Violet – last perceivable color before the unknown
In Meg Stuart’s citing of herself: “often I say to my dancers: Your body is not yours.â€2 (link) lingers a resonance quite close to Spinoza’s â€what the body can do†– “the body itself, merely from the laws of its own nature alone, can do many things, at which the mind marvels.â€3 Stuart’s 2011 piece […] Read More
Sweeping the Speech Bubbles
“It takes a long time to become young.” said Picasso. And I think he meant the curious look, the undoing of the known, the ability to comprehend outside the rule and to try instead to open up an inner space that unsettles the framing view. Letting go the preformed seems to be a tough task […] Read More
Pioneers Of The Downtown Scene NYC
The current exhibition Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark – Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s is much more interesting than many other recent one’s in this field in my opinion. Performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson, choreographer Trisha Brown and artist Gordon Matta-Clark were friends and active participants in the New York […] Read More
Danced Diversity
Spoken language and body language, both mix in an exquisite way in the latest piece of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui en Damien Jalet – BABEL (words). The piece fascinatingly shows a wide variety of expressions including aggression, humor, an almost slapstick-like behavior and a deep sensuality for the forms and languages of the body, – and […] Read More
corporal experience: Out of Context – For Pina
‘Chorea’ is a medical term referring to an affected nervous system, the symptoms of which are jerky movements and poor coordination. Finally I had the chance to see the entire piece ‘Out of Context – For Pina’ by Alain Platel | Les ballets C de la B. Though it was a thought-provoking experience on many […] Read More
something else: the window across .. etc …
I always liked Friederike Mayröcker writings .. and this is a perfect beginning of a film I would wish to see …. soon .. DAS SCHREIBEN UND DAS SCHWEIGEN – Trailer >>> website of the filmmaker Read More
Islam in Europe / arabs and terrorism
Hm …. there is hope for a change after Obama’s recent speech which the german magazine ‘Der Spiegel’ announced as A ‘NEW BEGINNING’ IN CAIRO, but certainly it won’t work without looking into one’s own preconceptions. While in NYC the NYPL & The European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) present “ISLAM IN EUROPE – […] Read More
As the Hammer Strikes
Some online research after coming across this nice and unexpected Wittgenstein quote “In the actual use of expressions we make detours, we go by side-roads. We see the straight highway before us, but of course we cannot use it, because it is permanently closed.” (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 1953) lead me to another interesting piece […] Read MoreMay 1, 2010
After the Yes Men / NGO last’s year coup of handing out a fake version of the New York Times now the german anti-globalization group ATTAC imitated the weekly magazine ‘Die Zeit’. The fake pages can be downloaded as pdf or read online (sorrily only in german). img via dw-world.de further links: reuters: indiamediaspace_09 link […] Read More