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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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B-Zone revisited
B-Zone show at Kunstwerke, Berlin, attempts to transpose the projects described on transcultural geographies into an exhibition environment. The word attempt here got stuck in its movement of transition into adequate fulfillment. There is a lot to read and learn around those ideas which are worked on for the projects, nevertheless they have …
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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).
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traum und traumata
Under this title (translates: ‘Dream and Trauma’ which incoporates already a connotation of the inherent difficulty and danger) the last project for this year opened yesterday at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. As interesting as the project sounds – reading the introduction text and the here taken assoziations used to connect to …
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: desert of the real
via antipopper I discovered some new links on mapping: eyebeams’s google map oberlay and radicalcartography which introduces itself withe the following Baudrillard quote: If we were able to take as the finest allegory of simulation the Borges tale where the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends …
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responsibility for unconscious predispositions
The call for action on 29th seemed not not been passed on too much. Still worth to point to it (1st part) – and reflections (read further) on reasons and suppressed/ unconscious predispositions which create the fortress of enclosing eurocentrism :
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memory trace – absence’s signifier
This link established to a quote from Marc Augé’s latest book on Oblivion brought me to follow some associative traces of the memory path simultaneously connecting between remembrance and forgetting. As a still remarkable example to see the impact and power of these technics I point to Jean Rouche’s film ‘Les Maitres Fous’. Here …