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You may be asking yourself: what the hell is urban sexiness all about? I have to confess that we don’t know. We speculated around various possibilities and went in different directions, but we agreed on one thing: sexiness provokes desire.

So our starting point was to uncover our own desires. Do you want to try unfolding yourself too? What attracts you to a city? How, by what, and by whom are you seduced? What affects you? Or, to pose the question differently, can you be affected? With what intensity? Or do you prefer to be anesthetized?

Looking at cities through the lenses of our own lived experiences, we drifted through a series of themes that “undress” the relations between the bodies of cities and the cities in the bodies. We looked at them in various ways: politically-engaged, poetically, or ironically. We juxtaposed city marketing and sensorial urbanism: the “spectacularized city”, consumed by mass-tourism and advertised by dubious marketing campaigns, VERSUS the “soft cities” of travelers, where unpredictable situations and hidden mysteries construct personal narratives and sensory memories. We criticized the mainstream and opened space for queer and marginal lifestyles. Moreover, we realized that none of us belongs to only one side of the game.

Molar processes generate product-bodies and city-images, while molecular processes reveal lived-ordinary-bodies and city-experiences. We are affected by both. We continuously dress and undress urban practices and representations through self-actualization. Which means the potential on-going redefinition of ourselves and our lifestyles made through processes of identification and exclusion. Cities are people and people are cities. Urbanism is a mode of being.

Finally, we have to remember that if affection, passion and desire move us, they also move our cities. Therefore, BROKE whishes to foster more affection in the city by fostering affectionate behavior.

That is why BROKE costs 10 KISSES*...
Come to the launch party and get yours!
We hope you also gain some pleasure while reading our magazine.

Daniela Brasil
Editor-in-chief


*Exchange rates available soon at BROKE stock, right here, on this weblog.

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Broken processes:processing Broke

Greetings sexy urbanites, contributors, conspirators and collaborators, 

We have been hard at work in the MacPool since last Friday, in fact, we have moved in temporarily. Daniela and Esther have been busy designing, Bill and Cris busy revising and Loukas has been drafting e-mails, getting coffee, massaging our feet and planning the launching party.

2.Broke will go into the printing process by the weekend thanks to the help of Jörg von Stuckard in the printing workshop. If anyone has time to help with this process, we are always happy to have a few extra hands.

We would like your input for the design of our party 'uniforms.' We could have the 2.Broke font logo silk-screened onto T-shirts, or make buttons with the pink kiss on them, or BOTH. Any ideas or suggestions?

We will keep you posted about the party when we confirm the venue.

For now, it will definitely be on 

Tuesday, January 27th from 18:00 until your lips are sore from too much kissing!

Mua!

Broke

Juan Calleros A Dogs Runaway

Press on the title of this post to go to the video. This video came up as an idea for the party projections. I won't say much about it and just let it speak for itself. There is an erotic awkwardness that reminds me of lonely sexy people in big cities.
Juan Calleros is a Mexican artist currently residing in Toronto.

city of desire2

white female city, mature, hilled and atlantic, a bit shy but enjoys great adventures (the best were 500yrs. ago) searchs for a young partner, dynamic, relaxed, not yet metropolized, preferably tropical. contact: 38º43'N9º08'W

City of Desire

Female, 23, seek city for sleepless nights, long walks and easy access entertainment.



Hey Everyone,
can you please post a classified ad for the city of your desire?
A small example is above; although yours can be longer or shorter or more detailed.
It would be pretty great to get some of your ideas so that I can continue to work with the themes that we have been discussing in the group. I have been working with the themes of nostalgia and desire... maybe this can help you out.

Thanks and see you on Friday,
Cris

Menza photoshoot

place: Mensa
date: Wednesday 10th December
time: 12:00-14:30

photoshoot for "broke" magazine

Volunteers wanted!

(many surprises for the participants - be there!)

City Art

Postcards and Souvenirs - Idea

Hello Everyone,

I explain the idea of my project:

Ítalo Calvino says in his book “Invisibles Cities”, “of a city, not capitalize on its seven or seventy-seven wonders, but the response it gives to our questions”

So I think to write a poetic text that approachs the experience of self-knowledge from the knowledge of a city, or another body (To keep the analogy with persons, that justifies the use of the term sexy to a city) Its aims is to confront the experience of the “Soft cities the “travel” with the “Spetacle cities – the “tourist” (paper given by Daniela) and try to understand the meaning of Postcards and souvinirs in these contexts, not necessarily antagonistic.

I also propose an intervention in the city:

I would like in Berlin (it’s “flagship”), but on practical issues, could be in Weimar, since it is also a tourist city.

When visiting any city, people buy things, to communicate through them to other people (known) their experiences in this city (Postcards) or to say that thought them during the visit (souvenirs)

The objective would be playing with the meaning of these elements and make people think about the exchange and interaction that exists between them and the city: Tourists create a large postcard to the city and give it a souvenir - Tourists would be invited to express their experiences in the city. In exchange would take a copy of the text (a souvenir!)

The photos of this process and the outcome of the "postcard" illustrate the text in the magazine.

It would be nice if someone will join me in this project!

Main Entry:

¹re·dress

Pronunciation:

\ri-ˈdres\

Function:

transitive verb

Etymology:

Middle English, from Anglo-French redresser to set upright, restore, redress, from re- + dresser to set straight — more at dress

Date:

14th century

1 a (1): to set right : remedy redress social wrongs — W. R. Inge> (2): to make up for : compensate b: to remove the cause of (a grievance or complaint) c: to exact reparation for : avenge2archaic a: to requite (a person) for a wrong or loss b: heal

synonyms see correct

— re·dress·er noun