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Monika

Hairier than your boyfriend

About Me

I'm nice. Really.

My Interests

All kinds of art A lot of reading Feminism Graffiti The IWW The New Social Art School The Faculty of Invisibility Knitting Old Films

I'd like to meet:

Nice people.

Music:

Paul Anka to Hank WilliamsNOW-kreuzberg cafe (André Herman-Düne and Clemence Freschard)

Movies:

Ernst Lubitsch Billy Wilder Howard HawksNOW-Popular Music from Vittula (Reza Bagher)

Television:

...tuned out

Books:

NOW-Mapping the Terrain. New Genre Public Art. Suzanne LacyFailure! Experiments in Aesthetic and Social Practice. edited by Nicole Antebi, Colin Dickey & Robby HerbsState of Exception. Giorgio Agamben

Heroes:

Hannah Arendt Fred Hampton Gustav mit der Hupe

My Blog

Manifestoon

"Manifestoon" by Jesse Drew. ...
Posted by Monika on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:45:00 PST

History of Decorating (bad title)

Just like thousands (or perhaps more) visitors, documenta 12 made me enter the German Wallpaper Museum to see Danica Daki's installation El DoradoAnd there it was.and the other sideWallpaper on the th...
Posted by Monika on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:49:00 PST

Tillydrone. Book Launch Saturday 30 June, 12-3pm


Posted by Monika on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 01:56:00 PST

Join solidarity action for starbucks worker -takes 5 min max

Starbucks barista Christina Rosevear and her 19 month-old daughter need your help now. Christina recently learned that she was pregnant with her second child and she promptly informed the store manage...
Posted by Monika on Mon, 28 May 2007 03:05:00 PST

I am not speaking to you.

[Nouveau Guide de Conversations Modernes. Libraire Europeenne. Ve Baudry. Paris 1855]
Posted by Monika on Mon, 21 May 2007 01:31:00 PST

higher learning...

1. This is some fellow with an apple.2. This is the aim of life.[This is the label next to a sculpture in front of New King's College, Aberdeen University]3. Do I understand this or do I want to chang...
Posted by Monika on Mon, 14 May 2007 12:44:00 PST

the dip-the lift-the slash

Creative Crime BustingMike PressDesign and other creative disciplines can play a well established role in crime prevention. Having been commissioned by the Home Office to develop the Design Against Cr...
Posted by Monika on Fri, 11 May 2007 09:08:00 PST

Guitars are the weapons we bring...

My grandfather just gave me his 'Kampf und Volkslieder' [Struggle and Folk Song) Books from the 20s through the 50s. They're all in German [obviously] but have such lovely pictures:...
Posted by Monika on Thu, 10 May 2007 12:52:00 PST

Why bother...

Don't think about success because you are probably not gonna have it. If that's the goal you should go into banking. If you are driven with an irritation that needs a place to come out, that's what ar...
Posted by Monika on Tue, 08 May 2007 12:47:00 PST

Brot ist Freiheit, Freiheit Brot!

Culture means not so much a better world as a nobler one; a world to be brought about not through the overthrow of the material order of life, but through events in the individual's soul. Humanity bec...
Posted by Monika on Sat, 05 May 2007 03:38:00 PST