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Slow motion is life’s best hack: a Personal Essay by Paris-based poet Haydée Touitou

Lucy Pullicino — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 15:26:26 +0000

Imagine living your life in slow motion—a life where detangling your hair takes close to an hour, where you stroll more than you walk, and the dishes you cook are delicious only if they’ve simmered for half a day. Welcome to a writer’s life. I am what they call a poet. I write, and most

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2019—A year in Review

Aimee Shirley — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:56:30 +0000

2019—A year in Review Not only a year of international school strikes, endless Brexit delays, K-pop’s rise to international fame, the advent of the algorithm, 2019 was also the year Friends of Friends celebrated its tenth birthday! We’ve come a long way since we first started out in 2009. While we continue to strive for

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Author and cold water swimmer Jessica J. Lee on engaging with topography on a molecular level

root — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 10:01:41 +0000

Turning, the memoir depicting all she had learned from swimming Berlin’s lakes each week for the course of a year—from summer to winter and back—reveals as much about the inner landscape of its protagonist as it does about the outer scenery. While the seasons change, lakes turn over, and layers of ice break open, something

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Noah Slee has found his voice. And it’s far from formulaic

root — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 14:36:04 +0000

Noah Slee has bleached his dark curls. “I needed a Beyoncé moment,” he exclaims, laughing. It’s the launch day of the Berlin-based musician’s new single, Soulflower, the first single of Twice, his second record. His guitar in one hand, a glass of prosecco in the other, he wears a beam of satisfaction. It’s been two

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Expressing rage through angles and pie charts with Berlin-based artist Christine Sun Kim

root — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 07:45:46 +0000

“I’m starting to find that headlines are becoming a blur at this point,” says Berlin-based artist Christine Sun Kim. Sat in the lounge area of her Wedding apartment, with her sign language interpreter Beth Staehle skyping in from Paris, Kim skips easily between conversations about her visual art practice and contemporary politics. From discussing her

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Could choreography and club culture revive the Berlin fashion scene?

root — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 11:04:58 +0000

A group of dancers scatter themselves across a monochrome stage, each rehearsing individual gestures while standing on the spot. Some are flicking their wrists as if absent-mindedly tapping away on computer keyboards, while others jerk and isolate their bodies vigorously. Slowly, the movements fade away, and the 12 strong group comes together into a tight

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Fighting for inclusivity in the arts with curatorial initiative Foreign Legion

root — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 14:13:48 +0000

Foreign Legion, Vera Sacchetti and Matylda Krzykowski, met one evening in early 2012 when Sacchetti walked into an opening at Depot Basel, the space for contemporary design Krzykowski had co-founded. Their meeting on this first evening sparked a friendship and conversation that would span the next years—on design practice, how the discourse around design was

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Mark Krayenhoff van der Leur: Garments as sculptural forms

root — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 07:30:12 +0000

In the back room of his bright fourth floor apartment—aptly located close to Kurfürstendamm, one of the biggest shopping streets in Berlin—designer Mark Krayenhoff van de Leur is busy constructing his garments. Binders full of drawings spill out onto the table, bright patterned swatches pop from the wall, and on a laptop, busy colorful lines

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Don Aretino explores his queer Muslim identity through his avant-garde fashion collections

root — Tue, 21 May 2019 11:00:37 +0000

“My designs aren’t typically commercial, most of them are very avant-garde,” says fashion designer Don Aretino as he begins to show us around his Kreuzberg studio. Guiding us through the rooms in which he develops his politically-fuelled creations, he says that the majority of the ornate wall hangings, rambling houseplants, and animal statues that adorn

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Creating inclusive spaces with music booker and promoter Melissa Perales

root — Fri, 17 May 2019 12:42:39 +0000

When Melissa Perales had her first son in 2001, she decided early on that working in film was not compatible with raising a child. A year later, she found herself opening a restaurant serving comfort food in Berlin. Realizing the day in, day out in the restaurant didn’t satisfy her ambitions, Perales changed careers again—jumping

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