During my last days in Havana, I visited curator and researcher Yanelys Nuñez Leyva, one of the main organizers of #00Bienal de la Habana. Her mother made a strong, sweet coffee that is typical in Cuba. Shortly thereafter, artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, the other central figure of the biennial, joined us. Together they established the Museo de la Disidencia en Cuba (The Cuban Museum of Dissidence), which recontextualizes the concept of »dissidence.« We ate fruits, salami, and bread and

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Until 2013, when I didn’t get to work as a performer on a biennial project, Venice, Italy, was never a destination on my bucket list. Why should I travel to a place that everybody wants to visit? La Serenissima has long been a ghost town, with no inner life, whose rhythm and culture have adapted to the hordes of tourists who grind down its bridges. I was very happy when I discovered places and events that have nothing to do

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Mladen Stilinović, the famous Croatian artist, never had a studio. This was the main reason to organize about a dozen exhibitions between 2003 and 2010 in the apartment in which he lived with his wife Branka Stipancić. Stilinović started to show his works in the domestic space in 1978, when he set up the exhibition Register of My Work 1970–1978. He hung his works in different rooms and the hallway and projected his films to show the audience what he

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It was twelve o’clock when, after many days of delays and hesitations, I decided to press the key on the website of a low-cost German company. I seemed to have heard a click when 580 euros disappeared from my bank account. It took me some time to fall asleep. In the sky of the mind, a plane was pulling a banner with You’re going to Cuba! I fell asleep after a while and, guess what, when I checked my mail in the

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Almost one year ago I was in the living-room of an apartment in Berlin, talking to Johanna Gilje, one of my temporary flatmates. In that flat, every day at 8.17 pm, from two speakers fixed in the walls you can hear one minute recorded from the previous day, a project called Minute/Year by two artists Kovacs and O’Doherty, which lasted for the whole year 2017. After I told her about my research, I found out that there’s a very strong punk

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Poems by Jasmina Al-Qaisi (1-8, 12-15)/ Poems by Jean-Lorin Sterian (9,10) 1. Her inner sucker Took over our left hands And reminded me of the excuse I have To hide my inner sucker: I did not study history of art, I say to him And what I know of drawing Is from the lovers that drew me My inner sucker replies: I, naïve, like you But show me only to your loved ones. A poem inspired by the lecture-performance The

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Do you know that feeling looking out your window, secretly peeking into the lives of strangers? You don’t do that? Then give it a try. It’s exciting to consider the stories that might lay behind the curtains. I’m sitting on my windowsill right now, wondering if the man and woman – window on the third floor right in front of my couch window – are professional TV critics or just love watching TV? No, not now. Today, I am not

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For this entry of Homemade Culture Jean-Lorin Sterian interviewed Mark Salvatus from Manila, the founder of 98B – which started in his appartement. Jean-Lorin Sterian: How did you start 98B? What was the inspiration? Mark Salvatus: I’m living in a small apartment in Cubao in Quezon City, north of Manila. It’s also the studio where I work. In November 2011, after returning from a residency program in Yokohama, Japan, I invited Mayumi Hirano (now my wife), a researcher and curator

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What was your inspiration for starting this project? It all started when one of us, one day saw a poster in the streets of Amsterdam where it read something like »theatre+ concert at Paul’s house«, following the address. Those lines worked out like a »click«, and the thought was, »wow, it is possible to present artistic proposals at someone’s house?«. From that to the concept of CONDOMÍNIO Festival it all happened very organically. After some thought and research done, and

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lorgennale Zagreb – In Six Rooms The pilot edition of lorgennale was organized in Zagreb/Croatia. The next one is coming to Stuttgart from May 24th to 28th, 2017. There will soon be an open call for people who want to open their houses for an art event. room no. 6 the sixth room was the most beautiful. because it was in a big apartment in the center of zagreb. because I’ll be living here for three days, the last days.

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