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We\u2019re standing in an empty two-room apartment in Kreuzberg, with freshly painted white walls and floors covered in grey carpet. It smells like solvent or glue. A young woman presents us the artwork that is currently shown in this gallery (that\u2019s what the apartment apparently is used as). A bunch of wooden panels and beams are stacked onto each other, occupying one of the rooms completely. It looks like someone\u2019s about to move in, or out; it feels like we need to pass through these rooms to get to the actual gallery.\u00a0But we don\u2019t: \u201cThis artist\u2019s installation is presented in three phases. Currently, we\u2019re in phase two, where the installation\u2014a room within the room\u2014is being dismantled and stored right here in the exhibition space.\u201d<\/p>\n
I mean, honestly, my first thought was: This is stupid. This isn\u2019t a gallery, even if the rooms are lit by neon lights and presented by a smart, well-dressed art history student; and the artwork clearly doesn\u2019t function in these rooms. But then again: I liked the idea of showing this dismantled state. We all know it, right? Being in-between, just stacked and stored somewhere, waiting to be put together again. I liked that someone tried to find beauty in it, and I am trying, too.<\/p>\n
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A random January list:<\/p>\n
I\u2019m reading actual books again. After \u201cMy Year of Rest and Relaxation\u201d, I read short stories by Doris D\u00f6rrie, and am now in the middle of Steven King\u2019s \u201cOn Writing\u201d. Follow me on\u00a0GoodReads<\/a>!<\/p>\n If you\u2019re having a hard time getting the year started, my friend Hans has a bunch of arguments to\u00a0overcome artificial limits<\/a>. I know Hans, you can fully trust him on that one.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t judge: I started watching YouTubers that recommend minimalist lifestyles and hand out tips for productivity and personal growth (I am already cringing whilst writing this).\u00a0Matt D’Avella\u2019s videos<\/a>\u00a0are nicely filmed, though! I\u2019ve been taking cold showers since, and I love it! Changed my life! New year new me etc.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been listening to music, too:\u00a0Hatchie<\/a>, a singer\/songwriter from Australia, got stuck in my head forever. Right now it\u2019s Ngahere Wafer and his album\u00a0You\u2019re So Cool<\/em><\/a>\u00a0from 2017. I\u2019m late to the game, as always.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n I found the idea of being in a in-between state also in\u00a0this beautiful twitter thread<\/a>\u00a0by @nichtschubsen. It\u2019s German, and it asks: \u201cIf your life was a recipe, at which step would it be right now?\u201d People replied things like \u201cstir gently\u201d or \u201cwhip thoroughly\u201d or \u201cthrow away and order pizza\u201d. It\u2019s an option, too, and who doesn\u2019t like Pizza?! However, let\u2019s ask the follow-up question: What\u2019s the next step of your recipe?<\/p>\n I hope you\u2019re having a good February, whatever state you\u2019re in. It\u2019s a long one this time, and we had the first\u00a0palindrome date<\/a>\u00a0(02.02.2020) for 909 years (11.11.1111). We won\u2019t outlive the next one, on 12.12.2121. But that\u2019s okay. Keep going\/simmering\/baking\/etc.<\/p>\n If you enjoy writing like this, you should subscribe to my (irregular) monthly newsletter: Christel\u2019s Corner.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We\u2019re standing in an empty two-room apartment in Kreuzberg, with freshly painted white walls and floors covered in grey carpet. It smells like solvent or glue. A young woman presents us the artwork that is currently shown in this gallery (that\u2019s what the apartment apparently is used as). A bunch of wooden panels and beams … 012020: Palindrome Days<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1206,1200],"tags":[399,41,381,3,2],"class_list":["post-2179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christels-corner","category-gefuehlslagen","tag-art","tag-english","tag-kunst","tag-schreiben","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2183,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions\/2183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}