Olá Minders, ciao Boxers!

Long time since our last post here… even longer since our last experience! But no worries… we are still here, we just decided to take the next step and bring a much more exciting and mind blowing event. Let’s call it The Event by now…

Meanwhile we all have projects on our own that we like to share with you (so you will realize that we weren’t just enjoying the sun - or the cold - in our absence).

Michela, the smiley girl, got sometime for her own back on her home land, Italy - but just for a while. She has been busy travelling around everywhere looking for “special creatures” hanging on the trees around the cities. The name of those sweet and funny creatures is “Le Giovanne Rampanti”. You can find out more about them at its Facebook Page - if you find one in your city, please take a picture and send us!!!

Our sweet Elisa has been busy with her photography path… she has a blog which is a platform for her projects and photographs, specially her adorable project LONG DAYS’ JOURNEY INTO NIGHT.

This project is a visual journey from reality to abstraction, a dialogue between her and the others, from day to night and all the way back, from parties to loneliness, from the beauty of human bodies to dreamy landscapes, from the distorted view of the faded eye to the sharpness of the moment (the blog is a must see, seriously boys&girls, you have to check out the Fading Focus)!

Our adorable communications girl, Sabine just started up her own PR agency last year called Maia and did PR for people like spot galerie, joco agentur für kommunikationsdesign, night delight, and work as a pr-agent for clients like Vodafone, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Paul van Dyck . Also she has been working as a freelance writer and started a new job in a nice PR agency in Mitte. WOW the girl has been busy!

Our favorite Brazilian, Rica, has been taking some time off to take care of his personal projects and also to go back to school - the lazy mind is the house of the Devil, as our grandmas used to say… hehehe He is gonna be the responsable for this blog for now on… So let’s help him and send anything interesting that worth be published here, such as nice events, cool places, interesting people profiles and amazing art, design and music! Just drop him an email to ricca@mind-the-box.com telling what’s the jewel about and he will do the rest!

So my crazy Berliners (and all the other “-ers” around the world!) enjoy the beginning of the Summer (or the Winter, depending where you are…) and we see us soon ok?!

Don’t forget to send us some love from time to time on our Facebook Page and our Facebook Profile as well!

Cheers!

The Kunsthochschule Weißensee, founded in 1946, has obviously a long tradition. It´s in the vanguard of sculpture, stage and costume design, painting, fashion design, product design, textile and surface design and visual communication.

One of the unique and defining features of the Berlin Weissensee School of Art is the fact that all students attend a one-year interdisciplinary art foundation course together. This foundation course is principally oriented towards the perception and visualisation of humans and their environment.

With this educational background Lisa Spengler and Moa Hallgren worked for their Diploma project on their object-project REMÖTIL. The libertines created a furniture-object collection composed of founded old clothes and thrown away furniture from Berlin’s streets. Getting back to their original they suceed in giving the waste a new value.

Wait and see REMÖTIL objects during our next event. Those who can´t wait after all, this much can be said, Lisa and Moa will sell some hand-made products on 12th December from 1.00-8.00 pm at the christmas market at Wostel, Hobrechtstr. 66 (between Lenau- and Weserstr.), Berlin.

For further information about the christmas market, please click here and all about REMÖTIL check it out here

Dear readers and friends,

it´s our one year anniversary this month. As we´re getting emotional while christmas it´s time for a melancholy, confident reflection and acknowledgment.

During a year of hard work, discussions, experiences, coalescent team-spirit, personal encounters with individuals, artists and creatives we grew and backdated we´re proud of becoming a baseline of modern culture in Berlin.
For something with an incredibly low rate of money and an incredibly high rate of ideologies we´re a big step forward.
We took a trip to Salone del Mobile in April to relaunch our association, redesigned our logo, had a one-night-stand at Tammen Galerie, got supported by the local press and tried to establish a next level connection between culture and design, where we encourage the art-goer to break out of the passive, “white box” gallery-malaise and get hands sticky. We found the common denominator for a collective art experience - independent of your extraction, education, nation or social status - the famous ArtyFun Sessions. We want to adhere to this disposition.

First year of Mind the Box draws to a close. But a rolling stone gathers no moss! Anyone who’s ever suffered one night with us knows we´re bubbling over with ideas. Lively Mind the Box expands, refines and puts out its feelers. We´re always good for a new surprise.

Thanks to all of you very, very early birds, who realised the potential of Mind the Box and followed the sound of hushed pitter-patter of our little feet coming down the streets of Berlin. We´re getting louder and louder… we promise!

Your Boxers
Elisa, Michela, Rica, Yannis and Sabine

Our mission was fulfilled: More than 400 guests became an active part of our interactive art playground last saturday.

As always MtB was sitting on hot pieces. Numpties roamed through the location. PAPPBRILLE brought a clear view. Best base to see the things differently. According to the principal “I want to study you love habbits and i tell you who you are”, the project of DORIT BIALER combined art installation and performance piece. CHUN-CHI WANG´s short film about forgetting and memory demanded the viewer´s imagination. BANGA took a trip into a hidden world. Their shamanic inspired performance based on the notion of water memory is more than that. It´s for the creation of energetic potions. So we vote for “No purity requirements for art”!
The sensational live music of ONYX ASHANTI captivated the crowd. Our ears are still resounding with his mixed sound of House and Nu Jazz.

Thanks to all of you and your cumulative creativity!

Playing Saturday @ ArtyFun Sessions #3:

Africa is the disco alter ego of Scottish-born producer Graham Peel. He spends most of his time trawling through the plethora of obscure Russian tinyurls in slim hope to scavenge a rare 320kpbs rip of an unheard disco classic. He’s true to the avid hunter aesthetic, echoing the plethora of disco purists that came before him, but his record stores have been replaced by dead links and rapidshare search engines. Everything found ends up on mixes (such as the one you can download here) or on his new blog Witty Banter! — soon to be essential reading — where he soundtracks his twenty-something apathy perfectly with a particular “Song du jour”.

Don’t forget: this Saturday @ Mind Pirates, ArtyFun Sessions #3!

Come ‘n Play!

The artist Toms GRINBERGS lives and works in Berlin. After graduating Riga Art and Design school for furniture design and stage design at the Latvian Academy of Art, GRINBERGS became a freelance artist. Since then he expresses himself in various kinds of techniques and forms of art. His work in collaboration with Peteris Kimelis and the “Authors Collective” involved real-time video, audio and performance elements. He took part in several exhibitions. He works as stage designers assistant at the Berliner Volksbühne.

Dorit BIALER lives and works in Berlin. As an artist with a graphic background, the two are inseperable to her. Her projects are using a thriving method in the 2010 art and design world - info graphics. Telling a story through quantity information and facts, while visualizing them in colours, shapes and illustrations.

Her newly project “HELLO, I WANT TO STUDY YOUR LOVE HABITS” is a socioloy research during the exhibition at our ArtyFun Session#03. The viewers are the artists and the test subjects at the same time. The information that is gathered creates the artpiece and the visual effect. So what was your love habit again?

http://www.thedorit.carbonmade.com/