great forgotten movies: Soy Cuba

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Those located in London have the rare chance to see Soy Cuba during the next days at ICA (screenings start this friday). The film is Mikhail Kalatozov’s account of the Castro revolution, Soy Cuba, is more than Soviet agitprop. It’s one of the great forgotten movies of the 1960s, .. (continues in From Russia with […] Read More

blog service designs limits of posting

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.. according to distant national rules – yet the blogger still attempts to find a way through … The story around the chinese blogger Zhao who’s blog anti (link for those able to read chinese) had been shut down by MSN was taken up on the 3rd by RConversation… Microsoft’s MSN Spaces continues to censor […] Read More

sing the blog

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Abe & MO sing the blog Blogs, like the Blues, have been credited with channeling “the voice of the people,” but do blogs adhere to any one set of characteristics that defines them as a genre? And how might blogs be understood as public spaces, in light of the time-based performances that take place there? […] Read More

wew … back

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.. with some flaws still .. but so far I am already really delighted : ) to see my blog appear again (… and even wordpress 2.0 at work)! Apologies for 2 days of varying errors being displayed instead of my site. Hopefully the rest can be resolved soon. Please have some patience (with trackback […] Read More

B-Zone revisited

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B-Zone show at Kunstwerke, Berlin, attempts to transpose the projects described on transcultural geographies into an exhibition environment. The word attempt here got stuck in its movement of transition into adequate fulfillment. There is a lot to read and learn around those ideas which are worked on for the projects, nevertheless they have been around […] Read More

beginning with frozen flowers

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… a moment – frozen in liquid silicone artist Marc Quinn considers his ‘Garden’ flowers to become equivalent to the pure image for being of dead matter and suspended from further transition. .. The beauty of a flower relates strongly to its momentary blooming – reflecting a vanity which gets absorbed by the vainness of […] Read More