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Fin de siècle-litteraturens förföriska och förtärande blomster Av: Hillevi Norburg Blommor har alltid förknippats med döden. Från associationer av sött liljedoftande gravkapell till den sakta borttynande snittblommans memento mori. Ja, ofta är till och med blommornas själva födelse knuten till döden. Oräkneliga är de tillkomsthistorier som går ut på att sköra blomster eller kraftfulla plantor […]
Walking and Talking2 – Niclas Östlind and Prangtip (Maxie) Geismar interviewing seven curators and artists in Venice 2019 On several occasions, the artist Jårg Geismar, his wife Prangtip and I have written together about our impressions of the Venice Biennale. We have done so both to sharpen the senses and because it is fun. Through
If you can’t come in smile as you go by – Jårg Geismar in memoriam by Niclas Östlind Läs mer »
av: Aleksei Borisionoköversättning: Katerina Zolotova 2020-03-09 Aleksei Borisionok (AB) har intervjuat konstnären Egor Rogalev (ER) om postsovjetisk estetik, det forna östblockets representationspolitik ur ett västligt perspektiv liksom möjligheterna till dekolonisering utifrån det samtida Rysslands förutsättningar. Egor Rogalev började som fotograf och dokumenterade då postsovjetiska rum mitt under en dramatisk omvandling: sanatorier, stadsliv, ungdomsliv och monumentalkonst.
Intervju med Egor Rogalev Läs mer »
Anastasia Vepreva 20-05-28 Russia doesn’t wage any war against any country. But for some reason the whole world considers it to be an obvious aggressor. They say Russian military equipment is regularly lost in the vast expanses of our planet. Planes, submarines and even people suddenly feel themselves extremely lost, as if they turn out
Av: Christina Parte 2019-02-11 The fact that Eija-Riitta Eklöf (1954-2015) passed away a few years ago would have gone unnoticed had she not been in love with the Berlin Wall. In Lars Laumann’s filmic portrait Berlinmuren (2008), we hear the late Eija-Riitta speak as we are introduced to her world through a collection of objects
by Björn Larsson It was in the late seventies. The ninth graders were going on a school trip. The Cold War was in full swing these years. Contrary to the teachers’ intention, we had voted that the tour would not go to Kufstein in Austria, as it did in the past ten years, but to
The Berlin Wall falls – and Continues to Fall Läs mer »
Av: Konstanze Schmitt 2017-02-08 Notes for a Performative Research on the Workers’ Theatre Workers’ theatre emerged in the 19th century in amateur theatre groups and workers’ clubs. It went on to be ideologized, formalized and broadly organized at the beginning of the twentieth century through its contact with the avant-garde. In the Soviet Union the
AGITATE, EDUCATE, ORGANIZE Läs mer »
Av: Warsan Shire 2018-04-13 you are a horse running alone and he tries to tame you compares you to an impossible highway to a burning house says you are blinding him that he could never leave you forget you want anything but you you dizzy him, you are unbearable every woman before or after you
For Women Who Are Difficult to Love Läs mer »
By: Oleksiy Radynski On December 8, 2013, an angry crowd of Maidan protesters toppled a Lenin monument in central Kyiv. This act was absurdly greeted by liberals in Ukraine and abroad as a final cutting-of-ties with communism—almost a quarter century after it had already fallen. At the same time, skeptical voices claimed that this outburst
By: Olav Westphalen Here’s the scenario: I am on my way to some release party with DJ-battle at Taverna Brillo. It’s the night before the Swedish national elections and I get into a heated argument with a group of young nationalists waving flags on Stureplan. I shout something along the – admittedly idiotic – lines
THE RED FLAG TO THE RESCUE! Läs mer »
