MODERAT @ PLATOON SEOUL

just a small report on our stunning concert last week: who couldn't join did miss something very special.. not just special for korea but also to my whole life.

at the beginning everybody was quite nervous about how the concert will be appreciated by the people of seoul. but the three rock heroes prepared everything for the great battle.













but after a while the crowed got bigger and bigger and finally the PLATOON was packed! the show started.. and for sure: the people freaked out.















there where maybe 400 people rocking the place.















amazing visuals! you should buy the DVD!!!














but after the show the real party started:
















sascha and gernot couldn't stop.. so they board the DJ-booth and rocked an after-show which will become legendary!
















over hours they made the people going wild..














LJ max (light jockey) was so exhausted playing our regular light switches.. he was drinking directly from the tab...

the story of the following water sports can not be written down here ;-)




we will prepare a video from the concert in the next days.. so stay tuned.

Pecha Kucha Night Berlin Vol.14 @ PLATOON

finally another Pecha Kucha Berlin Open-Air Night!
guest curator is going to be Heidrun Melinski of PLATOON.cultural development. if it’s raining, the event has to be cancelled. we´ll keep you updated about that.

speakers list:
# Marcello Dato, Recruitment Officer, about PLATOON.SEOUL
# Nils Claussen about old boats.
# Miodrag Kuc, PLATOON´s UrbanPlanner in resident, presenting cracking the city - a research project about spatial outcome of subculture.
# Dorothee Deiss, photographer - As if Nothing Happened - On the death strip 20 years after the Wall „It is terrible and wonderful at the same time how fast life lets grass grow over history. But the scars remain.“
# Michael Liebe und Thorsten S. Wiedemann Gründer and curatorteam of amaze. about the convergence of computer games and art.
# Jonathan Imme, Co-Founder Palomar5 e.V., “about the daring attempt, to reinvent work“.
# Johanna Mantel, about the constitution process in Somalia.
# Aram Bartholl and Tobias Leingruber about Free Art & Technology.
# Konrad Kuechenmeister and Benjamin Weiss of berlinLOOPbrasil.
# Armin Linke photographer.
# Marco Canevacci, architect and co-founder of plastique-fantastique about pneumatic environments.
# Volker Bombien Lektor beim O'Reilly Verlag über Arduino (mikrocontroller-programming).
# Jörg Gastmann about Bandbreitenmodell.


Pecha Kucha Night is an event in which presenters give brief presentations accompanied by 20 images, each of which is shown for 20 seconds. presenters are usually from the design, architecture, photography, art, music and other creative fields.

giving a total presentation time of 6 minutes 40 seconds for each speaker, it's hard to get bored.







30.7.09 @ PLATOON, Alte Schönhauser Str.3
Doors: 21:00h, Start: 22:00
entrance: 6€








watch more Pecha Kucha Nights via PLATOON

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CRACKING THE CITY - FINISSAGE

you are all invited again to the finissage of CRACKING THE CITY, a scientific art project about spatial outcome of subcultural movements and interventions in urban context.

this time we will present two different kind of ''city bombing'': old school seed bombing and visual bombing by lichtpiraten.
Kuc, our urban planner in residence and creator of the project will hold a speech to draw some conclusions and launch the project to its second phase as soon as it gets dark.

we warmly advise you to bring your own umbrella with you... not just because of the unpredictable weather but mainly because of our participatory light installation which will take place at the end of the exhibition.


the finisage will start at 3 PM and will probably last untill 2AM. like every saturday you´ll be delighted by a delicious BBQ prepared by Mata and the best drinks in town served by our Bar mistress Jette.

see you tomorow... and dont forget to bring your friends!
P.

REPORT.VERNISSAGE
CRACKINGTHECITY BLOG

RUBBER AGAINST RAPE

a few days ago, i read an interesting article in a geman daily newspaper.

sonnet ehlers, a woman from South Africa, presents the first anti-rape condom of the world : Rape-aXe.

it´s a female condom, with 12 insides barbed hooks who bore it in the penis of the raper -only can removed by surgery.

so, the idea of sonnet ehlers, is bringing the raper to justice -this happens not often in the homeland of the innovator. South Africa has one of the highest rates of rapes in the world.

















this october she using to launch the product in kimberley, a small town in South Africa. it´s exactly the town, because of a saying of a raped girl 40 years ago: i wish, i could have teeth down there.

this rubber is a wonderful idea against rape. but myself has a little doubt. it´s safety for the women. but what if the raper realize it -he is already in an act of violence and then he has the woman in front....

LIVE @ PLATOON KUNSTHALLE: MODERAT IN CONCERT

THURSDAY, JULY 23, 10 PM



moderat is a collaboration of three successful projects that joined forces to create a new audiovisual experience. on the audio side modeselektor and apparat (hence the name, moderat) put a lot of efforts into developing a unique sound. they rented studio space at the legendary berlin hansa studios (where david bowie recorded 'heroes') in order to record the album in analog with the help of the studio's vintage tube technology and an old emi console from 1972, restored especially for moderat. they even hired joshua kit clayton, an american software designer, to program a superb reverb algorithm specifically for the recording process of the album. They also bought an emt model 140 plate reverb on an internet auction and had to travel to los angeles to pick it up. for the album they worked together with rapper busdriver from los angeles, delle (aka eased) from germany's top act seeed and paul st. hilaire.

on the visual side one of berlin's first and finest vj crews, pfadfinderei, provided some exclusive visual material. in contrary to their fast club-based fast paced style they created a whole new visual experience through decelerated images. moderat was one of the main acts on this year's sonar festival in barcelona and tour worldwide with their show.

www.bpitchcontrol.de/Moderat
www.bpitchcontrol.de/artist/7
www.apparat.net
www.modeselektor.de
www.myspace.com/mdslktr
www.pfadfinderei.com

TICKET SALE:
box office price on site: 40,000 KRW (1 free drink)
presale ticket price is: 35,000 KRW
*to order presale tickets, please transfer the amount first to the following bank account given below. then please send us your name, contact number, date of transfer per email to mail@kunsthalle.com.
bank account: hanabank, account no. 206-910015-87604, account holder: ㈜플래툰 - PLATOON

for further information, please contact PLATOON KUNSTHALLE
tel.: 010-94701191, 02-3447-1191~7
email: mail@kunsthalle.com

what makes a hero

I think that everyone can become a hero, this image that travels from mouth to mouth getting stronger each time.
In Mexico we have two heroes, "Luchadores", they are "El Santo" and "Blue Demon".
But what makes them heroes are for sure not the movies they made in the 70's but the fights in the wrestling arenas in Mexico. They have traveled from generation to generation fighting every month, passing the mask to their children to give us the chance to see them fight.
We all have a clear idea of how are they suppose to look when they fight, and also how they have to behave.
They are heroes because they bring joy to the families in Mexico, they stand for family values, they pay respect to their ancestors and do charity work for the mexican people.
Everyone in Mexico knows who El Santo (el enmascarado de plata) and Blue Demon are...
I have found a very nice Flickr with pictures of the wrestling culture in Mexico.

free tickets for the hot shit from australia - blue king brown

the SCHEISS SOMMER at our beloved client ARENA BERLIN is rushing to one of its mayor acts - blue king brown - from australia.

and - because we love you all so much - we have 3x2 free tickets, for you and your best friend.
the first ones writing a mail to vorstand@platoon.org will receive 2 tickets.

intelligent lyricism meets imaginative innovation of rhythm, sound and culture.
blue king brown are a socially active entity, they have managed to cross borders of language and indifference, having given birth to music that resonates with all walks of life.

Blue King Brown & Phases Of Life
friday, 24th of july, 08:00 pm @ ARENA BERLIN

an old music soul like carlos santa says:

“Blue King Brown is my favourite band right now. They embody everything i love in music from Ozomatli, African bands, Tower Of Power to Santana. They are the voice of the street an the band of the future!”

PREPARATIONS FOR MODERAT IN SEOUL

the kunsthalle team is busy with preparations for the best concert in seoul. 2 days to go!!!
























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