PLATOON.recruitment office - opening event

a big hello to all of you out there, once again there is a reason to party!

for too long we didnt let you know much about us....but now the time has come.

as one or the other have already noticed, we are now based in the alten schönhauserstrasse 3 and we enhanced PLATOON with 2 more containers

and this is new: our Recruitment Office

we are often asked what we exactly do, where our interests lay and how our jobs look like. what is this PLATOON.network - comprised of people from the most diverse creative backgrounds - all about? and why are we so often in Korea?

on saturday, july 19th you’ll have the chance to learn much more about PLATOON, about our international projects, what this Recruitment Office actually is, what we are up to in Berlin and what it is that really engages us.

many of you are already members of the PLATOON.association (e.V) and know us from the past. now you´ve got the possibility to actively participate to our network and to collaborate with us on the development of an even wider international network.

please dont forget to bring your PLATOON.dogTags, they will be regarded as entry tokens for the day´s event and will help us, when needed, to make some quick updates. but we wont reveal more then that now.;-)

expect delicious drinks, prepared by the jette-bar-crew, daniel at the grill and a line up of interesting live-acts and dj´s.

the event starts at 12am, with open-end as usual...and if you could send us a little guestlist-mail it would be great for our scheduling.

the whole PLATOON.crew welcomes you... till then...
stay straight....

so long P.

PLATOON.seoul photo shooting

photo time! last saturday PLATOON.seoul took photos for the new recruitment office section. the studio is run by one of jiwon's friends, a nice basement studio with funky music and beamer projections in the background. here some pics of the shooting... running gag for the day was twisting your fingers to the mighty "west berlin" sign... well, for ohyun, a native "west berliner", who would die for his hood of course it was serious business ^^

the"back to berlin" launching party at platoon.

last thursday we had a small book launching party at the PLATOON/KUNSTHALLE.seoul site.






























dong mi was in berlin last winter to research for her berlin book - PLATOON helped her out as much as possible: PLATOON supported dong-mi and photographer jeong-tae in finding a place to stay and platoonie judith guided her around all over berlin to gather information for writing the book which, by the way, became a really nice colorful and diverse personal travelogue about berlin!

















































also bling and dazed&confused CEO (^^) sehoon is a proud sponsor and publisher of "다시 베를린 [back to/again berlin]"/
















author dongmi& photographer jeongtae.



























she decorated the site with light balls hanging on wire with all kinds of pictures from berlin, very nice and looks more berlinish~~^^*













the book was on sale and most books she brought that night were gone.
every single one of 'em liked the book. so do l hehehe^^* you can tell ...

















our PLATOONIE udo lee started the party with berlin style minimal house beats and blew the summer heat into the air and dj bada from cologne took over ^^* - together they rocked the party ....!!!
























the party was successful as usual,over 300people.... ^^ so long buddies, till next time...danke!


want to have one?^^*.

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:

"is berlin wall reborn in seoul?"
“컨테이너 장벽은 부활한 베를린 장벽”-

tom went to the candlelight demonstration site on june 10, where he gave an interview for an internet radio channel in seoul (with 1.5 millons listeners at that time) about better ways of using containers than what president myeong-bak lee came up with. check out the articles below from the magazine sisain and the strangesystems blog
"톰 뷔세만 씨(독일)는 광고홍보 전문가다. 컨테이너 박스를 소재로 한 건물을 올려 예술가에게 창작과 전시의 공간을 제공하는 ‘스폰서’이기도 하다.

그는 서울 강남구 논현동에 종합예술 공간으로 4층짜리 컨테이너 박스 건물을 올려 올해 말 개장을 앞두고 있다. 왜 하필 컨테이너일까. “컨테이너는 원래 전쟁물자를 우송하기 위한 것이었다. 그것을 문화, 평화, 그리고 예술을 교류하는 공간으로 사용하는 것이야말로 통쾌한 ‘전복’ 아닌가.”

그런 뷔세만 씨가 6월10일 개인 일정을 취소하고 급히 광화문을 찾았다. 광화문 일대에 최대 촛불집회 인파가 모인 이날, 이순신 동상 앞에 난데없는 컨테이너 장벽이 등장했다는 소식을 듣고서다. 경찰은 이날 시위대의 진입을 원천 봉쇄하기 위해 컨테이너를 2층으로 쌓아 올렸다.

그가 세종로 컨테이너 장벽을 본 감상은 어떨까. “황당하다. 베를린 장벽이 돌아온 것 같다.” 뷔세만 씨는 고개를 저었다. 자신의 목표인 ‘문화교류의 상징 컨테이너’와는 너무나 다른, 길을 가로막는 위압적인 컨테이너를 보며 실망이 크단다.

뷔세만 씨는 이미 촛불집회에 참가해봤다. “세계 어디에서도 보기 힘든 강력하고 인상적인 평화집회였다. 음악과 춤, 평온함이 가득 찬 위대한 평화혁명을 봤다.” 최상급의 찬사가 연이어 쏟아졌다. 그날의 기억을 간직한 뷔세만 씨에게 세종로의 오만한 컨테이너는 그래서 더 생뚱맞다."-http://www.sisain.co.kr/">sisa in


"Art, Containers and Candlelight Demonstrations
Walking to dinner the other day I came across 3 shipping container stacked on top of each other in a parking lot. It had Kunsthalle lettered across the side. Apparently it is an art space erected in the spirit of Kunsthalle formulated in the 60's in Dusseldorf according to kunsthalle.com.

This got me thinking about another set of shipping containers that made the news recently.

There have been massive demonstrations in Seoul opposing the resumption of beef imports from the US. The main beef (pun totally intended) that the demonstrator have is concern over mad cow disease and given Korea's culinary culture of eating everything down to the bone is a cow, this is not a light concern. Trust has eroded in the fledgling administration of newly elected president Lee Myung Bak in that the deal lifting the current ban on beef imports was negotiated and signed hastily and carelessly and that stronger provisions should have been made ensuring beef safety. In similar negotiations between Japan and the US, restrictions were made on cows aged older than 30 months, but none were made in the Korea deal."-more info.

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,-