By Kate Martin In an extended version of her presentation given at WORKAROUND in October, Katja Petrova’s DIY Masterclass at SUPERMARKT last week raised many important issues and questions regarding the state of interning today both internationally and locally. Rather
Bildet Banden!
Rückblick auf die Berliner Gazette-Jahreskonferenz „Complicity“ im SUPERMARKT von Katharina Meyer. Wir waren Komplizen: Letztes Wochenende fand im SUPERMARKT die Jahreskonferenz der Berliner Gazette statt, über drei Tage und mit täglich ca. 100 Teilnehmern mit unterschiedlichsten Hintergründen: Aktivisten, Coder, Künstler,
Internship Culture in Berlin
By Katja Avant-Hard [Berlin Internship Justice] When startups are trying to reach the moon whilst paying their interns €300 per month, it is clear – their business model is wrong. They are fooling you by saying “you will have a great
A (self) critique on the WORKAROUND Conference
By WORKAROUND co-curator Kate Martin [Contemporary Art Exchange]. There is definitely something changing about the way people think and talk about work today. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, a new awareness of how unbalanced, unfair and unjust
Orchideenfach und Pilzbefall
Ein Blogpost über “Von WikiLeaks zu SnowdenGate” von Gregor Sedlag. Mit den andauernden Snowden-Enthüllungen um den NSA-Komplex erlebt die kritische Öffentlichkeit in der westlichen Welt einen vergleichbar schaurigen Moment der Vermessung eines gewaltigen Parasiten wie einst Forscher im Malheur National
WORKAROUND Fotos
Thank you to all who attended our three-day WORKAROUND event! During this special symposium, workshop and community meeting, we delved into the various models of work organisation and community approaches that ensure life and work quality. For our WORKAROUND Freitagsfrühstück
Working on WORKAROUND
By Jurriaan Pots In preparation of the WORKAROUND event I thought it would be nice to analyse some of the issues that the conference deals with in a blogpost. Rather than going into all the individual ideas and initiatives that will
Noisy Crochet Workshop with eCrafts Collective
Kati Hyyppä from the eCrafts Collective hosted a DIY Masterclass on September 20th at SUPERMARKT. The masterclass was called Sonic Exploration Into Electronic Textiles and about ten people participated in making crocheted sensors which could be used for altering sound. The workshop started with
Du musst die Kuh schon selber ficken
Selbstmarketing als Überlebensstrategie – Ein Gastbeitrag von Gregor Sedlag. Das Programm des SUPERMARKT Berlin bleibt in Sortimentsbreite und -tiefe konkurrenzlos. Er ist Ausstellungs, Konferenz-, Vortragsraum, Café und Coworkingspace. Und das SUPERMARKT-Team schlägt den Bogen zwischen der klassischen White-Cube-Galerienwelt und den
Study table: a curatorial experiment
From the last week of September SUPERMARKT is home to a study table with a regularily changing collection of books, magazines, articles and pictures. The first month this table will be filled with materials about coworkingspaces. Parellell to the table