A commercial wholetrain, with an adhesive design of the urban artist Shepard ‘Obey’ Fairey, who recycles socialist movement graphics from the past for his succesful imagery. “Unstoppable”: The powerful arrogance of urban art in …
Between all the content and all the critique and all the performativity and transmediality, between the comfort and discomfort, the noise and the tension, two experiences may serve very well to illustrate Transmediale festival 2018 in Berlin. There was…
This Saturday the rave scientist Lukas Fakegruber of the Shituationist Institute will hold a seminar about the emancipatory potentials of club culture: Reclaim your Club Reclaim Club Culture is a network reflecting on the conditions of hosting raves, a…
We have said it before, the app cult has to be stopped. So how is the current discussion about facebook data breaches connected to this? To summ up the privacy problem of social media: Users give access to their data and to the data of their “fri…
After Artistic value in digital communication (2016), here’s a new essay over at Shades Magazine on value in the digital sphere, on the economy of the free* services (*paid for by the digital labour performed by the users). Excerpt: how to organi…
We are in LA for an investigation of the plaque tournante that this city is, freeway fearology and hermetic non-derive with the uberiat, historiography: number 19 at Langer’s in the territory of the 18th st gang, and next the spraypaint capsule f…
At the Chaos Communication Congress we did a session with WiseUp. It was part of the program of Reclaim Club Culture in the 1Komona assembly. The title was “Sound radicality and club communality”. We recorded it, you can stream it here: We also produce…
Shituationist Institute and WiseUp did a session together at the Chaos Communication Congress #34C3. It was part of the program of Reclaim Club Culture in the 1Komona assembly. The title was “Sound radicality and club communality”. We recor…
Dear Shituationists, 9 years ago, in October of 2008 we created the Shituationist Institute, an ultra-negative think tank and dance formation. Our central concern is the rave continuum, and how its potentials survive in contemporary club scenes and irr…
Nicolas Moulin – Vider Paris, 2001 (via) The situationist idea to let old city structures like the labyrinths of Amsterdam grow into superstructures across the whole planet with psychogeographic zones according to the needs of the inhabitants (titled “New Babylon”) was defeated by european cities being a collage of old and new. The old often…
The announcement of this sunday’s Europool event by Creamcake provides insights into culture politics and funding terminology related to the cultural sector of Berlin today. Creamcake is a popular party series that has taken place in Südblock and later Ohm, featuring musicians connected to the digital sphere, which also has organised an art festival last…
End of march exhibitions, presentations, sounds, places: Chto Delat exhibition is still on at KOW Gallery Florence Jung at Edmund Felson until the 25th Achim Szepanski/Andrzej Steinbach book presentation Ultrablack of Music 29th at Echo Books Long Now in Kraftwerk Berlin 25th-26th 28th Dead Ladies Show 23rd+24th Säule Opening at Berghain yours, Filed under:…
