Hi friends,
THANK YOU for following along. Can you believe I had the honor to host you (digitally) for a full year by now? This newsletter turned 1 on January 31 and it has been my greatest pleasure to curate these content finds for you.
As Laila Gohar, my fav chef/food artist from New York explains in her newly started column in the FT:
For as long as I remember, I have been obsessed with creating moments of magic around the dining table.
Consider this a loose guide, not a recipe. (…)
A true host is a person generous enough to give a piece of themselves. And giving yourself means giving time to sit and enjoy the people you love. All good parties are thrown for that reason.
Make sure to explore her colorful and inspiring world via Instagram HERE, follow her thoughts HERE and perhaps be encouraged to do and think in your own ways.
Have a super start into this week 🚀
Julia
📝 LINKS - BITS (easy to digest snippets)
Art I The 213 names of the participating artists for this year’s 59th Venice Biennale “The Milk of Dreams” have been revealed (LINK)
Art II Theaster Gates was commissioned to build this year’s Serpentine Pavilion which will open to the public in June and here is a first glimpse of his concept for the “Black Chapel” (LINK)
News In order to make journalism more inclusive and digitally innovative, one of Germany’s brightest minds in media, Maria Exner, will now build Publix, a new space for media experts and members of our society to gather, educate, exchange and discuss in Berlin Neukölln. Initiatives such as Recherchebüro Correctiv, Reporter ohne Grenzen, Tactical Tech and the Open Knowledge Foundation will be next door neighbors (LINK)
Acquisition The New York Times acquired a last piece of innocent and almost back to the roots internet invention, Wordle. Initially a gift of love by a programmer to his girlfriend who loved word games, it became a super popular tool for time distraction, limited to a few minutes per day (LINK)
Accessoires Historical beauty brand Buly 1803 released refreshing patches designed to lighten up the atmosphere behind your mask. Vivifying notes of peppermint are combined with refreshing lemon and eucalyptus to provide an uplifting aromatic experience (LINK)
Platform Once in a while I receive kind messages from people who share their thoughts and questions. Lately, a lot of those circled around next career steps and those exchanges always fill me with so much joy. Whylab offers support in finding your purpose (LINK)
Movement It’s been a very long search but I have FINALLY found my yoga teacher alter ego: Mascha Trietsch. Her clear yet calming voice, the soothing intensity of the classes as well as the length in easy to incorporate 25, 35 or 45 Minute sessions and the minimalistic set up - just love her very motivating vibe. (LINK to her YT account, fav session at Tempelhofer Feld is HERE) Discovered through Original Feelings
Music I A small new album from Green-House named Six Songs for Invisible Gardens with soothing tunes, designed as a communication with both plant life and the people who care for them - Thank you, Marta, for sending this 💚
🤓 LINKS - PIECES (deep dives and longer reads)
Article “Don’t obey society’s paralysing conventions. Step out of the trap.” Charlie Williams, a post doc research fellow of the Wellcome Trust investigates on The Summer of Love in the late 60ies, when gatherings in San Francisco and London marked the beginning of a hippie movement that lead to a so-called counter culture, empowering drop-outs to think different and to pursue their unconventional ideas (LINK)
Conference I The World Around 2022 Summit lets architects, academics, and designers present new ways of thinking about the future - using teaching, drawing, writing and campaigning to catalyze change in their immediate communities in Session 1, investigating on architecture and time in Session 2 and analyze the dynamic between colonization and climate change in Session 3. My fav: Lesley Lokko from the African Futures Institute. Organized by HET NIEUWE INSTITUUT and the Guggenheim Museum (LINK Session 1 (01:53 hrs), LINK Session 2 (02:09 hrs), LINK Session 3 (01:53 hrs), Website) - Thank you, Claudia, for sending this 🙏🏼
Podcast A bite sized summary on digital capitalism, or how making money in the digital sphere became a thing since Facebook and Amazon started to exist. Philipp Staab is professor for Sociology at HU Berlin and his lecture took place at an expert conference for Ethics & Philosphy (LINK, in German)
Sustainability The kind invitation to Hotel Post Bezau in 2016 has left some valuable influence on female leadership that is uncompromising, kind to the environment and the human organism and successful in growth. Susanne Kaufmann and her amazing team are now recycling the building, so all valuable components will be reused or, as far as possible, reprocessed in various recycling chains 💯 (LINK)
📆 CALENDAR
Until February 26th // Exhibition transmediale 2021-22: Abandon all hope ye who enter here. Have never seen so many Gen Z people at Akademie der Künste am Hanseatenweg - super! Referencing Dante’s Inferno, the featured works investigate the technological hellscapes and damage created by computational logics and extractive processes. Highlight: Tianzhuo Chen’s “The Dust”, where Tibetian rituals meet capitalistic western imagery (LINK)
Until April 21st // Exhibition Songs of the Sky at c/o Berlin mirrors the consequences of cloud-computing technology on climate change and geopolitics. What stories can photographs relate about the “soul of the sky” (Étienne Pitois) in the digital age? Magnificent work by artist Louis Henderson “All That Is Solid” (2014) (LINK)
February 10th to August 21st // Exhibition Karl Marx and Capitalism. Industrialization catalyzed economic, social, and cultural upheavals in the 19th century. As a philosopher, journalist, economist, and political activist, Karl Marx was a critic of the volatility of “modernity” and capitalism. The exhibition presents his work and influence (LINK)
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