1. Who is who, and why do they do it?

    May 26, 2010
    by Jeanne-Salome Rochat

    Early writers of pulp science fiction use pseudonyms for a variety of reasons. There are three main types, which are the collaborative pseudonym, the floating pseudonym, and house names. A collaborative pseudonym is one that stands for two or more authors who work collectively on a story. A floating pseodonym is one that is available to anyone who wants to use it. A house name is a variation of a floating pseudonym, where a publishing company will often use such a name to cover the fact that there are two contributions by the same author. Another reason might be that the contributor does not want others to know he or she has stories published in a certain framework.
    I am currently looking for one.

    Photography by Yata Pessino.


  2. O.K. festival in Arnhem (16 – 17 – 18 april)

    May 10, 2010
    by Jeanne-Salome Rochat

    3 days, 100 magazines, 1100 visitors and 1 dog.

    Pretty O.K.


  3. TONIGHT at 6.30pm @ Motto Berlin.

    April 29, 2010
    by Jeanne-Salome Rochat

    Anfang gut, alles gut. Beginning good. All good.
    Presentation of the first Fanzine with a short introduction, sound recordings.

    Actualization of “Pobeda nad solncem“ (Victory over the Sun) (1913) with contributions by Thomas Baldischwyler, Mareike Bernien & Kerstin Schroedinger, Nine Budde, Ruth May, Avigail Moss, Peter Wächtler, Susanne M. Winterling

    The futurist opera “Victory over the Sun”, which was written and staged in 1913 in Petersburg wanted to “establish a collective work on the basis of word, painting and music”. Those are the words of the opera’s authors, the painter Kasimir Malewitsch, the musician Michail Matjuschin and the poets Alexeij Krutschenych and Welimir Chlebnikov, who wanted to create an “antiharmonious” work – against the spirit of their times.
    In Beginning good. All good, an actualization of „Pobeda nad solncem“ (Victory over the Sun), will translate this programmatic on the basis of the historical text and documentation of its stagings and reception into the present. The project brings together about 40 artists, musicians, theoreticians and people from other disciplines in order realize the exhibition project in May 2011 – one year after the publishing of this issue. With the project we would like to dismantle the opera’s self-enclose form into those artistic fragments and traces, which seem to correspond with the present, to than reconstruct them as actualized reformulations. To make the pre-production visible, we will produce a series of three subsequent fanzines for may 2010, october 2010 and january 2011.

    The project is initiated by Nina Köller and Kerstin Stakemeier.


  4. problems of immortality

    April 27, 2010
    by Jeanne-Salome Rochat

    Today, a friend told me the story of the dream he had last night.
    It went like this:

    In the future, medical science has solved the problem of aging, humans are immortal. The problem is that, everyone eventually becomes friends with everyone else, therefore the whole world becomes like a little village where everyone knows each other. So, the most precious thing in the world is a stranger. They are very rare. These underground clubs are set up, whose organizers put together people who don’t know each other. In these clubs, strangers can be together, but they have to obey one rule: they’re not allowed to speak or communicate in any way, they have to remain unknown. So, the greatest pleasure of immortals is to be with unknown immortals for a little while, on a saturday night, and not talk.


  5. Air Jesus Christ – K. Silem Mohammad

    April 26, 2010
    by Jeanne-Salome Rochat

    elves are practical in most aspects
    and the way they think is exactly not like Jesus Christ

    prestige classes and power fruit everyone must have a fire
    depends on what you attend to or wearing lava

    this handsome ghostly image chick coming up to me
    she still wore her former chest cavity

    looks like you’re wearing a ton take some plate off
    do you know that evolution tree where you eat swords

    evolve your rogue and bend it to a club
    crafting natural arrows seems wrong

    you get what you pay attention to
    a foot-tall giant around Clock Town

    immortality is about accepting queens
    look at the bigger picture no destroy it

    I don’t want to become a destructive portable weapon
    being an assassin is built out of my pants

    the battles that lie before us last maybe a minute
    arriving with a suitcase Satan doesn’t care


  6. If I Wasn’t Me I Would Be You – Harrell Fletcher

    April 21, 2010
    by Jeanne-Salome Rochat

    If I Wasn’t Me I Would Be You, 2004 – Christine Burgin Gallery, NY

    A video by Harrell Fletcher of people’s scars with the stories of how they got them.

    HERE


  7. we must colonize space

    April 19, 2010
    by Maxime Buchi

    thank you Renaud for the link!