TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Saturday, April 7, 2007

2:05 AM
Posted by jodi rose

Places out of Purpose (image by Vassiliea Stylianidou)

notes from the luft in berlin
'art is my home'
'i am here'
'how do you have that kind of life (explore new places to see if they're nice)'.... 'how do you not?'

traces of failure
places of possibility
places abandoned by the rules
(collaboration with vassiliea stylianidou for transit lounge)

radio in transit
zwischenpausen
(in between pauses)

eroffnung donnerstag 12 aprll

no-input fringe festival
cloud watching workshop

icelandic faeries
scream and hear them directly in your head
a bit like the placard festival next to me in kiasma lounge, gorgeous seeing all these people lolling in beanbags listening to live music

www.leplacard.org

performed a live conversation with kjaersti, a fabulous norwegian conceptual artist working with knitting, capital punishment and purple apples... http://www.myspace.com/formaica

also met jean-baptiste, creator of myownspace.fr and the 15 +1 CD compiliation of every cover version made of the song 'billie jean'
which made sense after the nirvana version at the closing party.

talked with lots of media activistist/theorists and artists, armin medosch blogged me, and hung out in the transit lounge radio for a while (it was nice with all the alvar aalto furniture - worth 20,000 euro)

http://mazine.ws/node/549

met a young designer slumming it (used to touring with huge international rock bands and seeing the world through taxis) working with united visual artists, very wild permanent led installation at london nightclub Kabaret Prophecy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjL2l-Lf7lA

stayed with sophea helped direct her brain for packing up house to move to australia via delhi, visited mari for coffee and a tshirt from her reindeer trip from north to south of finland, then lunch with andrew before heading to the airport bus and chatting with a portuquese designer/vj about an artist residency farm outside lisbon.

and finally going to salon bruit tonight for derek and rob's gig
at lichtblick kino on kastanianallee then adam's birthday party

many hours of sound editing await and all the artists are suffering kreislauf - the berlin affliction of low blood pressure esp when everyone else is having a holiday for easter and you know art never sleeps....