well … 2008 !!!

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… so we came over .. and finally I am looking forward to have a clear field ahead and in a certain way to a new start .. 2007 has been too much occupied with several health issues which summed up to draw a lot of energy and concentration. As I am working my way […] Read More

di/visions

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This weekend House of World Cultures in Berlin will start with Catherine David’s DI/VISIONS project, which focuses on Culture and Politics of the Middle East. The program presents a month long series of talks, discussions and screenings, surely worth to be explored – (>> program): … In the Middle East, the long 20th century was […] Read More

performative aspects of identity

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The ‘performative’ works of Berni Searle play with the appearance and disappearance, visibility and invisibility of the body. Revealing and not revealing, they create, in the process, scenarios in which nothing is ever entirely apparent. (link) Just recently I came across the performance work of the artist Bernie Searle, who is born in South Africa, […] Read More

re:place 2007 (part2)

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The conference’s last day started with the interesting panel on Interdisciplinary Theory in Practice and that one with Christopher Salter‘s stimulating talk entitled ‘Unstable Events: Performative Science, materiality and Machinic practices‘. Summing up the performative as a practice to ‘transform the world in ‘real time’.’ Another highlight was the lecture by Janine Marchessault and Michael […] Read More

re:place 2007

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Though I have to admit that my recent complain about Berlin has been proved unreasonable, as I totally overlooked the upcoming re:place 2007 conference, which took place at the House of World Culture during this weekend and I was lucky enough to attend quite a few of the panels, which definitly submit to some of […] Read More

the skin of the space

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‘… We slowly loosen the rubber layering, the skin, tugging the yesterday into today..’ (.. Wir lösen langsam die Kautschukschichten, die Haut, und ziehen das Gestern ins Heute.) Before coming across a recent taz article these days I hadn’t heard about the work of the swiss architect Heidi Bucher. The article on her work, entitled […] Read More

9 evenings reconsidered at Tesla Berlin

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Though Berlin is known for its creative potential and thus seduces a lot of artists to move here – but I guess still more for the still very obvious possibilities of an unfinished city environment in constant development, than because of stimulating exhibitions of the art scene. All those who came here, might have learned […] Read More

p2p microfinance

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.. what an excellent idea! kiva.org works on the basis of a free loan by a private lender to the very poor, who plan or have some business to develop, but would almost have no chance to lend from a normal bank. The website is personalizing the contact between the lender and the entrepreneur through […] Read More

.. understand islam …

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Even though a bit late, but still a selection worth to go through is the hint from bookforum.com regarding a compiling review in the last issue of ‘The New York Review of Books‘, which goes through several titles on Islam and combines it with a selection on the headscarve and the veil’ under the title […] Read More

The Persian Revolution

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An interesting theater piece – entitled The Persian Revolution – by Mehrdad Seyf is currently travelling the UK described as a surreal, comic and disturbing piece of theatre inspired by the events of the 1906 Constitutional Revolution in Iran. The piece ia already Seyf’s fith production and his work is generally described as being influenced […] Read More