The Offside Rules

‘The Offside Rules’ is the last production form the dancegroup around Constanza Macras, which was commissioned by the Goethe Institut for the 2010 football World Cup. In this coproduction of the Goethe-Institut South Africa, the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, and Constanza Macras/Dorky Park, three performers from Macras’ company teamed up with dancers from Johannesburg, who …

America’s Change

Visualization of Obama’s Victory Speech >>> see source page
.. and as it has been an historic event let’s also link to this visualization of Martin Wattenberg – the site History Wired, a visualization of a selection of objects from the Smithsonian Museum. (This was built in collaboration with Judy Gradwohl at the Smithsonian.)
A …

waltz with bashir

The animated film by Ari Folman, which slowly starts to hit theaters, caused some interest at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. It introduces itself as a very personal narration about a soldier’s memory loss. From the synopsis: One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari Folman about a recurring nightmare in …

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 by …

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, ...

minor instincts / shock doctrine

The recent new book – and accompanying film – of Naomi Klein causes already a lot of discussion. And it is good that there are (semi*) open places like the Guardian mini-site to provide this.
Sorrily I haven’t read the book, thus I can’t really decide on some raised detail information, also I can’t …

picidae – breaking through the wall / ZONE INTERDITE – unveiling some blind spots

A cool project currently has been set up and continues developing to deliver access to blocked and censored sites, which have been blocked for political reasons, via so called ‘pici-servers’. ... The World Wide Web, the nervous system of a simultaneous communication and the platform for global data exchange, is quite a diverse heterogeneous …