STEVE LAMBERT ON UTOPIA & EXHIB: ENACTING POPULISM

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UTOPIA TRANSLATES TO: NOT PLACE -----------------
UTOPIA IS NOT 
A DESTINATION - 
BUT A - DIRECTION 
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(Steve Lambert)



this statement origins from Steve Lambert's lecture at "Transmediale 10". He printed an unlimited series of "give what how much you can" posters, one of which i bought at a very interesting exhibition called "Enacting Populism" at Kadist Foundation Paris (currated by Matteo Lucchetti). It opened February, is still running and I had to at least go two times and not even this was enough.
Among his work in this really GREAT exhibition I also want to link to two other projects: "Simba, the last prince of Ba'ath Country" - a work about Syriah, social networks, political visual landscape, ... that kept me reading and digging for at least one hour and the video "Le President" by Alterazoni Video that I wont explain further ... I loved the way he played with the appropriation of subcultures in media-landscapes.



And "last but not least" a link to a short Video with Matteo Lucchetti talking about the Project "Enacting Populism".

MYSTERY'S EXTINCTION

Another absolutely incredilbe track from my men Deja Voo (really nice guy as far as I can say) and Blame One from Mystery's Extinction. You might recognize the sounds from some of my former mixtapes. Deja Voo is also featured on one of my most favourite Kankick releases ever called "Observation". It took 15 years for this video to appear; take your time to enjoy! Great vibe!

I observe things ...

WIN THE LAST COPY OF MY VINYLPOSTCARD

I was really very much looking forward for that to happen
and finally "its ooooon!" So take your chance an WIN THE LAST seperately available copy of the vinylpostcard (ltd 33+2 pieces) by ONLY posting a comment to the blogpost on the
SPLIT-PERSONALITY blog.

The WINNER will be announced December 5th! The lottery will go on until December 4th, 11:55, CET. From here its your decision if you want to give 2 minutes of your precious time to read the blog and post a comment. Enjoy and good luck!

Find out more about that mixed media installation on the project's website. The vinylpostcard is part of that installation (ldt 3+2). Also check dj food's nice post about my postcard and the Stepkids one on Stones Throw. Comments regarding the lottery are ONLY considered via the splitpersonality blog, but stillL: feel free to drop your thoughts here too. Always enjoying feedback. Thx!

21er HAUS - MUSEUM OF THE 21st CENTURY - PHOTOGRAPHY

I'm proud to share (soon on my website) a little bit of the outcome of "Österreichische Galerie Belvedere" assigning me with the architectural photography of Karl Schwanzer's newly adaped and extensively renovated "21er Haus" (usually built as the Austrian Pavillion for Expo'58 in Brussels).

Some of the photos have been and will be used in and for billboards, press, folders, ... some of them got a 12 pages feature in the book published on the occasion of the re-opening of the "museum of the 21st century"; a really impressive piece of art.

Thank you "Belvedere" for resurrecting this diamond in Austrian architecture and for giving me this opportunity. Really happy about that project and about what Christof Nardin who is responsible for the communication design made out of it all. Props! Love it!

BOOK: "21er Haus - Back to the Future - A Retroperspective Look at a Museum" - ISBN 978-3-86895-202-5

LENSCAPES #02 VINYLPOSTCARD VIA DJFOOD.ORG

I'm proud to announce, that "Strictly Kev alias DjFood/Ninja Tune" wrote "a little something" about my "lenscapes #02" vinylpostcard project and the one Stepkids just recently released as a bonus to their album on "Stones Throw". He was quick enough to grab THE LAST remaining vinyl postcard that was for sale and I'm really glad he did. Now head over to djfood.org or find information about the project on the beta of the future "lenscapes_02" project subsite.

BIG THANK YOU everyone for your support and of course to Strictly Kev for taking the message further than his "P.O.Box"!!! Glad that "carrier-pigeon" found its way to London. And I'm working on the next one for all that missed out.

One more chance: the last remaining one (not counting my personal copies and those that belong to the installation) will be in a little quiz on splitpersonality.at soon... stay tuned!

DDAY ONE - MOOD ALGORITHMS (LTD)

This project of my homie DDay One's early-works was originally circulated as a cassette, limited to 20 copies. Recently, it was restored using modern audio restoration and preservation techniques.
This process involved digitizing material from 4-track, 3.5” floppy disc and one of the surviving tapes.


For PRE-ORDER from now on via content label website. Enjoy. Nice and raw! but nothing else to expect from the DDay One, mr. samplist himself. More information in HERE.

DIGGERS DIGEST - DOC BEC

one of those artists you never get disappointed by. Doctor Becket from Las Vegas. Two tracks from his "Way Of Life" album from 2005 ... you might know this tracks from "home again ..." mixtape. Enjoy



related blogpost: "Doc Bec - The Other Way"