Ex Co-Founder of Slum-TV Alexander Nicolic started a new project in Vienna after giving the responsibility for the Slum-TV project to the local members. Another 5 year project? We, hope SO! Together with two artists friends, he took over a yugoslavian worker's bar in the 16th district. Why, yugoslavian? Well, we have more than 200000 ppl living in this town, and many of them came as yugoslavian workers here. Of course the dramatic events of the last decades did generate a division based on ethnical categories, but one is theory - another thing is the every day live of the working class. Nothing is ideal here, but in every day live, in Vienna, these workers still mingle, regardless where they come from. Is it the common language, the austrian discrimination or something else, which hold's them together?

Next to the bar, they opened a space, which they use as a gallery in a way, as rehearsal venue for public space projects, as cultural center, which intends always to include the locals. To generate a social and political space, where academic discourse can meet working class issues. The first exhibition is as well opened. The Beauty of Work, by Andrej Filev is processual and will be closed on 11th of July, with a huge party.

BOEM - Koppstrasse 26 in Vienna's 16th district. Opening hours: daily (6am - 12pm, except sunday and holidays (9am - 10pm)

i catch up doin something i should have done months ago, but somehow i always just missed it. i would have so totally loved to see this concert, that was taking place for the - i think - 25th anniversary of IAM in 2008. just the youtube video gives me goose-bumps every time i watsch it. also check out the live version of "nes sous la meme etoile" (youtube), one of the dopest IAM tracks and my alltime favourite ever with "demain c'est loin". shuriken get's crazy on that one! enjoy this ... "demain c'est loin" (youtube).

R.I.P. Florian Hufsky
November 13th, 1986 – December 16th, 2009

people with big dreams sometimes get lost ... another friend, open and innovative mind, that should have stayed amongst us for "a little bit" longer. to say it with the words of Rider Shafique: "Cause there is still so much to gain!" have a good journey man ... you will definitelly be missed a lot, as a friend and artist! my condolence to his family and friends! onlinecondolencebook.

bleep from outer space!!