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a one-word name is an anarchist’s name
Today I found a short and convincing argument by artist Soo-Ja Kim which might even me make think about having an URL according to the own name – a fact which so far I never really could support entirely.A one word name refuses gender identity, marital status, socio-political or cultural and geographical identity by …
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Middle east news on culture and politics
For Berlin – friday 20th and saturday 21st at the HAU:Conceptually, the point of the event cannot be to provide a comprehensive overview of current cultural production in the various countries of an extremely contrast-rich and multifarious region. Rather, the aim is to trace several levels of reflection, taking the artists’ works as a …
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gaps due to kafkaesque forces
.. in the FBI files hint no comment on his major publication ‘Orientalism’ but a lot of frequent observation of one of the leading figures of american intellectual and academic life.
... via counterpunch comes David Price’s (author of Threatening Anthropology) report on FBI activities regarding top intellectuals and academics – in this case … -
western attitudes …
A chapter which isn’t so present in german conciousness is the colonisation and genocide of the Herero. There have been some occassions when the theme had been picked up during the last years – especially for the 100 year rememberance of the Herero uprising, but its still not covered well. Thus I will take …
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downtown dirt
via newsgrist come two interesting articles on art concerning especially the NYC scene. Both are taken from NYT and offer an interesting read which makes me wish to be there. First is on the use and change of white cube gallery attitudes (NYT) and second points to an exciting exhibition The Downtown Scene, When …
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full moon tonite
... so it might be the right time to look at an excerpt of the continuing storyline from 1001 nights cast … at night through a gap.
1001 nights cast is an artistic performance project lasting for 1001 consecutive nights as an ongoing narration. It gets its initial starting points through a daily webcast which … -
… no more doubts
.. the letters ‘Zweifel’ (doubt(s) – an artwork installed during summer/autumn 2005) are already gone since a while.
And finally it seems that the discussion around the Palast der Republik (Berlin) has been given up for the desire to fill the emerging vacuum with a plastic Disneyland version instead of following a proposal …