EXHIBITION TAKAHIRO SUZUKI: IKIRO - BE ALIVE

on thuesday at künstlerhaus bethanien starts an impressive exhibition of takahiro suzuki , a japanese artist.

suzuki studied at the university of arts in tokyo, afterwards he worked in new york. at the moment he is servitor at the künstlerhaus bethanien in berlin.




IKIRO - be alive

opening
march 29, 19.00

exhibition
march 30 - april 15








since ten years suzuki works on his project IKIRO. day by day he writes the word IKIRO ("lebe!") in different contexts, on different public places and in diverse museums in the whole world, like galleries in new york or temples in nepal.

by now, suzuki declares the IKIRO-project to his life-project, so the project will end with the death of the artist.









suzuki also always includes in his IKIRO-performances the different characters of the diverse places and locations. beside his works, at the exhibition in berlin he also shows a documentation of the bethanien-building's history, which he made in an extensive recherche.

nearly every day suzuki will be personally at the exhibition and you can watch him writing IKIRO in chinese letters on rice-paper to finish his work day by day...

LITTLE PEOPLE - A TINY STREET ART PROJECT

the british blogger slinkachu starts a funny street project. he puts his little tiny figures in london on different places and photographs them.












those figures are placed in everyday-situations: on the underground, in the bus, on a street corner, or just on the street, ...














slinkachu wants to find out, if those little people get attention in their discret presence from people. his work aims to emphasize todays society and it conveys the feelings of lonliness, isolation and also the anonymity in a metroplis like london.













also, check out slinkachu's comic work a world of birds.

lovely stuff!!

One Night in Beijing!

hello everybody out there,







































last week i had a nice meeting with codec from the pfadfinderei in beijing.









a few weeks ago neebing from old town beijing asked us if we were interested in a new hotel-project.











so they invited us to come over to have a meeting with the client an everybody who is involved in the project.













































from the first moment we thought about graft as a partner for the interiour-design or rather as an architect´s office.






we asked them and they confirmed it. so i flew over from seoul to beijing and met them allready. it´s a really nice project. let´s see.... more later;-)























it was super funny with gregor and codec. we had a lot of fun and interesting talks.




















































and we met the manager from "the place". a brand new shopping-mall with a huge led-screen about a 250 meter length. really massive.....


and now they are looking for the right content.;-) it look´s like that is the real playground for the pfadfinderei.......




















the last night codec and me went out to have a look to the beijing-clubscene witch we allready scanned in october last year.







and factual we met a guy who looked really tall beside codec.;-) it was the doorman from the club.




it was a funny night. at the end i missed my flight in the morning and changed me schedule so codec and me catched a taxi to the airport together. allready arrived at the airport the nightmare for me started. i lost all me documents in the taxi. passport, visa, tickets, money, everything.


i reconised it immediately and started a fast run behind the taxi to catch it. but it was to late. so all my stuff was gone. thank god that codec got the receipt from the taxi.

so i went to the policestation and at least it takes 30 minutes and all stuff arrived back at the airport. what a shock.... there is one thing i learned from this story: if you are in that kind of trouble, don´t hesitate to go to the police. they have so much power in china. it´s amazing.




thank´s again to neebing. he really hosted us well in beijing and it seems like this is the begining of a great friendship.

in the meantime i arrived well back in seoul.

more about seoul in the next days. it is great to be back here, super hosting, meeting many famous people here and we are looking forward about what´s happend in the future.

stay tuned......

LUCKY TRIMMER FESTIVAL #10

there's another great event this weekend:

interventionen at LUCKY TRIMMER FESTIVAL #10



arthouse tacheles
march 10. + 11.
always at 19.00 + 21.00

oranienburger str. 54 - 56a
10117 berlin - mitte
1. stock - goldener saal



LUCKY TRIMMER is a new kind of presentation for contemporary dance. the point is to give as many berlin choreographs as possible a regular and gratuitous platform for their ideas. the visitors get impressions of the exciting variety of the local dance-performances. the casual show-atmosphere makes it easy to get in contact with contemporary dance and the artists. LUCKY TRIMMER contributes to establish a dance community in berlin, but it pursues no commercial interests.

it costs 8 € and you can reservate at 030 - 28 23 130 or tickets@luckytrimmer.de

come around, look and permit interventions ...

RECORD RELEASE PARTY

get the party started ... BodiBill presents his new album!

a reason to celebrate at

103CLUB friday, march 9, 23.00
(falkensteinstr. 47, berlin - kreuzberg)

line-up
23.30 TimTim - live (bpitch)
00.30 BodiBill - live (sinnbus)
01.45 The Aim of Design - live (hobby deluxe)
03.00 KrsnSkate DJ Team (berlin)

visuals
pfadfinderei + AufAuf

they will keep the line-up-times - so be on time!!

until 00.00 just 5€ / afterwards 10€

BERLIN CHINA CULTURAL BRIDGES e.V. PRESENTATION

BERLIN CHINA CULTURAL BRIDES e.V. invites to a lecture and platform-discussion "Tanz der Riesen - Indien und China prägen die Welt".

the topic of the evening is that it will change the world, when the giants china and india cooperate. the question if they work together or not is a question which should be important for germany and whole europe.

Dr. Karl Pilny, expert for asia and member of the board of Berlin China Cultural Bridges e.V. , will talk at "Tanz der Riesen - Indien und China prägen die Welt" about the developments of China and India and their relation to each other. he presents his new book and afterwards there will be a discussion about the importance of this topic for europe, germany and particularly for berlin.

besides some publishing houses present publications and learning-programs for china, India and intercultural communication.


tuesday, march 15, 18.30
china gate berlin/neues kranzler eck
(3 OG, kurfürstendamm 22, 10719 berlin)


lecture
Dr. Karl Pilny (Salans LLP)

platform-discussion
Cornelius Koch (APC Asia Pacific Consult KG)
Jochen Noth (Geschäftsführer Asien-Pazifik Institut für Management)
Dr. Karl Pilny (Salans LLP)
Dr. Martin Posth (Chairman of the Global Advisory Council MSM, nicht
bestätigt)
Kai Strittmatter (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
Volkmar Strauch (Staatsekretär für Wirtschaft)

moderation
Wolfram Schweizer (Leiter Politik des TV.B)



application requested info@berlin-china-bridge.com

PRESENTATION DEUTSCH MAGAZINE 25

tomorrow, on march 6, the ART BERIN VERLAG invites to the presentation of the current issue of DEUTSCH MAGAZINE.

20.00
cocktails and finger-food at MÜNZSALOON (1. OG, Vorderhaus, Münzstr. 23, 10178 Berlin)

22.00
party at BERLIN BAR (Neue Schönhauser Str. 20, 10178 Berlin) with DJ DIXON and MATHIAS LIEFELDT.

FACE2FACE

why is it that palestinians and israelis don´t get along together?

face2face is a new project in the middle east trying to find out just that.


artists JR & Marco traveled extensively through the region since 2005 and came to the conclusion that afterall the people inhabiting those areas don´t look so much different from one another- or at least they don´t from an outsider´s perpective-


the endless similarities they have encountered within these cultures where judaism, christianity and islam coexist somehow together, convinced them that it was about time to put these people face to face.


it is a truly hilarious and profound project which tries to find solutions to the cultural conflicts in the middle east, and for once, with a good dose of fun.


so if on the 4th of march you find yourself by any chance around bethlehem checkpoint on the palestinian side or if you are near the abu dis gas station at the end of jericho road on the israeli side on the 7th of march,
you must go and check it out!


if you are stuck here in berlin or anywhere else far from the exhibition ...well, what to say...
enjoy the pictures on the net.