The heart is a warewolf (or a night out in Copenhagen)

In 2016 I'm determined to keep one of my eternally recurrent New Years Resolutions, to never lose my sense of WANDERLUST. So last weekend I decided on a whim to escape with a fellow wandering soul for 36 hours in COPENHAGEN and it was magical! Enjoy a selection of the beautful things we saw, ate and listened to!

Greetings from the Danish underground....

The trip started with probably the most delicious food Copenhagen, and possibly even Europe as a whole, has to offer. Despite the fact that you normally need to reserve a table 4 months in advance (and we hadn't even recieved a reply to my attempt to get us wait listed the night before), we somehow magically got a table at 108, the pop up restaurant open from the 20th of January to the 16th of April by the NOMA family.

A funny story for all you lovers of the culinary delights. Noma, renowned for using unusual, locally sourced ingredients and for sparking an interest in Nordic cuisine (most definately not the most impressive ghastronomic option if you ask me!),  though repeatedly voted the worlds best restaurant and having recieved several Michelen stars, in February 2013 was the source of scandal as  67 guests who dined there fell ill with food poisoning.

You can thus imagine my curiosity to wine and dine in this scandalous yet opulent establishment. The staff was extremely polite and the place was the exact opposite of pretentious! Modern art, a fooseball table, a yellow neon light leading you to the restrooms and communal tables with benches create a really relaxed and comfortable atmosphere. I love how the menu is comprosed of small dishes, 4 being the optimal number for a very hungry person, giving you the chance to enjoy a wide array of unique tastes. My favourite dish was   Salt Baked Celeriac a slice of celeriac with pickles and hay cheese, a unique utterly delicious taste! Also recommend trying the Braised Ox Tails with coriander seeds and fresh pine!

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THE KITCHEN




THE CELERIAC

The night continued at Jolene, a bar for all the dancing hipsters out there! The music is fine, the drinks ridiculously expensive and the neighbourhood is full of hip restaurants and clubs. 

MORE NEON

Sunday was basically all about the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.

The impressive garden by the seafront that hosts an impressive collection of sculptures.

A video from the "Fire under Snow" exhibition featuring some of the best contemporary audovisual artists, (I loved the tribute to John Lenon and Chelsea Hotel)

 


Candice Breitz "Working Class Hero" #johnlennon #diehardfans #cacophony

A museum with a view



Thumbs up, when in doubt spray paint it GOLD.

THE FLUX AND THE PUDDLE by David ALTMEJD

To be honest this is the real reason we went to Copenhagen on  this whirlwind adventure and though I was skeptical and made fun of my friend who implied we would be spending an entire day staring at a glass cube with wax sculptures I must admit I was blown away! Solemly has a single work of art had such a strong impact on me, and I would gladly have spent even more time starig and exploring this cabinet of curiosities. A true contemporary masterpiece and with every tour around the installation you discover a multiple new marvellous details!

"The Flux and the Puddle is a fascinating and frightening work about the body and its place in the world.

Born in Canada in 1974, David Altmejd pushes ideas and representations of the body and all its features to extremes and in The Flux and the Puddle ends up with a gigantic model with references to ecosystems and computer circuits. This work, from 2014, is like the Baroque ‘cabinet of curiosities’ translated into our own Big Bang era, sending us on a strange voyage through the work, driven by curiosity, intuition and close inspection."

Girl and broken mirror! Objectifying the reflection.

THE HEART IS A WAREWOLF 

And the trip ended with delicious tartar at Manfreds, our lovely local winebar!

But I asked you for a dance...

I hope this post finds you all sundrunk by the sea, with freckles on your nose, blonde streaks in your hair and a fabulous book in your hands. This summer has been relatively short, due to unforseen forces of change, but sweet nevertheless. I engaged in my annual hermit, detox, island retreat for about two weeks and thought I would share some photos and the books and songs that occuppied my time during my summer paradise-lost.

"The Myth of Sisyphus" has been somwhat of a recurrent theme in my life, whether it was the spectacular dance performance "Still Life" by the incredibly talented Mr Papaioannou, or my mum and lover reading it during the exact same time and talking to me about it. I thus thought that it was high-time to dwelve into a little absurdism. Though this essay rang true in many ways, I must admit I was surprised at how such a talented man like Camus managed to make 120 pages rather tiring and repetitive. Just know that at the end one must imagine Sisyphys happy....

"I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negated the gods and raises rocks. He, too, concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."

Albert Camus, "The Myth of Sisyphus" 

Survival kit for lazy sunbathers

The other book, "Generation X", that kept me company has again been ever-present during my teenage years as the term kept appearing in some of the key movies marking my coming of age such as Clerks, Reality Bites, Heathers, Fight Club, Dazed and Confused, Singles and many many more... and indeed it was a real delight and very topical for a girl in her late 20s coming from Greeceland. 

Self-diagnosis

"But my crisis wasn't just the failure of youth but also a failure of class and of sex and the future and I still don't know what. I began to see this world as one where citizens stare, say, at the armless Venus de Milo and fantasize about amputee sex or self-righteously apply a fig leaf to the statue of David, but not before breaking off his dick as a souvenir. All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally."  

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, by Douglas Coupland 

Washed out island beauty queens

Dancing in the moonlight on this long hot summer night

 

View from my paradise-lost

Absolute cuteness! World meet Victor! Cause the family just gained a heartbreaker!

The beauty of visiting my grandparents: Family tresures and long forgotten fashion gems

Dressing up

A fantabulous night for a moondance

 

Summertime is all about figs and hammocks

Cause Paul Simon's Graceland is and fo ralways will be the quintessential summer soundtrack

Absolute Greeceland

Cause we had a moment listening to this song, driving to the North side of the island to howl at the August super-moon

You know you're living when it all becomes a blur...

  WHAT 2013 WAS ALL ABOUT

As this year is coming to an end, one day left darlings and we get to kiss this bitch of a year goodbye, I couldn't resist the urge of drawing up a list of the things that made 2013 special for yours truly. ENJOY.

1. THE GROWLERS 

Cause they have been the soundtrack of my life for the past few months and are undoubtedly my biggest recent musical crush!

2. PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL PARIS 

Cause I went for the first time to what is easily the most civilized music festival and had the time of my life! Amazing company, awesome music from the likes of Todd Terje, The Knife, Omar Souleyman, Junip, Jon Hopkins, Jagwar Ma, Hot Chip, Glass Candy, Yo La Tengo, Disclosure and Connan Mockasin and one of the best festival venues La Grande Halle de la Villette.   

 

Marylin, cause she made our nest in Montmartre special.

3. MAKING LOVE HAPPEN 

Cause I know I have done at least one right thing in my life when 2 of my closest friends that I introduced to each other and actually organized their first official date decide to tie the knot. I was the happiest 'best man' this summer, cause we all love love. 

 

4. WANDERLUST

Cause in 2014 I will be embarking on a new adventure....

5. ALL THE BEAUTIFUL BOYS 

That have colored my life with the chaos of trouble during the last few months...BIG LOVE

 

6. THE REFLEKTORS aka Arcade Fire

Cause 2013 was their year and everything they did was pure GOLD.

7. THE DEEP SEA 

Cause I have spent the better part of the last year and a half trying to save it! 

This is an amazing comic strip that accompanied a petition against deep-sea bottom trawling. It explains the story of how after the over-exploitation of demersal fish stocks we discovered new fuel intensive techniques to fish further from the coast and at greater depths whilst destroying corals and sponges that live thousands of years to catch extremely vulnerable fish that no one really wants to eat!  

8. LA GRANDE BELLEZZA

9. Our high school reunion and our matching tattoos

10. MARGARET ATWOOD

For ooooh so many reasons...