Dance is hard to see *
In the new issue of Kaleidoscope I came across an article on the new work of the dancer Michael Clark & his company and trying to find out more … just discovered these elder ones .. It is in attitude quite close to traditional ballet, though refreshingly breaking down boundaries … crossing into and playing […] Read MoreThe Disorder of Things
One hardly hears anything anymore about Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, who once started as Federico Fellini’s assistant on the set of 8 1/2, except that there has been her birthday the other day. But she might be worth to be recalled for some of her extra ordinary films or as the Harvard Film Archive put […] Read More
IWD – International Women’s Day
According to UN definition .. International Women’s Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women’s groups around the world. This date is also commemorated at the United Nations and is designated in many countries as a national holiday. When women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic […] Read MoreRead de Beauvoir, don’t put it down ..
… ends today’s essay by Barbara Vinken in the taz, and I guess she makes a still actual point here. ‘faces’ of Beauvoir from Simonedebeauvoir.kit.net Not only is it good to recapitulate how women had to fight (like for these nowadays ‘common’ rights like voting, access to universities, .. etc) … but also to learn […] Read Morelet’s get feminist: recalling Simone de Beauvoir, 1908
Feminist Simone de Beauvoir, the influential french intellectual and author will have her 100th birthday this week. Simone de Beauvoir is best known for The Second Sex, her scandalous 1949 account of what it meant to be female – regarded as the founding text for the modern women’s movement. She met Jean-Paul Sartre in Paris […] Read More.. understand islam …
Even though a bit late, but still a selection worth to go through is the hint from bookforum.com regarding a compiling review in the last issue of ‘The New York Review of Books‘, which goes through several titles on Islam and combines it with a selection on the headscarve and the veil’ under the title […] Read MoreMedea alone – interesting, yet ….
‘Medea‘ the old myth of the furious woman, passionate, betrayed, full of revenge .. has been reworked by numerous writers and theater plays, but among the more interesting interpretations are surely the one of C.Wolf’s polyphone ‘Medea. Voices‘ and Heiner Müller’s text, which he had straightened down to the essential staff. Stripped down further to […] Read More
urgent re-evaluation needed
Back when I posted on Persepolis I already had been thinking if I should post on aryan description as the terminology for the Iranian people and point to the nowadays obsolete understanding of the usage of Aryan to mean “all Indo-Europeans” by most scholars. In central Europe and especially in Germany there is still a […] Read MoreOutside <> Inside: Lygia Clark
> Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica: A Legacy of Interactivity and Participation for a Telematic Future. The work of both has been shown in Europe during Documenta X in 1997 and more recently under the title ‘Tropicalia‘ – the name of the 1960s the brasilian art movement. Just recently I came across some texts and […] Read More
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 […] Read More
reframing history of science
Patricia Fara’s title Pandora’s Breeches: Women, Science and Power in the Enlightenment looks ‘beyond’ the official described scenes and sheds light on the women behind ‘great men’ in the world of science – at least during periods of the 18th century when the female part of society still had access to the labaratorium as it […] Read Morenebula – reminiscence
Nebula, 1996, Helen Chadwick, image via It is a positive surprise to find Helen Chadwick quite a few times listed and recent publications on her work, thus memorizing the special sensation an encounter with her work left at the time, when she still had been around – introducing an ambivalence along a fine line between […] Read More