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move on

2009-01-11T10:12:00.000-08:00

We move. For style reasons and trackbacks :). oh and g00gle sux.
the raving precarious nomads have to move on from time to time anyways.
So from now on, you'll find us here:
insti2te.wordpress.com

yours forever,
the shituationist institute

short news from Sonica Electronic music festival

2008-12-30T04:10:00.000-08:00

Sonica is an eco friendly jurney into the future , a brainstorm of contemorary art, music and culture. It was a good surprise to see that the Sonica Festival will take place again this summer. The coordination group already announce the dates for this year. So get prepared , organize your trip and lets go to the warm south for some days of fun. The exactly dates of the festival this year 31/7 till 3/8. A diversity of djs will play also this year creating a good environment of electronic vibes , rave and contemporary arts. So far the location is not announced yet on the website of the festival , that possibly will give you a motivation to have your eyes open.

Visiting Sonica festival was always a good experience. The previous edition took place in La Specia, a small north italian city who combines gorgeous forests and the sea near by. The music line up of the past edition was more or less based in a smart combination of trance concepts with minimal , techno and other styles. For five days djs and systems from all around the world in two stages (the main stage and alternative stage) offered to the crowd their best sounds and dj skills.

This year some of the names are already announced here

*the upcoming days i will write something about my working and party experience there ..

love peace and unity

sn

hate

2008-12-29T09:42:00.000-08:00

only one day after one of our angry party comrades wrote h(A)te on that metal canvas, it appears on the blog of "hate" magazine. if we were famous, you now could score big in taking down that sign and put it up on ebay. but we're not.

hate magazine seems to be nice, so check it out. it's german only unfortunatelly... some texts may seem familiar from that must-read blog crisco-connection, i hope it's not due to the magazine that the blog doesn't get updated any more.

"since writing on toilet walls is done neither for critical acclaim, nor for financial rewards, it is the purest form of art." seen here

a short traveling report from Budapest by s.n

2008-12-29T05:20:00.000-08:00

* Traveling around Europe is an exiting experience. These days we visit Budapest. Budapest , a beautiful eastern European capital as well as the capital of the live music. Walking in the center of the city it is awesome, with old buildings from the 19th century and a smell from the "langos" (a traditional recipe of fried bread). The cultural events in Budapest are increasing essentially as well. Tuz Rakter in the center is one of the most important cultural centers of the city*

The Tuzrakter Independent Cultural Centre, which is backed up by the Art Sector Foundation, had opened its doors on the 23rd of June in 2005, in a previously abandoned 10000 square meters factory building in Budapest's Tuzolto street.

As an opened cultural space, we organized programmes day by day in summer periods, that included a very wide spectrum of fine and performed arts. We also work as a creative centre by giving the opportunities to as many creative projects as we can. Musicians, theatre companies can use spaces for practising, artists can create studios in our building.

We are constantly trying to keep these opportunities free or as cheap as possible. We do the same with our programmes entry fees. The Cultural Centre is, due to these two main functions a place where the cultural products are not only shown but created. We also would like to improve our educational work. Thanks to its great publicity Tuzrakter became a meeting point, where before isolated activities can meet the mass public.

Tuzrakter is an absolutely civilian initiative, the organizers work as volunteers despite of the sometimes troubled circumstances.In the first two years of functioning we managed to have texhibitions of 180 artists, including a corporation with the Hungarian Academy of Arts, theatre shows, contemporary dance performances, concerts from jazz, world music to blues and punk, musicians from all over the world, circus shows, artistic performances, literature evenings, academic presentments, festivals, fashion shows

Many foreign artists have visited our centre, from Cuba, Mexico, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Venezuela, Canada, Slovakia, Romania, Estonia.

We organized festivals specially dedicated to show t blink of contemporary culture of different countries, like the BeEst Estonian Festival, we had international film festivals, like the Moviemento European Short Film screenings. Most of the artists performed for free on these events, so they also added up a piece of building areal communal and public place.

In 2006 we continued our work, constantly improving our technical background by providing better sound and lighting techniques, and professional technicians. We also could manage to provide financial backing for many of our visiting artists.

Concentrating on cooperation with different international and Hungarian institutions, we still work for our main aim, supporting young creative people, and bridging social and cultural gaps.

After the two years spent in our last place, Tuzrakter is now moving to a new building. We are discussing the possibilities of using more buildings at the same time, some of them temporarily, with the local governments of Budapest. Our goal is to make our project real long-term, and to create a well-working example of civilian cultural initiatives.

In point of fact Tuzrakter is not a building, but an intention, that can affiliate parallel projects, and cooperate with different kinds of initiations as in Hungary as on the international scene.

http://tuzrakter.hu/

that night in berlin city 4

2008-12-28T08:46:00.000-08:00

the wounds will heal...

let me tell you about yesterdays party, in this mad place they call berlin city...

starting the evening at the vegetarian organic fastfood diner yellow sunshine. then quickly moving on to a hardcore concert in subversiv (brunnenstr. 7) of the high society (plus "lights out") the audience was in a weird state, nobody dancing really, but the band was astonishing. then we moved over to another place, just across the street: ballast der republik (brunnenstr. 183) for another punk concert and their great bar. since the night was young, we formed a spontanous hardcore formation ourselves and started a half-hour jam session. my fingers started bleeding at the first "song". we gave up very fast, too much turbomate (club mate with wodka) in our blood and not enought talent. but you will hear from us again...

now we changed location again, to the lokal (also around rosenthaler platz) to the sad remains of a karaoke party. the imposing of ibiza had turned into a weird replication of ibiza. and the song selection was not so interesting. so we split, some went to climb on a roof and for some the night continued with more hardcore (more band projects were started that night) and some more hard beats...

in supamolly (jessner str.), a name witch refers to those days of autonomy and squatting in berlin when the police suspied the local scene of building tuned super molotov cocktails, there was the afterparty of some ska-concert. for one hour there was still some dancing, then the place emptied and something new had to be found. quickly passing by feuermelder, zielona gora and astro bar, it occured to me that this evening maybe should end now (it was only 5 in the morning).

but then i heard nice beats coming from the RAW (revaler str). cassiopeia was just about to close, but the RAW tempel was still hosting a great breakcore/electronic madness party. the smoke machines were turned to maximum and green lasers were darting through the fog. the beats were crazy and the audience too. a totally mixed audience by the way; psychotic ravers, atzen, fresh rockers, and so on. at some point it was too much. the toilets were flooded by water (something crashed), the boys were going mad. i couldn't focus on anything anymore. i had to leave. but it was a nice end to a weird night.

i headed for the exit. outside on the street i couldn't really walk. but i made it home :).

some tips for the next days:
tonight: in the c-base party by phenolit, during the annual chaos communication conference.
tomorrow: first results of tonights hardcore practices in the ballast der republik

electro cocktails in Tűzraktér - Budapest 31/12 2008

2008-12-27T14:05:00.000-08:00

electro cocktails in Tűzraktér - Budapest 31/12 2008

2008-12-26T15:43:00.000-08:00

Well this year is already gone , some of us we have to discuss about positive feelings and some others for a lame year. Hopefully If you are currently in Budapest for holidays , staying a bit longer and so on , you will find our invitation useful. At December 31 in the night , We invite you at electro cocktails night into the multi cultural center of Tűzraktér.

Tűzraktér is a new multi space in Budapest with a gorgeous environment , nice vibes and interesting people around the different rooms and bars of the space.

The electro cocktails is one of the numerous events that will take place at the Morze infoshop , a new space on the first floor of Tűzraktér. On the new years eve , considering important to create a good environment , welcome the 2009 , we organize a bar party with electro , house , minimal , techno tunes with special guests and Djs.

Free entrance ofcourse and a free drink to people who will mention the shituationist institute_love_life_rave on .. awesome isnt ?

Morze infoshop 1st floor at Tűzraktér

IV. ker Hegedű utca 3. and Király

traveling around the world an amazing experience and idea?

2008-11-30T06:36:00.000-08:00

These days I got the inspiration to write something about traveling around the world. In fact I got this inspiration from Arthur a friend of my good friend Daniel from Brazil. Arthur , originally from Brazil currently in Europe , was traveling with a bicycle the last two years around the globe. Well , we met in Athens last September when he was visiting me together with Daniel ex-baby rasta friend of mine , originally from Brazil as well, brave traveler , living and working in London.

I think it is pointless to say that this is also one of my future plans and i would love to make this dream can true as soon as possible. Until then I will just publish some pics from Arthur's traveling experience who I found in his online space , feeling really thankful to him that he allow me to publish them here.

If some of you have a similar experience and you would like to share it with a person who reall really loves traveling please write me at space.nowhere(at)gmail.com

all my respect and love to my 2 Brazilian friends

for the institute : s.n in Budapest

spring vibes

2008-11-29T08:12:00.000-08:00

the other guy already wrote it. we are waiting for berlin spring desperately...

but until then i will keep you up with some information about the fusion festival, because we are waiting for that specially. check the blog the next days for more...

but also stuff inside is happening, tonight for example in berlin you can catch some spring and fusion spirit at the bachstelzen party... see hainweh.de for details... or see you there :)

summer games

2008-11-29T08:07:00.000-08:00

everytime there's some major soccer event involving the german team, those crazy patriots put little plastic flags on their cars. also here in berlin.

but you know, when we pass by with our super bicycles it's just one stretching of the arm and the flag is yours. now go faster and then after some corners just ripp of the yellow stripe and this is what you get: a little anarcho-flag for your bicycle. yea, summer games for real :)

a special night for southpark lovers

2008-11-15T13:01:00.000-08:00

Today we post super good news

A special night of southpark in Berlin only for orginal southpark lovers and addicts will take place the first friday of December. Follow the instructions on the poster and get a free drink together with the incredibly long southpark orgasm.

berlin streetart 1

2008-11-08T12:58:00.001-08:00

some streetart pics from berlin for you... the legendary (ok forget it, it's just most of the people like them) fists of CBS (the cowboys crew). they're not so active any more, at least not in painting fists... at the central train lines you still can see the year old pictures.

next is alias, also pretty famous stencil guy. has detailed stencils, if you like stencils, you might like alias... see much stuff of him in friedrichshain.

that green animal is from nano, he is from spain. berlin is a very international city also when it comes to streetart.

these little sculptures i don't remember the name are still around in the city. they look like birds, only more funky.

this big poster wall is in south friedrichshain, at a club called lovelite, you see new stuff there pretty often. used to be an oldschool spot that was very good taken care of.

the big demonic thing is also around that area.

this colourfull collage is very near the watergate and the oberbaumbrücke (if you're there also go to cuvrystrasse, it's around the corner a bit and you will see gigantic stuff of blu and others there)

that's it for today, keep the streets colourful, the cops busy and the audience thrilled, oh and if you're just watching, enjoy!

that night in berlin city 3

2008-11-08T12:29:00.001-08:00

nice music (minimal tekno), nice crowd, nice door, nice ambience (these halls are holy, the light is great too). so many details to find and a place a bit like a playground (with bridges, different floors, various places to chill, a toilet "area"). not to big, but also has various additional areas that are opened for big parties. at bigger events you might have problems to get in (for example if you're not from berlin). no pix this time :), just go there.

info

continue bethinking Berliner spring vibes ?

2008-11-03T08:14:00.000-08:00

Yeah finally ! I consider that this is a good time , to write an article about the Berliner minimal techno open air party scene.

At least , post some photos that i really like

Perhaps some of you think that Im crazy to prepare an article about spring techno parties in the beginning of the nasty north European winter?? If yeah , I just wanna remind you , the sorrowful view of the party animals, in the subway for example, with the most of them only talking about the weather and the awefull entrance cost in the next techno club.

Well I would like to spread the word that spring is coming as well as share with you three gorgeous pictures from a techno elegal soundsystem who took place in Berlin , the beginning of Spring 2008 , with only one wish ... happy faces and smiles all around our cold city.... and one expectation , more party vibes , dont let winter to occupy your mood. If you like to contribute with some information , when and where We can find some awesome parties in the city and beyond the city please feel free to contact me and send me a message on my myspace who is http://myspace.com/spacenowhere .

Ok! time to stop writing , open a beer and let you check the photos

@ You can easily realize our eforic mood in that party isnt ???

berlin art 1

2008-10-30T15:55:00.000-07:00

today we went to the opening of the berliner strassen exhibition. it's about the contemporary urban art and street culture, all the stuff influenced and coming from streetart and graffiti!

it includes art by jaybo, charlie isoe, daniel tagno, anton unai, xoooox, marok, mymo, alex flach, nomad, neon, emess.

it's really big on two floors and has a really strange athmosphere because of the oldschool architecture. they hand out a newspaper with presentations about the artists.

we don't want to show you all of the stuff here, just a short "trailer" sort of. pictures will be soon popping up on flickr anyways.

eat shit duchamp (don't know the artist), this thing was driving around and generating cheering masses of artsy hipsters.

some detail

photography by alex flach (who also has a really big post exchange with the police shown as an artwork... you have to see that to believe it)

jaybo aka monk, took us really long time to take this flick for you until this crowd moved to the side:

someone said that the real art are the crazy fancy people. maybe true.

some prints for sale, also about this nice damokles project of nomad

a 3d (real 3d, not 3d visual) bombing by neon

daniel tagno graffiti stuff and emess anti-war stuff

some dollar bills, finance crisis and so on...

anton unai, a really weird and nice room. we loved it :)

anton unai in action

ok, now go and watch this stuff. only until the 15th of november!

details here

that night in athens city 1

2008-10-26T14:28:00.000-07:00

say you come to athens and then in the middle of the night you have this desperate need for party, rave, shaking your ingredients. like you were sitting on the big rock directly below the akropolis to watch the sun go down (you have to do that). and then you go down to monastiraki and watch all the fuzz with the markets and cafes and make friends with the hippies. directly from that you move down to thissio (just follow the metro lines), buy some potato pita (that's the cheap stuff, a vegetarian pita with only freedom fries inside, costs 1,50 euros). so now continue in the direction of gazi (or like we tend to call it, the gazi strip). just follow this quiet path along the ruins towards the lighted chemins. everybody goes there, it's like the most crowded most boring area i know. it's like berlin friedrichshain without the punks or munich like with munich people...

so once you arrived there, you drift around this mob of hipsters and models and soon you will see that in the sidestreets it's far more nice. and to shorten this trip a bit, do it like we did it and get directly to the Nipiagogio.

this is your way (until the adress Κλεάνθους 8)

Größere Kartenansicht

also the metro station keramikos is a good starting point. at this adress on the map you will find a place called Nipiagogio, which means kindergarden. it's an ex-kindergarden, with a bar build in the old environment. the greek letters are ΝΗΠΙΑΓΩΓΕΙΟ, if that helps you.

this place is like warm and soft. it's hip AND a freak show, i don't know what the drinks cost, but the people were so nice and funny. it was madness, the dj was wildly switching through all electronic styles and everybody was hopping around like bunnies. they have an outside area, where we made some strange encounters. just don't go behind that curtain. i told you! yeah it's colourfull and with chalkboards and toys. you meet hippies and ravers there and communists as well as the burgeois nerds. the door people are extraordinarily nice and the barkeepers do this little show with a small drumset attached to the ceiling above the bar. awesome.

dear visitors

2008-10-26T14:17:00.000-07:00

so today we start counting visitors, welcome everybody, you're under surveillance. see the statistics link on the right to feel connected with the world.

the nicest visit today was this little ladybeetle flying in from the cold city of berlin to catch some warmth in the insti2te.

that night in berlin city 1

2008-10-26T12:02:00.001-07:00

like we promised... the notes from the hippie-punk concert and the other stuff in the cave below it. first there were all these left-wing students in this club, sweating (of excitement or the heat), raising their fist to this accustic music about rich people and yuppies dying in accidents. woo-ha.

it was easy to blend in, just using our basic party equipment (who said: "we will wear black until something darker is invented"? anyways, black is the right stuff to wear at any kind of action) and shouting random stuff with your fist up. the place is directly in the middle of this new trendy alternative party of city, between kreuzberg (oldschool) and neukölln (newschool). there was some kind of free festival, and since we spend our finance on "other" "stuff" we were eager to participate in this.

after some this and that, the band stopped. in berlin now everybody runs to the nearest kiosk to buy cheap drinks. we knew that so we where out first row. the place we were visiting is called "tristeza" in the pannierstraße (just go there and tell them we send you), across the street is the kiosk you need for cheap schnaps (that's, if you don't yet know it, the german word for anything harder than wine and beer). go down the street and turn left to sonnenallee and after 20 meters cross the street to the lebanon-type imbiss to buy a falafel (no, buy a halumi instead, some say it's the best food in the world), for one euro. one euro!

so this guy with the robothelmet was a friend of a friend, i don't remember the names. if you go there you will feel like everybody knows everybody. but it's not true. it's just this kind of left-wing student stuff i told you. so go there another time and you're in.

this was the pink-and-black cave. even more hot than before. during the week you can loose realy nice at the kicker, since some really pro's are playing there. that night there was some minimal techno with vocals. and as a filler some eurodance. we love that stuff. at some point we stepped out to smoke (you don't need that, they have a smokers room and a smaller non-smokers room... also berlin is not so tricky with these new laws like the rest of europe), discussing the usual stuff (if you go there just pretend you know everything about the world and politics in particular). our topic was antonio negri. we love and hate him and we have reasons for that. ok now it's getting out of topic, go there and stroll around, soon every third house will be a left wing pub, cafe or club. it's cheap and chilled and the people seem to be nice.

getting ready

2008-10-25T10:34:00.001-07:00

getting ready for tonights party* mission, with our rocket-socks and everything. if we survive the night we will report tommorrow after reha.

*maybe some accustic-punk in some hippie bar and afterwards techno in one pink and black cave?

here we go

2008-10-25T09:56:00.000-07:00

we are the shituationist institute.poweravers with supermonster forces and laptops and stickers and glitter. wo-ha