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 […] Read More40 years continued: a political impasse / + update: Hollow Land by E.Weizman / R. Bechler on the ai report
Fred Halliday, professor of international relations at the LSE, and visiting professor at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies, offers his analysis and view on the Middle East situation in the latest publication at opendemocracy.net:Forty years after the six-day war of June 1967, the prospects for a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seem as remote […] Read More40 years
amnesty international issued a report on Monday to mark the anniversary of 1967 war in the Middle East, charging that Israel plunged the Palestinians into unprecedented levels of poverty and despair through 40 years of occupation but failed to ensure its own security. (via france24) img via ai // The 700km fence/wall being built by […] Read Moreviewing the gaze
The MOMA’s current show on Jeff Wall displays as well a selction of images online. Among them the often mentioned Picture for Women, 1979, which is worth a bit closer look. Jeff Wall himself describes his work on the MOMA online exhibition page as following: Picture for Women (1979) is a remake of Manet’s picture. […] Read Morelooking and listening: J. Benning’s work
Ok. here the new Gus van Sant film ‘Last Days‘ is just starting and as one of the reviewers (german only) drew connections to a shot of M.Snows ‘Wavelength‘ and the general attitude of the films of James Benning as influences for van Sand, I thought it worth to connect to the work of the […] Read MoreAgonistic politics and artistic practices
Looking east, towards the new 2007 EU members, might be quite interesting in many regards. One of these is very directly addressed by an upcoming conference – ‘Regimes of Representation: Art & Politics Beyond the House of People’ – at the Romania’s national museum of contemporay art: MNAC in Bucharest, which formerly had been named […] Read More… give a damn ..
.. is the suggestion of a this year’s publication entitled: Design Like You Give a Damn. It has been edited by architecture for humanity and shows a collection of innovative projects from around the world that demonstrate the power of design to improve lives: The greatest humanitarian challenge we face today is that of providing […] Read Moredisturbing beauty
… ok, the threat by mobile phones (to which she refers) just recently has been dismissed as no longer relevant, but nevertheless there are interesting relations and a fantastic worldview to be discovered at Mary Mattingly’s project website. link to Mary Mattingly: Second Nature – a text on M. Mattingly’s photography She developes a scenario […] Read More