Lady Gaga, Salvator Mundi

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I wasn’t a big Lady Gaga fan. Her performances seemed too trendy, too flashy, and I was really put off by her plastic aesthetic—until I saw the movies House of Gucci and A Star Is Born. I thought she is amazing as an actress and started to get into her songs. Actually, for her artistic concept.

As an art historian, I’ve been wondering for quite some time where the new, the different, the ‚edgy‘ is. Where is avantgarde? Much of what catches my eye at art colleges has been there before, nice, ironic, and, well, okay. Performance rules: Half-naked, oiled-up humans are currently rolling around on the floor in the Schinkel Pavilion, while the Berlin art clique stands around bored, sipping Pinot Blanc. Oh, come on, folks, you’ve been seeing that in kinky clubs for years, and even I—living in a small village in the Westphalian countryside—have actually seen more outrageous and bizarre performances on queer and kinky stages.

Portrait of a man with a broken Pikachu hat at Frankfurt Central Station

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Ute Hamelmann, Oil Painting, Man with broken Pikachu Hat at Frankfurt Central Station.

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Portrait of a man with a broken Pikachu hat at Frankfurt Central Station.

I see a lot of misery when I’m in Frankfurt. The other day, a pretty woman in her forties, naked, with just a blanket around her shoulders, crouched on the pavement next to a kiosk on Berliner Straße, while humans drank their after-work beers next to her.

Or the man with the broken Pokemon Pikachu cap at the main railway station. I meet him there almost every morning.

There are bars in the Bahnhofsviertel district, like PLANK! They are very chique with many bankers and hipsters. You drink after-work negroni while next to you, homeless people and humans heavily marked by drugs rummage in the ashtray looking for fags – as if it were a trendy-asi backdrop for the bar visitors.

Who’s looking at whom?

The funktion of art in terms of system thinking

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Monolog Wertstoffhof

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Peg the Penisneid (Freud, I’m going to get you!)

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The New Dorfler

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The New Dorfler by Ute Hamelmann

Schickeria Bussibraun

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Sommergewitter

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Der Business Traveller

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In der DB Lounge in Frankfurt schlürfe ich einen kostenlosen Automatenkaffee. Vor mir liegt die Zeitschrift “Business Traveller”. Ich blättere lustlos in dem Heft. Der Business Traveller ist so eine Art eigene Klasse, a league of their own, denke ich. Klassen gibt es nicht mehr, sondern nur noch Sinus Milieus. Im Kartoffeldiagramm der Sinus Milieus sucht man ihn allerdings vergeblich, den Business Traveller. Noch! Denn er ist eine große, weltumspannende Kohorte. Es gibt 445 Millionen Business Travels pro Jahr, Tendenz steigend. Ein Boom-Markt mit fantastischen Wachstumsprognosen: 2.000 Milliarden Dollar Umsatz in 2028.