china

… some aspects concerning different viewpoints: First here to be recommended a still ongoing platform at Berlin’s HKW titled China – Between Past and Future mainly showing work of younger artists living and working in China. The accompanying show titled Between Past and Future focuses on the developments of new forms of expression during the […] Read More

Thought Bubble – Berlin Brain

Living in Berlin gets one – at least for european standards – quite adjusted to constant changes of the cityscape which are not always accompanied by thought-through inventions: Latest highlights which might more likely evoke the impression that one just visits a huge consumer park – supported by background views of major spots of the […] Read More

Sabina Spielrein

… appeared several times in the correspondence between Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung, yet there was very little information about her. She came from Russia and was Jung’s first analysis-patient in the Burghölzli clinic in Zürich. After successful treatment, (Jung diagnosed Hysteria) she studied medicine, became one of the first women in Freud’s Psychoanalytical […] Read More

mapping the planet in peril

Le Monde Diplomatic just published the introduction for the new atlas Planet in Peril: Atlas of Current Threats to People and the Environment Written by an international team of specialists, these pages from the Atlas illustrate through text and maps, graphics and diagrams the interplay between population and the world’s ecosystems and natural resources both […] Read More

explosions

.. no further comment – just some info: The photographs of S.Pickering understand themselves as delving into the ‘aesthetics’ of explosions by considering them investigation into the crux of reality and it’s simulation. (link) It’s a thoughtful project, worth to think twice about it and I guess that is why I kept that material already […] Read More