HR-Stamenov’s The Phenomenon of W24°58’59,43″ N42°07’55,29″ is very much a site-specific, media, sound and light installation. This time, he toys with the image of a ghost metro train which has traveled throughout Europe and suddenly appears in Berlin. It ignores physics, gaps between buildings, space and time. Continue reading »
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DEADLINES | 3 Goethe-Institut Residency Programs seek Germany- and Israel-based artists and/or cultural professionals
The purpose of the Goethe-Institut’s residency programs is to provide a “space for new perspectives,” wherein artists and cultural workers have the opportunity to live and work in another country and another culture for an extended period of time. Continue reading »
RECOMMENDATION | See film screening of American version of German “Trust” at Goethe Institut-Washington
WASHINGTON, D.C. | Tonight, July 8, a young D.C. troupe will screen a film that documents that making of its new dance/theatre project Trust by the German writer/director Falk Richter. The courageous company force/collision has been in search of a dance vocabulary that suits Richter’s virulently comic attack on consumer capitalism. I saw an early work-in-progress performance … Continue reading »
IN EXHIBITION | French artist Prune Nourry’s “Holy Daughters” exposes inferior position of many women in India
For Nourry, the rape incident in New Delhi in December 2012 “marks a new sad climax concerning this highly sensitive topic.” Continue reading »
Slideshow | German director Wim Wenders (“Pina” and “Wings of Desire”) exhibits his landscape photography
For those who are curious to glimpse the personal photography of filmmaker Wim Wenders exhibited in “Places, strange and quiet,” click here to view a slideshow. Continue reading »