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… things that happen to the body,
things that can’t be undoneexcerpted 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 Derby, 1980-something. ...
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… and move on: an outlook on
Out of Context by Les Ballets C de la BTo 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 certainly ...
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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 ...
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‘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 – regarding ...
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3 G – work in progress
Third Generation – a theater piece of young Israeli writer and director Yael Ronen, which had been developed in 2008 with the support of the Berlin Schaubühne, Tel Aviv’s Habima National Theater and some funding of german institutions, sounds like an interesting experiment. It brings together a younger generation of three people, who all may ...
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changing the plan
So it surely has been around already, that the Yes Men were at the Chamber of Commerce, though I would like to link to it in context of the current climate change campaigns and actions …. .... The stunt was pulled off by the Yes Men, the activists best known for posing as corporate executives ...
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Manhatta
Short, but stunning city portrait: ‘MANHATTA’ A portrait of New York by painter Charles Sheeler and photographer Paul Strand. The title cards show quotes from Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass”. Wikipedia“The film spans an imaginary day in the life of New York City, beginning with footage of Staten Island ferry commuters and culminating with the ...
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Wealth of Nations
... meant ironically or in quest of a new meaning ??? Clear is so far, that the headline refers to an interesting exhibition and conference just takes place right now in Novi Sad under the title ‘Wealth of Nations‘, which wants to bring together Art, Theory, Social Sciences and Economics, Cultural Studies and Finance in ...
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Performativity of the Line
“A line for the pleasure of being a line, of going ahead, as a line. Points. Dust of points. A line is dreaming. Before then, no one had ever let a line dream.” This quote of H.Michaux from ‘Adventures of Lines’ (org. ‘Aventures de lignes’) opens Laura U.Marks essay ‘Taking a line for a walk, ...