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Last Issue: #31 The Journey
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...Read more
Soma in Berlin. When Rudolph, the red nosed reindeer became a drugdealer…
-> Soma in Berlin. When Rudolph, the red nosed reindeer became a drugdealer…A scientist who is also one of the most prominent contemporary artists in the world, an experiment which crosses the borders of science by landing in the realm of art. This is SOMA, the successful exhibition by Carsten Höller hosted at the Hamburger Bahnhof (Museum für Gegenwart) in Berlin. What a perfect start, I thought, for my first blog se...
continue..2011: let´s celebrate the 10th anniversary of illywords!
-> 2011: let´s celebrate the 10th anniversary of illywords!2011 is a milestone for illywords. This year we are having the tenth anniversary of the magazine and we would like to warmly celebrate it on our illywords blog which is young but nevertheless able to reach a wide group of friends. To keep track of some illywords’ thoughts of the past ten years, we came up with the idea of developing in our blog ...
continue..The laboratory of surprises
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseThe Städelschule is an experimental school in the sense that we are interested in probing the very boundaries of what an educational institution can be. The filmmaker Peter Kubelka’s activities in the 1990s involving music and food (and even live animals from a circus) are legendary. A more recent example we can remember Gasthof (2002), a one-w...
continue..Experimentation, creation, art
Magazine -> #1 Timetables and scoreboardsExperimentation, innovation and creation are everything. Such a statement presents a comprehensive basis for things which we encounter in our everyday life, which people belonging to various cultures and classes all around the world meet in their everyday life. The relationship between content and form, and the aesthetic disunity of an ordinary da...
continue..Creative battles
Magazine -> #0 Experimentation and innovationIn Coppola's Apocalypse Now, when searching the jungle for the maverick commander Kurts, the man sent to hunt him down describes a brilliant mission Kurtz had led, "He just thought it up and did it. They were going to get him framed to the floorboards for that one until the press got hold it and promoted him to Colonel." The spirit of creative b...
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