urgent re-evaluation needed

Back when I posted on Persepolis I already had been thinking if I should post on aryan description as the terminology for the Iranian people and point to the nowadays obsolete understanding of the usage of Aryan to mean “all Indo-Europeans” by most scholars. In central Europe and especially in Germany there is still a […] Read More

the precarious nature of actual documentary

as stated by Hito Steyerl in her contribution on Documentary Uncertainty for the current issue of the A Prior magazine, which thematically focuses – as far as one can say that by displaying blue fonts on blue background, or eventually the magazine already wants this way to point to the difficulties of current readabilities – […] Read More

prolonged interlude for Umm Kulthum

The interview with Virginia Danileson, the author of “The Voice of : Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century” (University of Chicago Press. 1997), I have found just became to interesting to do it simply as an extended UPDATE on Umm Kulthum, so I thought to play it out as a […] Read More

again UPDATE: LMD and bitterlemons on 40 years

Also the June issue of Le monde diplomatique (LMD) focuses in its Dossier on the 1967 war in the Middle East and its consequences, as well does the bitterlemons-international.org roundtable by publishing it’s weekly edition this friday under the theme: June 1967, 40 years later: a regional view. Both are again good sources to update […] Read More

40 years continued: a political impasse / + update: Hollow Land by E.Weizman / R. Bechler on the ai report

Fred Halliday, professor of international relations at the LSE, and visiting professor at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies, offers his analysis and view on the Middle East situation in the latest publication at opendemocracy.net:Forty years after the six-day war of June 1967, the prospects for a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seem as remote […] Read More

40 years

amnesty international issued a report on Monday to mark the anniversary of 1967 war in the Middle East, charging that Israel plunged the Palestinians into unprecedented levels of poverty and despair through 40 years of occupation but failed to ensure its own security. (via france24) img via ai // The 700km fence/wall being built by […] Read More

travelling helps ..

.. as stated so many times to widen ones horizon, to open the mind .. and discover eventually a different angle to look at things. Cairo, Egypt – view on the nile river So this time the post comes from Cairo, where I had the luck to be right there in time for a lecture, […] Read More

name coincidence: mind the gap 07

Heiligendamm, still busy with its preparations to become the totally enclosed and secured backstage for the most recent G8 meeting – which BTW included some really embarrassing founds: like the still existing honorary citizenship of A.Hitler got a name modification into holy-damn-it.org and extra artist’s attention by some posters for the recent upcoming event. (see […] Read More

current visualisations … in Berlin

From two – very different – exhibition / events some current visualisations, which both work in the tradition of catching the hard to recognize – or eventually better described as trying to catch or transform the momentary into at least visible or even solid material forms … Geoffrey Mann‘s work ‘Attracted to Light’ is shown […] Read More

return to reason

Man Ray’s film «Return to Reason» of the 1920s belongs, in his own words, to “inventions of light forms and movements”. Return to Reason (1923) with its interplay of strange light and dark images and vital kinetic energy takes the viewer on a brief journey of self-discovery. Bizarre images of insanity work their way to […] Read More

.. listen … to some

… of the manifold vocal expressions of Shelly Hirsch – currently invited to Tesla, Berlin. Some of her styles remind me to something between the very early Patti Smith and some extravagant Diamanda Galas stuff … …. and a lot of other components of better singer and musician’s experimentations and interpretations … sono retina … […] Read More

fluid graffiti

Temporary graffiti (aka driptxt via wooster collective) produced by sms txting and projection under the artist’s motto: … don’t use your mobile phone to escape your surroundings, use it to engage it and speak out … – for more info see >>> txtualhealing – could be one of the works which might make the upcoming […] Read More