September 14th, 2020,

Channelling Schlingensief

WORDS: LUCA GANZ
PAINTING: PIETER BRUEGEL
PORTRAIT: ECKHARD KUCHENBECKER

For a lot people, the author of this story included, Christoph Schlingensief is an iconoclast and a genius. Starting out as an experimental filmmaker, he expanded his work into the field of performative arts in the early ’00s. Heavily influenced by Joseph Beuys’ social sculptures he began using video footage to capture a certain image of the social. Despite of Schlingensief’s early death in 2010, Luca Ganz can feel his revolutionary spirit reverberating throughout the German art world. So, ten years after his death: what makes firestarting Christoph Schlingensief so relevant to this day? Channel here

July 11th, 2020,

Alles ist vorbei —
A Different Eulogy

BY STEPHAN GRÄFE
When I was 16, I raised my right arm in public. Sudden, rigid and in an angle of 45 degrees to my sight: the Hitler salute! I fell in love after hearing Der Mussolini for the first time after a punk concert in my local youth centre. It appeared to me as if this was everything that had been banned from the punk culture (what a non-word) that I tried to be a part of. Since it had started becoming weirdly serious since the start of the millennium, Der Mussolini offered dance music, references from techno or EBM and the lyrics were crystalline commands! Say Good Bye to Gabi Delgado

June 7th, 2020,

Yis Kid —
4 colours

OVERLOOKING COMPLEX SOCIAL LANDSCAPE, SEARCHING FOR ORDER WITHIN THE CHAOS. KIND OF SNAPSHOTS TRANSGRESSING RULES OF BEAUTY, BY FOCUSING ON COLOUR AND FORM.

MY SUBJECTS ARE BANAL, I’M INTERESTED IN ALL, I’M INTERESTED IN NOTHING. I SHOW URBAN LIFE AS IT IS THROUGH MY WORKING CLASS EYES; I CAN’T SEE IN GOLD AND VELVET. THE COMPOSITION IS NOT A BEAUTIFUL GOLDEN RATIO. I TURN MY BACK ON PHOTOGRAPHIC EVALUATION CRITERIA, BREAKING WITH ALL IDEAS IMPOSED AFTER VOMITING THEM. ENOUGH RULES ON LIFE AS FOR HAVE THEM ALSO ON PHOTOGRAPHY, I BELIEVE. See with your own eyes

April 30th, 2020,

In Love with a Lobbyist

THE LEGALIZATION OF CANNABIS IS A GLOBAL DEMAND, BUT THE FIGHT ITSELF IS A LOCAL AFFAIR. WE HAD THE CHANCE TO TALK TO GEORG WURTH, FOUNDER OF DEUTSCHER HANFVERBAND (DHV). THE GERMAN HEMP ASSOCIATION IS THE MAJOR INSTITUTION IN THE FIELD OF CANNABIS LEGALIZATION IN GERMANY. WURTH IS GIVING SPEACHES, TALKS TO POLITICIANS, EDUCATES THE PUBLIC AND CONDUCTS PUBLIC RELATIONS. HE’S DOING ALL THE DIRTY LOBBY WORK FOR STONERS AND PATIENTS ALIKE. HE EVEN WON A MILLION EUROS IN A TV SHOW TO FUND HIS VISION.

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