Pecha Kucha Vol.10

nonsense, of course not 10 years Pecha Kucha. but the 10th Pecha Kucha evening in Berlin!

as always,12-14 eminent speakers present their ideas and their work while scrupulously abiding by the Pecha Kucha format: 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds. a presentation lasts 6 minutes 40 seconds – enough time to explain one’s personal work approach while getting the basic message across and keeping the audience on its toes.

Anke Hoffmann will be supporting the event as guest curator:

"Anke Hoffmann, producing culture between content and form, from Berlin with learning years in London and Karlsruhe, stations at transmediale, ZKM, art+com and among other things work as a free curator at RealismusStudio, NBGK."

# Vera Tollmann (Author and curator / What you should know (the future)
# Maria Mohr (Filmmaker/ Holy in 3 steps)
# Anja Schwanhäuser (Ethnologist / Horse Art – Activist of No Hoof - No Groove!)
# Wedding (magazine)
# Tom Solo (Photographer / Around the world on a private plane)
# Stefan Liske (berlin.unlike / Cityguide for the mobile generation)
# Lemke Kraan (Biologist / Anti-Panda Campaign)
# Cardoso (Pecha Kucha Porto Alegre, via Skype)

Brunnenstraße 64 / Close to U-Bahnhof Bernauer Straße or Voltastraße
Start 20:20 h / Doors open 19:30 / Entry: EUR 5,-

linked via PechaKucha

PLATOON presents Trolleybooks

following the wave of new recruits we had after the opening day, we are really glad to invite you to another recruitment.session here at PLATOON.


for the occasion we´ll have a slideshow evening organized and presented by Gigi Giannuzzi, publisher and director of Trolleybooks, an independent publishing house specialized in social documentary and photo-journalism, who will present some of his latest publications here at PLATOON.


Trolleybooks has been often described as guerrilla style reportage bordering with contemporary art. a description really fitting PLATOON´s tradition of culturally involved events.


it´ll be a special evening presenting the latest Trolley slideshows of new and forthcoming books, featuring:


‘A Million Shillings - Escape from Somalia’ by Alixandra Fazzina

and ‘Delta Nigeria - the Rape of Paradise’ by George Osodi.


with a book signing and exhibition of photographs from 'Shelter' by Lucky Michaels.



here some more info about Trolleybooks





Wednesday 30th July 2008
start around 7:30 - 9pm
(slideshows as soon as it gets dark!)
admission free -
please send us a confirmation email to be on the guestlist!

Southwark LIDO - London´s urban baths

the Temporary Architecture fever is hitting London as well. for this week-end only, you can enjoy having a roman bath & sauna at Southwark Lido in London, a project by french architectural collective EXYZT. The temporary public bath was commissioned by the Architecture Foundation for the London Festival of Architecture.

the theme of urban regeneration through community interaction is something we support as well... afterall it is one of the reasons why we have been featured at the BLN/NYC dialogues last year.

also the construction is somehow very familiar to us...it almost feels like home. maybe for the fact that EXYZT also used layher-system, although in their own very creative way. or maybe it is for that Badeschiff flair...


however we love this project, it works so well in London´s urban setting under the tube´s bridge!(pics)
it turns out to be quite surreal to have a sauna and lay in the sun in this post industrial background.

EXYZT are quite familiar with Berlin´s architectural scene....in 2005 they joined forces with raumlabor in the temporary hotel project „der Berg“ at the former Palast der Republik, which now, unfortunately, is being dismantled.

so, if any of you EXYZT guys are ever in Berlin again, dont forget to come around for a chat here at PLATOON.















watch this video about „der Berg“

CHESSBOXING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2008 BERLIN

CHESSBOXING: last phase of the countdown.
Chessboxing World Champion 'Anti Terror' Frank Stoldt and challenger Nikolay 'The Chairman' Sazhin are in final preparations for 5 July title showdown. Both are performing their last sparrings. In only 2 days the title of the chessboxing crown will either be defended by Frank Stoldt or conquered by the young Russian.

British battle machine Andrew 'The Rock' Costello and Italy's Gianluca 'Il Dottore' Sirci meet in a thrilling heavyweight contest.
At 1,87m tall Gianluca 'Il Dottore' Sirci weighs 120Kg but is in a class of its own when it comes to ecotoxicology. As director of a biochemical laboratory he knows how to deal with dangerous matters. He finished third at the Kung Fu World Cup in 2001, is a triple Italian university-boxing champion and became a pro-boxer in 2005. Furthermore 'Il Dottore' is a master of the Chinese chess variant Xiangqi.
Exeter's Andrew 'The Rock' Costello can look back on past encounters in various disciplines including wrestling, Muay Thai, kickboxing and free-fighting. In his younger days he was considered a future chess champion before quitting the sport prematurely at the age of 14. With the inauguration of the London ChessBoxing Club this year he rediscovered the 'game of the kings'. He is 1,88m tall, weights 95Kg and has an ELO-Rating of 2010.

In the evenings first undercard fight Piotr Pukos faces Sascha Wandkowsky.
Piotr Pukos has just completed his degree in mathematics in Lublin, Poland. He is 1,74m tall and weights 73Kg. His ELO is 2000.
Sascha Wandkowsky from Berlin, is 1,81m tall, weights 1,75Kg. His ELO rating is 1760.

After-Fight-Party will set the ring on fire.
Before the main fight Berlin's hottest property in the underground music scene Warren Suicide will set the ring on fire. After the fights DJ DSL from Austria will rock the after fight party. This exciting music and show programm is supported by Motor FM.

Only few tickets are available.
you better hurry if you want to get one!!!

check here for more chessboxing posts via PLATOON



UPDATE

here a CNN report from the fight:

nede - performance and installation

a refreshing breeze of perfomances is storming Berlin these days. a special squad from the italian art collective CERCLE, will in fact present nedE – an incredible performance and art installation at BROTFABRIK on thursday 26th of june.

CERCLE is an art collective composed by several professional artist coming from different areas within the arts sphere... among others: theatre, fine arts, architecture and design.

their performances, installations and videos are produced through an interdisciplinary dialog between international artists, making their projects always unpredictable and in constant flux.

they are now approaching Berlin to find like-minded artists to join them in their participatory project concept, which dismantles the very idea of an enclosed theatre ensemble, making the production of their works a collaboratory process involving artists independently from their location.

at the moment they are based at cultural association IBIS in Nettuno, a beautiful seaside town near Rome where they also organise the art festival RIFRAZIONI.

for the occasion, sculptress & fine artist Roberta Sanges is creating a sound sculpture made of old DDR scrap material found at an abandoned site near RAW temple...and is developing some of its parts here at PLATOON.

actress Livia Caputo and actors Stefano Rana and Giorgio Carugno will take on the performance side, directed by very talented Director Souphien Amiar.

we warmly advise you to go and see the performance...besides the installation will be running the whole day, with performances starting irregularly in the evening.

nedE – performance and installation
inspired by the poem „the waste land“ by T.S Elliot.

PREMIERE: 26th of june 20:00

Performances on the 27./28./29. June
And 3./4. July
always starting at 20:00 at BROTFABRIK

Pecha Kucha Vol.9 - Kreuzberg Special

No Soccer on Monday, June 23rd, but Pecha Kucha instead!

after several locations in Prenzlauerberg and Mitte, we are finally taking on Kreuzberg! We have convinced Anna Krenz,founder of Gallery Zero on Köpenicker Straße, to be guest curator for this event...

and here is the list of speakers so far (subject to change):

* Cäthe Pfläging (Amt für Gestaltung / about girls and motorbikes)
* Jonny Coleman (Found Gallery / Joint Custody Project)
* David Selden (writer / The Invisible Kiez)
* Thomas Janze (Producer, director / The Science of Horror)
* Christiane ten Hoevel (artist / Covers of books that still need to be written)
* Nicky Szmala, Raul Krauthausen (SOZIALHELDEN / The Ring-S-Bahn as office, talkshow studio and gameshow environment)
* Stefan Riekeles (Les Jardins des Pilotes / Moosismus - Topologie der Moose)
* Dietmar Post (Regisseur / Entstehung des Films 'The Monks')
* Tanja Dückers (Schriftstellerin / "Reise nach Transnistrien. Bericht aus einem Land, das es nicht gibt")
* Frank Stoldt (Policeman, Chessboxer / about the Chessboxing Worldchampionship 2008)

more candidates coming soon...

Pecha Kucha Vol.9 - Kreuzberg Special
Festsaal Kreuzberg / Skalitzer Straße 130 / Close to U-Bahnhof Kottbusser Tor
Start 20:20 h / Doors open 19:30 / Entry: EUR 5,-

EURO2008 UEFA CHAMPIONSHIP

just because of some internal discussions here in PLATOON.berlin i have to remind what soccer originaly looks like in the tradition of austrian teams. so: let's look foreward to the game on 16th of june.

KOREA vs EUROPE

these days is getting extremely hot and it´s quite nice to hop around from one vernissage to the other...so here a little tip to start the weekend.


very talented South Korean artist Yong-Ho Cha, invites you to explore his oneiric paintings at the vernissage of his new exhibition KOREA vs EUROPE at miope gallery on friday the 6th of june at 19:00.


miope gallery, muskauerstr.47 - Kreuzberg