great forgotten movies: Soy Cuba
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
.. 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 Moresing the blog
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
.. 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
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 Morebeginning with frozen flowers
… 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
nothing about the weather ..
… just some thoughts on weather reports and boredom’s impact evoked by reading the following observation* (by Diller and Scofidio / found via pruned) which was taken before weather forces and impacts hit without any regard of holiday season or national aspects especially in south east asia, north america and central asia. When we speak […] Read MoreIraqi Equation
… in the exhibition, the viewer is compelled to question which information actually feeds our own impressions of the current situation in Iraq. Isn’t it true that images in the media are our sole source of insight into the alleged reality there? The review of the recent show Contemporary Arab Representations. The Iraqi Equation in […] Read Moreserendipity / happy discoveries
A real nice find on the day with the shortest daylight time of the year is this introduction of Jasia Reichardt – a piece she recently has written to describe the circumstances which led to the development of the much cited exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity almost 40 years ago …. When we approach a frontier, or […] Read More
Towards a Non-eurocentric Europe
Always in favor of the paradox and the non-Eurocentric it’s a pleasure to point to this call for contributions under the topic of Creolization: Towards a Non-eurocentric Europe Is Europe involved in a process of “Creolization”? This issue proposes to test the idea that creolization, an originally territorialized Caribbean theory, is now resonating far beyond […] Read MoreB-ZONE: Becoming Europe and Beyond
B-ZONE: Becoming Europe and Beyond is an exhibition on the projects (project website) of Ursula Biemann: Black Sea Files, Angela Melitopoulos a.o.: Timescapes/Corridor X and Lisa Parks: Postwar Footprints (former post on L.Parks). B-ZONE is a territorial research and collaborative art project on the transformation of the social and political geographies stretching from Southeast Europe […] Read Morewaiting for the clouds
A film which tries to deal with these just mentioned issues of suppressed tendencies of nationalism is the recently started ‘Waiting for the clouds‘: What is a homeland? Who is a foreigner? These thorny questions of identity and nationalism, played out through Ayhse’s long and tragic life, will be prominent themes in WAITING FOR THE […] Read More