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Issue No 4

Biographies & Space

The Production of Space by Human Actions and Thoughts

Geographies are intense zones of human action and interaction – from market places to migration, and homes to cyber communities. Spaces are not simply containers within which people live and work; spaces are a product of human lives and the actions that take place in those spaces.

Spatial Atmospheres

Cyanotype Maps

Where the Trees Stood in Water

Using cartographic and textual archival fragments, this work by Bambitchell asks questions about settlement and displacement as the entangled remaking of bodies and space.

Film

Boat

by Xinjun Zhang

In the short film »Boat,« Beijing-based artist Xinjun Zhang documented his experiment to make the social disparities in the population of Beijing visible.

An Exploration

Enter the Thick Space

by CENTRALA & monnik

»For too long, space has only been defined by its limits. It is time that we also define space by its content.« A project by the artist collective CENTRALA and monnik

Two Poems

Saving

by Alice Miller & Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga

Poetry meets photography: An encounter that lets new stories emerge. By Alice Miller & Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga

Modelling Space

Visual Arts

Invisible Movement Spaces

with Simone Rueß

In her work, the German visual artist Simone Rueß investigates the structural dimensions of space as a product of human activity.

Studio Solitude

A Monument to Riots

with Niloufar Tajeri and Gal Kirn

Niloufar Tajeri and Gal Kirn examined the complex structure of sub/urban riots thinking about an alternative monument.

Map Series

The Colonial Machine

From Samoa to Namibia, the Falklands to Jamaica or Australia, part experiment, part musical composition, »Map Series« asks the question: What is an empire today?

Tracing Biographies

Studio Berlin

The Last Traces – Studio Visit

with Astrid Schult

We visited the documentary filmmaker Astrid Schult in her studio in Berlin. Her first fictional movie is currently in the making, dealing with the Third Reich and the question of culpability.

Dialogue

Multidimensional Pleasures

with Philip Widmann & Philip Cartelli

Film maker P. Widmann & critic P. Cartelli in a talk on the film »Szenario,« which develops around a briefcase with personal documents of an affair in 1970s West Germany.

Self Portraits

Pictures of Me in Different Places

by Jorge Orozco Gonzalez

In 2007, artist and architect Jorge Orozco Gonzalez started to draw portraits of himself in various places all over the world ...

Performing Arts

Treasured in the Dark

with Thiago Granato

With his »Choreoconversations,« the Brazilian performer Thiago Granato found a new way of thinking about dance and choreography, inviting dead, living, and not born yet choreographers.

Studio Solitude

Performing Space

with Simone Rueß by Judith Engel

A multilayered insight into the different development-stages of artist Simone Rueß' work towards a visual and performative connection of the terms biography and space.

Poetry

Anamnesia

by Ranjit Hoskote & Nancy Adajania

Embody the expansion of subjectivity: poet Ranjit Hoskote and cultural theorist Nancy Adajania approach the act of anamnesia through an essay, poems and photographs.