…kably commitment for the Goethe Institut and the people in Kabul. We still remember with warm feelings the sunny morning when he picked us up at the third checkpoint at Kabul airport after our 36 hour journey to Afghanistan. A small memorial service will be held on April 22 at the Kabul military airport befor his coffin will leave Kabul for Germany. All his friends are very shocked because everybody listed him among the very good friends in Kabul….
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…es. This action is on the one hand a violent attack, but it also shows how deep the anger is rooted and how desperate the activists must be in fighting against the big firms. On a flyer they distributed, they state more problems they have with Google in general, since the bus shuttles are just the side-effect of the gentrification process: „Our problem is with Google, its pervasive surveillance capabilities utilized by the NSA, the technologies it…
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…eux from John Cranko’s “Romeo and Juliet” danced by the creators Marcia Haydee and Richard Cragun. Music by Prokofiev. Stuttgart Ballet in the 1970’s. Richard Cragun (5 October 1944 – 6 August 2012) was one of the most influential Dancers of the twentieth century. Cragun was born in Sacramento (California), United States. He studied at the Banff School of Fine Arts in Canada, the Royal Ballet School and Vera Volkova in Copenhagen. His artistic dev…
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…, exploit fractures in the architecture of the city. Their goal is to find deeper meaning in the spaces we pass through every day. Our ‘place hacks’ have taken us to cities all over the world, from London to Paris to Berlin and across the Atlantic to Minneapolis, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, encountering different communities of practice as well as the different security measures implemented in various places. […] This book tells two stories. The fi…
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…e absolute, and all that is real is but the realization of the idea. „Die Idee ist das Absolute, und alles Wirkliche ist nur Realisierung der Idee.“ Hegels primacy of the idea itself is something that lately seems to emerge in some spaces in Kreuzberg – the once left-alternative connotated today gentrificated quarter in Berlin. In this series I´d like to write about some of these spaces and my personal experiences with them. First, I start with a…
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…ve and narrative created an immersive feeling, allowing visitors to have a deep conversation with Hrant Dink. The exhibition offers a glimpse into Hrant Dink’s life as well as his articles and explains why the Agos newspaper was a trailblazer in Turkey during the times when taboo subjects were highly dangerous to address. The entire exhibition does not only focus on the assassination but on different stations in Hrant Dink’s life, which illustrate…
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Read a critique of the “In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art” exhibition, on view until August 26 at SALT Beyoğlu Istanbul, published in Mumbai Boss It might seem peculiar that you’d be able to buy a discussion or even a gesture, but artists have successfully managed to sell the intangible and the obtuse for at least the last 50 years. As a new show at Mumbai Art Room, which opens on Friday, January 13, neatly demonstrates, it boils down…
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