Occulto and 2015 managed quite a few things together: A new issue, a new website, ten music events in five different Berlin venues and one in Milan, five publishers’ fairs. I promise the small, yet passionate and evergrowing bunch of authors, artists, supporters, partners, readers and donators that make Occulto possible that they can expect more in 2016.
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The blog is being resuscitated and enriched; it will feature new authors and include material that wouldn’t find a good place on paper, such as audio and video projects, or realtime reportages about events and venues. Keep an eye on it and feel free to send comments and proposals.
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The next issue – and possibly a couple of extracurricular printed matters – will be released before you start wondering if I moved away from Berlin, or renounced to my dreams because of a well-payed new job, or moved to the countryside to become a full time housewife, or whatever you assume people do with their life and their self-initiated projects when they get older/bitter/unsatisfied/broke.
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The public program will continue and evolve, in and outside of Berlin. You’ll start getting more precise news about it some time soon, anyway I can already tell you that it will be a lot about live sounds, as usual, but that you can expect more words and images as well.
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Some of you may have noticed that in 2015 there was a sort of marxist ‘revival’ as well as a broader discourse about labour going on in several prominent cultural venues and events. I won’t discuss here the diverse and sometimes controversial attitudes and outcomes of the single cases, yet thinking about some still brilliant intuitions of Mr. Karl: I wish myself and all of you a super busy and stressful 2016, to be spent working really hard at what work should very much be.
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