Monument at Brandenburger Tor
Installation with three buses by Syrian artists Manaf Halbouni at Brandenburger Tor, Berlin. In Aleppo, a similar barricade of three
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Urban Voices
Urban Voices opens a critical view on cultural practices and phenomena that expresses the ethos, aspirations, and dreams of a specific population during a well-defined era and that triggered dramatic cultural changes. Urban Voices is focussing on phenomena that are leaving a lasting impact on mainstream cultural values.
Protests after the Referendum in Turkey
Dark clouds and intense rain had banished the sunshine in Istanbul while Turkey watched the vote count of the constitutional
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New Land, New Utopias – Part I: Floating Territory
The Guano Island Act, a US law passed in 1856 and still effective, says that every US citizen who finds
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Politics and the Production of Space
The exhibition Written City at the Bruges Cultural Centre, Belgium, looks at the spatial organization of the city and the
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Art is Trash
Trash is not a pleasant sight. Nobody likes to be around it. But it’s also a fact that you can’t
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Find your Cathedral – blow up the Eiffel Tower
The French political theorist, activist and poet Ivan Chtcheglov was following his Ukrainian father as a revolutionary of his time. His
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Walking, exercising the right to be free
Rumney spent much of his life living as a wanderer, and was variously described as both a ‘recluse’ and a ‘media whore’, seeing his existence as a ‘permanent adventure and endless experiment.’ He moved, as his friend Guy Atkins said, “between penury and almost absurd affluence. One visited him in a squalid room in London’s Neal Street, in a house shared with near down-and-outs. Next, one would find him in Harry’s Bar in Venice, or at a Max Ernst opening in Paris. He seemed to take poverty with more equanimity than riches.”
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