Invitation to the GRAFTWORLD opening

GRAFTWORLD
Scenographic Architecture

transcending mental and formal boundaries is the response of Lars Krückeberg (whom we met in Beijing), Wolfram Putz,Thomas Willemeit and Gregor Hoheisel to constant change in a contemporary dynamic society.

founded in 1998 in Los Angeles as the label GRAFT for ‘architecture,design, music and the pursuit of happiness‘ ,their exhibition installation is a visualization of an exemplary design and communication process that transforms all traditional categories of furniture, architecture and urban environment into one continuous landscape. the working methods of GRAFT unite semantic, syntactic and phenomenological aspects; their buildings are distinguished by scenographic elements of film with space-time references, a farreaching constructional research in cooperation with diverse companies as well as an intense dialog with clients. the interactive exhibition lounge GRAFTWORLD integrates projects that were created in the GRAFT studios in Berlin, Beijing and Los Angeles and range between hotels in Tiflis and Vancouver, resorts in the caribbean, villas in Berlin and Mallorca and not to mention Brad Pitt´s guesthouse&studios in LA.




saturday 20.01.2006 18.30 Aedes am Pfefferberg Berlin

welcome:
Kristin Feireiss, Berlin
Klaus Wowereit, Regierender Bürgermeister von Berlin
Andreas Ruby, Architekturtheoretiker


exhibition/ 20.01. - 01.03. 2007

opening hours
Tue - Fri 11 - 18.30 / Sat - Sun 13 -17

Aedes am Pfefferberg
Christinenstraße 18 – 19 / 10119 Berlin

*a catalogue will be published.





einladung zur eröffnung von GRAFTWORLD

mit der entgrenzung im kopf und in der form reagieren Lars Krückeberg (dem wir in Beijing getroffen haben), Wolfram Putz, Thomas Willemeit und Gregor Hoheisel auf den wandel einer gegenwärtigen dynamisierten gesellschaft. die ausstellungsinstallation des 1998 in Los Angeles gegründeten labels GRAFT für ‘architektur, design, musik und the pursuit of happiness’ ist die visualisierung eines beispielhaften gestaltungs- und kommunikationsprozesses, in dem alle maßstäbe von mobiliar über architektur bis hin zur städtebaulichen dimension miteinander verbunden werden in der arbeitsweise von GRAFT verschmelzen semantische, syntaktische und phänomenologische aspekte, ihre bauten sind geprägt durch raum-zeitliche szenografische elemente des films, eine weit reichende bautechnische forschung mit unterschiedlichen unternehmen
sowie durch einen intensiven dialog mit den bauherren. In der interaktiven ausstellungs-lounge GRAFTWORLD sind die projekte, die in den GRAFT - studios in Berlin, Beijing und Los Angeles entstanden sind, integriert und reichen von hotels in Tiflis und Vancouver, über resorts in der Karibik bis hin zu villen in Berlin und Mallorca.

2006: PLATOON.review

we posted 160 blog entries in 2006. many things happened! here is a brief review of the most important PLATOON.operations in 2006:

february: etoy.corporation leaves the PLATOON.host
the international art-collective arrived with their container in summer 2005 (movie). during these last 8 month we had a lot of fun but also a lot of exchange of ideas and we made friends!

within their general meeting here in berlin and afterwards they worked a lot on mission eternity (a death cult for the information age)

here is a small movie of their departure.







march: the minimum wage campaign
PLATOON developed and realized this nation-wide campaign for the german trade union ver.di.
within this campaign we developed internet communication via weblogs and a special form of street protest.

this campaign is still going on and we have to work on it also in 2007.






may: confidential CIA.prison detected
next to our area in berlin-mitte walter gitmo offered public tours thru a former CIA.prison for terrorists. this theater play hosted by PLATOON irritated a lot of people!























june: the world cup @ PLATOON.area
maybe the most exhausting operation PLATOON realized during the last 7 years! we built an arena for almost 500 people around our pool and placed a monster LED-panel for the members of our club. within few days our place was overwhelmed by people who wanted to join the club. for 4 weeks we had a 24/7 operation in providing drinks, food, fun and security. every evening there was a never ending party for this hot summer spectacle. thank you all again for making this happen!

short movie of world cup @ PLATOON





july: pecha kucha @ PLATOON
we hosted our first pecha kucha event on the PLATOON.area. a fast and furious presentation panel: each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each - giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. this keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show their work.














soni riot
PLATOON.anna presented her 6-months-work-diploma 'soni riot'. PLATOON oversaw her work as a second corrector. the result: a hard rocking vj-act!











pool saison
after the world cup the summer arrived again and we started the pool saison for the people around us. the pool was open to the public 6 days a week.



























the end of the summer festival
PLATOON.marcello ended his internship with a music-festival-project. he worked out a big line-up of bands and organized the whole event. thank you!






















october: PLATOON.asia
after our first secret trip in april 2006 (we didn't post any entries about it) to seoul/korea we had a second 3 week trip to hong kong: entry 1 . 2 . 3 / beijing: entry 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 / seoul: entry 1 . 2 . because of an invitation of adidas asia/pacific we researched some facts and developed some ideas for them. we will see what will happen in 2007 ;-)) but we are sure: there will be a second PLATOON in seoul soon! stay tuned!

























november: hugo boss prize, new york
after the asia trip we had to fly immediately to new york for another operation. we did the video-documentation for the biannual art prize at the guggenheim museum. we made several interviews and trailers for the hugo boss website. the challenge was to create a serious and art related documentation and edit it within hours.
















december: recover for 2007
after this rocking and exhausting year we just made our upcoming plans for 2007.
what will we do in real life?
what will we do in asia?
what will we do in second life?
how will we survive the next party?

thank all of you for escorting us within this blog and supporting our ideas worldwide.

stay tuned for the next operations!

A BOOK ABOUT THE HOOD

in summer a photographer asked us to take a picture of tom and me and the PLATOON.area.. today he and angelina from berlin story publishing presented the result to us: a book about our neighbourhood, schönhauser strasse

a realy nice book about a nice area and it's people! see some pictures..

the name of the photographer: stefan maria rother:

“Berlin is a city to discover. To show the greatness of this city, my photographic expedition concentrates on the small things, the streets, the people and their places.
Berlin is a city of changes. At the beginning of the 1990s you could find cool clubs in the Alte and Neue Schönhauser – the in-crowd dominated the area. Today, the street thrives on this legend. The Schönhauser is everchanging, a balancing act between shop windows of global fashion companies and passionate people with dreams.

Berlin is the city of its people, and maybe one needs to look at the faces of this city to give Berlin a face.”

here you can order it!

Marc Brinkmeier: photographer & worldwide adventurer

Marc B Fosten , Platoon´s highest agent, and im not just referring to his rank here but especially to his actual physical size... had some of his extraordinary pictures featured yesterday by South Africa´s Sunday Times, with an alleged article about his experience with the children of Rainbow United, a football club based in one of Cape Town´s poorest area.







Marc has been traveling widely during the past few years, his compelling desire to capture some very human epiphanies within different cultures, kept feeding his unsatiable curiosity about human social relationships, conditions and the corresponding factors making different cultures closer rather then spread afar in a set of wrong and disputable assumptions. you have to go there to see with your own eyes....









with projects taking him from South Africa. Congo, Namibia, or places as different as Russia and Bangladesh; Fosten is surely a man constantly on the go...well, sometimes I wonder how he manages to keep his pace...here and then, in between his projects, we are glad to see him coming back to the headquarters here in the container, although it must be said he´s a freelancer and works totally independent on his own.











some of you might remember him from the World Cup times during the summer....or at the Pecha Kucha night here in PLATOON...


* the german speaking can also enjoy this podcast










Well, he surely doesnt pass unnoticed...
With his tiny pink slips stretched to the limits like he was a little boy and somehow drunk a magic potion that in a matter of seconds made him grow into an incredible giant.











so „Fäustchen“ to you mein lieber...






















*„Fäustchen“ being the PLATOON Salute...
fist against fist then bouncing against your heart... like sharing energies...and if it doesn´t make any sense to you, nevermind,,, who knows...knows.



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