"Even in disaster areas, I want to create beautiful buildings,this is what it means to build a monument for common people"
Shigeru Ban gives in this talk at the Museum of Architecture in Stockholm an overview of his practice and his interest in specific materials and extraordinary conditions for architectural creation.
Shigeru Ban is one of the central characters in architecture today due is specific relation to material and innovative approach to residential areas and humanitarian projects.

FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE 9EME COLLECTIF DES SANS-PAPIERS
FOR THE IMMEDIATE LIBERATION OF LASSANA C. AND NIAME D.,
FOR THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE BILL ON IMMIGRATION (CESEDA), AND OF THE CIRCULAR OF FEBRUARY 21, 2006, FOR THE IMMEDIATE HALT OF THE RAIDS,

AND PEOPLE SAYS NO PRODUCTION
Presents
CONTRE-FEUX (A visual communiqué 5)
Realised by Lars Ivy GOGEEN (S1G)

Lassana C., Niame D., are currently in a detention center. What is their fault ? To be foreigners. To be without papers.

The video shows a slightly edited recording of the conversation between the theorist Irit Rogoff and the artist Kutlug Ataman. It was held at the occasion of the opening of the exhibition curated by Rogoff "De-regulation with the work of Kutlug Ataman" which is shown in MUHKA Antwerp, from March 16 till May 28 2006.

The tightening of immigration laws in France created in 1996 the movement of the "sans-papiers". With spectacular actions and a startling series of church occupations they called attention to the precarious situation of illegalized migrants: "Des papiers pour tous!" Papers for all was the slogan of a movement that spread rapidly all across europe.

The film tries to show how the new law project about immigration, that has been presented Thursday 9 February 2006 by the French minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, is a war machine against the foreigners. A machine that DESTROY existence (Family, health, solidarity…), and a machine that PRODUCE people without papers, slaves of the shadow.

The film tries to show how the new law project about immigration, that has been presented Thursday 9 February 2006 by the French minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, is a war machine against the foreigners. A machine that DESTROY existence (Family, health, solidarity…), and a machine that PRODUCE people without papers, slaves of the shadow.

International Festival “The Theatre” takes as a series of departure points for the realization of the project – to develop and build a full-scale theatre on the basis of a budget conventionally issued for a theatre/dance performance - during Steirischer Herbst 2007 a number of seminars. These seminars are to be held on a quarterly basis in different cities in Europe, inviting old and new guest for discussions and processes. At each seminar a public session will be held where the invited guests give presentations of their own work, practically and theoretically.

International Festival “The Theatre” takes as a series of departure points for the realization of the project – to develop and build a full-scale theatre on the basis of a budget conventionally issued for a theatre/dance performance - during Steirischer Herbst 2007 a number of seminars. These seminars are to be held on a quarterly basis in different cities in Europe, inviting old and new guest for discussions and processes. At each seminar a public session will be held where the invited guests give presentations of their own work, practically and theoretically.

International Festival “The Theatre” takes as a series of departure points for the realization of the project – to develop and build a full-scale theatre on the basis of a budget conventionally issued for a theatre/dance performance - during Steirischer Herbst 2007 a number of seminars. These seminars are to be held on a quarterly basis in different cities in Europe, inviting old and new guest for discussions and processes. At each seminar a public session will be held where the invited guests give presentations of their own work, practically and theoretically.

International Festival “The Theatre” takes as a series of departure points for the realization of the project – to develop and build a full-scale theatre on the basis of a budget conventionally issued for a theatre/dance performance - during Steirischer Herbst 2007 a number of seminars. These seminars are to be held on a quarterly basis in different cities in Europe, inviting old and new guest for discussions and processes. At each seminar a public session will be held where the invited guests give presentations of their own work, practically and theoretically.