Christmas in London
EAT. is the name of a chain restaurant in London. It sounds like an order. According to A., it's a remainder of the aggressive aesthetics of the nineties. At the Southbank we visit the ABBA exhibit…
Read moreMy Latest Reading Experiences, from St George Bookshop to WhatsApp
I'm at Saint George English Bookshop and see a book about Russian avant-garde in fiction. P. tells me he's reading a new book about Eastern Europe. "It's really good but also super sp…
Read moreDiary of my HIAP Residency in Helsinki, November 2017
First snowman of the year! Day 1 “I had the best Russian food in Helsinki,” a friend from Belgium writes me in an email. I’m wondering if it’s inappropriate to say so about a country that has be…
Read moreThe Laughter of Naomi Klein
Yesterday I listened to an interview with Naomi Klein on BBC4 radio. She was great, and she had a beautiful laugh that she laughed a lot. After a while the interviewer asked her what she did for fu…
Read moreSex d'Ameublement: 桃色/ the color of peaches by Hiroshi McDonald Mori
In Helsinki I drink kahvi. It’s the cheapest drink, only 2 euros with a refill included. I once had a refill, trying to make the most out of my 2 euros. My heart trembled on my way home. Finnish coffe…
Read moreArt Students in Helsinki
Photo by fellow HIAP resident artists Gil & Moti Gallery hopping night is on Thursdays in Helsinki. For a calm and cold city, the art scene is quite happening. We manage to see four openings and …
Read moreTravel Essay from Tirana, Albania
Entering Tirana with a cab, I’m looking for the houses that were painted by Edi Rama, the former artist mayor of Tirana who’s now Albania’s prime minister. That’s how I know about Tirana in the first plac…
Read moreSunday Common des Famous Dumm Talk
"It makes no sense", laughs the artist who's carrying the hat. “It uses the strategies of contemporary art but it’s not contemporary art,” so the gallerist. “When my eyes are open,…
Read moreWeather and Art Report from Iceland
I landed in Iceland with WOW-Air. The captain announced that we arrived twenty minutes ahead of time. In the WOW-Air magazine they warned tourists not to write their name in moss and not to hunt sheep. …
Read moreAGB Open Sunday Part 4: Aphorisms, Cornering and Späti-Saufen
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October 28, 2017By
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Aphorisms are a great way to stretch the brain , to think big, like universe- and humanity-big. They're also called "street poetry" or "literature's handluggage." Last Sunda…
Read moreAGB Open Sunday Nr. 3: Flash Stories or How To Think Of Things
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October 19, 2017By
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Flash fiction is a bit like poetry. It acquires a mindset that is alert to things. "Do not dream of influencing other people," Virginia Woolf wrote in A Room of One's Own , "Think …
Read morePreis der Nationalgalerie, Female Panels, and Who's gonna Win?
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October 13, 2017By
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Panel at Me Collection for the exhibition Portrait of a Nation I always brace myself before I go to the talk of the Preis der Nationalgalerie, which happens every two years. I know that the sound wil…
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