signs of urban migrants

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Two projects working directly with young migrant generations .. The Portable Life. Signs of urban migrants. Migrantas has been working since 2001 on projects related to migration, identity and dialogue between different cultures. Their projects combine tools from the social sciences, graphic design and the visual arts, and put them at the disposal of reflection […] Read More

TV and Video Pioneer in arts

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… remembering Nam-Jun Paik Charlotte Moorman in concert Paik So langweilig wei moglich (part1) via ubu web. Just some examples of his multi-layered work which started out from Fluxus attitude but was entirely dedicated to an artistic research into new media adaption – including audio works – and especially to the influencing medium of his […] Read More

tomorrow is our permanent address ..

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… McLuhan claimed some decades ago but nowadays we are simply already immersed and embedded … Arthur C. Kroker (editor of ctheory) states that we live in the electronic culture that he (McLuhan) prophesied. And since he wrote about it, technology has become more pervasive, but silent. It’s invisible. An elder article (written 2005 to […] Read More

Virtual Electronic Poem

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Under the coordination of the Virtual Reality and Multi Media Park/Turin three Universities worked on the reconstruction of The Poème Électronique (mpg link of the original projection) a Corbusier / Varèse / Xennakis project for the first EXPO after WWII in 1958. “I will make not a building but an electronique poem in which light, […] Read More

a revolt that never ends

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Antonio Negri – A revolt that never ends – a 2004 documentary which … profiles the controversial life and times of this university professor, philosopher, militant, prisoner, refugee, and so-called ‘enemy of the state.’ It traces Negri’s roots in the history of radical left-wing movements in Italy during the Sixties and Seventies, illustrated through archival […] Read More

middle east news – forget bagdad

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Short review from the weekend’s conference/screenings/concerts on middle east: What started as the show ‘The Iraqi Equation’* became now continued under the very vague title ‘Middle East News‘. Thematically presented lectures, films and concerts were not so much angeled around the major view point of Iraq but attempting to cover various aspects of the entire […] Read More

a space of one’s own

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This small, but intriguing performance video associates thoughts about the wish and need of a certain enclosure … “But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction – what has that to do with a room of one’s own?” (first sentence A Room of One’s Own V.Woolf) Certainly ‘Enclose’ stands for […] Read More

a one-word name is an anarchist’s name

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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

Middle east news on culture and politics

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For Berlin – friday 20th and saturday 21st at the HAU: Conceptually, the point of the event cannot be to provide a comprehensive overview of current cultural production in the various countries of an extremely contrast-rich and multifarious region. Rather, the aim is to trace several levels of reflection, taking the artists’ works as a […] Read More

gaps due to kafkaesque forces

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.. in the FBI files hint no comment on his major publication ‘Orientalism‘ but a lot of frequent observation of one of the leading figures of american intellectual and academic life. … via counterpunch comes David Price’s (author of Threatening Anthropology) report on FBI activities regarding top intellectuals and academics – in this case Edward […] Read More

western attitudes …

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A chapter which isn’t so present in german conciousness is the colonisation and genocide of the Herero. There have been some occassions when the theme had been picked up during the last years – especially for the 100 year rememberance of the Herero uprising, but its still not covered well. Thus I will take the […] Read More

downtown dirt

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via newsgrist come two interesting articles on art concerning especially the NYC scene. Both are taken from NYT and offer an interesting read which makes me wish to be there. First is on the use and change of white cube gallery attitudes (NYT) and second points to an exciting exhibition The Downtown Scene, When It […] Read More

full moon tonite

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… so it might be the right time to look at an excerpt of the continuing storyline from 1001 nights cast … at night through a gap. 1001 nights cast is an artistic performance project lasting for 1001 consecutive nights as an ongoing narration. It gets its initial starting points through a daily webcast which […] Read More

… no more doubts

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.. the letters ‘Zweifel’ (doubt(s) – an artwork installed during summer/autumn 2005) are already gone since a while. And finally it seems that the discussion around the Palast der Republik (Berlin) has been given up for the desire to fill the emerging vacuum with a plastic Disneyland version instead of following a proposal to use […] Read More