Architectures of Survival

Spring is here ! After a cup of coffee on this nice and warm Sunday afternoon philipp and me headed over to sparwasser hq who were hosting 'Architectures of Survival' until yesterday, an exhibition curated by Brussel based collective Komplot.










After some explanations and chit chat with the curators, we strolled around in the rooms. Besides some smaller pieces of art, the results of a play-dooh explosion covering the whole room proves the open and process-oriented approach of the gallery. We like it !














A little later romanian architects ‚StudioBasar’ gave a really interesting lecture about legal housing evictions in Bucharest. (they promised to send some more pictures)

Since the fall of communism in Romania the law enables pre-communist house owners to reclaim their former property.

StudioBasars public proposal „Evicting the Ghost“ documents how law forces citizens, that moved in during communism, to evacuate their houses in order to return them to the former owners.

As a consequence and a form of protest, affected inhabitants move in so called „ghost houses“ - stacks of furniture wrapped in foil - on the sidewalks directly in front of their former domicile.

It’s quite impressive how they manage to handle this situation and improve the temporary „houses“ over time.










































Artist Yan Renand works with different objects and creates a process of transformation by mixing painting, food and growing vegetation in plastic bags. He spent most of this evening in doing a “knitting” performance in which he created small objects made by strings.

























In the basement of Sparwasser hq we found some interesting video works by Christine Woditschka , Meiya Lin and David Blandy which gave us reason to discuss our different tastes of visual art.

On top of all that, chatting with interesting people and drinking a beer in comfortable atmosphere, made it a really nice evening.

german finance minister

peer steinbrueck was a rapper. who has known that....


but it´s certanly pathetic...

korean typical traditional opening ceremony ...

Friday! 2weeks ago ~ we met my dj friend sunny on the street in itaewon and she dragged us to her new club (very very tiny but cool^^) before open ceremony.....Tom fed some money in to a smiling big pig's ear woo~hahahahahahahaha~^^*
this ceremony is a very common thing in korea , no matter what religion you have-the pig is such a big symbol of luck and money in korea, maybe japan and china also.
If you dreamed about a pig then for sure go buy lotto!!! GOOD LUCK to you all.
Maybe PLATOON needs to prepare one for our opening hehehe...^^*

marc brinkmeier

our friend, marc brinkmeier called fosten, has get a price -in the rubric reportage-, of the big publisher gruner+jahr who edit the magazine stern and other known magazines . they attached importance for good photographers. marc´s series was titled "pictures lest we forget".










othertimes he shoots for PLATOON the exhibition-photos poor in spide of work

all of PLATOON would like to congratulate him.
Yipee fosten!!!!!

CONTAINER SITE IN KOREA #1.

Action!!! that sound worked already~
now it looks like real business is going on yeah~~!! seriously~!!



































































they are very fast.
exciting!!!











to be continued...

PUMA Concept store exhibition.

Remember the korean T-artist soo who had a exhibition before in seoul. you can find an previous entry on the PLATOON blog.
So here we go! he organized a Puma shoe exhibition last weekend in apgujeong-dong, Gang nam area. also jiwon baik, our interior designer and architect from the Korean side, exhibited a piece there too hehehe^^.























this is T-artist soo's work.

































Anna ~~this is for you ...we all thought you will be interested.^^

































taraaaa~~~it's from our architect jiwon, yeah~~!!
















PLATOON!!! wherever we are - so coooooooool~~~~i love it so~~~hhhhhh.
















looks good on him yeah?





















it was a very cheap arrangement for drinks tho....you all know how we drinking?#$%*^^.(in the end we had to get beer ourselves)...but we had good time and enjoyed.^^
here is more art work^^.
danke dir~~!!!

The milestone to KUNSTHALLE with graft in seoul korea!!!

Here we are!!! GRAFT architecture and PLATOON got together for planning the huge project "KUNSTHALLE in seoul, korea"~~!!!
we (Chris, Gregor Hoheisel, Tom, Christoph and Jiwon) discussed for hours and hours about how we will build up 30 containers in the middle of the big future art area cheongdam dong.












playing with small sized containers .......


our KUNSTHALLE project will be launched in september along with the PLATOON project.
we got all excited about every small working step today. finally the very important step of design has been done – and the action will last for many days from now on!
we will keep on updating.......sooooooo do not turn your eyes off of us! you might miss something big yo! yo!yo~~!^^.
















side of KUNSTHALLE.

















OUR ROOF TOP-lovely terrace^^*














front of KUNSTHALLE!!!
Auf Wiedersehen~!

ai's new video - waterboarding!

The italian newspaper "Corriere della Sera" has published a new video produced by amnesty international this week.

The video deals with the torture procedure called "waterboarding" - an interrogation method which got popular during examinations by the CIA, questioning Al Kaida suspects after 9/11.

Simulated drowning seems to be highly effective during such interrogations and mainly that's the reason, why president Bush has defended this method recently in the public.

Take a look at amnesty's perspective on this topic - an impression of how horrible this treatment may be.