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Category Archives: politics

Critical Food

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Conflict Kitchen is a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries that the United States is in conflict with. The food is served out of a take-out style storefront, which rotates identities every 6 months to highlight another country. Each Conflict Kitchen iteration is augmented by events, performances, and discussion [...]

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TONIGHT: HUMBOLDT MEETINGS III

Monday, January 23, 2012

Born in Warsaw (1966), trained in Grzegorz Kowalski’s legendary workshop at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Artur Żmijewski has been a leading figure of video art since the end of the nineties through a striking series of short works which display the crushed condition of the Western body in our inhuman societies.
He achieved international [...]

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BOOK WORKS

Friday, January 13, 2012

I’ve received seven invitations now by the artist Martin Zet to donate one of my zero copies of Thilo Sarrazin’s controversial bestseller, conveying some shady views on Muslim integration in Germany. It is the first official act of the Berlin Biennale coming up this summer, which promises to be an interesting one, curated as it [...]

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PROTESTER 2.0

Sunday, January 8, 2012

2011 was the year of resistance. After revolutionary movements and occupy waves, it is the protester the Time magazine declares as the person of the year. The accompanying essay by Kurt Anderson gives an interesting insight.

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IRANIAN ROSES

Thursday, January 5, 2012

We mentioned Port magazine before, and with its last three issues, it has matured into one of the best titles on style and life that combines writing of the highest quality with a great and sophisitcated design. So we were all the happier when they got excited about a reportage we did years ago in [...]

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AI WEIWEI ON AI WEIWEI

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Ai Weiwei gave a recent interview in the current issue of Der Spiegel, which you find here (alas, in German), talking about the accusations of tax evasion, his time in prison and the effects on his life. It is a moving conversation, and also an encouraging one, since it proves: In spite of everything that [...]

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‘The Readymades’

Friday, October 21, 2011

John Holten’s ‘The Readymades’ has been a silent companion during the last 6 weeks and the back-and-forth 6000 kms travelled during that time. Nevertheless, it was not until recently arriving in Paris airport, city where coincidentally the novel begins, that we started a proper and pleasurable conversation.
The novel takes upon the story of John Holten, [...]

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THE BLACK BBC

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Two decades ago, the rapper Chuck D (Public Enemy), described rap music as the “the black CNN”. Rappers in London found their own way to describe the political and social background that led to the English riots in the past week. Here’s an excellent and in-depth article about the subject by writer Dan Hancox in [...]

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BIRTH OF A NATION

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Today marks the birth of a new country: South Sudan which, after decades of civil war and atrocities that are hard to imagine, is finally becoming independent. Normally, this wouldn’t have meant all that much to me, but now it does, having recently finished Dave Eggers‘ What is the What, a fictionalized autobiography of Valentino [...]

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INCENDIES

Sunday, June 26, 2011

This week saw the German release of Canadian masterpiece Incéndies (in Germany released as Die Frau die Singt) which was nominated for Best Foreign Film at this year’s Oscars Awards. Set in the turmoil of the Middle Eastern conflict, it’s one of the most relentlessly crushing and impressive films I’ve seen in a long time. [...]

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