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nothing about the weather ..
... just some thoughts on weather reports and boredom’s impact evoked by reading the following observation* (by Diller and Scofidio / found via pruned) which was taken before weather forces and impacts hit without any regard of holiday season or national aspects especially in south east asia, north america and central asia.
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Iraqi Equation
... in the exhibition, the viewer is compelled to question which information actually feeds our own impressions of the current situation in Iraq. Isn’t it true that images in the media are our sole source of insight into the alleged reality there?
The review of the recent show Contemporary Arab Representations. The Iraqi Equation in … -
serendipity / happy discoveries
A real nice find on the day with the shortest daylight time of the year is this introduction of Jasia Reichardt – a piece she recently has written to describe the circumstances which led to the development of the much cited exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity almost 40 years ago …. When we approach a frontier, ...
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Towards a Non-eurocentric Europe
Always in favor of the paradox and the non-Eurocentric it’s a pleasure to point to this call for contributions under the topic of Creolization: Towards a Non-eurocentric Europe
Is Europe involved in a process of “Creolization”? This issue proposes to test the idea that creolization, an originally territorialized Caribbean theory, is now resonating far beyond … -
B-ZONE: Becoming Europe and Beyond
B-ZONE: Becoming Europe and Beyond is an exhibition on the projects (project website) of Ursula Biemann: Black Sea Files, Angela Melitopoulos a.o.: Timescapes/Corridor X and Lisa Parks: Postwar Footprints (former post on L.Parks).
B-ZONE is a territorial research and collaborative art project on the transformation of the social and political geographies stretching from Southeast Europe … -
waiting for the clouds
A film which tries to deal with these just mentioned issues of suppressed tendencies of nationalism is the recently started ‘Waiting for the clouds’: What is a homeland? Who is a foreigner? These thorny questions of identity and nationalism, played out through Ayhse’s long and tragic life, will be prominent themes in WAITING …
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nationalism has gone mobile
Hm … I can’t say that this interview with Benedict Anderson (via … and) provides that much of revealing information nevertheless it lists a lot of careful provided links. And the theme of ‘nationalism’ which by nature is a very complex one is always worth to be reflected from various angles. Thus this post …