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Desertshore

The Final Report

The ‘Desertshore’ project is a 're-imagined' cover version of Nico’s seminal 1970 album first conceived by the late Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson in Berlin 2006. In 2010 at his home in Bangkok, he refocussed his approach readying to record guest vocalists while Chris and Cosey prepared material in their UK studio for his return there in December. Sadly, Sleazy unexpectedly died in his sleep on the 25th November in Bangkok.

Chris and Cosey made a commitment to Sleazy to complete the ‘Desertshore’ project picking up from where they left off just prior to his untimely passing. With enthusiastic support and contributions from so many who were close to Sleazy, especially the guest artistes whose work he admired; Antony, Marc Almond, Blixa Bargeld, Sasha Grey and Gaspar Noé, the project will be released 26th November 2012
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Live Update

Kyffhäuser/ Unternehmen Barbarossa/ Träume vom Tod!

The live section has been updated with details of

Kyffhäuser / Unternehmen Barbarossa / Träume vom Tod!
17 & 18 November 2012 in Volksbühne, Berlin.
Director: Michael Farin.
Featuring Blixa Bargeld, Jens Harzer, Ulrich Matthes und Bernhard Schütz.
Music: Automat: arbeit – färber - wilsdorf - zeitblom
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Australian tour 2013

Tour dates announced for Brisbane, Melbourne & Sydney
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Live Updates

The live section has been updated with new dates for Blixa Bargeld and the announcement of Crime and The City Solution's 2012 Tour
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Einschüsse

From March 23 – May 19, 2012, the Galerie Hunchentoot will be showing “Einschüsse”* – serial works by Blixa Bargeld.

Black spots and lines are spread out on white image surfaces and vice versa. Harsh contrasts focus on abrasions to the surfaces of façades, on patterns left behind by rapid gunfire. If patterns are brought to mind here, then it is because the bullet holes caused by gunfire draw irregular patterns on the façades that seem like deliberately created images, specifically in their fortuitousness. This is due to a method of viewing trained to see abstraction.

The combination of the subject (the fragment of a façade) and of a work’s title (the name of a street or a square in Berlin-Mitte + the street address) appears to speak for a documentary nature of the series, and this suspicion seems all the more justified since they are based on photographic images. What can be seen was or is there, and is exactly where the title localizes it. That much is correct. The conclusion that it concerns documentary work, however, is false. It is necessary to bridge the gap between the title and the work, which clearly separates the concrete from abstraction in the image. The black of these images is actually black; the white is actually white. There are no gray tones. Accordingly, Blixa Bargeld’s works exhibited in the series “Einschüsse” have just as little to do with anything documentary in the category of black-and-white photography. Instead, their tendency is more comparable to abstract painting, in which it is not so much an anti-realism that can be seen, but as Siegfried Kracauer put it, the realistic revelation of a prevailing abstractness. What Blixa Bargeld translates into images is an aesthetic practice. More generally, it should be perceived as an approach towards the world; in fact, it is just one productive mode of existence that Blixa Bargeld has made in his diverse artistic works. In this respect, the patterns of the “Einschüsse” also continue beyond the provisional limits of the image surfaces.

Maria Zinfert, January 2012
* “Einschüsse” = bullet holes; shots

Galerie Hunchentoot, Choriner Str. 8, 10119 Berlin

Live dates updated

The live section has been updated with new dates for
Blixa Bargeld in Umeå, Sweeden & Mannheim, Germany and
Alexander Hacke's new project "The Glasshouse" on March 01 2012 in Berlin.
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anbb live dates

The live page has been updated with details of anbb: alva noto & blixa bargeld live in St Petersburg, Moscow, Belgrade, Brussels and Rome...
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Blixa Bargeld/Alva Noto

Bibliophile Limited Special Edition CD

anbb mimikry

We currently have a very limited edition Japanese anbb - mimikry Box Set
containing 2 bonus tracks, the origional textbooklets in english and Japanese, an interview-booklet, anbb sticker, 2 photos and poster with drawings, text collage by Blixa Bargeld about "Mimikry".

This art-edition is not available in shops! and is yours for €28

Blixa Bargeld and Einstürzende Neubauten

German Experimental Music

Blixa Bargeld and Einstürzende NeubautenThe english writer Jennifer Shryane has written about Einstürzende Neubauten's place in popular/experimental music history. She illustrates their innovations with found- and self-constructed instrumentation, their Artaudian performance strategies and textual concerns, as well as their methods of independence.

The book is available in both Hardcover and e-book format and includes a preamble by Blixa Bargeld

Imprint: Ashgate
Illustrations: Includes 10 b&w illustrations
Published: November 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4094-2156-6
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anbb live update

The live section has been updated with new dates for Blixa Bargeld & Alva Noto in Milan, Tokyo & Osaka
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