Sleek #12 Autumn 2006 East|West
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sleek emerges from our blood, sweat and tears – because so many Germans work to create it. Nevertheless, we’d love you to get rough this time and crumple the cover. This is how artist Terence Koh intended it: rip off the top cover, scrunch up the aluminium foil into a ball, straighten it out a little and – enjoy the art! Terence is our cover boy for the theme East | West. Born in China, raised in Canada and now living in Berlin, he embodies a modern form of world nomadism, which did away with the traditional geographical notion long ago. East / West was once a clear-cut affair, when a conflict of the same name still existed. How easy it was to divide the world into good and bad, left and right or up and down. Today such clarity eludes us. Yet the notion of East / West has almost became again what it used to be: a simple geographical term. In our case the term stretches from India to Nepal, and from Berlin to Los Angeles. And here’s something else which should be mentioned for our own sake: this autumn we actually celebrate two premieres. With support from publishing house Axel Springer, we’ll be showing media art in Berlin in public – and not just anywhere but on Europe’s largest electronic display. On our website you can still find the entire magazine to download; but we’ve also created a platform for video art with the launch of this issue. So basically you can’t escape us: on paper, on the web and in the open air, in the East or West – sleek is simply everywhere. Your sleek team.