…in mid-speech, their voices lose all meanings. They crack up, stand up, become bodies and come together – as a communitiy of people, who are awake and perplexed, afraid and alter, who need each other. The resignation of Chto Delat became figurative once more by a violent act aiming to destroy one of their pieces of art: A six metre high paper board soldier carrying a shield of the antifascistic action was set on fire by unknown people in Berlin a…
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…us is changing (maybe for the worse) there is still hope and the possibility of dreaming of change. Raphael Vella (n.d.). raphaelvella.com. Available at: http://raphaelvella.com/…
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…hook the environment of popular music and Brazilian culture started between 1967 and 1968, happening under the name of Tropicalism and fitting into the post-war context, the development of the cultural industry and the introduction and consolidation of the media (radio and television). One of the most influential singers of the movement was Caetano Veloso with the song Alegria, Alegria. As Caetano later explained, the song is a report, in the…
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…2012 Frankfurt Book Fair. WHAT? This year´s theme is „Literary Cities“. Welcomed are texts imaginary or real, past, present or future related, utopian or dystopian, stories dealing with our cities and metropolis as the core of culture and creativity. WHEN? From August 15th until October 12th participating authors will write and publish in real-time. HOW? This experiment is based on the Internet platform poiesipedia.com. Here, one can read, edit, o…
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…Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire, 1880- 91. The tobacco company took the cental composition of the painting (the section with the Cossacks or nomads), which shows nomadic people, riding horses and moving. They are in a state of rebellion and ride for independence; they are even willing to write a letter to the Sultan, even though they don’t know how to read write. Only one person, the one sitting in the center of the table and i…
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…menta February 8, 2024Events / TopicsWith the first and second documenta in 1955 and 1959, the initiator of the documenta Arnold Bode brought contemporary art from abroad, especially from the USA, back to Germany for the first time after the dictatorship of National Socialism. In doing so, he brought the other into your own. At the two exhibition venues – the Fridericianum and the Orangery in Karlsaue, which were still partly ruins at the time, th…
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…d in an apartment in Galata, that could be located on Tarlabaşı as well. The bedrooms and the entrance are partly broadcasted over screens to the audience. Parallel activities are creating the complexity of history and fate in a pleasant, playful way. http://galataperform.com/izetkinlik/ Have a look at Tarlabaşı: http://senseoftime.inenart.eu/?p=1692…
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…But first of all… who is Elena Urucatu? ELENA URUCATU Bucharest (Romania, 1981) Elena Urucatu is a visual artist from Romania. She started studying sports in her country, and competed as an athlete at a professional level. At the age of 14, she won a model contest that made her travel from Bucharest to Paris. This was the beginning of a long artistic journey, very different from the sports world. Urucatu continued her studies attending the Educa…
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…gh a “Face to Face” Workshop in Istanbul. New Drawing Workshop Sunday April 19th, 6 pm using ZOOM video conferencing software! Contact for registration info@nadasistanbul.com. On Saturday 4th of April 2020, a group of 22 people from around the world met on an online platform in order to attend an art workshop. Better said, a portrait workshop done through a camera. The project Face to Face – Yüz Yüze is a portrait exhibition, initially planned to…
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