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Title: 48h Neukölln: Saturday
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Category: GONZO
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Date: 2012-06-17 17:04
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Slug: 48h-neukolln-saturday
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Tags: gonzo, art, berlin, neukolln, english
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Thumb: /library/2012-06-17-00.47.54.jpg
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After the [unsuccessful Friday
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night](/48h-neukolln-friday.html "48h Neukölln: Friday"),
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I was willing to start another attempt on Saturday night - less
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planning, less destinations, better preparation (vodka & coffee) and
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with company.<!-- PELICAN_END_SUMMARY -->
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Eklis, Nü and I took off starting at the same spot where I had started
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the day before: Lenaustrasse. After we took another peek into
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[bauer&ewald](http://bauerundewald.com) we went a couple of houses
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further down the road, into the backyard and four floors up to the
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bright photo laboratory of [Thomas Nitz](http://www.tnt-fotoart.de/),
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photographer and artist who presented his experimental artworks: A2
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paper screens that were painted with what looked like water colour and
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then prepared with a photosensitive liquid emulsion. Exposed onto these
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screens were several layers of black and white photographs of faces and
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patterns. The result were amazing unique posters with a grungy look and
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incredible depth. The photographer was a really nice guy and we talked
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with him for a while smoking cigarettes and drinking beers.
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We had an appointment with more friends at
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[Weserland](http://www.weserland.net/), a new arty co-working space in
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Weserstrasse. Going there already was strange because there were even
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more people on the streets than yesterday but Weserland was insane.
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Hundreds of people were crammed into the rooms, there was hardly any
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space left to see the exhibits, it was hot and loud and smoky - but the
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installations we saw were kind of nice. They had a paper shredder and
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invited everyone to bring their IOUs or other negative and unpleasant
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documents and turn them into confetti. The other one was a room filled
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with fog so you couldn't see a thing and in addition the floor was
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slanted in strange angles which made it a bit difficult to orientate.
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But here again it was much too crowded to feel effects of being lost or
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whatever their intention was.
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We escaped Weserland and went to [Das Gift](http://dasgift.de) on the
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corner of Weichselstrasse and Donaustrasse where the collective
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Noisekölln had a noise performance and video installations by Henrike
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Daum. Same problem here again - too loud, too crowded.
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<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/12251580?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=ffffff" width="500" height="402" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>
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[through trees](http://vimeo.com/12251580) from [Henrike
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Daum](http://vimeo.com/user3956012) on [Vimeo](http://vimeo.com).
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Unfortunately Das Laboratorium in Sonnenallee was already closed, so
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after a quick Halloumi snack we went on to our final destination:
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[Locht43](http://www.locht43.de/) at Kiehlufer.
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The space there is beautiful. A very large long room that seems to have
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been some kind of factory or barn invites the visitor to lounge around
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on some carpets and mattraces. They served cold beers and delicious Oreo
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cookies tweaked brownies.
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[](/library/2012-06-17-00.47.54.jpg)
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In the basement was a nice paper shapes video mapping installation that
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the artist projected on live and we saw a live gig of the amazing [Onyx
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Ashanti](http://onyx-ashanti.com/) with his self-made wearable cyborg
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instrument called
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"[BeatJazz](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHMI50ESguQ&feature=player_embedded)".
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The overall atmosphere at Locht43 was very relaxed, the crowd was
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pleasant and we stayed there for quite a while.
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My overall impression of this year's 48h Neukölln is that besides the
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much too big crowd that's less interested in the presented arts but more
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in pushing Neukölln's party spaces to the limits, there are also just
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too many exhibitions and art places participating.
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Less is more - perhaps the curation should remember this concept next
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year, or very soon the event will turn more and more into yet another
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random arty spectacle…if it's not too late already.
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