Iraqi Equation
… in the exhibition, the viewer is compelled to question which information actually feeds our own impressions of the current situation in Iraq. Isn’t it true that images in the media are our sole source of insight into the alleged reality there? The review of the recent show Contemporary Arab Representations. The Iraqi Equation in […] Read Moreserendipity / happy discoveries
A real nice find on the day with the shortest daylight time of the year is this introduction of Jasia Reichardt – a piece she recently has written to describe the circumstances which led to the development of the much cited exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity almost 40 years ago …. When we approach a frontier, or […] Read More
Towards a Non-eurocentric Europe
Always in favor of the paradox and the non-Eurocentric it’s a pleasure to point to this call for contributions under the topic of Creolization: Towards a Non-eurocentric Europe Is Europe involved in a process of “Creolization”? This issue proposes to test the idea that creolization, an originally territorialized Caribbean theory, is now resonating far beyond […] Read MoreB-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). B-ZONE is a territorial research and collaborative art project on the transformation of the social and political geographies stretching from Southeast Europe […] Read Morewaiting for the clouds
A film which tries to deal with these just mentioned issues of suppressed tendencies of nationalism is the recently started ‘Waiting for the clouds‘: What is a homeland? Who is a foreigner? These thorny questions of identity and nationalism, played out through Ayhse’s long and tragic life, will be prominent themes in WAITING FOR THE […] Read More
nationalism has gone mobile
Hm … I can’t say that this interview with Benedict Anderson (via … and) provides that much of revealing information nevertheless it lists a lot of careful provided links. And the theme of ‘nationalism’ which by nature is a very complex one is always worth to be reflected from various angles. Thus this post does […] Read More
for today ..
something to look and listen .. had it on my list since a while and just got reminded that it might be worth to put it here: the lake mysteries (links come from here) Read Morethe complexities of things
A recent viewing of Paradise Now (From the most unexpected place, comes a bold new call for peace / film website) which was followed up by a discussion between journalist Amira Haas und Kifah Massarwi convinced me that this film (I already had posted on it in short in Feb.05) really is worth to be […] Read Moreforwarding thoughts on ends of history …
… and continuing reflections on the real and unreal under the assumption that even incorrect readings [..] make something-however marginal or inconsequential-“real,” … (from comments of the cited post) Long sunday’s recent post contemplates on various ways of popular claims of ends of history and forwards a demand for help to find the ‘real’ essence […] Read Morethe other side of the mirror
‘There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.’ image source Guardian This is from the introductionary sentences with which Harold Pinter quoted himself in his […] Read More
Talking Back to Radio
Radio Copernicus a project for artistic use of radio transmitting from Berlin and Wroclaw is featuring experimental workshops and attempts to explore … What happens to radio when artists get hold of it? Radio_Copernicus tries to answer this question in various ways and, in doing so, avails itself of music, spoken word, radio theatre and […] Read Moretraum 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 common […] Read More