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Title: 48h Neukölln: Friday
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Category: GONZO
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Date: 2012-06-17 15:46
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Slug: 48h-neukolln-friday
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Tags: gonzo, art, berlin, english
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Thumb: /library/2012-06-16-01.40.37-e1339940213381.jpg
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What started as a self organised initiative by artists to fight the
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common perception of the Neukölln area as the criminal immigrant slums
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of Berlin has become an insanely overcrowded mass-event.
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This year the program offered 600 events in around 340 places!
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<!-- PELICAN_END_SUMMARY -->Fortunately the [festival's
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website](http://48-stunden-neukoelln.de) is quite well structured and
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the visitor can filter and sort all events depending on taste, time and
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interests - but it needs at least half an hour to get a rough overview
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of what's going on up to a finalized list of marked events that one can
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print out together with a convenient map.
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I was mainly interested in video-art, mixed media performances,
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photography and film, so after fiddling with the favorites list and the
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usual printer annoyances i was ready to leave.
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My first stop on Friday night was the Die Asporas exhibition at
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[bauer&ewald](http://bauerundewald.com/), a neat showcase of young
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Israeli artists with interesting drawings, prints, paintings and
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photographs, some reflecting on the emigration to Germany. Nothing too
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special for my taste but a nice atmosphere with a DJ playing popular
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Israeli music, the usual Tel Aviv hipster crowd and cheap booze at the
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bar.
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I went on to Weserstr. where literally thousands of people were on the
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street, drinking and enjoying the warm evening. My initial motivation to
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see as many exhibitions as possible faded away instantly considering
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having to fight my way through the crowd of young artsy scene bonanza.
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I stopped at [O.T. Projektraum](http://otprojectspace.wordpress.com/)
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because I was interested in seeing the black and white super8 flick
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"[Bad Luck City](https://vimeo.com/35027068)" but unfortunately there
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wasn't any film projector around. Instead i saw the screening of a short
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film of the same artist [Aaike Stuart](http://www.aaikestuart.com)
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called "In Character" about a male man wandering along the city,
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performing simple everyday tasks like making a phone call or throwing
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away trash.
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<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/8334969?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=ffffff" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>
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[In Character trailer](http://vimeo.com/8334969) from [Aaike
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Stuart](http://vimeo.com/aaikestuart) on [Vimeo](http://vimeo.com).
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I enjoyed the beautifully shot and edited images in the dark back-room
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of O.T. having a break from the loudness out on the street. There was
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also another nice short film by the same artist, called "Holidays in
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Geneva" played on a TV set in the quite small hallway in front of the
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bathroom.
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<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/32158266?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=ffffff" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>
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[Holidays in Geneva](http://vimeo.com/32158266) from [Aaike
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Stuart](http://vimeo.com/aaikestuart) on [Vimeo](http://vimeo.com).
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My next destination was [Das Gift](http://dasgift.tumblr.com) to see a
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video installation, but again there were too many people in front of the
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bar and through the windows i could only see a projection of this nights
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UEFA football match, so i didn't even bother to peek inside.
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After seeing that the next two venues in Donaustrasse also just screened
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football I ditched my map and printout plan and went straight to Café
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Engels near Tempelhofer Feld in the Schillerkiez where I met some
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friends. I spent the rest of the evening there drinking beer and
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chatting and enjoying the warm vibes.
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*([more from the much more interesting
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saturday](/48h-neukolln-saturday.html "48h Neukölln: Saturday"))*
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