Aghet – Demons of the Past

Sometimes it might seem that this blog is side-stepping, even to myself, but then I recall the ‘gap’ is also always been about the gap in general and any meaning and as well especially about media.

One could now wonder why especially Germany produced and aired an ambitious TV-documentary about the Armenian genocide. Though seeing …

Berlin – still lost planet … ?

There is obviously still a lot of interest in the weaving of the myth of Berlin inheriting all these lost, forgotten and abandoned places. And true, there are a lot of free, unused, abandoned, shut off, ... places – especially for a location, which is regarded, though kind of north-east, definitely as part of …

upcoming Paralympics Vancouver 2010

Aware of the upcoming Winter Paralympic Games in Vancouver? The Games will start exactly one month after the Winter Olympic Games 2010 and take place in the same locations.
Isn’t it another good reason to re-think our body / mind relations, our categorizations of physical fitness, the judgements of appearance and beauty …One who …

… things that happen to the body,
things that can’t be undone

excerpted from TATEetc > Microtate – reflections on a work from the Tate collection:Tim Etchells on John Coplans’s Self-Portrait (Torso, Front), 1984It’s the texture of the skin that summons a number of things. Memory of my grandfather, hooked up to an oxygen cylinder in the front room of the prefab bungalow, Alvaston, near …

… and move on: an outlook on
Out of Context by Les Ballets C de la B

To start 2010 with some move forward .. what could be better in this context than Alain Platel’s Out of Context, which I already had the luck to see in an excerpt at the Tanzkongress 2009, which took place in Hamburg under the nicely ambiguous title “No Step without Movement!” (see video).

It is …

YARD – re-played

Allan Karpow’s ‘YARD’ piece has been re-played through the artist by performance artist William Pope L., at the Manhattan townhouse 32 East 69th Street where Kaprow first exhibited his Environment YARD in 1961.

The scene presented Allan Kaprow YARD, revisiting a seminal 1961 work by the revered New York City-born artist and inventor of Happenings …

‘an eye for an eye ….’

.. but may be I’ll take two – hope you don’t mind ….

.... that at least is the impression I got, when I finally had the chance to see Avi Mograbi’s documentary Z32. Nevertheless by the filmmaker’s doubts, which have been mixed into the film as questioning songs, it all together might – ...