the complexities of things
A recent viewing of Paradise Now (From the most unexpected place, comes a bold new call for peace / film website) which was followed up by a discussion between journalist Amira Haas und Kifah Massarwi convinced me that this film (I already had posted on it in short in Feb.05) really is worth to be […] Read Moreforwarding thoughts on ends of history …
… and continuing reflections on the real and unreal under the assumption that even incorrect readings [..] make something-however marginal or inconsequential-“real,” … (from comments of the cited post) Long sunday’s recent post contemplates on various ways of popular claims of ends of history and forwards a demand for help to find the ‘real’ essence […] Read Morethe other side of the mirror
‘There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.’ image source Guardian This is from the introductionary sentences with which Harold Pinter quoted himself in his […] Read More
Talking Back to Radio
Radio Copernicus a project for artistic use of radio transmitting from Berlin and Wroclaw is featuring experimental workshops and attempts to explore … What happens to radio when artists get hold of it? Radio_Copernicus tries to answer this question in various ways and, in doing so, avails itself of music, spoken word, radio theatre and […] Read Moretraum und traumata
Under this title (translates: ‘Dream and Trauma’ which incoporates already a connotation of the inherent difficulty and danger) the last project for this year opened yesterday at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. As interesting as the project sounds – reading the introduction text and the here taken assoziations used to connect to common […] Read More
interlude / interval / performing inbetween
“The place where cultural experience is located is in the potential space between the individual and the environment (originally the object). The same can be said of playing. Cultural experience begins with creative living first manifested as play.” -DW Winnicott 1971 via viralnet Read More
subjective experience / objectual practice
Incidental occurances always give way to an intensified interest: In a search to follow up Cetina Knorr’s work – as I just learned about it – I came across the recent link to the pdf of the recent Ethnographic Practice in Industry Conference at PSLJ. Among others A.Galloway here mentions an interesting paper by T.Plowman […] Read Moreacceptance of difference
A new website providing collected material on Jean Rouch went online these days: “Well, I think the most important thing in the world today is to have friends and to do something with friends. I think that friendship means that you think that the other person is your equal and different.” —Jean Rouch, Interview, Crick-Crack […] Read More
what has been going on / acting to be heard
via metamute online comes a description with an attempt of analysis of what has been going on in Paris’ suburbs during the last weeks: … The French media covered the events but from a very limited point of view. In the hottest districts they worked side by side with the cops, they were ‘embedded ’ […] Read Morewesh-wesh / what’s going on ?
In his film (partly fiction / partly report)Wesh, Wesh, qu’est-ce qui se passe? (2002) regisseur Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche documents the life in french suburbs around immigrants which in the local slang are adressed as Beurres (=from Africa or can also stand for Arab*) and Sans Papiers (=illegal). Eventhough the film has some relevance to any similar […] Read More