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 …

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 …

… 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 …

‘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 – ...

associating: The angel of history

The following is Benjamin’s ninth thesis from the essay “Theses on the Philosophy of History”:
A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one …

Desire for Walling

There is a pretty good article and mainly link-collection over on we-make-money – generally a very interesting blog – about facts and impact of walling. The article centers around the ‘Desiring Walls’ lecture by Wendy Brown (audio file on resistnetwork), which analysis the globally evolving phenomenon for walling. Regine from we-make-money has carefully collected …

inescapable experience of process oriented research

Relating to my own experience I am always interested into projects, which attempt to make use of new media techniques for their realization. To establish a blog aside a current undertaking meanwhile almost became a common habit. Thus not so many of these projects really managed to make appropriate use of the tools they …