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di/visions
This weekend House of World Cultures in Berlin will start with Catherine David’s DI/VISIONS project, which focuses on Culture and Politics of the Middle East. The program presents a month long series of talks, discussions and screenings, surely worth to be explored – (>> program):... In the Middle East, the long 20th century was marked ...
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the skin of the space
‘... We slowly loosen the rubber layering, the skin, tugging the yesterday into today..’ (.. Wir lösen langsam die Kautschukschichten, die Haut, und ziehen das Gestern ins Heute.) Before coming across a recent taz article these days I hadn’t heard about the work of the swiss architect Heidi Bucher. The article on her work, entitled ...
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occupation 101
Described as a must to see: ... almost a year ago the film occupation 101 got its first – very positive – reviews (see imbd, my space ) by interested and some occasional movie goers on festivals. The documentation focuses on the palestinian-israeli conflict, and was done as their first film project after a visit ...
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SenseScapes / Sensory Studies – senses everywhere
This site – creating a place for SenseScapes – sounds pretty interesting … The study of ‘SenseScapes’ is a newly emerging interdisciplinary field focussing on sensorial studies of human interaction with physical environments. Challenging an ocular-centricism that arguably underpins much scholarship in the arts, humanities and social sciences, a new multi-sensory research agenda is being ...
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the naming continues – rebuilding history
.. another concept of taking it kind of literally is the very interesting ‘project naming’ across which I came on savage minds: While the archival community has long recognized that the majority of Inuit whose photographs are held in the Library and Archives Canada (LAC) collections were not identified, it was Murray Project Naming: Atootoo, ...
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at the threshold of perception
> watch the slide show)and the by Harry Laakso curated show Grey Matters – photography is thinking
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borders
[first: ... a short note and apology: a major breakdown of my computer kept me on the restoring side instead of posting new stuff … but this will follow here now:] The current issue of LMD (german edition) brings in a short note and images of the last year’s exhibition ‘Frontières’ (french) with by geograph ...
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the precarious nature of actual documentary
as stated by Hito Steyerl in her contribution on Documentary Uncertainty for the current issue of the A Prior magazine, which thematically focuses – as far as one can say that by displaying blue fonts on blue background, or eventually the magazine already wants this way to point to the difficulties of current readabilities – ...
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again UPDATE: LMD and bitterlemons on 40 years
Also the June issue of Le monde diplomatique (LMD) focuses in its Dossier on the 1967 war in the Middle East and its consequences, as well does the bitterlemons-international.org roundtable by publishing it’s weekly edition this friday under the theme: June 1967, 40 years later: a regional view. Both are again good sources to update ...