the renowned annual Serpentine Pavilion in 2017. Frequently relying on local materials and infrastructure, his work is marked by a profound simplicity and refreshing lightness, meeting technical problems with surprising and seemingly effortless solutions. It reflects his attitude that architecture should, in its most primary function, seek to improve the lives of the people who inhabit it. With mono.kultur, Francis Kéré talked about his long trajectory from a remote village in Africa to Berlin, his steadfast belief in optimism, and what makes a tree a perfect piece of architecture. Designwise, we followed Kéré’s principle to work with what is at hand, sourcing papers from dead stock at our printers’, essentially using an assortment of leftovers. And colour, of course, with the issue based on the national colours of Burkina Faso, paying tribute to the idea of culture as a shared ground to build upon.
Text von der Website. Namen Francis KéréSprache EnglischStichwort Architektur / Burkina Faso / Design / Holz / Interview / Lehm / Material / TonWEB www.mono-kultur.com
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von Rabenau Kai, Hrsg. MONO.KULTUR #45 Richard Price - New York A.M.Berlin ( Deutschland): mono.kultur, 2018( Zeitschrift, Magazin / Heft) 52 S., 20x15 cm, ISBN/ISSN 1861-7085 Techn. Angaben Drahtheftung, Titel in Silberprägung auf dem Cover, Text und Fotografien auf verschiedenem Papier gedruckt ZusatzInformation When it comes to research, Richard Price adopts a hands-on approach: hanging out in different neighbourhoods, talking to strangers and going for ride-alongs with cops to see a darker side of the city. In many ways, it is this wide-eyed curiosity that allows his books to be read as time capsules of a New York in constant flux, revealing an uncanny understanding for knowing exactly what people want, need, envy and resent about the cities they inhabit. In a conversation peppered with anecdotes and bebop, Richard Price talked to mono.kultur about the need to live in order to write, working for Hollywood, and why hanging out is a professional matter. Visually, the conversation with Richard Price found its perfect sparring partner in a selection of images by cab driver turned photographer Joseph Rodriguez. And, just between us, we are proud to feature our very first ever foil embossed cover, in the honourable tradition of pulp novels.
Text von der Website. Namen Richard PriceSprache EnglischStichwort Dramaturgie / Drehbuch / Fernsehen / Fotografie / Interview / Literatur / New York / Regie / Screenplay / StadtlebenWEB www.mono-kultur.com
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von Rabenau Kai, Hrsg. MONO.KULTUR #44 Trevor Paglen - The Edge of TomorrowBerlin ( Deutschland): mono.kultur, 2017( Zeitschrift, Magazin / Heft) 24 S., 20x15 cm, ISBN/ISSN 1861-7085 Techn. Angaben Drahtheftung, sechs Blätter, gefaltet, in Antistatiktasche ZusatzInformation Best known for his series on clandestine military bases and spy satellites, Trevor Paglen’s practice reaches far beyond museum walls. Instead, it encompasses a variety of disciplines. from image-making and installations to investigative journalism, writing, engineering, geography, and sound design. Along the way, Paglen challenges our traditional notions of fine art. He has published a number of books on the functioning of the US intelligence services, installed a series of Autonomy Cubes that allow access to the entirely anonymous Tor network, and is currently working on his own satellite to be launched into space in summer 2018. In a sweeping conversation with mono.kultur, Trevor Paglen talked about the volatility of truth, the dilemmas of the Anthropocene, and why Artificial Intelligence will not outlast humanity. True to its precious content, the issue comes in a Static Shielding Bag normally used for sensitive electronic products. In loose reference to computer coding as well as archival documents, it contains a main booklet with the text and excerpts from Paglen’s current cycle on machine vision, as well as six ‘attachments’ covering seminal projects from his career to date.
Text von der Website. Namen Trevor PaglenSprache EnglischStichwort Interview / Künstliche Intelligenz / Satellit / Space / Technik / Weltraum / ÜberwachungWEB www.mono-kultur.com
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von Rabenau Kai, Hrsg. MONO.KULTUR #41 Meg Stuart - Make the first moveBerlin ( Deutschland): mono.kultur, 2016( Zeitschrift, Magazin / Heft) 48 S., 20x15 cm, ISBN/ISSN 1861-7085 Techn. Angaben Drahtheftung, auf verschiedenen Papieren gedruckt ZusatzInformation Meg Stuart’s work is not about the elegance and beauty of dance, or at least not in the conventional sense. It is about exploring the outer edges of movement, where bodies age, fail, and surrender, where individual spaces disintegrate and bleed into each other, where physical memories are exposed like open wounds. Meg Stuart’s work is located at the vanishing point where dance meets visual arts. Within just two decades, Stuart’s dance company Damaged Goods, which she founded in 1994, have produced a lengthy and diverse list of projects, ranging from countless full-length feature works to multi-disciplinary dance installations, improvisations, and films that spread far beyond the theatre stages of the world, into museum spaces, film festivals or the wide open street. With mono.kultur, Meg Stuart talked about her first physical memories, the healing power of dancing and the thrill of disorientation. Following Meg Stuart’s interest in abundance and complexity, the design discards all notions of top or bottom, left or right, with text and images set in different and ever-changing directions. A magazine as a physical object that wants to be handled and turned. Reading as a dance.
Text von der Website. Namen Damaged Goods / Meg StuartSprache EnglischStichwort Bewegung / Interview / Körper / Tanz / Visuelle KunstWEB www.mono-kultur.com
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von Rabenau Kai, Hrsg. MONO.KULTUR #40 Edmund de Waal - W is for WhiteBerlin ( Deutschland): mono.kultur, 2016( Zeitschrift, Magazin / Heft) 44 S., 20x15 cm, ISBN/ISSN 1861-7085 Techn. Angaben Drahtheftung, auf verschiedenem Papier gedruckt ZusatzInformation Edmund de Waal is a potter. His pots, plates, and vessels are the result of craft and mastership, but they are also so much more than that: they are experiments in form and function, abstractions of thoughts on silence and space, on repetition and failure, on substance and fragility, on memory contained. Edmund de Waal is an artist. He arranges his objects in complex choreographies that are as mysterious as they are mesmerizing. Displayed in galleries and institutions worldwide, his considered installations play with architectural concerns, integrating ideas of space, light and obscurity. Edmund de Waal is a writer. Whether he sculpts with words or with clay, what Edmund de Waal works with are concepts, ideas, and desires. In a body of work that is at odds with our times and yet oddly successful, his writings and objects overlap and integrate each other in an attempt to understand and transcend our complex relationship with objects and our surroundings. In an interview with mono.kultur structured like an A-Z of notes and ideas, Edmund de Waal talked about his rules of attachment, the impossibility of repetition, and why ‘doubt’ is the most beautiful word. Visually, the issue takes inspiration from that most perfect of materials: porcelain. Printed entirely in double-sided splendour, the two finishings of the paper – shiny gloss and smooth matt – evoke the texture of ceramics before and after glazing.
Text von der Website. Namen Edmound de WaalSprache EnglischStichwort Interview / Keramik / Monochrom / Porzellan / TöpfernWEB www.mono-kultur.com
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von Rabenau Kai, Hrsg. MONO.KULTUR #39 Terre Thaemlitz - The Arrogance of OptimismBerlin ( Deutschland): mono.kultur, 2015( Zeitschrift, Magazin / Heft) 48 S., 20x15 cm, ISBN/ISSN 1861-7085 Techn. Angaben Drahtheftung, auf verschiedenem Papier gedruckt, von rechts nach links zu lesen ZusatzInformation Politics and the dance floor make for uneasy bedfellows, and it is this uneasiness that drives most of the work of Terre Thaemlitz, confronting head-on issues that are usually off limits in electronic music. Thaemlitz is a producer and DJ, also known under their monikers of DJ Sprinkles, Social Material, and K-S.H.E, among others. But they are also a writer, educator and activist of sorts, with very fluid notions of gender, switching continuously between male and female drag. Born in 1968, Terre Thaemlitz left the rigidly conservative and violently homophobic environment of their home state, Missouri, in the mid-1980s for New York. They became involved in the queer and transgender scenes both socially and musically at a time when house music was not a genre but simply the wide open sound of a specific social and political space. As New York’s underground queer music scenes dissolved under gentrification, Thaemlitz eventually relocated to Tokyo at the beginning of the ’00s. In a challenging interview with mono.kultur, Terre Thaemlitz talked about the politics of sexuality, his disillusion with the music industry, and why roller disco was so amazing. Visually, the issue is a dark affair, steeped in a dirty, gritty black. Printed on no less than six different paper stocks and juxtaposing several grids and graphic systems, it creates its own visual logic – only to disturb our most fundamental habits of reading and navigating a magazine by opening backwards, from right to left.
Text von der Website. Namen DJ Sprinkles / G.R.R.L. / K-S.H.E. / Teriko / Terre ThaemlitzSprache EnglischStichwort 1980er / DJ / elektronische Musik / Interview / Musik / Queer / Szene / TransgenderWEB www.mono-kultur.com
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von Rabenau Kai, Hrsg. MONO.KULTUR #37 James Nachtwey - Shades of TimeBerlin ( Deutschland): mono.kultur, 2014( Zeitschrift, Magazin / Heft) 52 S., 20x15 cm, ISBN/ISSN 1861-7085 Techn. Angaben Zwei Hefte, Drahtheftung, ineinander gelegt ZusatzInformation Inspired by the press images from the Vietnam War that told a very different story to the official government statements, James Nachtwey found his calling that he would pursue with determination and compassion that are admirable: to document the effects of war, terror and disease. In the hope of raising awareness and inspiring intervention and change, his photographs are neither easy to look at nor easy to forget. Having witnessed and reported on the defining conflicts and tragedies of the past three decades – from the revolutions of South America and Eastern Europe to the famines in Africa, from 9/11 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – Nachtwey’s photographs focus on the costs of war: the suffering of civilians, the damage and the scars. There is no doubt that Nachtwey’s images are a challenge – to the powers that be by proposing an unflinching look at the reality on the ground, at the effects of politics on human lives, but also to us as their audience, by questioning our implication and, quite simply, by opening our eyes to the world. In a rare and frank interview with mono.kultur, James Nachtwey talked about his struggles with photography, the different realities of war, and why images have the power to create change. Graphically, the issue is at its most reduced, giving ample space to let the words and images unfold: coming in two separate booklets, it presents a personal and uncommented selection of James Nachtwey’s work in one, and a highly intriguing and challenging conversation in the other.
Text von der Website. Namen James NachtweySprache EnglischStichwort Armut / Dokumentation / Fotografie / Gewalt / Hunger / Krieg / NotWEB www.mono-kultur.com
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von Rabenau Kai, Hrsg. MONO.KULTUR #36 Ricardo Bofill - The Future of the PastBerlin ( Deutschland): mono.kultur, 2014( Zeitschrift, Magazin / Heft) 48 S., 20x15 cm, ISBN/ISSN 1861-7085 Techn. Angaben Drahtheftung, gedruckt auf verschiedenen Papieren ZusatzInformation where to begin with an architect as over the top as Ricardo Bofill, notorious since the 1970s for his vast city-like housing estates that look like surreal experiments in crossbreeding desert caves with Star Wars. an architect who has designed over 1000 projects in the space of five decades, from perfume bottles to city plans, and pretty much everything in between. who has worked in a style – or a hundred styles – that is as unique as it is impossible to describe. who founded a leftist collective that would eventually end up building airport terminals. whose life reads somewhat like a fairytale itself, taking us from fascist Spain under Franco’s rule to the celebrity frenzy of our modern times, with the Bofill clan holding a somewhat unique position among Spanish tabloids? To add any more is to inevitably leave out too much. With mono.kultur, Ricardo Bofill talked about fifty years of architecture, the vagaries of ambition and how Modernism killed the city. Visually, the issue offers a disorienting journey of architectural splendour with plenty of previously unpublished images from the archives of Ricardo Bofill (as well as the odd film still of naked bodies). Using partial high gloss varnish throughout, it is a pleasing juxtaposition of the natural and the artificial, the intellectual and the sexual, the disciplined and the decadent.
Text von der Website. Namen Ricardo BofillSprache EnglischStichwort Architektur / Fassade / Form / Fotografie / Geometrie / Interview / StadtWEB www.mono-kultur.com
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von Rabenau Kai, Hrsg. MONO.KULTUR #34 Brian Eno - Revaluation (a warm feeling)Berlin ( Deutschland): mono.kultur, 2013( Zeitschrift, Magazin / Heft) 44 S., 20x15 cm, ISBN/ISSN 1861-7085 Techn. Angaben Drahtheftung, gedruckt auf verschieden farbigen Papieren ZusatzInformation Chances are that you will be far more familiar with Brian Eno and his work than you might realise. Whether you know him as a founding member of the gloriously influential 1970s art-rock outfit Roxy Music, or as the inventor of ambient music, in one breathless career Eno has actually released no less than 25 solo albums and contributed to countless projects and collaborations, but also left his fingerprints on dozens of seminal albums as a producer – think U2, Talking Heads or Coldplay, to name but a few – composed several film scores not to mention the start-up theme for Microsoft’s Windows 95. All of which is to say that it is hard to not be in earshot of his musical influence in one way or another. With mono.kultur, Brian Eno talked about the impact of technology on culture, the similarities between producing music and parenting, and why they called Elvis ‘The Pelvis’. Given Brian Eno’s interest in how art can affect moods and emotions, our new issue turned into somewhat of an experiment in chromatics, with the pages gradually traveling the entire colour spectrum from yellow to blue and back again, which not only affects the optical perception of the yellow text, but also how one responds to the content of the interview. Suffice to say: this must certainly rank as the most colourful mono.kultur to date.
Text von der Website. Namen Brian EnoSprache EnglischStichwort Chromatik / Farbe / Farbspektrum / Interview / Musik / Portrait / Prisma / Regenbogen / zeitgenössische KunstWEB www.mono-kultur.com
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von Rabenau Kai, Hrsg. MONO.KULTUR #32 Martino Gamper - All Channels PersonalBerlin ( Deutschland): mono.kultur, 2012( Zeitschrift, Magazin / Heft) 56 S., 20x15 cm, ISBN/ISSN 1861-7085 Techn. Angaben Drei Hefte in verschiedener Größe broschiert, mit Drahtheftung ZusatzInformation Martino Gamper is the kind of product designer we all have been waiting for: Brimming with ideas, energy and humour, his designs are disarmingly irreverent and irresistibly fun, and unlike anything one will see in the puristic galleries of contemporary design. Crossing over from studying sculpture to completing an MA in product design at the prestigious Royal College of Art under Ron Arad, Gamper has had little time to worry over the theoretical do’s and don’t’s of his profession – instead, he has followed a simple rule of learning by doing, meaning: the more you do, the more you learn. With mono.kultur, Martino Gamper talked about his idea of fun, why a chair is the ultimate challenge and what design has in common with cooking. Visually, the issue is bursting with references and ideas, reclaiming image material from left and right, while unveiling the structure of a book with three booklets of different sizes all lovingly assembled into one – and manually at that, which makes for some rough edges or rather what we like to call extra personality.
Text von der Website. Namen Martino GamperSprache EnglischStichwort Design / Interview / Möbel / zeitgenössische Kunst WEB https://mai.art/WEB www.mono-kultur.com
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von Rabenau Kai, Hrsg. MONO.KULTUR #35 Marina Abramovic - Army of MeBerlin ( Deutschland): mono.kultur, 2013( Zeitschrift, Magazin / Heft) 48 S., 20x15 cm, ISBN/ISSN 1861-7085 Techn. Angaben Drahtheftung ZusatzInformation Frequently using her own body as a starting point, she has subjected herself to ordeals testing physical and psychological boundaries, as she did most famously during the 736 hour-performance The Artist Is Present, where visitors were invited during the course of her large retrospective to sit opposite Abramović. and share a silent but intense contact that often caused a highly emotional response – an act that in its very simplicity can be seen as a radical culmination of a 40 year-process of reduction and concentration.In a satisfyingly confrontational and open conversation, Marina Abramović. talked with mono.kultur about the nature of invisible energy, the many criticisms she has been facing and what cosmetic surgery has to do with art. Graphically, the issue is an exercise in friction and restraint, by setting up the three elements of text, images and subtitles on different grids and letting chance run its course. All works were selected by Marina Abramović. as personal milestones in her career.
Text von der Website. Namen Marina AbramovicSprache EnglischStichwort 1970er / 1980er / 1990er / Feminismus / Interview / Körper / Performance / zeitgenössische Kunst WEB https://mai.art/WEB www.mono-kultur.com
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von Rabenau Kai, Hrsg. MONO.KULTUR #31 Michael Borremans - Shades of DoubtBerlin ( Deutschland): mono.kultur, 2012( Zeitschrift, Magazin / Heft) 48 S., 20x15 cm, ISBN/ISSN 1861-7085 Techn. Angaben Drahtheftung ZusatzInformation When Belgian artist Michaël Borremans first presented his paintings to the world at the tender age of 37, he immediately caused a stir in the art scene. His realistic yet mysterious figurative images subtly draw one to the centre of a question which remains permanently unspoken. Through the combination of his immaculate painting techniques, using muted tones and classic compositions, and the puzzling scenarios that are at the heart of his work, the artist brings together both: melancholy and humour. With mono.kultur, Michaël Borremans talked about the mystery at the heart of painting and life in general, his commission for the Belgian Queen, and why he needs to wear his Sunday suit when he goes to work. The issue features a whopping 20 plates of Michaël Borremans' paintings, all printed in lifesize scale, allowing you to examine the technical mastery behind his work in breathtaking detail.
Text von der Website. Namen Michael BorremansSprache EnglischStichwort Farbe / Interview / Malerei / Portrait / zeitgenössische KunstWEB www.mono-kultur.com
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von Rabenau Kai, Hrsg. MONO.KULTUR #33 Kim Gordon - Dissonatine. I hope that it still retains a certain wrongness.Berlin ( Deutschland): mono.kultur, 2013( Zeitschrift, Magazin) 20x15,2 cm, ISBN/ISSN 1861-7085 Techn. Angaben ., alle Blätter lose ineinander gelegt, Karten, Schutzumschlag aus gefaltetem Plakat ZusatzInformation Sonic Youth, of course, created a legacy of musical innovation. Thriving on the playgrounds of noise music for more than three decades, they stoically pursued their own particularly dirty blend of noise-punk experimental rock music, building along the way not only a league of dedicated followers, but also miraculously achieving mainstream success without ever ceding ground to mediocrity. If anything, Sonic Youth became a household name for integrity and that specific kind of cool in a genre where cool is firmly attached to youth – which certainly had a lot to do with the unfailing detached charisma of Kim Gordon, who brought a certain glamour to her male counterparts, Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore.
Text von der Webseite Namen Kim Gordon / Lee Ranaldo / Thurston MooreSprache EnglischStichwort Musik / Noise / PunkWEB www.mono-kultur.com
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