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Information - Ted Byfield

2015-10-13T09:56+00:00

New York, September 26th 2009, 11:30 Information is, first and foremost, an English-language word with a checkered past -- in hermeneutics, jurisprudence, physics, genetics. Its current use is partly defined by context, communications, and partly by the baggage it carries from its prior incarnations, which are irreconcilable. Those tensions are precisely what lends the word the dynamism it needs to function as it does, as a sort of universal solvent.

Not-not-war - Rosalind C. Morris

2015-10-13T09:56+00:00

New York, September 26th 2009, 12:00

War Games - Ashley Dawson

2015-10-13T09:54+00:00

New York, September 26th 2009, 16.30 When Schiller penned his Aesthetic Letters shortly following the French Revolution, he saw the "play drive" as a virtuous alternative to the violence that had engulfed the world of politics, a force capable of reconciling the conflict between human beings' material, sensuous nature and their capacity for reason. Much of the subsequent history of aesthetic theory hinges on this vision of creativity as a redemptive alternative to the fallen world of modernity. But gaming is serious business.

Explosion Implosion: war in our time - Susan Crile

2015-10-13T09:54+00:00

New York, September 26th 2009, 17:00 In EXPOLSION IMPOSION: War in Our Time, I show four series of paintings and works on paper that are concerned with war and/ or terrorism and torture. I talk about its affect on society the society. The four series are, FIRES OF WAR, 9-1, ABU GHRAIB: Abuse of Power and IN OUR NAME: Black Sites and Guantanamo. These works explore the sensory and experiential nature of violence, war and torture as distinct from their conceptual and historical dimensions.

When a riot becomes a war - Suketu Mehta

2015-10-13T09:54+00:00

New York, September 26th 2009, 17:30

Annexpression - Tony Conrad

2015-10-13T09:54+00:00

New York, September 26th 2009, 14:30 The unexpected degree to which having a job is not only selling your time, but is also selling your voice. The annexpression job divide is a ragged edge, in which those with expressive options overlap with job holders in certain ways; still, the overwhelming preponderance of those with jobs have sold their voices almost completely, as their outlook has been annexed to corporate enterprise - and as they have moreover introjected the workplace values, political postures, and social outlooks of their employers.

Pigeon - Gediminas Urbonas

2015-10-13T09:54+00:00

New York, September 26th 2009, 13:00 "La colombe qui fait bourn!" The dove that goes boom! Similar to other animals pigeon is lending out their features to the war techniques. Like Trojan horse and Medici’s giraffe, Warhorses and Elephants, Durer’s Rhinoceros and bomber dolphins , pigeons become devices that share their belonging to both – nature and techne. Animals lending their skin to the camouflage patters, logic of their movements to the one of robots, their muscles to carrier of ammunitions, their senses to control protocols, their species names to name technologies or war.

Re-appropriating the city of fear - Fiona Jeffries

2015-10-13T09:54+00:00

New York, September 26th 2009, 13:30 Fear is seen to be one of the defining political emotions of late modernity. Filmmakers, sociologists, artists, philosophers and pundits see fear everywhere. If fear has become a way of life, the contemporary city is seen by many to be one of its most prominent and productive social laboratories. But while fear is seen to be so politically significant, the way it is studied often both naturalizes and exteriorizes fear from politics. As a result, fear's more complex and antagonistic status as both a social relation and an arena of political action is submerged.

Wounded Cities - Ida Susser and Jan Schneider

2015-10-13T09:53+00:00

New York, September 26th 2009, 18:00

Urban Warfare - Gar Smith

2015-10-13T09:53+00:00

New York, September 26th 2009, 15:30

Virutous War

2015-10-13T09:52+00:00

New York, September 26th 2009, 16:00 Technology in the service of virtue has given rise to a global form of virtual violence, virtuous war. In virtuous war, made-for-TV wars and Hollywood war movies blur, military war games and computer video games blend, mock disasters and real accidents collide, producing on screen a new configuration of virtual power, the military-industrial-media-entertainment network.

Documentary Moments - Take 3

2010-06-28T12:27+00:00

Conceived by film-maker Eyal Sivan, the long-term project “Documentary Moments” elaborates documentary film practice through screenings and encounters with film-makers who shaped particular moments of the practice’s history. Its initial chapter is an homage to artists who contributed to the renaissance of documentary film in the post-war period: Alain Resnais (b. 1921), Edgar Morin (b. 1921), Marcel Ophuls (b. 1928), and Frederick Wiseman (b. 1930). In Take 3 of the Documentary Moments, Eyal Sivan and film historian Stella Bruzzi introduce Frederick Wiseman and "direct" cinema. Frederick Wiseman has scrutinised American life and institutions revealing the mechanisms of administration and hierarchy. As a benchmark in the history of social documentary, as both a school and a genre, Wiseman’s infinitely re-qualified and “direct” cinema is indispensable in any debate on the potential of the documentary image to produce truth. The introduction was followed by a screening of Primate (F. Wiseman, USA 1974, 105 min) and by a conversation between Frederick Wiseman, the film historian Stella Bruzzis and Eyal Sivan, both of which could not be included in this documentation.

Documentary Moments - Take 4

2010-06-28T12:26+00:00

Interview Eduardo Thomas

2010-06-28T09:49+00:00

Curator Eduardo Thomas was presenting contemporary experimental documentaries in his series “authorship”, “authority” and “authenticity” at the Berlin Documentary Forum. He selected films, that erode the seemingly immutable conventions of the consistent abuse of hierarchical structures within the field of documentary filmmaking. In this in-depth interview by Alan Toner, Eduardo Thomas introduces the films he selected, reflects on his series and discusses the questions he encounters when thinking about documentary practices today.

Interview Florian Schneider

2010-06-28T09:46+00:00

Filmmaker Florian Schneider has organised a retrospective about Michal Mraktisch for the Berlin Documentary Forum on June 2-6 2010 under the title "Missing Image". Alan Toner asks Florian Schneider about the background of this remarkable film-maker and his role and influence for the development of the Documentary Film as we know it today.

Interview Lee Anne Schmitt

2010-06-28T09:46+00:00

Filmmaker Lee Anne Schmitt presented her film "California Company Town" at the Berlin Documentary Forum on June 4th 2010. In this interview, she discusses artistic and film making practice with Alan Toner. Having chosen chosen to work with 16mm film, she describes her rationale, working conditions and artistic practice. These are significantly determined by the difficult economic situation faced by independent filmmakers today.

Interview Angela Melitopoulos and Bettina Knaup

2010-06-28T09:45+00:00

Alan Toner asks Angela Melitopoulos and Bettina Knaup about their performance "Möglichkeitsraum - Feminism and Performance Art" presented at the Berlin Documentary Forum on June 3rd 2010. Most of the program cannot be screened online due to copyright problems that burden much video performance art. Bettina Knaup and Angela Melitopoulos explain the particular situation of that genre, and how it is effecting their work with an archive of feminist performance art.

Interview Stella Bruzzi

2010-06-28T09:44+00:00

In this in-depth interview film historian Stella Bruzzi and Alan Toner discuss the development of documentary film in relation to advances in film technology, and consider possible perspectives for the future. This conversation took place during the Berlin Documentary Forum, where Stella Bruzzi investigated in conversation with Frederick Wiseman questions about “direct” cinema and the potential of the documentary image to produce truth.

Interview Rabih Mroué

2010-06-28T09:43+00:00

Rabih Mroué opened the Berlin Documentary Forum with his performance "The Inhabitants of Images" on June 2nd 2010. In this interview, Alan Toner and Rabih Mroué discuss implications that images might have and the possibility that they bear an reality of their own. Rabih Mroué also gives some insights about his performance, for those who didn't get a chance to see it.

Interview Eyal Sivan

2010-06-28T09:42+00:00

Conceived by filmmaker Eyal Sivan, the long-term project “Documentary Moments” that was for the first time presented at the Berlin Documentary Forum, elaborates documentary film practice through screenings and encounters with filmmakers who shaped particular moments of the practice’s history. In this interview, Alan Toner discusses with Eyal Sivan the background of the "Documentary Moments" and questions that evolve from revisiting films and filmmakers who have shaped the concept of the Documentary so strongly.

Struggle in Jerash (conversation and film)

2010-06-28T09:40+00:00

Artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White re-animate the film "Struggle in Jerash" by appropriating the tactic of the commercial DVD director’s commentary, subverting its standard authorial voice and placing the audience at the centre of a copyright-expired film. The film offers access to the process of self-understanding through the careful compilation of new commentary voiceover by contemporary Jordanian thinkers on the first feature film shot in Jordan (D: Wassif Sheik Yassin, 1957). At the Berlin Documentary Forum, curator Eduardo Thomas interviews the artists about their work and on the (re)production of conventional notions such as “authorship”, “authority” and “authenticity” in documentary film making. (Conversation and Film)

Missing Image

2010-06-28T09:37+00:00

Filmmaker Florian Schneider has organised a retrospective about Michal Mraktisch for the Berlin Documentary Forum on June 2-6 2010 under the title "Missing Image". This conversation between Florian Schneider and Rick Prelinger, founder of the Prelinger Archives sums up the series "Missing Image".

Möglichkeitsraum - Extra-disciplinary Art and Media Activism

2010-06-28T09:33+00:00

Video artist Angela Melitopoulos engages Media Activism Brian Holmes at the Berlin Documentary Forum in a dialogue on extra-disciplinary Art Practices and Media Activism while he is presenting his archives and research. Holmes examines four audiovisual regimes that have emerged in the, USA since WW II: broadcast television in the Cold War consumer society; video as a subversion of the televisual norm; networked computing and its new forms of “control environments”; and new communication tactics of migration movements.

Documentary Moments - Take 2

2010-06-28T09:31+00:00

Conceived by film-maker Eyal Sivan, the long-term project “Documentary Moments” elaborates documentary film practice through screenings and encounters with film-makers who shaped particular moments of the practice’s history. Its initial chapter is an homage to artists who contributed to the renaissance of documentary film in the post-war period: Alain Resnais (b. 1921), Edgar Morin (b. 1921), Marcel Ophuls (b. 1928), and Frederick Wiseman (b. 1930). Take 2 focuses on "Chronicle of a Summer" by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin (FR 1961, 76 min.). The film builds truth through constructed or almost fictional situations. When released, it provoked heated debates on the relationship between cinema, reality and truth. In 2007, artists Ayreen Anastas, François Bucher and Rene Gabri unearthed an interview with Edgar Morin, in which he mentioned a cache of original rushes. Take 2 introduces shots from the original 16 mm rushes of Chroniqle of a summer and discusses them between the artists Rene Gabri, Ayreen Anastas, François Bucher and Eyal Sivan.

Möglichkeitsraum - The Life of a Film Archive

2010-06-28T09:29+00:00

The Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art works on establishing new relations between the conservation and actualization of a film archive. Video artist Angela Melitopoulos engages curator Stefanie Schulte Strathaus at the Berlin Documentary Forum, who presents the idea of a "living" film archive in a selection of feminist and queer films from three historic cinematic events at the Arsenal. (German only)

A Blind Spot

2010-06-28T08:51+00:00

A conversation between Catherine David and Joachim Koester at the Berlin Documentary Forum. The project evolves around key art works from the past fifteen years as well as new pieces that explore the link between aesthetics, history and politics. David’s prologue to a subsequent exhibition (BDF 2,2012) highlights the work of artist Joachim Koester, who explores the tension between imaginary sites, aesthetic tropes and physical places. In “Morning of the Magicians” (2005) and in “One + One + One” (2006), Koester visits a house in Cefalú, Sicily, known as “The Abbey of Thelema”, which once served as a communal home for the occultist Aleister Crowley and his group of devotees.

Documentary Moments - Take 1

2010-06-28T08:48+00:00

Conceived by film-maker Eyal Sivan, the long-term project “Documentary Moments” elaborates documentary film practice through screenings and encounters with film-makers who shaped particular moments of the practice’s history. Its initial chapter is an homage to artists who contributed to the renaissance of documentary film in the post-war period: Alain Resnais (b. 1921), Edgar Morin (b. 1921), Marcel Ophuls (b. 1928), and Frederick Wiseman (b. 1930). In Take 1, Eyal Sivan discusses with Marie-José Mondzain and Adrian Rifkin Alain Resnais documentary practice and the narration of genocide, that Alain Resnais has created with Nuit et brouillard (Night and Fog), where he quintessentially demonstrates the use of images to establish an independent authority. This video has two audio channels, first English/French, second english translation

The Catastrophe

2010-06-28T08:38+00:00

Cultural historians Ariella Azoulay and Issam Nassar discuss at the Berlin Documentary Forum the representation of Palestinian refugees in photographs from 1947 to the early 1950s. Their conversation addresses theoretical and aesthetic aspects of interpreting photographs, as well as the role photography can play in questioning the dominant discourse on the creation of the State of Israel.

Remembering a Future Cairo

2010-01-04T09:21+00:00

Lecture by Clare Davies “The connoisseurs of fine living often look back fondly on old downtown Cairo in the 1920s. Everything about life was so French. The pace, the architecture, the settings. Life was unhurried, untouched by pollution and congestion and marked by quaint buildings, café boulevards and premium arcades." So begins an advertisement for the Rivoli compound at Centre Ville, New Cairo, a real estate project of development giant, DAMAC, designed to capitalise on nostalgia for the old city's downtown, an area which now represents to many some of the prime reasons for urban flight: pollution, high population density, and dilapidation. While areas of medieval Cairo are being restored or reconstructed to recapture something of their supposed original appearance, new versions of the city's early "modern" quarters are being rebuilt at its outskirts. As the expansion of the Greater Cairo Region continues apace, the old city offers parallel models for imagining a future Cairo. The newness of New Cairo and the oldness of the old city are shown to be relative, the products of intersecting projects. Clare Davies is a Ph.D. candidate in art history and Erwin Panofsky Fellow at the Institute of Fine Arts. She divides her time between Cairo and New York.

Benoît Turquety: Objectified Vision

2009-11-22T15:46+00:00

Too Early/Too Late shows certain aspects of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s work at their most radical. But what does the film show precisely? What exactly do we see, when watching those “panoramas” of the French and Egyptian cities and countryside around 1980? What we hear may give us clues: something about history is at stake here. So the question could be: when we are looking at a landscape, what do we see of its history? Other artists have worked on this matter. Some of them have also shared with the Straubs other problems and principles: the “Objectivist” poets, a group formed in the USA around 1930, featuring Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Charles Reznikoff and William Carlos Williams. They wanted a highly innovative poetry that could also be politically radical, a poetry that would engage at the same time vision (they were influenced by Ezra Pound’s Imagism), and history. They proposed solutions that have to do with the films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, and with us.

The Wall - Richard Sennett

2009-09-29T15:22+00:00

New York, September 26th 2009, 15:00

Marketing War - Danny Kaplan

2009-09-29T14:44+00:00

New York, September 26th 2009, 14:00 In times of war commercial considerations present new ways to promote culturally available sentiments of nationalism, previously sustained by state institutions. As governments withdraw from managing emergency services this vacuum may be taken up by private agents, particularly at the local-municipal level. This question of marketing war is examined in a case-study of a commercial radio station in the city of Haifa during the 2006 Lebanon War.

Cold war planning - Jennifer S. Light

2009-09-29T14:32+00:00

New York, September 26th 2009, 11:00 Cold war physical planning is frequently invoked in contemporary discussions about post 9/11 urban planning in the US, but another equally important/pervasive aspect of collaborations between defense planners and urban planners in the Cold War era is forgotten in these discussions. I'll talk about several technology-focused collaborations in the 1960s and suggest why this more expansive definition of Cold War planning history is important and relevant for thinking about cities and war today.

Oksana Bulgakowa: On Eisensteins Que viva Mexico

2009-05-27T21:21+00:00

"Que viva Mexico!", is the film Eisenstein came to shoot in Mexico, and he would tragically be excluded from editing it. The film's hybrid images depict Mexican life as a simultaneity of past and present. Reminiscent of, and yet surpassing the modern 'primitivist' fascination with the 'archaic', Mexico presented for Eisenstein a tableau of dialectic imagery that allowed him to re-conceptualize the role of modern art and revolutionary cinema in traversing the modern dichotomies of subject and object, rational and irrational, inside and outside, individual and collective, and even death and life. Oksana Bulgakowa is Eisenstein's biographer and, together with Anselm Franke, co-curator of Sergei Eisenstein: The Mexican Drawings. The lecture has been recorded on April 3, 2009 in MuHKA_media, Antwerp. http://www.extracity.org

Marwan Fayed: Legalising an Urban Tumour

2009-04-05T13:42+00:00

Kharita 01: Symposium on Urban Trajectories in Cairo Saturday, January 17th, 2009  (in Arabic) Marwan Fayed proposes alternative approaches to conventional urban design practices. In Fayed’s interventions, function is not dictated by design, but rather, is ascribed by city inhabitants who constantly reprogram the use of public space. Based on observations of public behaviour, his site-specific applications lend themselves adaptable to the spontaneity of a constantly mutating landscape.

Zoom - Shaina Anand

2009-03-01T09:47+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 25th 2008 ZOOM begins with a popular film from the 1970's that was said to define the "look of the 20th Century". We wonder about the powers of then, and the powers of now. The look acts at collapsable distances, and varying focal lengths. The captured subjects will not know whose eyes their bodies will receive, (even though they will imagine it), in which galaxies their images will wander, in blackholes of memory or as data-stamps of unique flesh. At various levels of X, equations emerge, governing the relationship between the subject/ actor and the explicit or phantasmic, but always-powerful "viewer". We take a closer look at some of these ratios and their registers of violence: in visual anthropology, CCTV, iris scans and more.

Markus ElKatsha: The Return of Mixed-Use Spaces

2009-03-01T09:41+00:00

Kharita 01: Symposium on Urban Trajectories in Cairo Saturday, January 17th, 2009  Mixed-use communities have been a traditional mode of urban habitation. Cairo's historic core is exemplary of such pedestrian environs. In the nineteenth century precincts of the city, people moved on foot, depending sometimes on horses and cattle for the circulation of goods. They resided in buildings that provided space for both domestic life and economic activity. The mixed-use pattern of development declined in Egypt during the mid 1950s in favour of large-scale single-function zoning, reflected in areas such as Medinat Nasr, al Mohandiseen and parts of Giza. Drawn by governmental and industrial job opportunities, people migrated from rural to urban areas. This mass influx of workers created a demand for housing. New single-use urban districts emerged; housing, industrial and governmental complexes separated; and reliance on automobiles and mass transit increased. The combination of poor regulations, mediocre urban design practices, and a rapidly growing population contributed to the proliferation of these single-use enclaves. Recent development patterns are changing this trend around Cairo. The rise in land-costs, along with the realisation of the benefits of high-density commercial, domestic, and entertainment habitats, is prompting development corporations and government institutions to revisit mixed-use planning strategies.

The Park – Investigation in a Post-Productive Cluster

2009-02-28T12:03+00:00

Kharita 01: Symposium on Urban Trajectories in Cairo Saturday, January 17th, 2009  Presentation by Marion von Osten, Katja Reichard, Peter Spillmann (in English) Throughout the history of human common areas, the park has played the role of both model and stage. It has functioned as an artificial paradise, a showcase for innovative technologies, and a masterpiece of the latest engineering arts; a proof of man's mastery over nature, a mirror of its times, a celebration of the transformation of ideology into materiality, a political arena, and a governmental terrain; finally the park has often offered itself as a place of retreat, idyll, freedom, a place outside of society's utility zones. In the park, the world shows itself in its subtlest variation, and the world comes to the parks to be entertained there, or to contemplate, perceive and encounter. Today, park-like ensembles are conceived as consumption zones, amusement parks, or as places to live and/or work. The future trend in architectonic projects calls for an island, separated from the surrounding urban or rural landscape, a gated community in which all daily needs are covered within a park-like setting. The rules of concentration foresee having everything in one place in the future. The citizen becomes a parkizen.

Joseph Schechla: Housing Rights and the New Urbanism

2009-02-28T11:41+00:00

Kharita 01: Symposium on Urban Trajectories in Cairo Saturday, January 17th, 2009  The “new development paradigm,” integrating at once technical and human rights criteria, is not very new. The long development of human rights norms pertaining to adequate housing and corresponding state obligations dates back some 40 years. What urban technicians in both private and public sectors may discover as new in those norms is their relevance to project implementation. The housing rights norms in international law have developed over time through a process of trial and error in the field, as well as through jurisprudence. This presentation unpacks these criteria to show how state compliance with current treaty obligations to respect, protect and fulfil the human right to adequate housing, which include the corresponding regulation of private actors and markets, also coincide with both project success and achievement of the relevant Millennium Development Goal No. 7.

Marion von Osten: The Colonial Modern. Planning, Segregation and Urban Apartheid

2009-02-28T11:36+00:00

Kharita 01: Symposium on Urban Trajectories in Cairo Friday, January 16th, 2009 In the nineteenth century, French colonial city planning set up trade and industry ports all over the world. After the Second World War, this expansionist strategy drastically changed and, with liberation struggles against French colonial rule, it finally ended. Establishing a Fordist consumer society in the colonies and in Europe was a major goal of the colonial project, which, as Franz Fanon pointed out, had clear economic incentives. In the 1950s, the French urban planning office in Casablanca started to build scores of affordable housing estates for Moroccans in the frame of a large-scale extension plan for the city. The planning strategies varied from the re-ordering of slum settlements (restructuration), to temporary re-housing of the occupants (relogement), and finally to the creation of new housing estates (habitations à loyer moderé). The spatial organisation of the residential and urban planning projects was based on a standard hierarchical grid: the Moroccan population was divided into religious groups of Jews and Muslims, while the Europeans remained a universal category. The estates for the locals were built on the edge of the colonial European city in an empty intermediate area, known as the ‘Zone Sanitaire.’ This lecture focuses on the French urban planning office in Casablanca, while reflecting on contemporary urban developments at the peripheries of post-colonial Cairo.

Omar Nagati: Competing Urban Orders in Cairo: A Historical Perspective

2009-02-28T11:25+00:00

Kharita 01: Symposium on Urban Trajectories in Cairo Friday, January 16th, 2009 For the last three decades, Cairo has been a battleground for competing urban orders manifest in incoherent planning policies, and often conflicting practices in public space. This presentation offers a historical perspective to the city’s long urban struggle, situating contemporary conditions within recurrent spatial and discursive paradigms of conflict and reconciliation. Structured around critical junctures, where the sharp juxtapositions of competing urban orders are most apparent, the discussion refers to the palatial Fatimid city, the dual urbanism of the nineteenth century, and the secular modernism of the twentieth.

Eric Denis: Cairo Reversed, Values and Spaces

2009-02-28T11:16+00:00

Kharita 01: Symposium on Urban Trajectories in Cairo Friday, January 16th, 2009 The process of inhabiting the desert transgresses a fundamental interdiction of settlement. Market expansion and real estate construction has succeeded in invading a void, which had thus far resisted occupation. This achievement is a strong indication of the leverage of private development. Open to the world, the elite can afford to transcend their local boundaries and domesticate this hostile environment. But this privilege is not simply based on material and financial resources. It entails converting to a newer myth: the neoliberal dogma. Abandoning the social diversity of the city, the elite opt for a globalised milieu. The move to gated communities outside the city walls separates the elite from those who lack the means of such mobility. This presentation analyses the articulation between the emergence of new regulations, new narratives and the massive adhesion to the development of a new urban space.

Wir sind keine Schöpfer

2009-01-19T12:11+00:00

Interview with Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet by Rembert Hüser, Robert Bramkamp and Hubertus Müll, november 1988, Münster. The filmmakers talk about the making of "Der Tod des Empedokles", questions of different text editions, the search for film locations, orchestration, usage of language and working with strata and geologie. Production and broadcast: Einer Keiner Hundertausend, Nr. 1. Kulturmagazin der Filmerkstätten NRW / Kanal4.

Simon Yuill Lecture

2008-11-19T15:03+00:00

Conference Verbindingen / Jonctions - 10 *** Artist and programmer based in Glasgow, Scotland. He is a developer in the spring_alpha and Social Versioning System (SVS) projects. He has helped setup and run a number of hacklab and free media labs in Scotland including the Chateau Institute of Technology (ChIT) and Electron Club, as well as the Glasgow branch of OpenLab. He has written on aspects of Free Software and cultural praxis and has contributed to publications such as Software Studies (MIT Press, 2008), the FLOSS Manuals and Digital Artists Handbook project (GOTO10 and Folly).

Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht

2008-10-31T19:07+00:00

Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht

2008-10-31T14:53+00:00

Dokumentation der Tagung: Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht - 26.-28. September 2008 in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund - Die Tagung ist eine Kooperation von HMKV und iRights.info *** 11:00 Organisation von Kreativarbeitern // Diskussion Veronika Mirschel, Leiterin des ver.di-Referats Selbstständige, Berlin Dr. Alexandra Manske, Institut für Gesellschaftswissenschaften und historisch-politische Bildung, Technische Universität Berlin Manuela Zechner, Künstlerin, London Marc Röbbecke, Heimatdesign, Dortmund Moderation: Valie Djordjevic, iRights.info *** Arbeitnehmer schließen sich traditionell zu Gewerkschaften zusammen, um gemeinsam ihre Interessen durchzusetzen. Viele Kreative jedoch reiben sich als Einzelkämpfer in Verhandlungen mit Verlagen, Galerien oder Plattenfirmen auf. Wer vertritt die Interessen der prekarisierten Kulturarbeiter im 21. Jahrhundert? Was bieten Gewerkschaften den kreativen Freiberuflern, können sie die Vielfalt der Beschäftigungsformen erfassen? Sind alternative Zusammenschlüsse außerhalb der institutionalisierten Künstler- und Autorenorganisationen eine Lösung? Oder gehört die Zukunft sozialen Netzwerken, die ihren Kampf für eine faire Bezahlung in Facebook organisieren?

Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht

2008-10-31T00:27+00:00

Dokumentation der Tagung: Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht - 26.-28. September 2008 in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund - Die Tagung ist eine Kooperation von HMKV und iRights.info *** # 17:00 Remix Culture // Diskussion mit # Dr. Felix Stalder, Dozent Theorie der Mediengesellschaft, Züricher Hochschule der Künste, Vertiefung Neue Medien # Martin Conrads, freier Autor; Dozent am Institut für Transmediale Gestaltung, Universität der Künste Berlin # Frank Dostal, Textdichter, Producer, stellvertretender Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender der GEMA, Hamburg # Johannes Kreidler, Komponist und Musiktheoretiker, Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock, Hochschule für Musik Detmold, Berlin # Thierry Chervel, Journalist, Mitbegründer des Online-Magazins Perlentaucher, Berlin Moderation: Dr. Inke Arns, HMKV *** Kultur war schon immer Bezugnahme auf und produktive Verarbeitung von vorhergehenden kulturellen Äußerungen. Neue Technologien machen heute diese Aneignungen leichter - und führen zu einer massenhaften Re-Kreativität („Sampling“). Das Panel beschäftigt sich mit zeitgenössischen aneignenden Kulturpraktiken, die sich in rechtlichen Grauzonen bewegen und fragt, inwiefern das derzeitige Urheberrecht Kultur effektiv be- oder sogar verhindert. Heute entscheidet sich, ob wir in Zukunft in einer „Remix Culture“ – also einer Gesellschaft, die die Entstehung abgeleiteter („derivativer“) Werke erlaubt bzw. explizit fördert – oder in einer „Permission Culture“ („Erlaubniskultur“) leben werden, in der jede aneignende Bezugnahme einer expliziten Erlaubnis des Rechteinhabers bedarf.

The Informal

2008-10-31T00:15+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 25th 2008

Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht

2008-10-30T23:40+00:00

Dokumentation der Tagung: Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht - 26.-28. September 2008 in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund - Die Tagung ist eine Kooperation von HMKV und iRights.info *** 13:30 Rekreativität und Urheberrecht // Vortrag von Dr. Volker Kitz, LL.M. (New York University), Höcker Rechtsanwälte, Köln / Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München, Moderation: Philipp Otto, iRights.info *** Kreativität ist zu weiten Teilen immer auch Rekreativität: Sampling, Remixing, Appropriation, Cut-Ups und Mashups sind weit verbreitete Phänomene. Betroffen sind alle Bereiche kreativen Schaffens. Insbesondere der User Generated Content lebt von Rekreativität. Welche legalen Möglichkeiten für Rekreativität gibt es derzeit? Wie haben sich die rechtlichen Voraussetzungen für Zitat, Parodie und andere freie Benutzung im Lauf der Zeit verändert? Wie können neue Lizenzierungsmodelle die Rekreativität fördern? Welche rechtspolitischen Forderungen kann die kreative Klasse realistischerweise erheben?

Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht

2008-10-30T17:28+00:00

Dokumentation der Tagung: Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht - 26.-28. September 2008 in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund - Die Tagung ist eine Kooperation von HMKV und iRights.info *** 11:00 Anticopyright in künstlerischen Subkulturen // Vortrag von Dr. Florian Cramer, Course Director Media Design M. A. und Professorial Coordinator (Lector) des Forschungsprojektes „Communication in a Digital Age“, Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. Moderation: Dr. Inke Arns, HMKV *** Der Vortrag erzählt eine Kulturgeschichte von Anticopyright-Kunst und -Aktivismus vor allem des späten 20. Jahrhunderts. Inspiriert von Lautréamonts Lob des Plagiats und Marcel Mauss' Anthropologie von „Geschenkökonomien“ propagieren Situationisten, Neoisten, Festivals of Plagiarism, Plunderphonics und das Luther Blissett-Projekt eine Kultur ohne geistiges Eigentum. Im Internet schreibt sich ihr Diskurs fort und ist neue Allianzen mit GNU-Copyleft, Open Source und Filesharing-Aktivismus eingegangen. Doch bleibt in diesem Mainstream des Anti-Copyrights ästhetische Radikalität auf der Strecke?

Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht

2008-10-30T15:14+00:00

Dokumentation der Tagung: Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht - 26.-28. September 2008 in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund - Die Tagung ist eine Kooperation von HMKV und iRights.info*** # 20:30 Wir spielen, was wir wollen // Konzert # Christian von Borries, Dirigent, Komponist und Produzent, Berlin mit Schülerinnen und Schülern der Musikschule Dortmund (Uraufführung) *** Der Berliner Dirigent und Musiker Christian von Borries erarbeitet zusammen mit Dortmunder MusikschülerInnen eine neue Musik, die aus der Lieblingsmusik der TeilnehmerInnen besteht. Die Stücke verschiedenster Musikgenres, die in Form von Xerox Kopie, mp3, gepfiffener Melodie oder Erinnerung vorliegen, werden verschiedenen Kopier- und Scanvorgänge unterzogen. Dabei entstehen zwangsläufig Übersetzungsfehler und Unschärfen, die zu zentralen Elementen der neu entstehenden Komposition bzw. deren Notation werden. Handelt es sich bei den neuen, live gespielten Stücken um Medleys, Cover-Versionen, Adaptationen, Interpretationen oder gar eigenständige neue Kompositionen – oder gar nichts von alledem? Die Beantwortung dieser Frage wirkt sich unmittelbar auf die – möglicherweise unbezahlbaren – (Lizenz-)Gebühren aus. Dürfen wir wirklich spielen, was wir wollen?

Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht

2008-10-30T12:24+00:00

Dokumentation der Tagung: Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht - 26.-28. September 2008 in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund - Die Tagung ist eine Kooperation von HMKV und iRights.info *** 17:45 Kunst und ihre technische Reproduktion // Diskussion mit Cornelia Sollfrank, Netz- und Konzeptkünstlerin, Hamburg, derzeit Dundee, sowie Prof. Dr. Gerhard Pfennig, Geschäftsführender Vorstand VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn und Christoph Irrgang, freier Fotograf, Hamburg sowie Hanns-Peter Frentz, Leiter Bildarchiv der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Moderation durch Dr. Volker Grassmuck, iRights.info. *** Die Künstlerin malt. Das Museum kauf an. Der Fotograf reproduziert. Die Agentur vermarktet. Die Verwertungsgesellschaft verwertet. So weit so einfach. Aber wie werden die Erlöse aufgeteilt und wie verändern sich die Verhältnisse durch die Digitalisierung der Medienwelt? Die Umsätze auf dem Kunstmarkt entwickeln sich positiv, wie die Enquete-Kommission Kultur des Deutschen Bundestages feststellte. „Doch nur wenige Künstlerinnen und Künstler haben daran auch teil.“ Sammeln, Bewahren, Forschen, Ausstellen im Dienste der Öffentlichkeit sind die Aufgaben des Museums. Heute kommt eine hinzu: Verwerten. Wird das Museum zum Anhang seines Shops oder erfüllt sich Benjamins Vorstellung von der Demokratisierung der Anteilnahme an Kunst durch ihre technische Reproduzierbarkeit?

Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht

2008-10-29T16:19+00:00

Dokumentation der Tagung: Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht - 26.-28. September 2008 in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund - Die Tagung ist eine Kooperation von HMKV und iRights.info *** 15:30 Wer bezahlt Kreativität? // Diskussion mit Paul Keller, Senior-Projektleiter Creative Commons Niederlande & Vorstandsmitglied iCommons, Amsterdam und Peter Grafe, Referatsleiter K16 Kulturwirtschaft im BKM (Der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien), Bonn, sowie Meike Richter, Kulturwissenschaftlerin, Dozentin, Kuratorin und freie Journalistin überwiegend für den NDR, Hamburg und Martin Juhls, Musiker, Kulturmanagement, sternschaltung, Dortmund. Moderiert vion Matthias Spielkamp, iRights.info. *** Kreative arbeiten in aller Regel freischaffend. Das Panel erkundet, wo sie Abnehmer und Förderer für ihre Werke finden. Wie sieht es tatsächlich aus in der Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft, die von der Politik als Wachstumsmotor gesehen und besonders gefördert wird? Ist es möglich, Werke unter Creative Commons frei zu lizenzieren und dennoch Geld damit zu verdienen? Wo streckt sich Kulturschaffenden die öffentliche Hand entgegen: in Rundfunk und Theater, mit Wettbewerben und Residencies? Oder bleibt für die meisten Bohemiens doch nur der prekäre Mix aus Kneipenjob, Arbeitslosenhilfe und einem seltenen Taschengeld für die eigentliche kreative Arbeit?

Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht

2008-10-29T13:23+00:00

Dokumentation der Tagung: Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht - 26.-28. September 2008 in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund - Die Tagung ist eine Kooperation von HMKV und iRights.info *** 13:45 Einkommensverhältnisse von Kreativen - Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Martin Kretschmer, Lehrstuhl für Informationsrecht & Direktor des Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management, Bournemouth University und  Moderation von Dr. Volker Grassmuck, iRights.info *** Martin Kretschmer und Philip Hardwick haben die erste umfassende empirische Studie zum Einkommen von Autoren aus Urheberrechten vorgelegt. Dazu haben sie 25.000 britische und deutsche Autoren befragt und Daten von Verwertungsgesellschaften, Künstlersozialkasse, Einkommenssteuer und Arbeitsämtern ausgewertet. Das Ergebnis: Die Einnahmen von Autoren liegen deutlich unter dem gemittelten nationalen Lohnniveau. Wenige Stars erzielen einen überproportionalen Anteil daraus. In Deutschland mit seiner stärkeren Regulierung von Urheberrechtsverträgen ist die Verteilung weniger stark verzerrt, aber die Einnahmen noch niedriger als in England. Autorinnen verdienen deutlich weniger als ihre männlichen Kollegen. Die zunehmende Verwertung im Internet hat sich nicht in zusätzliche Einnahmen übersetzt. Die typischen Autoreneinnahmen sind seit 2000 in beiden Ländern zurückgegangen.

War and Multitude - Ali Akay

2008-10-29T12:21+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 25th 2008 Leaving behind the 20th century, the 21st century has appeared with two directions. On the one hand, a hope for the world with more freedom after the fall of the Berlin Wall; on the other hand, the hegemony of capital which has been named ‘Empire’ is as the imperial system based on the military operations and the occupations over multitude. A reaction has been created by the opponents which are called and conceptualized as ‘Multitude’ in a sensibility which has occurred not only with the former leftist anarcho-gochist groups but also with an ecological market rethinks a multi-dynamics ecological world and unites with multitude. These multi-dynamics come out as the players of today’s dictionary of war. In this political situation, there is an international immigration practice emerging from the movements of labor and capital becomes too mobile, so that it makes the fact of hybridization composing with multiculturalism, post-colonial discourse and the “third space” possible. At this point, by turning to a conceptual approach, it is proper to look at the grammar of war in the dictionary of the thought of Tarde in the beginning of the 20th century.

Waiting - Brett Neilson

2008-10-29T12:20+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 25th 2008 War is mostly about waiting. In strategy there is delay. In fear there is hesitation. In engagement there is exit. Languor, boredom, nullity: waiting around for orders, mobilization or attack. Capture and detention, setbacks and impediments, quagmires and fog: in all there is a tendency to confusion and deferral. Far from the politics of decision and the friend/enemy divide, waiting reminds us of all that is uncertain or undecidable in war. And if, by other means, war is politics, it signals the importance, perhaps the virtue, of patience in political life. Waiting, in other words, is a register of all that cannot be won or lost in war. Above all, it is a tonality of experience triggered by a sense of finitude, by the expectation that war will end. But what becomes of this expectation when war becomes permanent, perpetual or infinite? In a war without limits of time or place, what is the sense of waiting?

Vacuity, topo, deception, detour, bunker - Ti-Nan Chi

2008-10-29T12:19+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 25th 2008 Subtle! Subtle! It approaches the formless. ─ Sun Tze, Art of War, 500 BC Micro-urbanism came out of a shifting paradigm of city and philosophy, which suggests there are internal realities to be investigated in order to describe how things interact and coordinate in the micro-scale realm, and which manifest the true spirit of a city and its people. Architects not only need to work within these inner systems but also to forge tactics in the micro-zones, in order to propel the self-healing potential that has been forgotten and dumped in the cultural politics of design.

Piracy - Tilman Baumgärtel

2008-10-29T12:17+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 25th 2008 This paper looks at the phenomenon of media piracy on the internet and in real space. As I live in the Philippines, I will focus on the piracy here, but my remarks will not be limited to the local situation. I will look at the phenomenon of piracy as such and try and outline some observations about how piracy works. First of all, I will look at piracy as a means of distributing films, and - drawing on interviews with some traders of pirated media material - on how the piracy market functions in the Philippines. I will also discuss the effect that the access to quality films has on the local film culture and media literacy in general and on the teaching of film in particular. Then I will discuss the unprecedented rise of media piracy in the last couple of years as one of the most prominent issues of the "digital millennium". The "Pirates of the New World Image Order" (Patricia R. Zimmermann) are not only piggy-backing on the new globalized economy that has arisen due to the world-wide deregulation and liberalization of markets in the 1980s and 1990s. They are also profiteers of a number of technological developments in the computer sciences such as the international expansion of the Internet, which has challenged traditional notions of copy right and intellectual property on a very fundamental level.

Loyalty - Sam de Silva

2008-10-29T12:15+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 25th 2008 The tactic of killing in the name of loyalty places the non-fighter, the peacemaker - the journalist, the ordinary person - in to the war and the zone of fire. The Tamil Tigers, a militant group, branded terrorists by the US, Europe and Canada, has a track record of killing people from their own ethnicity, who challenge their strategy. Journalists who write critically against the Government or contribute to "demoralising" the army are attacked, disappeared and killed. The concept of "loyalty" will be explored through the Sri Lankan experience, a bloody war over land and power has been waging for over 25 years. Are you with us or against us

Insulation - Ashok Sukumaran

2008-10-29T12:11+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 25th 2008 Insulation is the silent twin of "mediation". It is the wrapper of refusal that surrounds and protects an act of transmission, of exchange, or of transport. It is then a systemic, "objective" part of the ways in which we distribute ideas, information, and materials. When visible, insulation provides an image in outline, of the symbolic order: shapes that tell the story of distribution, mark the boundaries of commodities, their flows, and provide a surface for continuous conflict... a Wall across which to imagine and produce an outside, and an interior. But then, do not these very materials also produce the shelters, camouflages, isolations, prophylactics, inductions and touch-me-nots that mark the conceptual limits of an era of advancing "networks" ? Could there be a political possibility here, a line of defence? Lenin once made a proposal to melt down enough church bells to provide the copper conductors necessary to wire yet un-electrified Soviet villages. In a contemporary response, we should be melting down and reusing things with quite the opposite properties, offering a different articulation of what is urgent, and a different order of sacrifice.

Four Notions on War - Wong Hoy Cheong

2008-10-29T12:09+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 25th 2008

Dark Matter - Gregory Sholette

2008-10-29T10:50+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 24th 2008 Sholette's research into politically-engaged artists' collectives raises the following proposition: cultural economies are secretly dependent upon a sphere of hidden social production involving cooperative networks, systems of gift exchange, unwaged labor, and collective forms of practice that act as a type of missing mass or dark matter, which the art world typically refuses to acknowledge. Thanks in large part to the spread of digital networks, however, this dark matter is getting brighter. By looking at more than 30 years of contemporary artists' collectives, Sholette's research attempts to map this materializing missing mass politically, as part of a broader history from below.

Conflict within Peace, Peace within Conflict - York W. Chen

2008-10-29T10:47+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 24th 2008 In his lecture entitled Conflicts within Peace, Peace within Conflicts, Dr. Chen will discuss the unique situation of simultaneous war and peace that seems to exist across the Taiwan Strait. It goes without saying that the cross-strait political relationship is an extremely unusual case in international politics, and although most countries don't acknowledge Taiwan's nationhood and maintain it is a part of China, Taiwan is active on the international stage as a sovereign and independent national entity.

Cold, Coldness, the War of Coldness - Shih-Chieh Ilya Li

2008-10-29T10:42+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 24th 2008 As the Russian army invaded the Georgian territory, right in the same day China celebrating its "one world, one (Olympic) dream", mainstream media soon were flooded with the term "new cold war". Russia is back, and right now United States of America is facing its most serious, urgent, catastrófico economic Recession that is going to influence the world. For the western journalist, cold war was over decades ago, and the "new" is coming back to haunt the world with it's new axis, new friends, and new competition. But there are certain places on the earth that still under the same old coldness. Just like the South Eastern Asian jungle where Japanese soldiers hided into and waited for long term resistance, people there just missed the institutional de-frozen message: the Emperor/tennō/Mikado's radio lecture announcing "unconditional surrender". Post-war period after World War II is called "Cold War", and when is the end of "Cold War"? Are we officially providing any equipment, or any institutionalized effort, to terminate the coldness? In post WWII situation, Taiwan was deemed the important freedom fighting fortress on the Pacific Ocean. An un-sinkable aircraft carrier. A free China, China outside of China. A kind of democracy window to let people look into the iron curtained Chinese mankind. Taiwanese development was deemed strategically aligned with US's interests. Embracing the financial (mostly in the form of raw material, just like the extended market for USA national production) support and accompanied ideologies, we are connected with the center of the war. Show our loyalty, going nowhere but embracing the superpower, even the enlightenment is coming from most US then coming back to our own people. Taiwan is not only a free China, better China, civilized China, but also an unsinkable refrigerator. Taiwan is a cold generating device. Taiwan is institutionalized into the generator of our own coldness, and help in sustaining other people's coldness. When our enlightened intellectuals coming back to Taiwan, they found Taiwanese people are so "cold", not responding to external International situations: don't go out to protest against the Viet Nam war, for example. How do we react to this situation? We don't even know who we are! The only thing we know is to produce things. We are hardworking people, and we are doing really good. As no one is officially announcing "the cold war is over" (they don't announce it when it began neither!) , the coldness generating device, the unsinkable freedom carrier on the Pacific Ocean, is still hardworkingly outputting its coldness. No one yet to check the ruins so very few people know it's still working. Some politician knows the product these people produced, so smartly find a way to utilize these coldness-related products. At least to better their political lives. I would like to propose a research/re-search into coldness, to uncover the cold war's technical sides: cold war's instrumentality, how did it terminated or even everlasting? What are the strategies and tactics of cold war initiator / collaborators? Do they know we are the children of coldness, and those are even extending to today?

Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht

2008-10-29T10:37+00:00

Dokumentation der Tagung: Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht - 26.-28. September 2008 in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund - Die Tagung ist eine Kooperation von HMKV und iRights.info*** 11:30 Was für ein Urheberrecht braucht kreative Arbeit? // Standpunkte mit RA Wolfgang Schimmel, Sekretär im Fachbereich Medien, Kunst und Industrie, ver.di, Stuttgart und Ilja Braun, freier Journalist, Köln sowie Paul Keller, Senior-Projektleiter Creative Commons Niederlande & Vorstandsmitglied iCommons, Amsterdam und Christian von Borries, Dirigent, Komponist und Produzent, Berlin Moderation: Dr. Till Kreutzer, iRights.info *** Das Urheberrecht schützt die ideellen und materiellen Interessen der Urheber – sagt jedenfalls das Urheberrecht. Aber tut es das wirklich? Und tut es das in seiner gegenwärtigen Form? Was für ein Urheberrecht brauchen denn die Kreativen, die „Arbeiter 2.0“? Diesen Fragen werden vier Referenten nachgehen, die von den Antworten unmittelbar betroffen sind. Die kurzen, zehnminütigen Statements bilden den Auftakt zur Konferenz. Sie werden ein breites Spektrum unterschiedlicher Meinungen von Personen aufzeigen, die eigentlich alle „auf der gleichen Seite“, auf der Seite der Urheber stehen, jedoch ganz unterschiedliche Positionen vertreten. Dies dient nicht nur der Einführung in die Thematik, sondern auch dazu, einen Eindruck davon zu vermitteln, wie kontrovers über die Ausgestaltung eines zeitgemäßen Urheberrechts diskutiert wird.

Blank Space - Annett Busch and Florian Schneider

2008-10-29T10:36+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 24th 2008 "To open to civilization the only part of our globe which it has not yet penetrated, to pierce the darkness which hangs over entire peoples..." With these words the "King of the Belgians", Leopold II. welcomed the participants of the "Geographical Conference" that took place in September 1876 at the Royal Palace in Brussels. Only nine years later nearly one million square miles in central Africa, an area that Joseph Conrad once called "the blankest of all blank spaces", has been named the "Congo Free State". For the next 23 years it was the private property of Leopold II. During that period at least 8 million people lost their lives under a regime of terror and exploitation.

Ambient Fears - Nikos Papastergiadis

2008-10-29T10:34+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 24th 2008 Ever since September 11th not only has the perception of risk escalated but the meaning of fear has changed. At a personal level people have been speculating over their exposure to danger and institutions revising their security measures. Their capacity to cope with threats has been undermined by a loss of trust and morale. Fear has saturated every aspect of life. The American government has had to measure their ambition for global domination against the simmering prospects of revenge and sabotage occurring in their own locale. This level of anxiety is different to earlier forms of fear. It was easier to gain a sense of ironic distance from the earlier renditions of an invasion. Who can you trust? The enemy could be anyone or anywhere. The colonizer’s greatest fear is not the confrontation of the otherness in the enemy but the unexpected risks in intimacy. The intimate enemy can not only do greater harm than the visible foe but also sustain a state of perpetual anxiety that undermines any relief found in conquest. Ultimately, this state of being – when even silence is pregnant with danger, and where every stranger is also a potential enemy – is precisely the goal of the avenging colonized. Their aim is to disperse fear into the whole environment: to make anxiety ubiquitous and unlocatable. In this lecture I will examine a number of individual artistic and collective collaborative responses to the new politics of ambient fear.

Accident - Ravi Sundaram

2008-10-29T10:31+00:00

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 24th 2008 The accident has been seen as an origin myth for a new prosthetic enhancement to the body in its drive to war (Marinetti). Recently, Paul Virilio calls the accident the diagnostic of technology, its inherent drive to catastrophe. What about the accident as the image of everyday danger in a city? Not an outside, not an inside.

Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht

2008-10-28T20:40+00:00

Dokumentation der Tagung: Kreative Arbeit und Urheberrecht - 26.-28. September 2008 in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund - Die Tagung ist eine Kooperation von HMKV und iRights.info 11:00 Eröffnung: Udo Mager, Geschäftsführer Wirtschaftsförderung Stadt Dortmund Dr. Inke Arns, HMKV Dr. Volker Grassmuck, iRights.info

Alphabetical Order

2008-10-06T07:24+00:00

Dictionary of War 7th Edition, Meta-edition, Bolzano September 20-21 2008

Setup

2008-10-06T07:21+00:00

Dictionary of War 7th Edition, Meta-edition, Bolzano, September 20-21 2008

War

2008-10-06T07:21+00:00

Dictionary of War 7th Edition, Meta-edition, Bolzano, September 20-21 2008

Concept Person

2008-10-06T07:20+00:00

Dictionary of War 7th Edition, Meta-edition, Bolzano September 20-21 2008

prozess gegen antimilitaristen eroeffnet

2008-10-03T17:31+00:00

Florian L., Axel H. und Oliver R. were arrested after they allegedly tried to set fire on military trucks, made by MAN-AG in Brandenburg/Havel. Today they had their first court-day...
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Bundeswehreinsatz in Afghanistan

2008-09-30T22:26+00:00

Truppen nach Afghanistan? Ohne sich dabei die 'Radikale' Attitüde ans Revers zu heften wirkt die Antikriegs-Szene, anders als ihr nachgesagt wird, wenig Illusionsgeschwängert.

PartisanInnen, Kärntner - Tina Leisch

2008-09-21T11:05+00:00

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Textbook - Hyunjin Kim

2008-09-07T04:43+00:00

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Statelessness - Ursula Biemann

2008-09-07T04:42+00:00

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

State of Emergency - Jo Ractliffe

2008-09-07T04:41+00:00

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Reconquest - Patrick D. Flores

2008-09-07T04:39+00:00

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Pundit - James Merle Thomas

2008-09-07T04:38+00:00

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Pig - Jang Un Kim

2008-09-07T04:37+00:00

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Narrating a time of war - Praneet Soi

2008-09-07T04:35+00:00

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Jihad - Okwui Enwezor

2008-09-07T04:34+00:00

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Jeunesse fougue - Abdoulaye Konaté

2008-09-07T04:32+00:00

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Hysteria - Hassan Khan

2008-09-07T04:31+00:00

An associative and casual listening session to examples of shaabiyat tracks produced and distributed in Cairo over the past three years. Khan will discuss how the taboo becomes totem, the self hysterically claims a space, and aggression and paranoia become productive cultural operations, his evidence a collection of tracks that he finds to be the most interesting, surprising, and exciting cultural product to come out of his home town for a very long time. Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Hindutva and Islamism: Twins in Annihilation - Ranjit Hoskote

2008-09-07T04:29+00:00

Hindutva and Islamism are both movements of revanchism and annihilatory impact, which claim to speak in the name of a pure religious tradition that has been tainted and threatened by alien influences. In a zone of cultural confluence such as South Asia, these global movements are at war with one another: to Hindutva, secular modernity as well as Islam and Islamism are the enemy; to Islamism, secular modernity as well as Hinduism and Hindutva are the enemy. Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Full Spectrum Dominance - Kerry James Marshall

2008-09-07T04:28+00:00

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Continuity - Chung Seoyoung

2008-09-07T04:26+00:00

We could find a definition for the word "continuity" as such: "A detailed script or scenario consulted to avoid discrepancies from shot to shot in a film, allowing the various scenes to be shot out of order." While all possible kinds of "wars" are going on in the world all "possible details" disappear. But details are the bridge towards what makes life more real and interesting. By disappearance of the detail, absurdity evolves in reality and the aspire to continuity is a strong contest around this absurdity. Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Change of Game - Jarbas Lopes

2008-09-07T04:24+00:00

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Al Mukaddima: Le Bout du Monde/Anwal

2008-09-07T04:20+00:00

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Youthorganizing Network Interviews

2008-08-23T13:58+00:00

Anja, Tautvydas and Sören - participants of the Youth Organizing Institute 2008 in Kragujevac - talking about the situation in the countries they live in concerning similar and different kinds of discrimination in society. Besides that they inform about their approaches to research on these topics and how they organize themselves in the struggle for another society. http://www.youthorganizing.net The Youthorganizing Institute is a yearly meeting of young researchers and activists, theorists and artists from the wider south-eastern europa and beyond to discuss experiences and analysis of the participants, develop notions, ideas and concepts. After meeting in summer the development of common projects, the developing discussion and contacts will all be visible on the Youthorganizing website.

Youthorganizing Network Interviews

2008-07-30T11:01+00:00

Paula, Olga, Tamara and Vitalie have been participants of the Youth Organizing Institute 2008 in Kragujevac (Serbia). In the following interviews they will talk about their experiences on types of discrimination such as racism and homophobia in their regions and what they are doing to reach a change of the situation there. http://www.youthorganizing.net The Youthorganizing Institute is a yearly meeting of young researchers and activists, theorists and artists from the wider south-eastern europa and beyond to discuss experiences and analysis of the participants, develop notions, ideas and concepts. After meeting in summer the development of common projects, the developing discussion and contacts will all be visible on the Youthorganizing website.

Youthorganizing Network Interviews

2008-07-30T10:21+00:00

Giorgi, Sanja, Stevica and Tanja - participants of the Youth Organizing Institute 2008 in Kragujevac (Serbia) - talking about the youth/social centers they are involved with and about their work there. Furthermore they provide some information about forms of racism and exclusion in the regions where they live and how they use the social/youth centers to approach against it. http://www.youthorganizing.net The Youthorganizing Institute is a yearly meeting of young researchers and activists, theorists and artists from the wider south-eastern europa and beyond to discuss experiences and analysis of the participants, develop notions, ideas and concepts. After meeting in summer the development of common projects, the developing discussion and contacts will all be visible on the Youthorganizing website.

Lebensverhältnisse von Flüchtlingen in Frankfurt(Oder)

2008-07-01T13:41+00:00

Interviews über die Lebensverhältnisse von Flüchtlingen in Frankfurt(Oder) und Eisenhüttenstadt (en/pl/fr/de - subtitle here: http://www.global-progress.org ) Benedikt und Rachel sind Flüchtlinge aus Frankfurt (Oder) und Eisenhüttenstadt, die in der Hoffnung auf ein besseres Leben in die BRD kamen. Beide mussten feststellen, was es heißen kann, hier ein Flüchtling zu sein. Sie berichten von ihren Erfahrungen mit den Behörden, von ihren Lebensbedingungen im Asylbewerberheim und von ihrem Alltag in den Städten. Im Film sprechen auch Frankfurter_innen über ihre Sichtweise auf die Situation von Flüchtlingen und berichten von einem Rassismus auf verschiedenen Ebenen. Außerdem kommt ein Anwalt zu Wort und klärt über die rechtlichen Grundlagen des Asylverfahrens auf.

The Oil of the 21st Century - File-Sharing as Culture Industry

2008-06-23T23:58+00:00

Peer-to-peer networks are here to stay. Often dismissed as a mere conspiracy of teenage consumers against the media industry, these networks have become one of the most powerful and resilient environments for the collaborative production and reproduction of cultural data. Thus it seems that the question of file-sharing is no longer just a matter of identifying and routing around its corporate adversaries. Instead, it is becoming a question of organization. One can already make out a multitude of new initiatives, groups, alliances, coalitions and business entities that are heavily - and not only ideologically - invested in the future of peer-to-peer protocols and infrastructure. The next Culture Industry may already be in the making.

The Oil of the 21st Century - Keep Up Your Rights, Case by Case

2008-06-23T23:57+00:00

Current debates about Intellectual Property are often focused on the level of national law - and the need for its international harmonization - and the sphere of universal rights, like freedom of speech or access to information and medicine. Still, neither the vision of globalized law nor the desire for universal human rights seem to do justice to the facts on the ground, to the specific nature of the contained and often local Intellectual Property conflicts in everyday life. These conflicts are, essentially, cases: not so much applications of universal principles or denials of abstract rights, but rather particular and often unique constellations of power. Strategies for interventions in the field of Intellectual Property may have to acknowledge that they can only operate case by case.

The Oil of the 21st Century - General Rights Management

2008-06-23T23:57+00:00

Digital Rights Management (DRM) not only a proposes a set of new technological measures against unauthorized copying. It also promotes, on a conceptual level, an idea of individual rights that are no longer declared or granted, but instead directly implemented as the functionality - or the defects - of technology. Rights Management in general appears to be one of the most far-reaching new paradigms of control. The field of rights that it promises to manage stretches far beyond the Intellectual Property of the entertainment industry. In its most general form, Digital Rights Management will lead to Political Rights Management: an entirely new framework for various forms of hidden access restrictions and censorship in an increasingly networked world.

The Oil of the 21st Century - The Poverty of the Small Author

2008-06-23T23:57+00:00

In the age of digital reproduction, the problem of the “small author” remains: as the problem of the Intellectual Proprietor and his or her material reproduction, but also, and more importantly, as a problem of a specific political mentality. Among the many possible modes of production and subjectivation, the figure of the “small author” - who is always already deprived from the fruits of his hard labor, either by “the industry” or by “the pirates” - may be the most unfortunate one. But for the masses who know that they will never be part of a thriving global middle class of Intellectual Proprietors, there are other options. Not to entrench themselves against technological progress, but to radically embrace it: to explore new forms of collaboration and production beyond traditional authorship, to employ the most advanced methods of digital reproduction, and to reaffirm the instability of property relations.

digital handcraft

2008-06-19T19:02+00:00

"digital handcraft" is an educational film, a portrait of the process of computer hardware production. It displays the organisation of production in global value chains and investigates the conditions of life and labour for millions of migrant worker in China's factories, which manufacture the hardware for the immaterial production of the 21st century. This film takes a look at the flipside of globalised computer production, which is incongruous with the "clean" image the industry usually displays. By interviewing both activists and workers, the film investigates the current situation as well as future possibilities for improving their situation. Furthermore, the film looks at issues surrounding the illegal shipping of computer scrap parts from Germany to developing countries. http://www.pcglobal.org

Streik bei Reichelt in Berlin - 3

2008-06-07T14:42+00:00

Am 06. Juni 2008 wurde die Reichelt Filiale in der Berliner Straße 24 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf von einem Bündnis aus Beschäftigten im Einzelhandel, Ver.di und linken Aktivistinnen dichtgemacht. Von 6:00 bis 12:00 war der Laden von über 150 Menschen bestreikt und blockiert. Ein voller Erfolg für die Streikenden, die sich seit 17 Monaten im Arbeitskampf gegen die Streichung von Lohnzuschlägen bei Spät-, Nacht- und Wochenendarbeit und für Lohnerhöhungen jenseits des Inflationsausgleiches gegen den Arbeitgeberverband. Mit der positiven Erfahrung dieser neuen Aktionsform ist zu hoffen, dass der Streik an Stärke gewinnt und schafft die Einzelhandelskonzerne in die Knie zu zwingen.

Streik bei Reichelt in Berlin - 2

2008-06-07T14:36+00:00

Streik bei Reichelt in Berlin - 1

2008-06-06T19:02+00:00

Ein Jahr nach den Durchsuchungen am 9. Mai - Bilanz der Überwachung 5/5

2008-05-13T23:32+00:00

Anläßlich des Jahrestages der bundesweiten Hausdurchsuchungen im Vorfeld des G8-Gipfels am 9. Mai 2007 forderten Katja Kipping (MdB Die Linke), Pedram Shahyar (Mitglied des Attac-Koordinationskreises) und die beiden RechtsanwältInnen Christina Clemm (Berlin) und Alexander Hoffmann (Kiel) die Einstellung der §129a-Verfahren gegen 40 linke Aktivisten. Eingeladen hatten zu der Pressekonferenz in Berlin Beschuldigte aus vier §129(a)-Verfahren.

Ein Jahr nach den Durchsuchungen am 9. Mai - Bilanz der Überwachung 4/5

2008-05-13T23:23+00:00

Bilanz d. Überwachung

2008-05-13T23:17+00:00

Ein Jahr nach den Durchsuchungen am 9. Mai - Bilanz der Überwachung 2/5

2008-05-13T23:08+00:00

Ein Jahr nach den Durchsuchungen am 9. Mai - Bilanz der Überwachung"

2008-05-13T22:59+00:00

Bang! Bang! - Albert Heta

2008-03-20T15:12+00:00

Kosovar Pavilion Venice Biennial 2005, did not confuse only those who cannot distinguish what is an Albanian and what is a Kosovar pavilion, artist or identity but seemingly also players of the great structure of the ancient contemporary art power elite that eventually accepted apologies by the used instrument of this work (e-flux) for challenging their Biennale with a tool of their own system and continued to live on in harmony as nothing had happened in the West (Sunday, color video, 3.01 min.). These works stand and mark a time and a context that is full of Bang! Bang! (Bang! Bang!, color video, 2.20 min.).

Without Title - Muha Blackstazy

2008-01-31T11:56+00:00

For more than 10 years, Muha writes lyrics that are very much connected with everyday life of the Roma community in Nivi Sad, and turns them into hip-hop songs. In 2007 he made his first professional studio recordings; the album “Crni smo mi” (“We are Black”) was released in July and promoted at the EXIT Festival (MTV Movement campaign).

Kljuc - Teofil Pantic

2008-01-31T11:38+00:00

A novel... The last night I slept at home was the night of December 29th, 1991. After that night I have been going to bed and been waking up in many other places, of which at least one I could , with a lifelong engrafted caution, even call my home, but no, never again after that night have I slept at home, I was never at home at all, nor I will ever be at home again, even if I would go back to that place, the place where the home was. The place, actually, still exists: it was not blown up by a grenade, bomb, dinamite or any kind of explosives, God forbid, we are all civilized people, that house, building actually, still lastingly exists in the world, there it is exactly where it has always been, now on the non-existing address...

Kosovo and Corruption - Verica Barac

2008-01-31T11:25+00:00

How did these two subjects come together, when it was perfectly clear that we have learned this lesson seven years ago - egzistential problems of the citizens and their families cannot be resolved by resorting to nationalism? The fact that proves that we knew this back then are the citizens who voted for democratic options in 2000 and left nationalist parties without support. Advocating for democratic changes and democratic options secured these parties a 2/3 majority in the parliament - citizens made it possible for the government to start radical changes of the society, without a serious threat of the old regime, and above all to reject the old ways of governance. The government had to change in order to be able to change the others. It couldn't transfer to the others what it did not have in the beginning. Above all, goverment couldn't fight corruption if corruption was in the foundation of its governance, and because of that the most prominent slogans of that time were about the transparency of the government, i.e., the way of governance that allowed citizens to control and waive corruption.

Thorn - Bojan Djordjev

2008-01-31T11:06+00:00

Inscenation of the novel by Ivana Sajko "Rio Bar", which is an intimate history of the war in Croatia narrated in eight monologs of a certain girl in a wedding dress. In this quoted excerpt, described metamorphosis into a "women-thorn" represents basis of the concept THORN – practical human nature.

Vae Victis - Slavko Bogdanovic

2008-01-31T10:47+00:00

Prologue: you are in darkness of a public room in novi sad, serbia. it is the beginning of what is called new millennium. IMAGINE a time line emerging marking origin and development of the law concepts of war, determining destiny of individuals, nowadays we call them civilians. IMAGINE you are looking into the maelstrom of humanity & civilization, detected by a plummet hanged on your mental thread, rolling off down into the depth of times immemorial, two key words you are looking for in the past: war & civilians [12 letters only]. IMAGINE you are in rome It is the year 390 BC, the future eternal city is conquered by the gallic victor brennus romans must deliver gold as set in terms of peace arrangement, they complain that gauls use excessive weights in measuring gold, then brennus added his sword among weights, exclaiming: VAE VICTIS.

NSK Garda - Irwin

2008-01-31T10:21+00:00

NSK Garda refers to the project in which the slovenian art group Irwin collaborates with various European armies. In these actions soldiers, with Malevich's cross on their sleeves, raise and guard the flag of the NSK State in Time. In that sense it is not really a performance but more some sort of tableau vivant of the real army wearing a Malevich cross. Art society and army society are social structures that are usually totally opposite to each other and very rarely mix. With this action Irwin is organizing this encounter. As an art state NSK is in fact in parasitic relation with other, normal states and in this project this is made visible. Dusan Mandic, member of IRWIN, intoduces the recent performance in Kosovo.

Wall - Metahaven

2008-01-31T01:50+00:00

The wall that separates 'us' from 'them', friend from enemy, organizes the opposition of imaginations. A conflict (or war) of projections, virtual placeholders, where the enemy is designed as an image that will never actualize. But the consequences of the wall are real; information which would allow us to find out whether our outrageous ideas about others hold any truth, is being managed and reduced to the level of images in emerging ‘zero friction zones’; public space, in every aspect, is being reshaped under the imagined threat from the opposite side of the wall. This lecture will describe the wall as an imaginary piece of architecture and rhetorical device from which it is possible to observe conflicts carried out through images. Those conflicts include well-known rhetorical oppositions like Team B versus the 'Soviet threat', the Neocons versus the Axis of Evil, and European 'Leitkultur' versus radical Islam. This talk will address how many simultaneous oppositions are sustained by the wall and how ultimately the wall even separates 'us' from 'us'.

Torture, terror, tranquility - Martha Rosler

2008-01-31T00:59+00:00

Martha Rosler reads from her essay accompanying the re-emergence unchanged of her 1983 videotape A Simple Case for Torture, or How to Sleep at Night, accompanied by a screen saver of images on her computer.

Thanksgiving - Vesna Kesic

2008-01-31T00:23+00:00

In early 1991, when Croatia received the first international recognitions of its statehood, the euphoria was enormous. Such were the paradoxes of the situation. While the third of the country was yet to feel the war casualties, the state television launched a trashy song "Danke Deutschland" as a mark of gratitude to the first state that gave the recognition. The author researches how the phrase Danke Deutschland changed its meaning through the time, what does it mean today in different sets of memory. The concept consists of a video clip and narration.

Terrorism - Volker Eick

2008-01-31T00:03+00:00

The term ›terrorism‹ comes from the Latin word terrere, ›to frighten‹ via the French word terrorisme. The first use of the word ›terrorism‹ referred to state rule by terror. It was coined in the years after the French Revolution – the so-called Reign of Terror – and identified terror as an instrument of state power. Therefore, ›terrorism‹ became popular between 1793 and 1795 during the regime de la terreur. It was the French Revolution leader Robespierre who – just shortly before he himself was killed by his ›Madame Guillotine‹ – proclaimed in 1794: »Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it is not so much a special principle as it is a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our country's most urgent needs.« ›Terrorism‹ thus refers to state action. In the interim, with the generalization of the bourgeois national state since the eighteenth century, the power of states and of ruling class ideologies have successfully deflected and redefined terrorism as first and foremost an instrument of anti-state power. Generally speaking, the term is meant to de-legitimize any kind of resistance. A 1988 study by the US Army found 109 definitions of ›terrorism‹ that covered a total of 22 different definitional elements. As the only general characteristic generally agreed upon is that ›terrorism‹ involves violence and the threat of violence, many scholars avoid using this term – except those who are interested in using it for political, ideological and economic reasons. Among these more than hundred definitions, not all recognize the possibility of the legitimate use of violence by civilians against an invader in an occupied country or against ›their‹ government, and would thus label all resistance movements as ›terrorist‹ groups. Ultimately, the distinction is a political judgment. The paper will guide us through its controversial meanings.

Retro-Massmedia Shockwaves & Human Membranes - Hans Bernhard

2008-01-30T23:42+00:00

Embeded Journalism vs. Self-organized Multitude of Observation, Hans Bernhard (A/CH/USA) The current conflict situation in Kenya reflects once again a critical point in our retro-mass media society. The information from inside the country is not valid, the information going to the "world" is twisted to perversion through embedded journalism, dubious sources and combustion point monitoring. The conflict existed before and will exist after the mass media storm, the bloodshet happens within very limited boundaries is mapped on top of the country as a whole - and then broadcast to the world under the assumption of mass media without information. This problem is contraindicated and reflected through the project SLUM-TV - a counter-headlining empowerment of cultural selforganization. SLUM-TV documents the lives of the people in Mathare (500.000 people slum in Nairobi) and reevaluates these lives and their surroundings through the eye of the camera. The local partners film and document their own existence and the social, political and military aspects of living inside such a melting pot. The small movies (newsreels) are put together and broadcast in public places exclusively inside Mathare, reaching the local audience through a variety of self-established cinemas (pirate cinemas reaching very large audiences). Published online, the newsreels plus written reports reach the global audience. The presentation will briefly introduce SLUM-TV and will document the current situation in Kenya (Mathare-Slum) via the performance of texts written and blogged by local SLUM-TV members.

Renaming machine - Suzana Milevska

2008-01-30T23:25+00:00

Renaming Machine is a war concept that could be interpreted as a subtle but powerful strategy for erasing ethnic, cultural or gender identity without using any aggression or causing any direct material damage. It functions as a conceptual weapon of destruction, as a kind of wage war or a contest between the old and new identity layer. However, renaming simultaneously adds and multiplies a new layer of identity each time it erases one, because the names could be neither stolen nor completely erased: the best example of accumulation by dispossession in David Harvey’s terms. Moreover, according to Jacques Derrida giving names is also an act of love. RM attempts to point to the arbitrariness and contingency of representation that accompany the use of names and to raise the discussion about the invisible ideological patterns of “desiring renaming machine” standing behind the power regimes of representation while dispossessing and giving names. In my presentation I want to focus on the exploration of this clandestine ambivalence within the renaming as a juxtaposition of various identities. It is extremely important to reflect the complex entanglements of the political and cultural processes of renaming and the urgent need for questioning how these processes and patterns influenced the construction and destabilisation of national, cultural and personal identity during the last two decades within the Balkan region. I aim to encompass various art and cultural phenomena attached to renaming in order to explore the scale to which renaming affects visual culture and transgresses cultural identities and subjectivities in the Balkans. Renaming Machine was specifically motivated by the unique and absurd outwitting between Greece and Macedonia about the right to use the name “Macedonia.” This conflict resulted with exhausting processes of negotiations that still trouble the stability of the region. Regardless all paradoxes this “war of names” became an international precedent and the best example that names are overrated as identity insignia and “omen.”

Reconstruction - Andrea Kuluncic

2008-01-30T22:47+00:00

Reconstruction will consist of screening of two videos: “A Reconstruction of an Unimportant Day in Our History” and “A Reconstruction of an Important Day in Our History”, by the artist. First video shows a day in a life of Josip Broz Tito during his stay in country side, in the castle. Castle is also known under the name of „Tito's Castle“. Tito as passionate hunter, often stayed in the Castle hunting wild animals, alone, with his wife Jovanka (who was as well passionate hunter) or with eminent foreign statesmen. Second video reconstructs the meeting of the two presidents: Croatian, Franjo Tuđman and Serbian, Slobodan Milošević. The meeting was held on April 15th, 1991 in Tikveš Castle. First armed conflicts broke out in the region of Slavonia in the beginning of May, 15 to 20 days after that meeting. War reached Tikveš in the beginning of June. For a period of time Castle was used as a headquarters of Arkan's paramilitary group.

Performing Posses - Gini Mueller

2008-01-30T22:22+00:00

Politics, Activism and not at least performative potentials meet in the term “Posse“ as conflictive spaces of emancipatory wars against border- and bio-regimes. In their well known analyses of “Empire“ Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt describe “Posse“ from the latin term as a verb of power, an activity, which refers to the political power and subjectivity of the multitude: Posse is what a mind and a body can do. In a wider context the word also expresses in english the branding of a gang or clique, and in german it's also the theatre-term for a scetch or form of comedy. In the spectacular fields of staged WTO/WEF/G8 Summits, many protest forms of Activism develop techniques of resistance, using Media, Theatre, and Art-tools, and lots of performative and subversive “Posse-Actors“ can be found in the last years: like the Rebel Clown Army, PublixTheatreCaravan, Tutte Bianche, Pink Block, noborder-Activism etc. Their methods of acting provoced in special moments of summit-spectacles the governmental techniques of repressive (police-)representations. Performing Posses refer in this sense more to Slogans like „Another war is possible!“ (noborderlab2003). Their forms of „wargames“ link struggles of social movements with a post-Brechtian and “minor“-acting gestures together.

Nacionalisticka mitomanija - Zelimir Zilnik

2008-01-30T21:32+00:00

Screening of the inserts from Žilnik's movies: OLD TIMER (1988), TITO'S SECOND TIME AMONG THE SERBS (1994), EUROPE NEXT DOOR (2005) and WILD CAPITALISM (2008). Inserts are illustrating thesis how former Yugoslav political elite since the middle of the 1980s, after longterm conflict around Tito's inheritor and heritage, dismissed internationalism and self-management as axioms of the state's foundaments. Engineering of tribalizing of people was put in motion, together with ideology of nationalistic mythomanie and re-sentiments. In difference to the other former socialistic states, this enabled ten more years of plunder of the common goods, to the feudalized and comminuted governing elites of Yugoslavia. Newly produced class posses goods, but it ruined the state and economy, and the people are getting poor, unemployed, sick or leaving the country. New capitalists trends, especially through the example of Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Montenegro, are bringing over again the spirit of fatalism to the Balkan, which reminds us to the last decades of reign of Ottoman Empire. Political and cultural discourse in Serbia is drowned in the Kosovo myth. It is substitution for both past and the future, including the real state. Does in 2008 political class teleports Serbia to year 1808?

Na tragu mitologije - Jovan Divjak

2008-01-30T21:04+00:00

Remotely contributed concept by Jovan Divjak, former general in the Bosnian army during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War. He was the highest ranking ethnic Serb in the army and one of its most educated and experienced officers. On April 8th, 1992, Divjak became Deputy Commander of BiH's Territorial Defense forces and a month later oversaw the defence of Sarajevo from a major JNA attack. In the video, he first explains that the reason why he can not be physically present at the DICTIONARY OF WAR is that government of Republika Srpska (Serbian territory in Bosnia) finds him, among ten other people, responsible for the events on May the 3rd 1992 in Sarajevo. He is found responsible by the government of Republika Srpska for deaths of the soldiers when the units of Territorial Defense of city of Sarajevo attacked one unit of JNA-Yugoslav army. Jovan Divjak talks about constant mythologization as a tool for hegemony of one nationality over the others, which according to him, could lead and led to a bloodshed. As Serb, he is strongly criticizing Serbian nationalism and hegemony in Bosnia, as well as Croatian and Bosnian attempts towardsmythologization.

Ghetto Ambient - Sebastian Meissner

2008-01-30T20:18+00:00

Ghetto Ambient explores urban and rural environments frequently described as “non-places”. Expanding common definitions, which regards such places with limited presence of identity, social relations and history, this project is focusing on "places at the edge of the globalized world" (Spex), where silent and barely visible wars are fought: struggle for economical domination in the Barents (RUS/NO/FIN), new representations of (virtual) Jewishness in Crakovian district of Kazimierz (PL), housing struggle on the outskirts of Algiers (AL), abandoned agricultural and touristic resorts in the Judea desert (IL) and many other places. Meissner uses processed photographic material collected on various geographic locations dissecting it into fragments and re-arranging it to a highly dramatic fictional movie. Moving slowly from one geographic location to another, each sequence is build with “an acute sense of spatial composition and narrative structure which is drawing the listener into a captivating aural tale” (All Music).

Eating Rawness - Jean Matthee

2008-01-30T19:10+00:00

“Man tries to satisfy his need for aggresion at the expense of his neighbour, to exploit his work without compensation, to use him sexually without his consent, to appropriate his goods, to humiliate him, to inflict suffering on him, to torture and kill him”. (Feud); To find the path of desire is to encounter on routethe bad character of the drives, settled at the heart of all subjects who have to recognise it. Who am I? “You are the waste that fails in the world through the devil's anus.” (Martin Luther); Radical forms of sublimation are attempts to confront and transform the bad character of the drives, salvation holds on by a thread.

Digital Despair Geert Lovink

2008-01-30T18:40+00:00

The war in Iraq, from 2003 to the present, is the first war covered by bloggers. Salam Pax caused a stir by reporting online the last months of the Sadam Hussein regime and the US invasion. During the short summer of media freedom (2003-2004) Iraqi weblogs popped up in great numbers. Four years later we find ourselves in midst of a pool of 'digital despair'. Most bloggers have left the country and report from Damascus, Amman or London. Humor and irony have vanished. Some became news professionals, others turned silent. How are modern communication technologies such a blogs used to express emotions about the loss and exile? The tragic condition of the Iraqi blogosphere is used as a case study to investigate blogs as online diaries. Rather than promoting 'citizen journalism', I analyse blogs as 'technologies of the self' (Foucault).

Counter imaging - Erden Kosova

2008-01-30T18:17+00:00

After a period of relative normalisation, the politics within the Republic of Turkey has been drifted again into serious conflict. The rise of the governing party, which has its roots from the Islamic movement and which tries now to fuse cultural conservatism with rampant neo-liberalism, has disconcerted the established actors of the regime (army, bureaucracy and the urban bourgeoise) and the urban middle class in the West of the country which feels threatened by the heedless nouveau riche emerging from the conservative provinces. The looming threat of having another military coup was evaded by the landslide election victory of the governing party. The nationalist discourse recovered from the bitter defeat when the Kurdish separatist army decided to resume armed struggle and inflicted serious casualties to the Turkish army. Along the rise of the political tension, the contemporary art scene in Istanbul has experienced a considerable institutionalisation reinforced by the sudden interest of the most prominent bourgeois families and financial corporates into the field. The art practice which has defined itself trough anti-statist, anti-militarist and anti-nationalist stance encountered a bitter dilemma. A strand within these artists surrendered to the recuperative frameworks of the new institutions whereas another strand tried to radicalise it political edge, to the extent of deciding to switch occasionally into anonymous visual production.

Collection - Nebojsa Milikic

2008-01-30T17:54+00:00

The guided tour through an art-collection assembled in the period between 1986/7-1996/7, which is the period of the outset and ongoing of wars in Yugoslavia. How social and political agendas were absorbed or radiated through the process of selection - as seen in the content and concept of works. Which ideological and class positioning of the collectioner could generate motives, guide decisions or get blended into todays appearance of the collection.

Collaboration - Galit Eilat

2008-01-30T17:33+00:00

"Collaboration" is a structure, where two or more people work together toward a shared aim―typically for an intellectual or cultural project that is creative in nature. Yet, "Collaboration" acquires a very negative meaning as referring to persons or a groups which help an occupier or enemy of their country. What are the benefits and dangers of cultural collaborative projects between Palestinians and Israelis when any kind of collaborative structure is acknowledged as collaboration with the enemy?

(A quiet) Civil war

2008-01-30T17:16+00:00

Over the last fifteen years, many parts of the former Soviet Union have been devastated by civil war and other disruptive armed conflicts. Despite this glaring fact, it has often been stated that the break-up of the Soviet Union was a remarkably "bloodless" affair. In a major Russian city like Saint Petersburg, which has seemingly been far from the frontlines in any of these wars, the economic stagnation and chaotic political scene of the eighties and nineties have given way to what the city's current governor calls "aggressive development" and to an apparently well-fed political apathy amongst the previously engaged populace. Here, then, we see the exact opposite of anything resembling civil war -- a stable (albeit dull) civil peace. But what if this peace is, in fact, founded on a "quiet" civil war that has been going on for the past decade -- a war that in many ways has been just as devastating for the "losing" party as the hot civil wars fought in the former Soviet hinterlands? How can we delineate the frontline in this quiet civil war? How do we identify its victims? Its victors? How is it connected to the "real" wars in the former Soviet Union and former Yugoslavia? And what does it have to do with an American band called Beirut and an unhappy Russian girl named Masha?

Exergue: Novi Sad

2008-01-30T16:51+00:00

"The necessity of not having control over language, of being a foreigner in one's own tongue in order to draw speech to oneself and 'bring something incomprehensible into the world.'" I chose a quote of a quote as the exergue i would like to put in the beginning of the 5th edition of the "Dictionary of war". The exergue is taken from Deleuze and Guattari's "Mille Plateux" but itself it is quoting the german poet, dramatist and writer Heinrich von Kleist: It is a close reading of Kleists famous text "On the Gradual Formation of Ideas in Speech" ("Über die allmächliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden"), in which Kleist denounces the central interiority of the concept as a means of control--the control of speech, of language, but also of affects, circumstances and even chance.

Block G8 Impressions from Börgerende-Rethwish

2008-01-03T16:31+00:00

Impressions from the blockade against the G8 in Börgerende-Rethwisch that took place on June 6th 2007 near Rostock (Germany). In the video an activist explains the tactic and the course of action of the blockade (in german).

Narratives of Nudity

2007-12-08T00:35+00:00

How far can you go within a genre called Exploitation? Stephanie Rothman, known as the first women director in the Roger Corman Clan, talks about the thin lines between MPAA standards, exploitation standards of sex and nudity and her own political visions and aesthetical ambitions.

Exploitation vs Avantgarde

2007-12-07T23:44+00:00

Two different approaches to film-making and -production: a retrospective view on Hollywood and its B-pictures and a current perspective on independent structures - a dialogue between Stephanie Rothman and Nina Menkes, invited by Viennale 07. But as different as the cinematographic structures, chosen by the directors, may be, there is some important mutual ground for Rothman and Menkes: the strive to communicate feminist ideas.

Good Porn for Good Girls?

2007-12-07T22:07+00:00

What does it mean to work in the porn industry and what difference does it make if a women wrote the script and stands behind the camera? A panel discussion during the 2.Porn Filmfestival in Berlin with Erika Lust (Barcelona), Jennifer Lynn (Melbourne/Berlin), Julia Ostertag (Berlin), Ovidie (Paris), Petra Joy (Brighton) and Audacia Ray (New York).

Alltag Überwachung

2007-10-29T23:45+00:00

Ob durch neue Kameras oder dauerhafte Speicherung von Telefondaten, ob sichtbar oder im Verborgenen: Immer mehr Informationen über den Einzelnen werden gesammelt, gespeichert und verknüpft. Alles zur Sicherheit der Bürger und zum Vorteil der Konsumenten? Vollzieht sich ein Wandel im Umgang mit Informationen in der digitalen Welt oder ist es bereits der Weg in den Überwachungsstaat? Spurensuche in Deutschland - ein Video-Feature in vier Teilen. Hunderttausende öffentliche und private Kameras sind in Deutschland installiert. Doch die Forderung nach mehr Videoüberwachung reißt nicht ab. Manche erhoffen sich davon mehr Sicherheit, andere warnen vor der Überwachung - zum Beispiel in Leipzig. Dort setzt die Polizei seit langem auf Kameras. Wer mit wem telefoniert, wo sich Handy-Besitzer aufhalten, jeder Internet-Abruf: Künftig sollen in der EU Kommunikationsdaten in ungeheurem Ausmaß gespeichert werden, zum Schutz vor Terroristen. "Die Bevölkerung wird unter Generalverdacht gestellt", meinen Datenschützer. Peter Strehmel hat schon erfahren, wie sich das anfühlt. Vom Supermarkt-Etikett über das WM-Ticket bis zum Reisepass: In immer mehr Gegenständen stecken winzige Funkchips. Die Industrie verspricht sich von der RFID-Technik billigere Logistik und ihren Kunden individuellere Dienstleistungen. Skeptiker reden dagegen von "Schnüffelchips?. Ob durch Überwachungskameras an der Tankstelle, beim Surfen im Internet oder beim Bezahlen mit einer Treuekarte: Freiwillig oder unfreiwillig hinterlässt jeder Spuren. 44 min.

Store Wars - Join the Organic Rebellion

2007-10-28T22:48+00:00

Liebevolle Star Wars-Parodie zum Thema Bioernährung kontra Ernährung mit Lebensmitteln aus industrieller Massenproduktion. Von den MacherInnen von The Meatrix.

GET CREATIVE

2007-10-28T22:10+00:00

GET CREATIVE, being the origin and adventures of the creative commons licensing project.

chocolate city - we are here to stay

2007-10-28T21:50+00:00

Ein Tag in New Orleans, ein Jahr nach Katrina. Ergreifende Bilder zeichnen die Folgen des Wirbelsturms nach. Zu Wort kommt die Arbeit der NGO „Common Grounds collective“, die sich gegen die Beschlagnahmung von Häusern in vorwiegend von Afro-AmerikanerInnen bewohnten Vierteln wendet. www.droppingknowledge.org

Reclaim Power

2007-10-27T22:49+00:00

Die Dokumentation des Protest- und Workshopcamps in Sichtweite des größten Kohlekraftwerks „Drax“ in Großbritannien ist gespickt mit einprägsamen Bildern und erklärenden Interviews zum Klimawandel. Vor allem der CO2-Ausstoß der nördlichen Welt wird in seinen verheerenden sozialen und ökologischen Folgen durch AktivistInnen und ExpertInnen erläutert. Das 10-tägige Camp findet seinen Höhepunkt in der Stilllegung von Drax für einen Tag. Der Film will dazu anregen, in den nächsten Jahren in ganz Europa Klimacamps zu inszenieren: Globale Perspektive – Aufklärung – lokale Aktion.

Dow Houx

2007-10-23T22:09+00:00

1984: Durch einen Giftgasunfall in der Chemiefabrik von Union Carbide in Bhopal, Indien, starben unmittelbar 5000 Personen. Weitere 15.000 in den darauf folgenden zwei Jahrzehnten. Seitdem benötigen ca. 120.000 Bhopalis lebenslang medizinische Behandlung. Dow Chemical kaufte 2001 Union Carbide auf, zahlte jedem Opfer einmalig 500 US$ und meinte damit, seine Schuldigkeit getan zu haben. Zum 20. Jahrestag der Katastrophe kontaktierte ein BBC-Reporter den Konzern über DowEthics.com. Er ahnte nicht, dass die Website ein Fake der Yes Men war. So kam der angebliche Sprecher von Dow, Jude Finisterra („Ende der Welt“), auf BBC World TV zum Einsatz. Und endlich sagte jemand die Wahrheit...

Building On The Past

2007-10-23T16:27+00:00

Justin Cone created a short, succinct “commercial” that demonstrates what Creative Commons is, and how it works, in a slick package.

Streikbesuche in Hamburg

2007-10-09T11:48+00:00

Am Freitag, den 5.Oktober 2007 fuhren 100 Streikende aus Haldensleben nach Hamburg, um ihre dort streikenden KollegInnen zu besuchen und zu unterstützen. Dieser Besuch ist der erste dieser Art, eine andere Gelegenheit der Arbeiterinnen und Arbeiter der beiden Standorte sich kennenzulernen, gab es noch nicht. Die Stimmung ist euphorisch, nur geht weder Otto noch Hermes Warehousing Solutions bislang auf die Streikenden zu - der Kampf geht weiter.

Streik-Aktionstag in Magdeburg

2007-10-07T18:18+00:00

Auch am Donnerstag, den 4. Oktober 2007 wird Hermes Warehousing Solutions, die ausgelagerte Otto Tochterfirma, von den Arbeiterinnen in Haldensleben und Hamburg bestreikt. Um ihrem Anliegen mehr Gehör zu verschaffen, fahren die Arbeiterinnen aus Haldensleben am Donnerstag zu einem Aktionstag nach Magdeburg, wo sie in Einkaufszentren und vor dem Arbeitgeberverband demonstrieren und Kundgebungen abhalten. Lautstark ziehen sie durch Magdeburg und fordern von Hermes und Otto an den Verhandlungstisch zu kommen. Mehr Informationen zu diesem Aktionstag unter http://hws-im-streik.de/node/502

Ver.di Bundeskongress-Delegierte in Haldensleben

2007-10-07T09:31+00:00

In den frühen Morgenstunden des 5.Oktober 2007 besuchten 150 Delegierte des in Leipzig stattfindenden Ver.di Bundeskongresses die Streikenden in Haldensleben, um sie zu unterstützen und ihre Solidarität auszudrücken. In Haldensleben (wie auch in Hamburg) wird seit 7 Tagen HWS - Hermes Warehousing Solutions, eine Tochter der Ottogroup, bestreikt. Bislang zeigt sich HWS unnachgiebig und will den Arbeiterinnen und Arbeitern von HWS eine Verschlechterung ihrer Arbeitsbedingungen zumuten, obwohl die Gewinne des Konzerns im letzten Jahr die höchsten seit Konzerngründung waren.

"Ist jetzt alles Terrorismus?" RA Christina Klemm zu den 129a - Verfahren

2007-10-04T22:23+00:00

Volksbühne Berlin - 30.9.2007 Rechtsanwältin Christina Klemm vertritt anwaltschaftlich einen der Beschuldigten und nimmt hier zum Verfahren stellung.

"Ist jetzt alles Terrorismus?" - Willkommensworte der Volksbühne

2007-10-04T22:13+00:00

Volksbühne Berlin - 30.9.2007 Chefdramaturgin Gabriele Gysi spricht die willkommens-worte

"Ist jetzt alles Terrorismus?" Schlussrunde

2007-10-04T21:50+00:00

Volksbühne Berlin - 30.9.2007 Abschlußstatements

"Ist jetzt alles Terrorismus?" - Einfühung in die Veranstaltung

2007-10-04T21:36+00:00

Volksbühne Berlin - 30.9.2007 Einführung von Dr. Britta Grell

"Ist jetzt alles Terrorismus?"

2007-10-04T20:32+00:00

Volksbühne Berlin - 30.9.2007 Beitrag von Dr. Rolf Gössner - Internationale Liga für Menschenrechte

"Ist jetzt alles Terrorismus?" - Beitrag von Dr. Fritz Storim

2007-10-04T19:18+00:00

Veranstaltung in der Volksbühne Berlin - Beitrag von Dr. Fritz Storim

Ist jetzt alles Terrorismus - Beitrag von Prof. Dr. Roland Roth

2007-10-04T18:18+00:00

beitrag von prof.dr. roland roth

Montag: Aktionstag!

2007-10-02T12:25+00:00

Auch am 2.10.2007 sind die Arbeiterinnen und Arbeiter von HWS Hermes Warehousing Solutions in Haldensleben und Hamburg im Streik. Anstelle der gewohnten Demonstrationen entschieden sich die Streikenden am Montag für vielfältige Aktionen in anderen Einzelhandelsfilialien: Kaufhof, Appel, Aldi und Lidl, um den dort Tätigen Mut zu machen und aber auch um auf ihren Streik aufmerksam zu machen. Ausführlicher nachzulesen unter: http://www.hws-im-streik.de/node/396

Streikansage aus Haldensleben

2007-09-28T13:39+00:00

Eine Streikende erklärt warum ab heute, dem 28.09.2007, die Arbeiterinnen bei Hermes Warehousing Solutions, Tochterfirma des Otto-Konzerns, im unbefristeten Streik sind, was ihre Forderungen und Perspektiven sind.

Streikimpressionen

2007-09-25T16:17+00:00

Am 30./31. Juli 2007 hatten die Arbeiter_innen der Otto-Lagerwirtschaft Hermes Warehousing Solutions im Rahmen der Tarifauseinandersetzung im Einzelhandel gestreikt. Der kurze Zusammenschnitt von Videoaufnahmen, soll einen Eindruck vom Streik und den Aktionen geben, die darauf bezogen stattfanden. Bei HWS (Hermes Warehousing Solutions) in Haldesleben befanden sich ca. 2/3 der insgesamt 1800 Arbeiter_innen im Streik. Paralell dazu wurde auch im Hamburger HWS-Werk gestreikt. Bisher gebärdet sich das Management jedoch unnachgiebig und lehnt Verhandlungen ab. Doch die Tarifauseinandersetzungen sind nicht beigelegt, der Kampf geht weiter.

One or two things we know about precarity

2007-09-07T21:48+00:00

How can we learn to link and connect emerging struggles against precarization? What is the specific link between knowledge and organizing? How can organizing be implemented in Europe? A conversation between Stephen Lerner and Bondgenoten, moderated by Hae-Lin Choi.

Hosting the general intellect?

2007-09-04T21:38+00:00

Hosting the general intellect: Closing event of SUMMIT non-aligned initiaives in education culture. With contributions by Franco Bifo Berardi, Charles Esche, Lawrence Liang. Moderated by Irit Rogoff.

History Lesson: Short introduction into a true history of non-alignment

2007-09-04T19:00+00:00

The second History Lesson at SUMMIT non-aligned initiatives in education culture featured a conversation between yugoslavian filmmaker Zelimir Zilnik and Jeebesh Bagchi (Raqs media collective) from Delhi.

caterpillar / rostock

2007-08-17T18:36+00:00

A 3-minutes clip covering parts of the actionday against war, militarism and torture during the g8-meeting in heiligendamm in june 2007

Learning from Architecture

2007-07-20T16:55+00:00

'Learning from Architecture" posits the assumption that rather than learning about architecture, it could be an methodology through which we could learn about that which lies beyond it. A debate featuring Nikolaus Hirsch, Eyal Weizman, John Palmesino, Aristide Antonas, Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti, Jesko Jezer and more...

Urgent Thought: Hegemony, Exhaustion, Bologna

2007-07-18T08:14+00:00

Fragments of a radical pedagogy: The third session of Urgent Thought features contributions by Oliver Marchart, Jan Verwoert and Dieter Lesage. It was recorded at the third day of SUMMIT non-aligned initiatives in education culture.

Liam Gillick: Day 5

2007-06-23T17:54+00:00

Five Short Texts on the Possibility of Creating an Economy of Equivalence: Relations of equivalence - three potential endings. May 11th, 2007 unitednationsplaza, berlin

Liam Gillick: Day 4

2007-06-23T14:14+00:00

Five Short Texts on the Possibility of Creating an Economy of Equivalence: Reconfiguring the recent past. May 10th, 2007 unitednationsplaza, berlin

Liam Gillick: Day 3

2007-06-23T02:15+00:00

Five Short Texts on the Possibility of Creating an Economy of Equivalence: Reoccupation, recuperation and aimless renovation. May 9th, 2007 unitednationsplaza, berlin

Liam Gillick: Day 2

2007-06-22T22:25+00:00

Five Short Texts on the Possibility of Creating an Economy of Equivalence: Redundancy following the lure of infinite flexibility. May 8th, 2007 unitednationsplaza, berlin

Liam Gillick: Day 1

2007-06-22T20:24+00:00

Five Short Texts on the Possibility of Creating an Economy of Equivalence: The day before closure of an experimental factory. May 7th, 2007 unitednationsplaza, berlin

Urgent Thought: Suspension, Defeat, Migration

2007-06-20T23:39+00:00

Fragments of a radical pedagogy: The second session of Urgent Thought features contributions by Jeebesh Bagchi, Franco Berardi, Angela Melitopoulos. It was recorded at the second day of SUMMIT non-aligned initiatives in education culture.

If A Body Catch A Body Coming Through The Rye

2007-06-09T13:59+00:00

A look at allergies, yogurt, rye fields, water cannons, tear gas and blue blue sky.

Who is a companero? Part 2

2007-06-09T11:12+00:00

Das Lied Von Der Erde

2007-06-08T19:09+00:00

das lied von der erde, ‘the sky remains blue forever/ and the earth will remain for long/ and bloom again/ in spring./ but you, man,/ how long do you have to live?/ not hundred years do you have to enjoy/ all the transient pleasures/ of this earth.’ (music by gustav mahler, poem by li-tai-po, translated from the chinese by hans bethgen) images from the via campesina march in rostock on the 3rd of june.

Enquanto Seu Lobo Nao Vem

2007-06-08T18:20+00:00

‘enquanto seu lobo nao vem’ while mr. wolf doesn’t come ‘let’s take a walk in the hidden forest, my love/ let’s take a walk in the avenue/ let’s take a walk through the paths, the high roads, my love/ there’s a mountain range under the tarmac (…) (the brass of the military band)/ under the bombs, the flags/ (the brass of the military band)/ under the boots/ (the brass of the military band)/ under the roses, the gardens/ (the brass of the military band)/ under the mud/ (the brass of the military band)/ under the bed…’ (caetano veloso) images of the 2nd june demonstration before it arrived at the harbour and police provocations began.

Prisoners of Love

2007-06-07T22:56+00:00

Ping Pong d'Amour beginnt mit einer Wohngemeinschaft, die zwischen der geschäftigen Fantasie 'junger Unternehmer' (Start-Up) und real-live Effekten der sog. Doku-Soaps hin und her pendelt. Den Bewohnern gelingt es einfach nicht, ihr Leben mit ihren Jobs in ein Gleichgewicht zu bringen. Aber anders als bei anderen Doku-Soaps sind die Figuren nicht in ihrer propagierten Authentizität gefangen, sondern in eine ironische, intellektualisierte, schein-französische Welt verschoben. Erst darüber kommen die Macher/innen hinter den Figuren zum Vorschein, wird erahnbar, dass hier das 'TeamPing-Pong' eine raffinierte Form gefunden hat, über das eigene Leben zu spre-chen: die vielleicht einzig verbleibende Sprache des Dokumentarischen, nachdem die mediale Inszenierung von Echtheit zum Standard geworden ist. Denn das Ping Pong- Produktionsteam ist identisch mit den Darsteller/innen und ist veranwortlich für die Konstruk-tion der Wirklichkeit, die sie selber ver-körpern. Im gleichen Maße wie Doku-Soaps seit 'Big Brother' letztendlich die beunruhigende Frage entpolitisiert: Was ist, wenn wir auch in unserem 'wirklichen Leben' immer und überall nur bestimmte Rollen spielen, wenn wir nicht sind, was wir sind, sondern uns selbst nur spielen?, entpolitisiert die Ideologie der new economy die Produktionsverhältnisse als reibungsloser Spaß. Dem setzt Le Ping Pong d'Amour die zwei Millimeter Abstand zwischen den Produzent/-innen und den Selbstdarstellungen entgegen, in denen ein anderes Leben potentiell auftauchen könnte -- und nicht wie in einer Soap üblich, die bestehenden Verhältnisse reproduziert. Als könnten im Umweg über diese 'Soap Verité' einige Lektionen Jean-Luc Godards wiederauftauchen: Selber-Machen und sich dabei zeigen.

Who is a companero? part 1

2007-06-07T21:17+00:00

what, or who, is a companero? or a comrade, genosse? is a companero the same as a comrade? and who is not a comrade, genosse, companero? across different political languages – not only the tongues in which they're spoken, but the different forms of political life that they express and participate in –, the point of a single-question interview is precisely to help differences appear. whereas a general interview (‘tell me about your struggle, your position on the g8, on africa’ etc.) would tend to reduce those differences to common-places, or make them appear as predictable, traceable diffractions (‘the socialist’, ‘the anarchist’ etc.) a question that tries to probe into the unarticulated background of a political practice can perhaps say more about what it is that constitutes ‘a movement’.

Kennedi goes back home

2007-06-07T21:15+00:00

This is a story of Yugoslavs who left the country in war and spent over ten years in Western Europe as refugees or in asylum. In the second half of the year 2002 European Union sent many of these people back to Serbia and Montenegro together with their families, believing that there were no more reasons for their stay. Procedures for their return were usually very strict. Families would be gathered during the night, transported to the airport and sent to Belgrade on the first flight. To make things more dramatic, the majority of children born in some of the Western European countries speak and write the other language better than the mother tongue. As they sold everything they owned when they were leaving the country, they are facing a situation where normal life is practically impossible. The film is in serbian language, partly in german but english subtitled.

Underground Londoners

2007-06-07T18:46+00:00

Based on a year of ongoing conversations and interviews with migrant workers working as cleaners in the London Underground, this film is about their living and working conditions as as migrants with precarious status, as well as working under the Public Private Partnership of the London Underground. Divided in three parts the film speaks first about the everyday living and working conditions in the Underground. The second part explains the Public Private Partnership under which the cleaning is privatized and outsourced through several layers of contractual relations with a complex web of global companies. Finally the workers involved in the Justice for Cleaners campaign hosted by the Transport and General Workers union (UK) in partnership with the SEIU/ Justice for Janitors (US) outline some the victories as well as difficulties in organizing people with precarious status. We follow some of the actions and demonstrations against the global companies involved in the PPP, as well as the alliances made with social movements in the UK, and globally in the struggle for migrants rights.

Budge

2007-06-07T16:07+00:00

This is a conversation that was held between Budge, Anja and Manuela on the occasion of the counter G8 rememberance summit in Heiligendamm 2077. Remembering migrancy and conditions for transnational movement, activism, hopes, desires and the general political climate at the beginning of the millenium.

Live From Gate 3

2007-06-06T22:34+00:00

Celebrated TV pesonality Esteban Caliente, on contract to Kein.TV for the duration of the G8 summit, reports live from the blockade at "Gate 3," near Bogerende.

elisabeth

2007-06-06T22:22+00:00

This is a conversation that was held between Elisabeth, Anja and Manuela on the occasion of the counter G8 rememberance summit in heiligendamm 2077. Remembering activism, the beginnings of the urban garden movement, womens work, hopes, desires and the general political climate at the beginning of the millenium.

Block G8

2007-06-06T21:55+00:00

Impressions from the blockade against the G8 in Börgerende-Rethwisch that took place on June 6th 2007. The blockade was very successfull and used the so called 5-finger tactic.

Marching Martians

2007-06-06T16:01+00:00

"Marching martians" documents Monday's demonstration for global freedom of movement in Rostock. Impressions of the demo contains interviews with martians, parody news updates and ads, and brief music sequences.

KEIN talk: piracy

2007-06-06T14:05+00:00

"Freedom of movement vs. global apartheid": A roundtable talk from the anti-G8 action day on migration featuring Solange Kon, CADTM (Alliance against indebtedness), Ivory Coast; Maksym Butkevich, Noborder Kiev, Ukraine; Valery Alzaga, global SEIU (Services trade union), USA/Mexico; Lawrence Liang, Alternative Law Forum, Bagalore, India; Sunny Omwenyeke, The Voice Africa Forum, Nigeria/Germany. The debate took place in english language with a consecutive translation to german (or vice versa).

Day of migration action

2007-06-05T23:47+00:00

Coverage of three migration related actions in Rosotck on June 4th, 2007.

simone

2007-06-05T19:31+00:00

The future archive is a project that issues a series of responses to the problem of how to perform futures. It engages interview- conversations that are set in possible times and spaces to come, which two or more people performatively inhabit as proposed versions of futurity. From there, contemporary society is remembered. Upon every conversation, a different future is at stake.

History Lesson: Black Audio Film Collective

2007-06-05T17:01+00:00

The first History Lesson at SUMMIT non-aligned initiatives in education culture featured a conversation between John Akomfrah and Kodwo Eshun. Black Audio Film Collective was founded at Portsmouth Polytechnic in 1982 by sociology, fine art and psychology students John Akomfrah, Reece Auguiste, Edward George, Lina Gopaul, Avril Johnson, Claire Joseph and Trevor Mathison. The group who later relocated to London produced some of the most influential films and videos of recent times before formerly dissolving in 1988. Despite its currency the group's work owes little to the present; it is singular, it inhabits a dimension of timely untimeliness.

SUMMIT opening ceremony

2007-06-04T21:24+00:00

SUMMIT non-aligned initiatives in education culture starts an opening ceremony in Hebbeltheater Berlin. Kodwo Eshun, Susanne Lang, Irit Rogoff, Florian Schneider, Nicolas Siepen, Nora Sternfeld present the SUMMIT project and its background. The opening session will also introduce into the program and the goals of SUMMIT.

KEIN Talkshow: Piracy

2007-06-04T10:16+00:00

Lawrence Liang, Sebastian Luetgert, Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran in conversation about pirate cinemas, distributed archives, peer-to-peer film studies and the post-copyright futures of cinema.

Copyright this!

2007-06-04T10:06+00:00

One week prior to the World Information conference and exhibition in Bangalore, a group of students, filmmakers, media jammers and DV rookies occupied the terrace room of Lawyers Collective in Tasker Town, Shivaji Nagar. Here, WI City TV 's open studio was set up, with the support and cooperation of fellow artists and organizers. With 3 editing computers, and a mixed bag of cameras; the studio worked around the clock and produced a range of content for WI city TV -that served over 3000 homes in Shivaji Nagar via their 'informal' cable channel parallel to and independent of the conference. Sanjay Bhangar and Sravanthi K spent a few days in Shivaji Nagar and at National Market looking at the 'digital moment' and what it has meant for local economy and world information. They ended up with a footage source, comprising shots of cyber cafés and shop fronts offering dtp, call center coaching, and language translation facilities, computer classes, dvd's and vcd's. Interviews with vendors and users and with Shivaji Nagar local and renegade IP law-breaker Lawrence Liang in Hindi, shot with a rather 'odd' frame formed the backbone of the film. Footage of the World Info poster campaign, the IT corridor, Forum Mall, image searches, movie clips and a gleaning of Alternative Law Forums's CD compilations on IPR, censorship and cinema, combined with visuals from the footage bank and manic editing by Sooraj Ravindran resulted in COPYRIGHT THIS. The film is subtitled in english.

Urgent Thought: Urgency, Pluralism, Self-Organization

2007-06-03T23:27+00:00

Fragments of a radical pedagogy: The first session of Urgent Thought features contributions by Avery Gordon, Munir Fasheh, Ana Vujanovic. It was recorded at the first day of SUMMIT non-aligned initiatives in education culture.

Move against G8

2007-05-08T22:09+00:00

Vom 06. – 08. Juni 2007, wird in Deutschland das Treffen der so genannten Gruppe der Acht, kurz G8, stattfinden. Hierzu werden die Regierungschefs der sieben führenden Industrienationen und Russlands in den Badeort Heiligendamm an der Ostseeküste, nahe Rostock kommen. Doch gegen diesen G8-Gipfel als Symbol der herrschenden Weltordnung regt sich Widerstand. Zig tausende DemonstrantInnen werden Anfang Juni ebenfalls vor Ort sein, um den Gipfel zu blockieren, zu stören oder einfach nur laut "Ya basta" - "Es reicht" - zu schreien. Nein zu Kapitalismus, Rassismus, Antisemitismus, Sexismus und Krieg - für ein besseres Leben für alle, und für eine Welt ohne Grenzen und Nationen. "Move Against G8", ein Zusammenschluss linker KulturaktivistInnen, ist Teil der bundesweiten Mobilisierung zu den Protesten gegen das Gipfeltreffen. Ziel der auf der 2. Rostocker Aktionskonferenz initiierten Kampagne ist die kulturelle Unterstützung der Aktivitäten gegen den Gipfel. "Move Against G8" organisiert das Kulturprogramm als integralen Bestandteil der Mobilisierung nach und Ausdrucksform während der Gipfelproteste. Auch im Vorfeld soll "Move Against G8" dazu beitragen, den Widerstand gegen das G8-Treffen sichtbar zu machen. So wird es in vielen Städten Soli-Konzerte zur Finanzierung des Kulturprogramms in oder um Heiligendamm geben. Die Kampagne ist aber auch aufs Mitmachen angelegt: JedeR kann sich einreihen, sei es durch Soli-Konzerte, Parties, Lesungen,...der Fantasie sind keine Grenzen gesetzt. Setzt das "Move Against G8"-Logo auf eure Flyer und Poster, verteilt Flyer oder Zeitschriften auf Konzerten oder überredet eure Lieblingsband, auf ihrer Tour ein Banner auf die Bühne zu hängen oder eine Ansage zum G8 zu machen. Bringt euch ein! Nur so kann aus dem Move Against G8 auch ein Movement Against G8 entstehen!

Seminar4 - day 8 Tirdard Zolghadr

2007-04-23T18:56+00:00

Seminar4 - day 8 Tirdard Zolghadr That’s Why You Always Find me in the Kitchen at Parties YouTube Oratorship with Hito Steyerl March 21th, 2007 unitednationsplaza, Berlin

Seminar 4 - Day 1 Tirdad Zolghadr

2007-04-23T12:37+00:00

Seminar 4 - Day 1 Tirdad Zolghadr: That’s Why You Always Find me in the Kitchen at Partie - introduction March 12th, 2007 unitednationsplaza, Berlin

Seminar 4 - Day 6 Tirdad Zolghadr: That’s Why You Always Find me in the Kitchen at Parties Operative Authority and The Art of Rhetoric. With Bibiana Beglau and Jan Verwoert March 19th, 2007 unitednationsplaza, Berlin -

2007-04-06T21:01+00:00

Seminar 4 - Day 6 Tirdad Zolghadr: That’s Why You Always Find me in the Kitchen at Parties Operative Authority and The Art of Rhetoric. With Bibiana Beglau and Jan Verwoert March 19th, 2007 unitednationsplaza, Berlin -

Seminar 4 - Day 4 Tirdad Zolghadr: That’s Why You Always Find me in the Kitchen at Parties Institutional Critique as Institution. March 15th, 2007 unitednationsplaza, Berlin

2007-04-04T16:52+00:00

Seminar 4 - Day 4 Tirdad Zolghadr: That’s Why You Always Find me in the Kitchen at Parties Institutional Critique as Institution. "Theses On Feuerbach" a Jackson Pollock Bar theory installation based on a script by Art & Language. Actors: Martin Horn, Peter Cieslinski, and others. Director: Christian Matthiessen. March 15th, 2007 unitednationsplaza, Berlin

Seminar 4 - Day 1 Tirdad Zolghadr: That’s Why You Always Find me in the Kitchen at Parties Introduction March 12th, 2007 unitednationsplaza, Berlin

2007-04-04T12:40+00:00

Seminar 4 - Day 1 Tirdad Zolghadr: That’s Why You Always Find me in the Kitchen at Parties Introduction March 12th, 2007 unitednationsplaza, Berlin

Himalayan Monogatari

2007-03-18T10:13+00:00

A documentary on the physical and human landscape between the valleys of Kashmir and Ladakh. Encounter gods and demons, mystic mountains and lakes, contemporary fact and fiction in this journey through the Himalayas- accompanied by a genteel Japanese voice-of-godess. Structured as a televised 'serial' the film welcomes you back to another episode of Himalayan Tales, recapping the previous episode. What follows are a series of short vignettes recounting tales, places and legends. This simple structure and the use of Voice-of-God narration, with its naive and truncated sweeps across complex histories and civilisations, its calm and soothing belief in myth and beauty, its reading as fact, all coupled with the slight and deliberate shifts in 'gaze' underlying the films progression allow for a meditative and transparent examinaton of the nature of documentary.

Kutlug Ataman in Conversation with Galit Eilat

2007-03-08T23:43+00:00

Galit Eilat, director of Digital ArtLab, the Israeli Center for Digital Art, interviews Kutlug Ataman at the occasion of the opening of “De-Regulation" in Herzliya, Museum of Contemporary Art. “De-Regulation with the work of Kutlug Ataman” is an ongoing exhibition project that brings the work of Turkish filmmaker and video artist Kutlug Ataman together with a visual essay by Stefan Roemer and several archives of documentary materials from Istanbul. The show is curated by Irit Rogoff.

Walid Raad & Jalal Troufic: The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster. day 9 (02.08.07)

2007-03-07T16:09+00:00

Seminar 3 - day 9 Walid Raad & Jalal Troufic: the withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster february 8th, 2007 unitednationsplaza, berlin

Walid Raad & Jalal Toufic: The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster. day 6 (02.05.07)

2007-03-06T21:05+00:00

Seminar 3 - Day 6 Walid Raad & Jalal Toufic: The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster February 5th, 2007 unitednationsplaza, berlin

Walid Raad & Jalal Toufic: The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster. day 5 (02.04.07)

2007-03-06T16:21+00:00

Seminar 3 - Day 5 Walid Raad & Jalal Toufic: The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster February 4th, 2007 unitednationsplaza, berlin

Walid Raad & Jalal Toufic: The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster (02.01.07)

2007-03-06T01:55+00:00

Seminar 3 - Day 2 Walid Raad & Jalal Toufic: The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster February 1st, 2007 unitednationsplaza, berlin

Martha Rosler: Art & Social Life, the case of Video Art, opening lecture (12.10.06)

2007-03-05T20:20+00:00

Seminar 2 Martha Rosler: Art & Social Life; the case of Video Art opening lecture, december 10th, 2007 unitednationsplaza, berlin

Walid Raad and Jalal Toufic : The withdrawal of tradition past a surpassing disaster. Opening Lecture (31.01.2007)

2007-03-05T18:33+00:00

Seminar 3 - Day 1 Walid Raad & Jalal Toufic: The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster Opening lecture January 31th, 2007 unitednationsplaza, berlin

Boris Groys: After the Red Square, opening lecture (10.30.06)

2007-03-05T13:41+00:00

After The Red Square a seminar with Boris Groys opening lecture, october 30th 2006 unitednationsplaza, berlin

Jérôme Bel: The Last Performance (A Lecture)

2007-03-04T18:47+00:00

Lecture by Jérôme Bel, Oct. 2nd, 2005. Part of the ongoing program "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover.

Home front - Michalis Pichler

2007-02-28T11:59+00:00

God Bless America EXTRA CHEESE SAUSAGE MUSHROOM PEPPERONI CB/HAM BLACK OLIVES BEEF ONIONS SPECIAL CUSTOMER

War, Nuclear - Darius James & Quio

2007-02-28T08:21+00:00

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

Untermensch im Osten - Peter Jahn

2007-02-28T08:20+00:00

Der Krieg im Osten 1941-1945, der mehr als 30 Millionen Menschen das Leben kostete, sprengte alle Grenzen zwischen „erlaubtem“ Töten feindlicher Soldaten im Kampf und dem Mord an Gefangenen und Zivilisten. „Zig Millionen“ zivile Opfer sah schon die deutsche Planung vor, die folgende Kriegsrealität war der Planung adäquat. Unter den Faktoren, die einen derart enthemmten Krieg möglich machten, wird hier das deutsche Feindbild des slawischen Untermenschen thematisiert: Inhalt, Kontext, Funktion, Tradition.

Stance - Khalo Matabane

2007-02-28T08:19+00:00

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

Safe Distance - kuda.org

2007-02-28T08:18+00:00

Safe Distance is video that was recorded during NATO air strikes against FR Yugoslavia. Videotape shows electronic cockpit of the US Air Force plane. There were 4 airplanes flying from NATO-base from Italy to destination in Yugoslavia. Mission objective was to bomb several targets in the area around city of Novi Sad. On the way back, after mission was completed, plane was shot. Tape (Sony Video 8) was found near crashed plane in Fruska Gora mountain in Srem region. It shows electronic cockpit with basic graphical interface and voice communication between pilots. Videotape is a regular document of flight used by command structures to analyze its efficiency and success after very mission. Tape presents these last moments before plain was crashed.

Resist, Refuse, Rebel - Rimini Protokoll

2007-02-28T08:15+00:00

The two Vietnam Veterans and Anti-War activists Darnell Stephen Summers and Dave Blalock with their definition of Resist...Refuse...Rebell Darnell »Stephen« Summers was born on July 9, 1947 in Detroit Michigan, USA. He volunteered for the US Army and served from 1966 to 1970. While home on leave before going to Vietnam in 1968 he became involved in the struggle to found the »Malcolm X Cultural Center« (MXCC) in Inkster Michigan, a suburb of Detroit and was one of the spokespersons for the »MXCC«. His political affiliations included membership in the Black Workers Congress, Viet Nam Veterans Against The War / Viet Nam Veterans Against The War (Anti-Imperialist), chartermember of the Malcolm X Cultural Center(Inkster Michigan). As a Black man inside the Army he was confronted by not only by racism but also the fact that he was in a military organization that was murdering people across the globe. Since then Summers has been active in the struggles against racism and U.S. instigated aggression. He was instrumental in organizing the STOP THE WAR BRIGADE in Germany during the Gulf war to build support for anti-war GIs. Darnell has professional experience as a Musician, Film Director, Actor, Media Editor, Composer, Cameraman, Producer and Sound Technician. He presently lives in Germany and has 4 children. Dave Blalock (born 1950 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania) volunteered for the US Army and served from 1968 to 1971. After being AWOL for nine days in basic training he was court-martialed and spent one month out of a possible six-month prison term doing »Hard Labor« time in the Fort Jackson stockade. He then spent one year in Vietnam (1969-1970) where he became politicized by his experiences there. After returning, he spent his last 15 months in the army by joining the large anti war movement that had existed within the US military and actively worked inside one of the many underground GI organizations. In 1989 Blalock, along with three other people burned American flags on the steps of the US Capital building in protest against the new Flag Protection Act of 1989. They were arrested for this and their case ended up in the Supreme Court, which ruled the law un-constitutional. From Vietnam, to the 1980’s counter-insurgency wars in Central America, to the ‘91 Gulf War, to the ’99 Kosovar war, to 2001 bombing of Afghanistan, to the present war on Iraq he has been active in the fight to expose and oppose all US war moves around the world. He puts special emphasis on building support for the GI anti war resisters inside the armed forces. Blalock and Summers are also playing themselves in the Rimini-Protokoll theatrical production of Schiller’s »Wallenstein« where they among a cast of ten people out of real life take this opportunity to tell their story in the midst of Intrigue, War & Death

Raw - Arianna Bove

2007-02-28T08:14+00:00

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

Profit - Stefan Heidenreich

2007-02-28T08:12+00:00

Eine kurze Ökonomie des Kriegs als Dienstleistung: Was wird beim Krieg verdient. Wer bietet den Service an. Zu welchem Preis. Wer kauft. Wer zahlt. Wie sieht der Markt aus.

Portrait/Mugshot - Armin Smailovic

2007-02-28T08:10+00:00

During my military time in former yugoslavia i had to photograph more than 4500 soldiers for their military IDs. This happened 3 years before the war, which started 91. In the age of 19 and not enough politically grown to realize what i ve got in my hands, the negatives were just trash for me, after i printed 4 copies for each soldier. So all together something like 18000 prints in B/W. Then in 91 i went to the croatian war as a war photographer. During and especially after the war i had to think about all this young boys, i was taken a photographs of. What happend to them? Are they killed? Tortured? Or became killing machines? I cant tell...i only know that these images with the green shirt, fresh cut hair and a scary expression in their face are in my mind until today. These mug shots were my biggest project concerning war i have ever done. Now with the DOW i start from the beginning. Collecting the first 100 faces of an anti-military collaboration. I changed green into white. The colour for mourning and peace in the same moment. There are hundreds of war images by photographers like James Nachtwey, Franklin Stuart, Robert Capa and many others who create images of war and gave it a „face“. I couldn't and cant use those images of thousands of „faces“ of the soldiers to do something with it. So i started from the beginning. And i have to say that... “At least, when we create images, we are doing something.”

Plündern - Vanessa Joan Müller

2007-02-28T08:09+00:00

„Shoplifters of the world, unite and take over“, sangen die Smiths 1986. Das destabilisierende Potenzial des kollektiven Ladendiebstahls scheint ungleich geringer gegenüber dem des Plünderns, und doch setzten bereits die Smiths auf das Aushebeln jener Tauschgesetzmäßigkeit „Geld gegen Ware“, auf denen der ökonomische Imperativ des Systems Kapitalismus nun einmal basiert. Die romantische Vorstellung des kollektiven Ladendiebstahls funktioniert jedoch nur in Friedenszeiten. Im Krieg wird geplündert, und das heißt die willkürlich Aneignung von Besitz, die der Logik des entfesselten Haben-Wollens folgt.

Pleasure - Avi Mograbi

2007-02-28T08:09+00:00

My concept consists of 2 videotaped testimonies of ex-soldiers concerning their service experiences. The first one is a short testimony about the pleasure of controlling other people with the tips of you fingers. 3 minutes. The second testimony concerns the pleasure of doing what you are trained to do and how killing can be fun.

Perception Attack - Brian Massumi

2007-02-28T08:08+00:00

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

Magician - Jonathan Allen

2007-02-28T08:07+00:00

»Once we fully recognise secular magic's role as a cultural agent, our sensitivity to the play of puzzlement, fictiveness, and contingency in modernity will be heightened.« Simon During, Modern Enchantments (Harvard 2002) »The purpose of this paper is to instruct the reader so he may learn to perform a variety of acts secretly and undetectably. In short, here are instructions for deception.« Some Operational Uses for the Art of Deception, Commissioned for MKULTRA (CIA) from magician John Mulholland in 1954.

Homeland Security Advisory System - Stephan Trüby

2007-02-28T08:06+00:00

Since 2002, a blueprint for escape route coding has been in place in the United States: the colour-coded terror alert levels set by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), called “5 Codes”. Even though the colour sequence does not correspond with the rising wavelength of the colours in the spectrum (blue comes before green), the US government was still clever to choose the rainbow motif, as the “Rainbow Warrior” Isaac Newton with his prismatic analysis of “white divine light” made a major contribution to the dawn of the age of risk . The 5 Codes are exit and relaxation codifications in the age of an outside inside the law. Woven into them is a subtext of readiness, flight and evacuation measures. Sometimes they keep a population on their toes, sometimes not, they slow the tempo down and speed it up as well. They are invisible distribution corridors with regulators for the flow of movement, rudimentary notations of a state choreography for a country that is escaping.

Heraklit - Marcus Steinweg

2007-02-28T08:05+00:00

Heraklit ist der Philosoph, der die Welt, d.h. die Seinstotalität, als KRIEG gedacht hat, als POLEMOS, WIDERSTREIT (eris), AUSEINANDERSETZUNG, ZWIETRACHT, WERDEN. Mit Heraklit ist der KRIEG zu einer ONTOLOGISCHEN GRÖSSE erhoben. Seitdem gibt es ONTOLOGIE nur als ONTOLOGIE DES KRIEGES und als KRIEGERISCHE ONTOLOGIE. Vielleicht ist Heraklit der PHILOSOPH, von dem sich die ABENDLÄNDISCHE PHILOSOPHIE (d.h. Die PHILOSOPHIE ÜBERHAUPT) nicht erholen kann und nie wird erholen können. Vielleicht liegt hier das ERBE der HERAKLITISCHEN KRIEGSKUNST: das DENKEN, die PHILOSOPHIE, jenseits der PAZIFIERUNG zu situieren.

Helikopter - Heinrich Dubel

2007-02-28T08:04+00:00

The essence or the hidden identity of the helicopter appear as a dichotomy; on the one hand a total threat coming from above, something you cannot possibly escape from, the all-seeing flying eye in the sky, the omnidirectional warmachine; and at the same time, its opposite: a rescuer coming from the air, from heaven above, as an angel. One aspect of this idea is of release (or freedom): Release from threat and fear but also freedom that can be attained if you grow above and beyond yourself. This cipher of evil and illumination is united in the image of the dragon, the snake of fire or the plumed snake. Such basic figures emerge from an meta-individual archetypal reservoir of images of the human psyche traversing the mythologies of many different peoples.

Flintenweib - Andrea Moll

2007-02-26T18:59+00:00

»Flintenweib« ist eine auf deutscher Seite gebräuchliche feindliche Bezeichnung für die sowjetische Soldatin im Zweiten Weltkrieg, sie wurde in Propaganda und Befehlsgebung der Wehrmacht angewandt – mit mörderischer Konsequenz. Der Begriff „Flintenweib“ äußert auch eine soziale Konstruktion des Weiblichen und Männlichen im Krieg.

Entertainment - Emil Hrvatin

2007-02-26T18:58+00:00

and to present various approaches to entertainment in different armies today as well as to question why don't we have entertainment for peacekeeping soldiers on international level. Lecture will consist on presenting documents as well as a part of documentary about American Military Theatre festival I am busy with.

Disappeared - Sylvère Lotringer

2007-02-26T18:57+00:00

Friday, February 23th, 2007

DAVOS/DUBAI - Christian von Borries

2007-02-26T18:54+00:00

exploitation imagineered urbanism islamic banking laundered dollars permanent exception slavery in the 21st century The World Economic Forum Davos "The world" island resort, Dubai

Coloniality - Soenke Zehle

2007-02-26T18:53+00:00

Coloniality, no longer an awkward major paradigm but an agile minor concept, enters the mise en scène of William Kentridge's »black box« (Germany/South Africa 2005) and its reenactment of Germany's most recent Historikerstreit to report on various passions for the real.

Autoxylopyrocycloboros - Simon Starling

2007-02-26T18:52+00:00

Autoxylopyrocycloboros (2006) took the form of self-defeating journey in a small wooden steam boat. The voyage, made on the waters of Loch Long, Scotland, home to the Trident submarine base and neighbouring peace camp, was fuelled with wood from the boat itself, as plank by plank, piece by piece, it was feed to its own boiler, until inevitably disappearing into the submarine infested depths of the Loch.

Anxiety - Felix Ensslin

2007-02-26T18:50+00:00

Friday, February 23th, 2007

Anti-War - Saskia Sassen

2007-02-26T18:47+00:00

Friday, February 23th, 2007

Alert - Irit Rogoff & Meir Wigoder

2007-02-26T18:17+00:00

An occupation, military or civilian, is lived out at many different levels, modalities and distances. The suffering that is visited upon those whose freedoms are curtailed, whose movement is blocked and whose lives are threatened is rarely matched by the misgivings of those implicated in inflicting the occupation, or those associated with it through citizenship or other modes of inscription. Our concern here is with the question of how the occupiers might vigilantly live out an occupation beyond the simple rhetorics of resistance. There are many levels to such a living – out ; the need to be alert and vigilant in seeing what is actually going on, the need to document it, the need to find ways of incorporating what one sees into one’s work – often in oblique and indirect modes. At times one is close to the action taking place, close enough to have each and every detail register on one’s consciousness and at times one is distant , distant enough to observe the larger framework of what all this is leading to. To understand how an occupation not just restricts those occupied, but how it corrupts and erodes those who are occupying. The supposed boundaries between occupier and occupied are far more porous, far more eroded than one would tend to think and vigilance serves the purpose of keeping them so.

The Power and the Glory

2007-02-14T09:36+00:00

Giorgio Agamben, renowned philosopher, engages in particular with language and social conflicts, teaches at the Universit‡ IUAV di Venezia, CollËge International de Philosophie, Paris. Among his books are: Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive and The Open: Man and Animal. His most recent works are: State of Exception, and The Time that Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans.

Wagner-Feigl-Forschung: Die Enzyklopädie der Performancekunst

2007-02-11T14:45+00:00

Lecture Performance by Ottmar Wagner und Florian Feigl, September 14th, 2006, in at Atelierfrankfurt in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover.

Paul Granjon: "Reflections and Constructions of a Button Pusher

2007-02-09T20:29+00:00

Lecture Performance by Paul Granjon, October 26th, 2006, in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover.

Mission: Art Center

2007-01-02T03:21+00:00

Mission: Art Center is documenting the ways, the municipality is using in its absurd war against cultural, artistic and developmental center – Art center in Goričko. In this video you can hear absurd claims, such as, that the program of Art center would be suitable for big metropolis such as Berlin, but not in the rural areas. Background story: in Goričko, the most de-privileged part of Slovenia, a group of enthusiasts established Art center, the first residential artistic center in Slovenia. Financed mostly from EU funds and based exclusively on voluntary work. Art center is combining international artistic residences with local developmental projects and informal education. However, the mayor of Moravske Toplice, which is itself a co-founder of Art center, decided, that he doesn't want art, culture and development in his municipality and started a war against the group of artists. Through illegally elected active manager Petra Pika Pevec, he managed to block the account, cut the phone and internet and destroy the contracts with the EU and even evict the working team.

Ljubezen do umetnosti - ali imajo oblastniki radi denar?

2007-01-02T03:08+00:00

This documentary video is based on contradictory public statements of the mayor of Moravske Toplice and Pika Petra Pevec – the illegally installed active manager of Art center in Goričko. Background story: in Goričko, the most de-privileged part of Slovenia, a group of enthusiasts established Art center, the first residential artistic center in Slovenia. Financed mostly from EU funds and based exclusively on voluntary work. Art center is combining international artistic residences with local developmental projects and informal education. However, the mayor of Moravske Toplice, which is itself a co-founder of Art center, decided, that he doesn't want art, culture and development in his municipality and started a war against the group of artists. Through illegally elected active manager Petra Pika Pevec, he managed to block the account, cut the phone and internet and destroy the contracts with the EU and even evict the working team.

Kako v.d. direktorja Art centra Petra Pika Pevec skrbi za Art center?

2007-01-02T02:37+00:00

This is a four minute documented conversation between the working team of Art center in Goričko and Art center's illegally imposed active manager Petra Pika Pevec, who in more than 9 months, though being payed, didn't manage to come to Art center, but did manage to block the account, destroy several project financed by EU and national founds, cut the phone and internet and evict the working team. Background story: in Goričko, the most de-privileged part of Slovenia, a group of enthusiasts established Art center, the first residential artistic center in Slovenia. Financed mostly from EU funds and based exclusively on voluntary work. Art center is combining international artistic residences with local developmental projects and informal education. However, the mayor of Moravske Toplice, which is itself a co-founder of Art center, decided, that he doesn't want art, culture and development in his municipality and started a war against the group of artists. The illegally elected active manager Petra Pika Pevec is doing the dirty work.

War on the Poor - Ultrared

2006-10-18T12:18+00:00

What does the war on the poor sound like?

Verfassungskriege - Peter Weibel

2006-10-18T12:16+00:00

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Tracking - Jordan Crandall

2006-10-18T12:15+00:00

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Territory - Peter Fend

2006-10-18T12:14+00:00

1. patterns of location in past wars / 2. threat to territory as rationale for war / 3. outer space as the upcoming field of war

Surface - Tris Vonna-Michell

2006-10-18T12:13+00:00

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Staged Revolution - Oleg Kireev

2006-10-18T12:11+00:00

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Sensibilità - Franco Berardi

2006-10-18T12:09+00:00

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Revenge - Warren Neidich

2006-10-18T12:08+00:00

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi

Pro-vocation - Azra Aksamija

2006-10-18T12:07+00:00

Provocation is a means of visualizing a religious identity in a secular context. As a hybrid of the notions of vocation, "a divine call to God’s service," and provocation, "a means of arousing or stirring to action", provocation can be understood a means of asserting a believer's democratic rights to practice his or her religion fearlessly.

Power Points - DeeDee Halleck

2006-10-18T12:06+00:00

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Negotiation - Sergej Goran Pristas & Ivana Ivkovic

2006-10-18T11:54+00:00

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Kriegsgefangenenlager - Andreas Hiepko

2006-10-18T11:53+00:00

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Komplizenschaft - Gesa Ziemer

2006-10-18T11:51+00:00

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Hostis Humani Generis - Lawrence Liang

2006-10-18T11:50+00:00

Abstract wars demand abstract enemies, and the Hostis Humani Generis (or the enemy against all mankind) is a title that has been bestowed on a host of figures; starting with the pirate and now the terrorist, I seek to understand the links between property, piracy and terrorism and propose that the concept of Hostis Humani Generis helps us understand the idea of war as a continuation of property by other means.

Heroes - Thomas Draschan

2006-10-14T21:48+00:00

Friday, October 13, 2006

Electronic Soldier - Stefan Kaufmann

2006-10-14T21:42+00:00

Friday, October 13, 2006

Déracinement - Christine Frisinghelli

2006-10-14T21:39+00:00

Friday, October 13, 2006 Der Begriff der "Entwurzelung" orientiert sich an dem von Pierre Bourdieu gewählten Begriff "Déracinement / Uprooting", der gleichzeitig den Titel eines von ihm in Zusammenarbeit mit Abdelmalek Sayad 1964 veröffentlichten Buches bildet. Gegenstand dieser Studie sind die tiefgreifenden gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen der französischen Kolonialpolitik (seit 1830) und des Unabhängigkeitskrieges (1954-1962) auf die algerische Bevölkerung. Vor allem die Umsiedlung großer Bevölkerungsgruppen insbesondere im ländlichen Raum in die Centres de regroupement, von der über 2 Millionen Algerier (ein Viertel der Gesamtbevölkerung) betroffen waren, ist eine der brutalsten Vorgänge dieser Art der Geschichte und wurde von Bourdieu/Sayad in ihrer Studie exemplarisch analysiert

Conditional Surrender to the City of Gardens - The Errorists

2006-10-14T21:35+00:00

Friday, October 13, 2006

Ausnahme - Michael Hirsch

2006-10-14T21:27+00:00

Friday, October 13, 2006

Aufräumen - Diedrich Diederichsen

2006-10-14T21:24+00:00

(1) the image of people cleaning up their houses and streets, and what's left of it after they been attacked, bombed etc. (2) the myth of Trümmerfrauen cleaning up the rubble in post-war Germany, when, at the same time, the trope auf cleaning up was strong as a right wing trope of law and order, and even war (3) the antagonism of negentropic cleaning up and entropic war

Attitudes - Edgar Schmitz

2006-10-14T21:16+00:00

Friday, October 13, 2006

Asymmetric Warfare - Raul Zelik

2006-10-14T21:11+00:00

Friday, October 13, 2006

Ashwatthama - Raqs Media Collective

2006-10-14T20:41+00:00

Ashwatthama is a character in the Mahabharata, cursed to live forever, as a kind of wandering warrior.

Exergue - Meansur Jacoubi

2006-10-14T20:26+00:00

654.965

On Collaboration, Participation and Piracy

2006-10-12T11:49+00:00

This panel with Irit Rogoff and Lawrence Liang, moderated by Florian Schneider, took place on Oktober 11th 2006 in the context of the Workshop on "Collaboration". The Workshop took place at the Steirischer Herbst, from Oktober 7th - 13th 2006 and discussed and explored different notions on collaboration.

Gesteuerte Demokratie?

2006-09-09T17:30+00:00

Der Film ist im Rahmen einer Diplomarbeit an der Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach am Main entstanden. Untersucht wird die Informations- und Medienarbeit der Bundeswehr. Ausgehend vom “sicherheitspolitischen Paradigmenwechsel” am Ende des kalten Krieges werden Kontinuitäten und Wechsel in diesem Bereich betrachtet. Anhand von Zeitzeugeninterviews mit Soldaten aus Einheiten für “Psychologische Kampfführung” (PSK) bzw. “Psychologische Verteidigung” (PSV) wird deren vornehmlich gegen die DDR gerichtete Propaganda- und Zersetzungstätigkeit beschrieben. Der Apparat der PSK bzw. PSV wurde einhergehend mit einer Skandalisierung seiner verdeckt ausgeführten Ausforschungs- und Einwirkungstätigkeit im bundesdeutschen Inland zum Ende der 80er Jahre aufgelöst. Über eine sogenannte “Studiengesellschaft für Zeitprobleme e.V.” waren getarnte Propagandaprodukte der Bundeswehr an vermeintlich wehrkritische Zielgruppen in der BRD lanciert worden. Aus der in Waldbröl angesiedelten “Akademie für Psychologische Verteidigung” wird 1990 die “Akademie für Information- und Kommunikation der Bundeswehr” (AIK). Spezialisten der PSV übernehmen die leitenden Positionen der neuen Dienststelle, die dem Presse- und Informationsstab des Verteidigungsministeriums zugeordnet wird. Sie untersteht direkt dem zeitgleich im PR-/ Infostab neu gegründeten “Grundsatzreferat” und dient als “Thinktank” für die Öffentlichkeitsarbeit im Inland. Wie der Film belegt, werden wesentliche Tätigkeiten der PSV-Akademie fortgeführt, allerdings mit neu formuliertem Auftrag und mit neuen Zielsetzungen. Das Führungspersonal der 1994 nach Strausberg bei Berlin verlegten AIK gibt im Film ausführlich Auskunft über Auftrag und Tätigkeiten der Akademie. Eine wesentliche Aufgabe bestand nach der Wende in der Grundlagenbeschaffung zur sicherheitspolitischen “Umorientierung” der ehemaligen DDR-Bevölkerung. Neben der Ausbildung von Fachpersonal der Presse- und Informationsarbeit wird auch heute im Rahmen von Seminaren ein “sicherheitspolitischer Dialog” mit “interessierten Bürgern” geführt. Dabei handelt es sich vornehmlich um sogenannte Multiplikatoren wie Journalisten; Richter, Staatsanwälte und Polizisten werden zu Seminaren über die “Vernetzung von innerer und aüßerer Sicherheit” eingeladen. Um weitere Bevölkerungskreise zu erreichen, arbeitet man in Strausberg mit Wissenschaftlern, Universitätsdozenten und Lehrern zusammen. Neben der AIK ist aus der “Psychologischen Verteidigung” auch die “Truppe für Operative Information” (OpInfo) hervorgegangen. Bezeichnenderweise trägt sie im NATO-Sprachgebrauch weiterhin die Bezeichnung “Psychological Operations” (PSYOPS). Die bundesdeutschen PSYOPS-Truppen sind heute in Mayen stationiert. Dem dortigen Zentrum Operative Information (ZOpInfo) ist ein zusätzliches “Einsatzbataillon” in Koblenz unterstellt. Soldaten der OpInfo werden seit 1993/94 im Rahmen von bewaffneten Auslandsoperationen der Bundeswehr eingesetzt und wirken mit propagandistischen Mitteln auf Zielgruppen im Einsatzgebiet ein. Im Film wird hauptsächlich die Tätigkeit des ZOpInfo im Dezernat “Video” dargestellt. Die OpInfo verfügt über weitere Kapazitäten in den Bereichen “Print”, “Radio”, “Neue Medien” “Lautsprecher” und in der Direktkommunikation. Im ZOpInfo ist auch das “Dezernat Einsatzkamera” (Combat Camera) angesiedelt. Sogenannte Einsatzkamerateams (EKT) dokumentieren weltweit Einsätze der Bundeswehr und erstellen oft schon vor der Ankunft regulärer Truppen Lageberichte für Führungsstab und Einsatzführungskommando der Bundeswehr sowie für das Verteidigungsministerium. “Auch eine Weitergabe an die Medien wäre denkbar, wenn es ein konkretes Interesse gäbe”, hieß es bereits im Mai 2003 in der Publikation Bw Aktuell. Ganz sicher jedoch wird nach entsprechender Freigabe Material der EKTs an den internen Fernsehsender der Bundeswehr, BwTv weitergegeben. Die EKTs können bei Bedarf live aus dem Einsatzgebiet senden. BwTv wiederum ist Teil des “internen Medienmix” der Bundeswehr und wird verschlüsselt per Satellit ausgestrahlt, da den Streitkräften eine direkte Einflußnahme auf die eigene Bevölkerung gesetzlich verboten ist. Das Studio von BwTv ist im Hause der Informations- und Medienzentrale (IMZBw) der Bundeswehr in St. Augustin bei Bonn untergebracht. Hier wird neben der Koordinierung der Mitarbeiterkommunikation auch der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit zugearbeitet; die IMZBw verwaltet das Bildarchiv der Bundeswehr und beherbergt Onlineredaktionen für verschiedene Webseiten der Bundeswehr. BwTv wurde 2002 mit Hilfe der PR-Agentur Atkon AG aufgebaut. Wie die Recherchen zum Film ergaben, wurde eine 100% Tochterfirma der Atkon AG, die Atkon TV Service GmbH damit beauftragt, sendefertige Fernsehbeiträge an private und öffentlich-rechtliche Fernsehanstalten abzugeben. Beiträge aus Material von Bundeswehr TV werden dazu über die Internetseite www.tvservicebox.de angeboten und können dann in Sendequalität bestellt werden. Die Filme bestehen aus ungekennzeichnetem Material – ein Verweis auf die Quelle wird der abnehmenden Redaktion überlassen. Völlig unklar bleibt für den unbedarften Betrachter, ob nicht auch Videomaterial der EKTs via BwTv in die Beiträge gelangt. Die Informations- und Medienzentrale besteht darauf, dass durch dieses Vorgehen keinesfalls gegen das Verbot eines Staatsfernsehens verstoßen würde. Vielmehr könnten die Journalisten die Beiträge redaktionell bearbeiten. Gemeint ist damit vor allem, dass die Beiträge auf die entsprechenden Magazinformate zugeschnitten werden dürfen. Wie die Geschäftsbedingungen der Servicebox zeigen, ist eine “inhaltliche Sinn- und Zweckentfremdung” ausdrücklich untersagt. Atkon TV Service verfügt über ein Netzwerk von Journalisten, die im Auftrag der Bundeswehr mit Themenvorschlägen, Kontakten und Material beliefert werden (“Media Relations”) Erst kürzlich hat das Verteidigungsministerium ein Besuchsverbot u. A. für Journalisten und Parlamentarier beim Afghanistan-Kontingent erlassen. Desweiteren werden Informationen über Anschläge auf das Kontingent nur noch auf direkte Anfrage der Presse herausgegeben. Einer freien Berichterstattung über die Bundeswehr und ihre Einsätze soll mit den dargestellten Beeinflussungs- und Zensurmaßnahmen augenscheinlich das Wasser abgegraben werden. Offenbar fürchten Ministerium und militärische Führung, die von der AIK als “konditional” bewertete Zustimmung der Bevölkerung zum Auftrag der Bundeswehr im Falle von Berichten über Verluste oder intensive Kampfhandlungen rasch zu verlieren. Länge: 62´14 min Entstehungsjahr: 2006 (Dreh Mai-Juni) Drehformat: DVC Pro 25/ MiniDV, 4:3 Onlineformat: OggTheora (384x288) 182,7 MB kostenloser Player unter www.videolan.org (VLC) Mitwirkende: Oberst i.G. Thomas Beier – Kommandeur Informations- und Medienzentrale der Bundeswehr (St. Augustin) Oberleutnant Martin Besinger – Redakteuroffizier Einsatz Kamera Trupp (EKT), Zentrum Operative Information (Mayen) Oberstleutnant Reinhard Busch – Leiter Bundeswehr TV, Informations- und Medienzentrale der Bundeswehr (St. Augustin) Oberstleutnant Hartmut Dressel – Leiter Zielgruppenanalyse Zentrum Operative Information (Mayen), ehem. Soldat im PSV-Bataillon Clausthal-Zellerfeld Claudia Haydt – Soziologin und Religionswissenschaftlerin, Informationsstelle Militarisierung (IMI) www.imi-online.de Dipl. Psych. Dr. Hans-Victor Hoffmann – Wiss. Direktor FB Kommunikation der Akademie für Information und Kommunikation der Bundeswehr (Strausberg) Oberstleutnant Michael Kötting – Leiter Bereich Lehre der Akademie für Information und Kommunikation der Bundeswehr (Strausberg) Oberst i.G. Horst Matzeit – 1988 Kommandeur der Akademie für Psychologische Verteidigung (Waldbröl) (Archivmaterial) Dr. Alfred Mechtersheimer – ehem. Ausbildungsoffizier an der Schule für Psychologische Kampfführung (Schloß Alfter bei Bonn), dann u.A. MdB (Die Grünen) und Gründer der rechtsextremen Deutschland-Bewegung (Archivmaterial) Thomas Mielke – Schriftsteller und Werbefachmann (Berlin), ehem. Soldat der Psychologischen Kampfführung Hauptfeldwebel Stephan Schwaldat – Kameramann EKT, ZOpInfo Bw (Mayen) Oberst Rainer Senger – seit 11/2002 Kommandeur der Akademie für Information und Kommunikation der Bundeswehr (Strausberg) Dr. Olaf Theiler – Leiter FB Information der Akademie für Information und Kommunikation der Bundeswehr (Strausberg) weitere Stichworte: Dr. Eberhard Taubert, Dr. Werner Marx, Franz Josef Strauss, Helmut Kamphausen, Jörg Lolland, Ortwin Buchbender, Horst Schuh, Briefzensur, Zoll- und Devisenverbringungsstelle Hannover, Organisation Gehlen, Bundesnachrichtendienst, Prof. Renate Riemeck, Deutsche Friedensunion, Friedensbewegung, Ostermärsche, Impuls TV, Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz 2006, SIKO

Steal this Film

2006-08-24T08:28+00:00

In 2006, a group of friends decided to make a film about filesharing that *we* would recognise. There have been a few documentaries by 'old media' crews who don't understand the net and see peer-to-peer organisation as a threat to their livelihoods. They have no reason to represent the filesharing movement positively, and no capacity to represent it lucidly. We wanted to make a film that would explore this huge popular movement in a way that excited us, engaged us, and most importantly, focussed on what we know to be the positive and optimistic vision many filesharers and artists (they are often one) have for the future of creativity. Hopefully you'll enjoy the first part of Steal this Film ('stockholm, summer 2006'). It achieves some, but by no means all, of our goals. To continue we need your help. this film is free for you to share, watch on your dvd player or on your ipod, or show in cinemas. But if you like the work we've done and want us to carry on, use our donate link to send us a couple of dollars or euros. We will start making the second part straight away, and release it on this site and on major bittorrent trackers, when it's done. Each part, we estimate, will take about 2 months to complete. the plan for the second part is on our wiki. Feel free to add suggestions. The league of noble peers. august 2006 - à nous la liberté!

dead time

2006-08-10T15:48+00:00

Fire comes to us from the sky and the sea Here we are, 24 years later, again besieged by the same enemy History, however, does not repeat itself, it perpetuates itself The foreigners are leaving (many among them are Lebanese who enjoy a double nationality) Who witnesses for the witness? asked Paul Celan in another time Disaster takes care of everything I wanted to raise my left fist, but in the meantime I lost my sense of humour Oh cities that have never been invaded Have you no nostalgia for the enemy?

Lindmann/Scholz/Brenk: Drei Lecture Performances

2006-08-05T10:23+00:00

Lecture Performance by LInda Lindheimer, Malte Scholz and Tobias Brenk, April 6th, 2006, in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover.

Vera Knolle: "I didn't mean to hurt you"

2006-08-04T15:23+00:00

Lecture Performance by Vera Knolle, January 5th, 2006, in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover.

From Beirut to .. those who love us

2006-08-01T08:07+00:00

Letters from Beirut to the World Subtitles in English and French

World War - Klaus Viehmann

2006-07-25T09:35+00:00

Sunday, July 23 2006 Everyone knows that World War II was a global war. However, knowledge of its development and impact on Western Europe is rather limited. At least in the last two centuries knowledge of war crimes has increased. The purpose of today’s lecture is to draw a rough outline of the neglected aspects of this war and to raise some interest in the exploits and suffering of the people who were affected by fascism, “Herrenmenschentum” and aggression, and fought against it.

United Nations - Ariane Müller

2006-07-25T09:33+00:00

Sunday, July 23 2006 Rio, Peking, Kairo, Istanbul, Genf, Kyoto, Habitat, Houairou, Konventionen, Protokolle, Deklarationen

Translation - Tom Keenan

2006-07-25T09:32+00:00

Sunday, July 23 2006 What sort of language is war, if it is one? What would "total" conflict be? When does escalation become impossible? When the violence is not exercised to force others into a conversation, or to change the terms of a debate, but in order to end a debate, to remove the other party in a debate once and for all, when debate itself -- or politics, or language -- is itself the target of the violence .... is that the limit? Is that the moment when things actually can't get any worse?

Transition - Erzen Shkololli

2006-07-25T09:27+00:00

Sunday, July 23 2006 Presentation of a works will reflect the dramatic transformation of the region, connected in particular with decay of the local totalitarian regimes during the 1990's. By representing various forms of ethnic, religious or political predestination and manipulation symbolizing the contrast social situation in his homeland.

Theatres of Possession Operation Systems - Konrad Becker

2006-07-25T09:23+00:00

Sunday, July 23 2006

Resistance - Ingrid Strobl

2006-07-25T09:22+00:00

Sunday, July 23 2006 Relativizing the Absolute "Resistance" is among those terms that although seemingly clear-cut, are in reality difficult to define. What is resistance? Who defines what it is? What conditions have to be met so that who identifies or recognizes what to be resistance? And which and whose interests stand behind the label?

Redundancy - Marko Peljhan

2006-07-25T09:20+00:00

Sunday, July 23 2006

Prisoner of War - Naeem Mohaiemen

2006-07-25T09:00+00:00

Sunday, July 23 2006

Pop Georg Seeßlen - Markus Metz

2006-07-25T08:57+00:00

Sunday, July 23 2006 There is no war without pop, and there is no pop without war.

Police War - Katja Diefenbach

2006-07-25T08:56+00:00

Sunday, July 23 2006 We are currently entering a hegemonic war regime dominated by strategies of preventive intervention and crisis management, and therefore subject to the logic of the police. Elements of private enterprise war, of low-intensity warfare, of counter insurgency, of biopolitical administration, and of the police state of emergency are combined and legitimated as humanitarian mission, civilian-military cooperation, or just war. This war regime follows a calculation of control and security.

Peace-for-War - Brian Holmes

2006-07-25T08:39+00:00

Sunday, July 23 2006 The concept I'm going to present draws directly from the work of Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan. It describes the economic phases of "depth" and "breadth," and correlates them with the first- and second-order cybernetics of control. It attempts to situate the functions of cultural-communicational labor within these economic phases. It questions those autonomists who thought it would be possible to transform a broadly expansionary phase of capitalism, like that of the nineties, into a qualitatively different society. It’s not a polemic, but seeks to open up a field of strategic debate. It doesn't assert a future, but observes the unfolding of the present into the depths of violence, which has robbed resistance movements of their potential, again. The concept is Peace-for-War.

National Anthem - Julieta Aranda

2006-07-25T08:09+00:00

Sunday, July 23 2006

Mobilization - Akram Zaatari

2006-07-25T07:25+00:00

Sunday, July 23 2006

Liberation - Ivan Kucina

2006-07-24T22:45+00:00

Saturday, July 22 2006

/join #beirut - Mansur Jacoubi

2006-07-24T18:31+00:00

Saturday, July 22 2006

Discipline - Ulrich Broeckling

2006-07-24T18:09+00:00

Saturday, July 22 2006 disciplining in order to fight is "hot" - it mobilizes, transgresses and fuels the passions. Disciplining in order to effectively use force is "cold" - it controls, regularizes, and curbs the affects. The mix ratio is changing and the history of military disciplining can be described as a change between rather "hot" and rather "cold" epochs.

Desertion - Avery Gordon

2006-07-24T17:24+00:00

Saturday, July 22 2006

Defeat, for the - Nora Sternfeld

2006-07-24T16:45+00:00

Saturday, July 22 2006 At 12 o'clock on April 8, 2005, in the Ostarrichi-Park in front of the Landesgericht (the regional court), a temporary monument to the defeat was unveiled that triggered a debate on the process of denazification and made an issue of the fact that this process was still unfinished today. The eight-sided object was conceived as a monumental plinth and it measured 2 meters in height and had a circumference of 11 meters.

Declaration of War - andcompany co.

2006-07-24T16:17+00:00

Saturday, July 22 2006 andcompany & Co. Feat. Alexander Karschnia, Nicola Nord, Sascha Sulimma & Co. In their lecture performance KRIEGSERKLÄRUNG they will explain and declare war at the same time, talking in stolen words, quotes borrowed from John L. Austin until Vladimir I. Lenin. For supplementary reading please check out the text "Die Kriegserklärung " by Karl Marx http://www.mlwerke.de/me/me10/me10_168.htm

Camp - Manuel Herz

2006-07-24T15:36+00:00

Saturday, July 22 2006

Camouflage - Stefan Römer

2006-07-24T15:16+00:00

Saturday, July 22 2006 Der traditionell militärische Begriff der "Camouflage" galt bisher immer als nationale Repräsentation. Zur Camouflage bringe ich einen anderen militärischen Begriff: das Flaggezeigen, das zur Fußball-WM 2006 andere Konnotationen in den neuerdings privatisierten und korporatisierten Öffentlichkeiten erhielt. So gegensätzlich die beiden Methoden in ihrer Intention sind, so scheinen sie als kulturelle Praktiken doch demselben Repräsentationssystem zu dienen. Beide erscheinen in einer einzigen Konstellation, wenn von Piraterie gesprochen wird. Kann dies einen neuen Handlungsraum für nicht repräsentative Praktiken eröffnen?

Lone Twin: "Walk with me..."

2006-07-23T18:38+00:00

Lecture Performance by Lone Twin (GB), March 24th 2006 in Frankfurt. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover.

Martin Nachbar: "Ausflug"

2006-07-23T18:29+00:00

Lecture Performance by Martin Nachber, February 16rd, 2005, in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover.

Amphetamine - Hans-Christian Dany

2006-07-23T17:42+00:00

Saturday, July 22 2006

Exergue - Eyal Weizman

2006-07-23T11:20+00:00

Saturday, July 22 Eyal Weizman, israeli architect is going to formulate an "exergue" that will deal with the actual situation and build a connection to the first edition in Frankfurt.

The CUT

2006-06-08T09:24+00:00

The Cut (2006) is a circa twenty minute video that condenses two years of research on the history of the John Huston film Freud the Secret Passion. Rather than present a linear history of the film, The Cut attempts to fill the gaps with fictional scenes that question the possibility of representing history and historical figures. Freud the Secret Passion (1961), starring Montgomery Clift, Larry Parks and Susannah York, is a little-known biographical film that presents the discovery of psychoanalysis as a kind of detective story. The screenplay was based on a long, complex scenario written by Jean-Paul Sartre and subsequently rewritten by a series of Hollywood screenwriters. Working through the layers of material left out, erased, forgotten and repressed, another narrative emerges – a narrative that deals with the traces of Freud within the popular imagination, with fiction, memory, and history, and with the unavoidable complexities of translation and communication.

Flexibility [Eyal Weizman]

2006-06-06T09:55+00:00

Friday, June 2 19:00 - 19:30

Weather [Dietmar Dath]

2006-06-05T20:40+00:00

Saturday, June 3 21:30 - 21:50 AND THE RAIN RAINED EVERY DAY.

Trip [Anselm Franke]

2006-06-05T20:39+00:00

Saturday, June 3 21:00 - 21:20 Movements in space and movements of the mind: The trip as the mobilisation of empathy, mimesis and sympathetic magic; between depression and delirium. From Joseph Conrad's outposts to todays checkpoints. From the Gates of Perception to cinematic gestures and sovereign continuity.

Transfer [Apsolutno]

2006-06-05T20:38+00:00

Saturday, June 3 20:30 - 20:50 In this video piece, Association Apsolutno presents the view of the Balkans from the outside as a view which is not direct, but rather mediated through a filter of technology and media representations, based on various assumptions.

Timescapes [Angela Melitopolous]

2006-06-05T20:37+00:00

Saturday, June 3 20:00 - 20:20 Timescapes/B-Zone (Becoming Europe Zone) is a collaborative, non-linear video editing project investigating techniques of narration against the power politics of the segmentation of memory and communication located in a (post-) war zone where state politics concerning migration and mobility are thought of as warfare.

Throne of Blood - moving forest [Shu Lea Cheang]

2006-06-05T20:36+00:00

Saturday, June 3 19:30 - 19:50 Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood" (1957) based on Macbeth was originally titled "SpiderWeb Castle" - tales of ambition ridden lord Washizu (played by Toshiro Mifune) and his vicious lady (played by Isuzu Yamada) set in medieval Japan. Lord Washizu was driven to his downfall following an encounter with a witch in the SpiderWeb forest. " You will never lose a single battle, unless the spider web forest begins to move and approaches the castle." advises the witch to the bewildered Washizu. What follows is the classical plot of betrayal schemes that lead to the final insurgence of Washizu's own archers while the revenging troops marching with tree branches as camouflage towards the castle. Take off from the final scene of "Throne of Blood",I propose a project "moving forest" . The SpiderWeb forest transformed into the deep web forest. The revolt arrives from within. The central power is the imaginary one. The oppositon is AMONG us. The central is AMONG us. Moving forest of today is a forest of wifi transmitter fed on public wireless, moving within the city jungle towards a power deprived central. Moving forest is to be developed as a (global)citywide wifi mobile operatic manoeuver sound event, orchestrated yet asynchronized.

Theatre of Operations [Celine Condorelli]

2006-06-05T20:35+00:00

Saturday, June 3 19:00 - 19:20 Proposal for a theatre of operations for the dictionary of war. Drawing package, references, materials. "It was recognized that the chronologic development of these elements would vary from theater to theater. In theaters where a long buildup period was possible, a fairly elaborate system of communications zone sections or bases would develop well in advance of the rest of the theater elements."

Struggle for Ideas [Jan Ritsema]

2006-06-05T20:34+00:00

Saturday, June 3 18:30 - 18:50

Sound Weapon [Battery Operated]

2006-06-05T20:33+00:00

Saturday, June 3 18:00 - 18:20

Rhizomic Maneuver [Shimon Naveh]

2006-06-05T20:31+00:00

Saturday, June 3 17:00 - 17:30 Rhizomic Maneuver is an emergent logic and form of maneuver, that divers from the traditional paradigm. Rhizomic Maneuver is based on disorder, complex geometry, a different epistemology, a different kind of learning. Unlike the industrial manoeuver which is idealistic, rhizomic maneuver is heretical.

Relatively Calm [Mansur Jacoubi]

2006-06-05T20:30+00:00

Saturday, June 3 16:30 - 16:55 "Instead of calming the situation, the army shot at people for no reason... We are trying to calm the situation on both sides and I believe that we have almost succeeded. But the protesters are extremely angry. Some of their friends are dead and they are furious." - Member of the Lebanese Parliament explaining the situation after the shooting of protesters in May 2004

Pack [Hans Nieswandt]

2006-06-05T20:29+00:00

Saturday, June 3 16:00 - 16:25 Es gibt einen Einsatz. Man wird irgendwo ein- und wieder ausgeflogen. Das schwere Marschgepäck muss gepackt werden. Da muss jedes Detail stimmen und jeder Handgriff sitzen, damit man später auf jeden Fall die Stellung halten kann in seinem Nest.

Neutrality [John Palmesino]

2006-06-05T20:27+00:00

Saturday, June 3 15:30 - 16:00 Two points seem to be particularly interesting when we think of neutrality as a mean to manage postcocolonial, ethnic, racial, gender, political, social, military, technological, cultural transitions, as a dispositf of change of the contemporary space, tuned to balance the conflictual forces that flare up in almost every human settlement. First of all, in constructing an overview of contemporary human settlements, we are thinking of a world without borders, a world whose parts have become increasingly plugged into each other, and which today is completely cordless at every turn, in which we have migrations of an endless kind almost at every point of the world. The second point is that the implementation of this borderless world is accompanied by an intermingled and entangled overlapping of logistic supply networks, buffer zones, enclaves, extraterritorial bases. Wherever these transitions are occurring, new principles have been theorised to examine the nature of war and contemporary transformation processes. Today, not to have a policy, not to stand for something, not to take part, not to participate, to be a-political is becoming more and more a difficult, contrasted, almost immoral condition. Yet it might be in these very difficulties that to be neutral acquires a novel significance.

NATO [Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss + Katherine Carl]

2006-06-05T20:25+00:00

Saturday, June 3 15:00 - 15:30 On NATO's misunderstanding of cultural history and its effects on the decision to bomb certain buildings in Belgrade.

Manhood [Willem de Rooij]

2006-06-05T20:24+00:00

Saturday, June 3 14:30 - 15:00 "Representing manhood in the American war against terror: Pat Tillman and Scott Helvenston": Both Tillman and Helvenston played out traditional masculine roles in American public life before enlisting for combat in Afghanistan and Iraq. The events that followed would colour the personas they had constructed earlier.

Mine [Thomas Plischke + Kattrin Deufert]

2006-06-05T20:23+00:00

Friday, June 2 21:00 - 21:20 The video proposes a sensual study on the fragmented self. The I as container can not contain itself. Selfcontainment is an unfinishable process of oneself being there for the first time and placing yourself and being placed in a constructed historical order. If I was you who were you then? The video is based on Gherasim Luca's "The Inventor of Love".

Luftraum [Christof Kurzmann]

2006-06-05T20:22+00:00

Friday, June 2 20:30 - 21:00 when the iraq war started i made a composition called "the air between". a work about powerlessness. now, quite some time later, and with the images of the war distributed by cnn, bbc, ... i examine what's left of the emotions. how do i/we remember?

Life Support [Carl Michael von Hausswolff + Thomas Nordanstad]

2006-06-05T20:21+00:00

Friday, June 2 20:00 - 20:25

Kriegsmaschine / War Machine [Nicolas Siepen]

2006-06-05T20:20+00:00

Friday, June 2 19:30 - 20:00 A montage of two kinds of montage, two types of assembling images about, in between, beyond, as a war machine within the images themselves. A fine line between love and hate: 1. Jean Genets »Un chant d’amour« (A love Song) – how to make love through a wall and que(e)r it (smoke). 2. The Godard/Gorin/Mieville machine »Ici et Ailleure« (Here and Elsewhere) – how to use a two-image-assembly to ruin the war montage itself - are we not mature to read an Image yet? (Fascism)

Feathermen [Azza El-Hassan]

2006-06-05T20:18+00:00

Friday, June 2 18:30 - 19:00

Denkfabrik/Think Tank [Dan Perjovschi]

2006-06-05T20:17+00:00

Friday, June 2 18:00 - 18:05 =/°\

Conflicted/Inflicted [Susan Schuppli]

2006-06-05T20:16+00:00

Friday, June 2 17:30 - 17:55 "Conflicted/Inflicted" is a video based upon a found telephone answering machine tape belonging to someone named Linda. As we listen to the audio, the crisis and tensions in her life are slowly revealed.

Comrade [International Festival]

2006-06-05T20:15+00:00

Friday, June 2 17:00 - 17:15 I declare war on damaged hair and split-ends. Victory! Because I'm worth it. - Kate Moss for L'Oreal

Arms Race, Architectural [Ines Weizman]

2006-06-05T19:58+00:00

Friday, June 2 16:30 - 16:55 An architectural arms race is a competition between two or more countries for supremacy through the means of architecture and urbanism. Each party competes to produce architectural imagery or concrete built form to achieve a relative gain over the other. Such gain could be accounted for either symbolically, or physically interfering with urban practices in the country of the opponent.

Exergue [Irit Rogoff]

2006-06-05T19:44+00:00

Friday, June 2 16:00 - 16:15

Rog - Smo zacasni / We are temporary

2006-06-02T14:54+00:00

Saturday 25th of March 2006 marked the start of the initiative to open the abandoned bicycle factory Rog for temporary use, with the intent to carry out non-profit, non-established activities on its premises. It is not a classic occupation of space, but a temporary alteration of its purposes. The 7000 square meter large factory - owned by the City of Ljubljana (MOL) - has already been left to decay for 15 years. As long as MOL doesn't develop and begin implementing a clear strategy to solve the problem of these empty premises, we self-initiatively wish to open it to all individuals and groups engaged in the non-profit sector, for the realization of independent production of cultural and social content. Rog - Smo zacasni / We are temporary is a documentary made by the temporary users of the factory Rog premises.

Shigeru Ban Talks in Stockholm

2006-05-19T16:15+00:00

"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. Shigeru Ban offers in this lecture a context to his contributions to architecture through the use of unconventional building materials still achieving formal elegance and economical efficiency. See further http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Ban. International Festival proudly presents the first downloadable lecture out of many which will be collected on v2v sites as well as on www.international-festival.org and www.thetheatre.eu

Contre-feux 5 - Communiqué viseul 5

2006-05-01T22:59+00:00

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. Their ARREST on the spot of their dwelling makes sign towards the most absolute arbitrary and informs us about the state of our "democracies" : Raids, emergency state, covers fire, development of a new bill (CESEDA), diffusion of a circular on February 21, 2006 for better stopping the people of foreign origin... This film tries to show and denounce the logics which underlie these policies : to foreigners is reserved the sempiternal posture of the SCAPEGOAT. The fact that the popular and average classes are impoverished tirelessly, that employment becomes a rare good and that unemployment marks with red iron the whole of the generations, that the richnesses are not redistributed any more to the greatest number..., would be ascribable to an immigration allegedly "undergone". By making immigration and people without-papers an ELECTORAL STAKE of first scale, the government does nothing but divert and distract the French population from major problems and which engage its becoming. A war is thus carried out. A social war. A racial war. It does not save and will not save anybody. Everyone is concerned. This film calls the population to fight against these iniquitous policies and claims the liberation of the two prisoners.

De-regulation: Kutlug Ataman and Irit Rogoff in conversation

2006-04-09T07:20+00:00

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 exhibition project brings together a body of work by the contemporary Istanbul/London based Turkish artist, Kutlug Ataman including 7 multiple and single screen installations by Ataman: Never My Soul, Vicious Circle, Twelve, 1 + 1 = 1, TV Room, Martin is Asleep, and Women Who Wear Wigs. This is the first time a range of works by this innovative artist have been assembled together in continental Europe. The exhibition created an open field which collates many materials; a visual essay by the German artist and theorist Stefan Roemer, Istanbul based theorist Nermin Saybasili has gathered together an archive of wedding culture among the many different ethnic groups in the city, while London based academic and conceptualiser of the exhibition Irit Rogoff has assembled film posters from Turkey’s rich film culture and numerous images of Ataturk, which are a prevalent feature of the Istanbul urban landscape.

Sortis de l'ombre

2006-04-07T22:55+00:00

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 review the situation three years after the brutal eviction of the first collective of "sans papiers" from the church St. Bernard in the north of Paris in summer 1996. It features former speakers of the sans papiers like Madjiguène Cissé, Traore Gaousson, Ababacar Diop and Kamara Hamady who recall the making of the movement - alongside interviews with Guy Laveuve, one of the priests of St. Bernard, Monique Chemillier-Gendreau, professor for international law and member of the „College des Mediateurs", as well as Ariane Mnouchkine, director of „Théatre du Soleil", who supported the sans paiers movement from the very beginning. The film was part of the arte theme evening: "no one is illegal" broadcasted in 1999.

Contre-feux 2

2006-03-17T14:34+00:00

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. Immigration and people without paper are treated like an ELECTORAL STAKE by the French government and an entertainment for the French population : this last one don’t think about its dramatic issues (unemployment, retired pensions, etc.) and the government can make profit for a minority of people. It is a WAR. A war without mercy against the sharp forces of the country. A social war. A racial war. Everybody is concerned. Both films want to call the population to fight these kind of manipulations.

Contre-feux 1

2006-03-17T14:27+00:00

BADco. at International Festival "The Theatre" Stockholm 3-5 February 2006

2006-02-17T00:01+00:00

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. Some of the presentations will be given specific weight to the project itself, others will be concerned with local projects or with more general issues concerning performance and architecture in its widest possible meaning. The first seminar was given at the art space Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm 3-5 February 2006. Nicolina and Sergej Pristas opens in this presentation for a number of contemporary strategies of performance. In the work of BADco., a collaborative performance team based in Zagreb, modes of information flow and spatio-temporal conditions are investigated in ways where the dialectics of critique is phased to comprise an affectual opportunity rather than a territorial pressure. In their latest work “Deleted Messages” BADco. produce a kind of performance close-up in which the audience, without transforming into something else, lose, or rather multiply, orientation. This multiplication however is not homogenizing but an opportunity for desire production of an inorganic capacity. Nicolina and Sergej Pristas address here as well the complexity of space not as space but as place; a social and situational aspect without outlines rather then a geometrical and orientational space. BADco. is a Zagreb-based collaborative performance group. The core of the group are: Pravdan Devlahović, Ivana Ivković, Ana Kreitmeyer, Tomislav Medak, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Nikolina Pristaš, Ivana Sajko. The artistic work of BADco. is not so marked by the choice of subject matter as it is by the production of various problematic aspects of working in/as collaboration i.e. through specific ways of self-organization of the authors involved in a particular project during the process of work. Authors see their performances as performance machines which can enter various referential contexts such as social, political, intimate, dance and artistic contexts in general. Instead of thematic naming which stands closer to the traditional ideas of theatre the group prefers thinking in terms of eventality. Some key words for our thematic interest are: vitalism, virus material, collective, flesh vs. body, strategies of observing?   BADco. was founded in 2000 while some of the authors worked together on the project Confessions in Theatre &TD. It was founded as a non-profit organization to produce collaborative performance work. So far the group has produced the following performances: Man.Chair (2000), 2tri4 (2001), Diderot's Nephew or Blood is Thicker than Water (2001), Solo Me (2002), RibCage (2002), Walk This Way (2003), Mass (for Election Day Silence) (2003), Deleted Messages (2004) and Fleshdance (2004).

Celiné Condorelli at International Festival "The Theatre" Stockholm 3-5 Feburary 2006

2006-02-16T22:13+00:00

International Festival at International Festival "The Theatre" Stockholm 3-5 February 2006

2006-02-16T21:01+00:00

Ortlos Architects at International Festival "The Theatre" Stockholm 3-5 February 2006

2006-02-16T19:36+00:00

Testbedstudio at International Festival "The Theatre" Stockholm 3-5 February 2006

2006-02-16T15:22+00:00

Platforma 9,81 at International Festival "The Theatre" Stockholm 3-5 February 2006

2006-02-16T13:46+00:00

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. Some of the presentations will be given specific weight to the project itself, others will be concerned with local projects or with more general issues concerning performance and architecture in its widest possible meaning. The first seminar was given at the art space Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm 3-5 February 2006. Platforma 9,81 gives in this presentation an overview of their work based in Zagreb. Marko Sancarin gives special weight to their project Invisible Zagreb in which the architectural office mapped abandoned areas of the city and its surroundings. Platforma 9,81 was created in 1999 as a reaction to the inability of the architectural scene to establish an interdisciplinary and open dialogue within the scene and externally in regard to the problems of urban space culture, digitalization of the environment, influences of globalization to the perception of space and the needs of new educational methods in architecture today. Their projects have a profoundly public quality and regularly draw together a large number of people from different domains of life. Their relation to architecture and urban planning is marked by an informal approach, non-institutional strategies of action, tendency towards research and away from habitual practice. Platforma 9,81 have so far realized a number of media projects /1:1000, Architecture Live, Architecture to the People, Open Programme, Mobile Living Room/ that have dealt with the problem of built-up environments and have popularized the contemporary relationship with architecture. The realized projects and installations have a program link to art, media and urban culture /Zone of Movement of the Blind, installations for Vote ’99, the interior for the program Art Lazareti in the quarantine of Dubrovnik, the display of the 26th Youth Salon/. At the meeting of architecture students on the island of Vis - EASA 2002 – they coordinated workshops and lectures and participated in the organization of the event. The workshop “Light” was exclusively organized and carried out by Platforma 9,81. Platforma 9,81 feel especially proud to participate as members of the active art and NGO scene in Croatia, a scene incorporating a critical mass of people and knowledge in aim of realization of developmental urban culture projects. We collaborate with numerous Croatian and foreign institutions that work with architecture and culture.

Felix Kubin: Paralektronoia über Geister und Elektrizität

2006-01-18T19:52+00:00

Lecture Performance by Felix Kubin, December 8th, 2005, in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover.

Jürgen Fritz: Black Market International - The 2th Anniversary

2006-01-15T18:29+00:00

Lecture Performance by Jürgen Fritz (Black Market), November 10th, 2005, in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover.

International Festival - Plastic Bag Video 6

2006-01-13T13:34+00:00

The series of videos created under the motto “many and half good” continues. The sixth version is not much at all, just a bit of happiness with the editing software and a certain love for good commercials. Reediting commercials is of course not something new but one can wonder what position this work offers in respect of viral marketing. International Festival is in this series interested in using a particular cinematic segment, in a fast processes of editing, and to issue as many different perspectives into a scene as possible. How vast is the potentiality of a particular scene, and what can post-production processes offer to it. The Plastic Bag Videos series can be understood as a number of etudes not on creation but in respect of what new technologies provide in respect of post-production.

Archipelago of Exception

2005-12-09T12:36+00:00

The cartography that describes this archipelago of state-of-exception extraterritorial spaces, leads us to reflect upon the scope of the sovereignty of the traditional State and also upon the nature of power, the validity of political rights and the value of human life in an increasingly interdependent world. The closing session of the conference "Archipelago of Exception - Sovereignties of Extraterritoriality" from november 10 to 11, 2005, in CCCB Barcelona, features Zygmunt Bauman, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds, and as a respondant, Giorgio Agamben, Professor of Aesthetics, Faculty of Arts and Design, University IUAV of Venice.

Robert Verzola

2005-11-05T18:51+00:00

Robert Verzola (Philippines) notes that the utility of personal technical skills depends on context; working in rural projects, he concluded that farmers have more important skills in relation to local needs. Verzola has been trying to find a way to apply his technical knowledge to rural projects, yet many places have no electricity. Going there with a laptop is like going to help the poor from inside a limousine. Alternative uses of technologies - building on technologies already integrated into everyday lives - can be very effective, such as VCDs (commonly used as karaoke machine), and mobile phones (mainly used to contact overseas working family members).

Ravi Sundaram

2005-11-05T18:34+00:00

For Ravi Sundaram (India), the central dynamic of 'development' is an informal network economy on the margins (or even outside of) of modern property regimes. His research focuses on ordinary people constructing decentralized technological infrastructures through extra-market, non-legal forms of organising access to media. Even though in countries like India, many users of electronic media exist outside the dominant property regime, development organisations continue to employ a simplistic schema of civil society, state, and market actors and a morally-charged language of representation that is out of synch with the dynamic of informal network economies, relating to it only in the negative terms of piracy and a violation of property rights, of its formalization, and of the mediation of the conflicts between informality and a new regime of property rights.

Bernardo Sorj

2005-11-05T18:26+00:00

Bernardo Sorj, who is researching telecentres in Brazil, argues to develop an integrated view on the use of Internet in the slums. Digital inclusion is not an aim in itself. It only makes sense in a broader context of social and political If you can't read of type it is cynical to talk about universal access. These days, civil society is facing a crisis of maturity. Global civil society is a nice utopia but doesn't exist. Instead we should talk about national civil society. Resources are in the North and not in the South. We should to make global agendas, this time with good intensions. Brazil is not Afghanistan is not Cote d'Ivor. There is not one solution for all countries.

Shuddhabrata Sengupta

2005-11-05T18:16+00:00

Shuddhabrata Sengupta (India) calls on those promoting ICT development to 'develop a thought of our own obsolescence', just as today's gadgets will be obsolete tomorrow, our self-image as those who already represent a technological future that has yet to arrive elsewhere is mistaken. He also stresses the need to approach collective efforts in a more factual way, beyond the romantic idea of cross-cultural collaboration as an end in itself, and instead focus on the aims, ethics, and protocols of collaboration. The idea of development arrived in the info-technological context long after it transformed agriculture and industrial technology transfer, yet it tends to be used in a linear, rather uncritical way. Instead, Sengupta suggests focusing on the conditions of potentiality in all spaces, beyond simplistic local/global distinctions and the assumptions about needs and communal authenticity that accompany them.

Sylvestre Ouedraogo

2005-11-05T18:12+00:00

Sylvestre Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso) works at an NGO called Yam Pukri, meaning 'open your mind'. Whereas Western countries tend to think that everyone should have a computer, Ouedraogo stresses the fact that it is more important to learn how to use the computer as a tool for information gathering and communication means.

Ned Rossiter

2005-11-05T18:07+00:00

The Australian digital media theorist Ned Rossiter (Northern Ireland-based) comments on the rise of China and the consequences of geopolitical shifts for the future study of media. He regards the rise of civil society as a consequence of the void left by neo-liberalism, and addresses the limits of transferring central tenets of representative democracy - accountability, representativeness, transparency - to non-state actors. Furthermore, Rossiter elaborates on the crisis of civil society and the emergence of new forms of institutional articulation like the organized network. He recognises a danger in assuming that all of us in fact continue to live in the same world, especially in the context of ICT debates that revive simplistic North/South divides.

Richard Rogers

2005-11-05T18:00+00:00

Richard Rogers (The Netherlands) focuses on the implications of global civil society's 'issue drift'. As global civil society moves from issue to issue, from place to place and from forum to forum, the question is: do they remember to keep up with what is happening on the ground? Rogers and his colleagues at the Govcom.org Foundation strive to answer such questions through web and news analysis. Analytical software tools such as the Issue Crawler and the Issue Scraper are based on the assumption that the web can be mapped to show where an issue is currently 'located'. Rogers also addresses the rise of 'rights talk', including the development of new communication rights, cultural rights and internet rights, and reflects on the circumstances under which issues should (not) be turned into rights.

Jan Nederveen Pieterse

2005-11-05T17:52+00:00

Long-time analyst of development regimes, Jan Nederveen Pieterse (USA) summarizes Incommunicado 05 as 'civil society meets development', since commercial parties and governments were not represented at the conference. The current vortex of change, in which corporations try to maintain information monopolies, calls for a new political rendez-vous in which emerging information economies can challenge these monopolies in areas like intellectual property rights. Digital orientalism is a concept of our times: Western content and representations are deeply wired into all levels of information technology. According to Nederveen Pieterse, the world of development studies has been one of great fashions and plain humbug, but also very profound criticism, great hopes, struggle, and negotiations.

Tracey Naughton

2005-11-05T17:46+00:00

Tracey Naughton (South Africa) comes up with a few humbling accounts of the fundamental obstacles to (info) developments. She argues to go back to the seventies, a time in which work for and with the poor could be done in a direct and non-bureaucratic manner. According to her we need a more human-centrered globalization, one in which people are in the centre of development concerns and work is done on the ground by people who have a holistic combination of skills.

Monica Narula

2005-11-05T17:23+00:00

Monica Narula (Delhi) talks about the 'listening project' she did with Raqs Media Collective. Sometimes you have to listen beyond the words, and an event like Incommunicado 05 means being attentive to one another. At Sarai, Narula works with the broadsheet collective, with which she publishes a broadsheet, a poster/factsheet/newspaper. Narula recognises that the contemporary vision of the world is thoroughly mapped, difficult to break down, and while the north-south metaphor has been useful, it will limit our view if we cling to it.

Muthoni Dorcas

2005-11-05T16:54+00:00

Muthoni Dorcas (Kenya) is the co-founder of LinuxChix Africa, an initiative that facilitates the active participation of African women in the FOSS (free and open source software) movement across this region. She considers free software an affordable way for people to develop software for local markets. Refusing to talk about Africa as 'poor', Dorcas rather thinks of it as a continent under-utilizing its manifold resources.

Thomas Keenan

2005-11-05T16:46+00:00

Thomas Keenan (USA) points out that the human rights movement is very sensitive to the criticism. Critics therefore are often regarded as being in support of the wrong actors, and betraying its ideals. Keenan considers the notion of 'global civil society' to be a very tricky term, since its dynamic is strongly related to global media platforms (satellite tv, internet etc). There is a certain actuality to global civil society that needs to be criticized, acknowledging the danger that it is being enlisted as the front actor of a borderless market world. To understand and recognise what is left out, global civil society needs to reshape itself. And while market forces should certainly not be underestimated, it also does not make sense to think of markets only in antagonistic terms.

Ednah Karamagi

2005-11-05T16:39+00:00

Ednah Karamagi (Uganda) stresses the importance of including the rural population in development projects. Otherwise, the divide between the rural and the urban will simply increase. NGOs play an important role in Uganda, because they succeed in reaching out to local grassroots organisations. ICTs should be considered in terms of technologies rather than just machines, including the use of community radio in local languages, or using technologies for music, dance and drama.

Michael Gurstein

2005-11-05T16:32+00:00

ICT consultant Michael Gurstein (Canada) compares the use of civil society in developing and developed countries. He discusses its involvement in the WSIS process and advocates the need to strengthen citizen involvement rather than 'civil society'. Furthermore, Gurstein suggests possible uses of the idea of digital orientalism in the digital divide debate.

Felipe Fonseca

2005-11-05T16:19+00:00

Felipe Fonseca (Brasil), free software activist and consultant to the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, discusses the strategic use of free software by the Brazilian government, the tension between governmental FOSS adoption as a cost-cutting measure and the need for a broader debate about software development. Fonseca advocates a broader definition of digital inclusion beyond access, including the creative re-appropriation (rather than mere use) of these technologies and their possibilities.

Steve Cisler

2005-11-05T16:03+00:00

Through examples from his 8-month, 30,000 km offline travels, Steve Cisler (USA) reflects on whether or not there really is a need for the kinds of information technologies he used to promote as an Apple researcher and IT consultant. Reporting on his encounters, he raises a number of questions regarding ICT4D approaches, including the allocation of development resources, the emphasis on different kinds of literacy, the need to write grant applications that are 'buzzword compliant', and the total-cost-of-ownership model as an alternative and more comprehensive approach to project evaluation.

Anriette Esterhuysen

2005-11-05T15:40+00:00

For Anriette Esterhuysen (South Africa) of the APC network, development critique tends to forget the practitioners, who are marginalised by theoretical discourses simply because they don't hear and speak them. Naive critiques of private sector involvement in development fail to acknowledge that markets are necessarily part of the solution.

Enrique Chaparro

2005-11-05T14:58+00:00

For Enrique Chaparro (Buenos Aires), the buzzwords in the ICT for Development discourse (info-society, info-development) are simply substitutes for an older discourse. He focuses on free and open source software, but acknowledges that computers will neither end world poverty nor close the digital divide. A firm believer in free markets - ideally, everyone getting into the market has an equal position, without taxes or monopolies -, he does not expect such markets to exist anytime soon, even given the efforts and hard work by many civil society organizations in reigning in dominant market actors.

Beatriz Busaniche

2005-11-05T14:43+00:00

The free software activist Beatriz Busaniche (Argentina), member of Fundacion Via Libre, talks about the free software community and its ethics, the need to shift from technical to political discussion of software and ICT, and the tendency to approach ICT as a new utopianism. She addresses civil society as a dangerous concept that shifts emphasis from citizens and the grassroots to self-selected organizations marked by their dependence on donors and the burden of having to 'represent'. Busaniche places the development of free software into a broader political, even revolutionary perspective.

Sally Burch

2005-11-05T14:33+00:00

Sally Burch talks about her WSIS experiences and how social movements are linking up in order to exchange experiences and concepts. Solidarity is no longer going in one direction, from North to South. The World Social Forum is creating a new platform where social movements, that previously only worked on one issue, can come together. Burch stresses the need for communication rights in a media landscape which is increasingly dominated by big players and converging technologies.

Solomon Benjamin

2005-11-05T14:19+00:00

Solomon Benjamin Urban Planner Solomon Benjamin (India), speaks about Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India, and his work in a cross-disciplinary team on city-based work focusing on local politics. Bangalore is a city on which the recent boom of the IT industries has had a huge impact. Stressing that we shouldn't lose sight of what is happening on the ground as we theorize ICT matters, Benjamin argues that civil society initiatives enrich the local knowledge and create a platform that is also available and valuable to other actors.

John Anderson

2005-11-05T11:04+00:00

Reflecting on his work on internet adoption in Middle East countries, John Anderson (USA) focuses on social uses of technology and the alliances needed to build them. Some of the debates around information rights seem a repeat of earlier 'mass media' discussions on new terrain. Both imply a generality of communication whereas communication is always very specific. On the notion of a 'global civil society', Anderson feels that the premier position of NGOs is undeserved, since civil society is always intensely local.

International Festival - Plastic Bag Video 5

2005-10-24T16:29+00:00

International Festival Plastic Bag Videos  The series of videos created under the motto “many and half good” continues. In this fifth extended version of 17 minutes yet a new mode procedure is used. The scene from American Beauty has been crossed edited with the scenes from Hitchcock’s Rear Window were the curious James Stewart is looking out onto his backyard. A dialogue between the two subjects of the movies are established and we can both experience how we introduce subjectivity to the plastic bag and at the same time see to what extent Stewart is producing direction and causality. Classical action images are thus transformed through the process of post-production into a kind of time image. International Festival is in this series interested in using a particular cinematic segment, in a fast processes of editing, and to issue as many different perspectives into a scene as possible. How vast is the potentiality of a particular scene, and what can post-production processes offer to it. The Plastic Bag Videos series can be understood as a number of etudes not on creation but in respect of what new technologies provide in respect of post-production.

International Festival Plastic Bag Video 4

2005-10-24T16:07+00:00

International Festival Plastic Bag Videos  The series of videos created under the motto “many and half good” continues. In this fourth video a different mode of reference is made. The video works by Bruce Nauman from the early 70s is here recycled and recontextualized. The narrative through an appropriation of Nauman's structure introduce a kind of exhaustion, or rather complete which passes notions of technique and ability. To the tacky soundtrack by Thomas Newman is this time superimposed with Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells which we all recall from “The Exorcist”, yet a reference to turning bodies, and perhaps also a hidden desire to offer a way out of the grip that the neo avant-garde still hold on contemporary art practices; to exorcise the avant-garde. On another level this version also alludes to Nauman's relation to his studio as a site of production of art. "Whatever I do in the studio it will be art" - this series of works understand digital editing devises similarly as a site for production of video. International Festival is in this series interested in using a particular cinematic segment, in a fast processes of editing, and to issue as many different perspectives into a scene as possible. How vast is the potentiality of a particular scene, and what can post-production processes offer to it. The Plastic Bag Videos series can be understood as a number of etudes not on creation but in respect of what new technologies provide in respect of post-production.

International Festival - Plastic bag video 3

2005-10-18T16:47+00:00

International Festival Plastic Bag Videos The series of videos created under the motto “many and half good” continues. In this third video a sequence from a recently released advertisement for Citroen is used to recontexualize the scene. To the tacky soundtrack and the tremendously sentimental narrative a computer rendered voise has been addred, which render the scene a radically different quality. Questions about subjectivity is here asked in respect of contemporary notions on mediatization. International Festival is in this series interested in using a particular cinematic segment, in a fast processes of editing, and to issue as many different perspectives into a scene as possible. How vast is the potentiality of a particular scene, and what can post-production processes offer to it. The Plastic Bag Videos series can be understood as a number of etudes not on creation but in respect of what new technologies provide in respect of post-production.

Tim Etchells (Forced Entertainment): "In the Event"

2005-10-18T12:29+00:00

Lecture Performance by Tim Etchells (Forced Entertainment), September 3rd, 2005, in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover.

Stefan Kaegi: "v.l.n.r. - Gruppen von Gruppen"

2005-10-08T22:04+00:00

Lecture by Stefan Kaegi, August 14th, 2005 in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover at AtelierFrankfurt.

Sibylle Peters: "The Art of Demonstration"

2005-10-08T16:41+00:00

Lecture Performance by Sibylle Peters, June 16th, 2005 in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover at AtelierFrankfurt.

Deufert + Plischke: "Directory II: Songs of Love and War"

2005-10-08T12:04+00:00

Performance by Kattrin Deufert + Thomas Plischke (Frankfurter Küche Leipzig), July 21st, 2005 in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover at AtelierFrankfurt.

Petra Sabisch: "Kontaminiert"

2005-10-07T17:35+00:00

Lecture Performance by Petra Sabisch, January 27th, 2005 in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover at AtelierFrankfurt.

International Festival Plastic Bag Video 2

2005-10-04T22:34+00:00

International Festival Plastic Bag Videos The series of videos created under the motto “many and half good” continues. In this second video a sequence from a recently released film “Four Brothers” (John Singleton) are used to recontexualize the scene. To the tacky soundtrack and the tremendously sentimental narrative highly violent images are attached, which render the scene a radically different quality. However, in respect of cinema, is it still ‘American Beauty”. International Festival is in this series interested in using a particular cinematic segment, in a fast processes of editing, and to issue as many different perspectives into a scene as possible. How vast is the potentiality of a particular scene, and what can post-production processes offer to it. The Plastic Bag Videos series can be understood as a number of etudes not on creation but in respect of what new technologies provide in respect of post-production.

International Festival Plastic Bag Video 1

2005-10-01T21:40+00:00

International Festival - Plastic Bag Videos In October 2005 International Festival issues a series of videos created around the representation of plastic bags in cinema. The starting point is a scene from American Beauty where the plastic bag is addressed as a dancer. International Festival is in this series interested in using a particular cinematic segment, in fast processes of editing, and to issue as many different perspectives into a scene as possible. How vast is the potentiality of a particular scene, and what can post-production processes offer to it. This is perhaps not about making good videos but many and half good.

Tanger nonstop

2005-09-25T13:56+00:00

"Tanger nonstop" is a 97 minutes documentary in and about the morrocan city of Tangiers featuring the writer Mohamed Choukri, the story-teller Mohammed Mrabet, the painter Hamri and the Jilala musicians. The film goes on a trip criss-crossing the myths of the legendary "Interzone" and encounters a postcolonial presence. Situated in the very north of Marokko, Tangiers is today a city like any other in the socalled "third world": surrounded by slums and a free-trade zone of sweat shops where young women from the south produce cheap clothes for the seasonal sale. The sell-out seems to be the remaining perspective for a city and its inhabitants: immigrants, smugglers and passers-by -- such as the german post-wave band Kastrierte Philosophen who are roaming through Tangiers dressed up in old colonial style and endlessly reciting fragments of Brion Gysins novel "The Process". Ten years after the first release the film is now available online with german subtitles. Original languages are english, arabic, spanish, french.

Vanderbeek Revisited

2005-08-18T16:11+00:00

Stan Vanderbeek (1927-1984) experimented with the interaction of man and the Intermedia-Network of film, TV, video and computer graphics. He subverted the industrialized mass-media by revealing their structure in his works. At first he used collages of magazine- and newspaper imagery or painted directly onto the film. In 1963 he set up the "Movie-Drome", a multiprojection enviroment. The idea was to set up centers like this all over the world and to network them via satellite, enableling intercultural communication between artist communities. (see http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/source-text/133/) In 1966 he produced computer films with Kenneth Knowlton from Bell Telephone Laboratories (now AT&T). He also worked as "Artist in Residence" at WGBH TV in Boston, at NASA and at the M.I.T. Center for Advanced Visual Studies. As seen in this documentary Vanderbeek explored the man-machine graphical interface and produced works of great beauty.

mdewireless streaming 1

2005-08-13T20:54+00:00

jueves 4 de agosto 2005: "desde la terraza" un hibrid-dorkbot simultaneamente desde angola, saas fee, medellin. Orientados hacia selectas terrazas del barrio gotico de barcelona.  altred.net y medellinwireless presentaran desde medellin los beneficos estrategicos de tener un lugar desde el que se puede dominar la ciudad. en barcelona [autonomiaAerea] estaran algunos de los madridwireless plus yves y los vecinos de las terrazas (live!) desde las 4.30pm hora locombiana, 11.30pm hora catalana.(tba alejo velez presentara algo del netlabel series de mde). un evento organizado por ninguno (dont make your name using others people work!) KDaG!!

No Land! No House! No Vote!(HQ)

2005-07-30T08:09+00:00

This ' video newsletter ' features interviews with housing activists from Cape Town (specifically, Vrygrond, Delft and QQ section and Kwezi Park in Khayelitsha), talking about the ongoing housing struggle in the city.

No Land! No House! No Vote!

2005-07-29T17:41+00:00

ljublianing

2005-07-27T17:13+00:00

This was shoot during dash workshop in ljubliana, in march 2005, but doesn't want to be a sort of documentary, in the way i was there not to make documentation but to listen to.....thx to Taja to let me use her poem and to Ana for poem translation.

Interview with Zelimir Zilnik

2005-07-25T13:38+00:00

Adem, a young journalist from Tetovo, Mazedonia, is interviewing Zelimir Zilnik on his film "Kenedi comes back home". Zilnik had presented his latest documentary in the course of the evening program of the Youth Organising Institute, a summer school, that took place in Novi Sad from July 12th to 22nd 2005. The Youth Organising Institute (YOI) is run by the Johns Hopkins University of Bologna and was held in 2005 in cooperation with Kuda.org, the students union of Novi Sad University, kein.org and freelance trainers. YOI brought together 40 young people from the balkan region (Croatia, Mazedonia, Moldavia, Romaina, Serbia and Montenegro and more) that are active in their communities in order to train them, to offer a space for project development and to connect and network on the issues of their local projects.

The fourth episode of IFtv reports on tourism, flowers, castles and politics

2005-06-27T13:56+00:00

An insight into the culture of tourism, how can it be that we all the time get lost when we are out travelling. The castle Jimena de la Frontera is situated a short distance from Gibraltar. In its striking location it has played an important role in the region since the 8th century. Flowers are adored not only for their fragrance but also for the visual pleasure they produce. IFtv honours the colours and shapes of the vegetable kingdom. Finally we focus on the current political situation where Spain unexpectedly made a bold move regarding the influx of immigrants from non-european countries.

The third episode of IFtv brings the audience closer to Spanish culture.

2005-06-26T20:03+00:00

Our chef and cooking expert Mette Ingvartsen takes a thorough look into a Spanish kitchen and offer us to share a real paella. This paella is not just any paella but cooked in accordance with the secret recipe of the southern frontier. As you will see paella also has a strong connection to Moroccan culture. During the visit to the tiny city of Tarifa our team found a book café where they could exchange their favorite books. As the café was closing for the season the exchange developed into a race against the clock. What don’t we do for literature? A visit to the market continues IFtv’s focus on public space, the market being a site for precarious workers and illegal aliens to establish informal exchange. Individuals without an address often have difficulties to obtain a mobile telephone, IFtv therefore reflects on the importance of public phones.

The seconds episode of IFtv, direct from Tarifa in the south of Spain, brings forth a series of new interesting topics.

2005-06-26T19:40+00:00

The beach, the square and the playground are all examined through unexpected perspectives, where different kinds of inter-human communication are underlined. Communication becomes a more direct theme for two reportages: a political contemplation on the abundance of antennas, and the daily contribution from IFtv’s correspondents in Second Life. Body boarding an important part of today’s beach life, are put on a strange wave surfing in the direction of the far east. Our ice-cream aficionado Palle Torsson brings his critical eye closer to the local ice-cream production. In Tarifa he found a stand where the traditions of home made ice-cream was proudly maintained.

International Festival takes a grip on the southern most part of Europe.

2005-06-26T17:27+00:00

International Festival takes a grip on the southern most part of Europe. Together with the team we visit the old and the new, work and leisure, urban as well as the rural. The harbor has for centuries been central to the city of Tarifa. International Festival brings details to our knowledge of the last frontier of Europe. In Tarifa, the port to Africa, we also meet a strong religious tradition. International Festival brings back the church as a place of meeting and being together, something the church originally shared with our life in parks. The park is a strong part of daily life where different people participate to create connections. In a few smaller reportage time, children and the cleaners of the city is given a window to show us their ways of spending a Sunday. Finally, we are brought on a trip to the amazing Pablo Picasso terminal of the Malaga airport, world famous for its excellent artwork. International Festival welcome you to a series of programs focusing on life around the straights of Gibraltar.

Ship to Shore

2005-06-21T00:58+00:00

The "Fadaiat Ship-to-Shore" project aims to physically explore on a sailing boat the migration routes between Morocco, and Spain. It will test civil society counter-surveillance technologies developed on the shore by the teams of Fadaiat// Borderline Academy.

http://borderlineacademy.org

2005-06-21T00:50+00:00

The Swedish artists duo Mårten Spångberg (choreographer, Brussels) and Tor Lindstrand (architect, Stockholm) present their project "International Festival" on June 20th, at the Borderline Academy in Tarifa (ES).: "International Festival propose an alternative mode of production, which deterritorialise notions of commodity and spectacle, not in leaving choreography and becoming something else, nor by commenting directly on current notions of dance and theatre. International Festival maintains an interest in media specificity but instead of announcing itself through and obsolete author position however the product might imply a blurred author position, it deterritorialises entirely the position of the production, not only choreographic writing but also of writing as production, not to mention of how it dislocates notion of collaboration."

Borderline Academy: Round Table on Migration

2005-06-20T00:26+00:00

A round table talk on borders, migration and freedom of movement with an emphasis on the situation in the Straits of Gibraltar -- featuring the local activists Helena Maleno and Nieves Garcia Benito as well as the migration researcher Sandro Mezzadra from Bologna. The presentations have been recorded at the Borderline Academy in Tarifa, at June 19th, 2005.

Border Geographies

2005-06-19T15:55+00:00

Phil Misselwitz and Tiem Rienets present their project "Borderline Geographies" at the Borderline Academy 2005 in Tarifa (ES): Israeli, palestinian and german students map the area of East Jerusalem and explore the urban and cultural consequences of the conflict.

Interview with Florian Schneider about Fadaiat

2005-06-19T15:52+00:00

Raw, unedited interview with Florian Schneider. Schneider was one of the 40 guests interviewed at Incommunicado (15-17 June 2005, Amsterdam) for an upcoming DVD. He talks about Incommunicado and the Fadaiat / Borderline Academy taking place in Tarifa (18-26 June 2005).

Opening Fadaiat2// Borderline Academy

2005-06-18T21:43+00:00

On Saturday, June 18th 2005 "Fadaiat2// Borderline Academy" has been opened in the old castle Guzmán El Bueno in Tarifa (ES). Javier Mohedano, Jose Perez de Lama and Florian Schneider introduced the idea and the background of the 10-days event. To be continued!

Claire Denis: Vienna Conversation

2005-05-11T18:25+00:00

In May 2005, the Film Museum in Vienna has presented the work of French filmmaker Claire Denis – arguably the most important woman working in cinema today. The video contains the full recording of a 1.5 hours long conversation between Claire Denis and the Austrian film critics Michael Omasta and Isabella Reicher on Saturday, May 7th, 2005 Claire Denis has dedicated herself to an uncompromising aesthetic in which sensory experiences, physicality and "musical images" are given priority over conventional narrative schemes. At the same time, her work revolves around key issues of the present: blurred gender distinctions; transgressions of social and cultural boundaries; the dissolution of national identities in the postcolonial era; and finally, the essential topic of sexuality and (filmic) desire.

FK Leipzig: "Directory"

2005-05-09T14:40+00:00

"Directory" - Performance by Kattrin Deufert + Thomas Plischke / Frankfurter Küche (Leipzig), March 22nd 2005 in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover at AtelierFrankfurt.

Adrian Williams: "man made me"

2005-05-08T12:13+00:00

"man made me" - Lecture Performance by Adrian Williams (USA/D), February 17th 2005 in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover.

Xavier Le Roy: "Product of Circumstances"

2005-05-08T08:47+00:00

"Product of Circumstances" - Lecture Performance by Xavier Le Roy (F/D), May 5th 2005 in Frankfurt. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover. www.unfriendly-takeover.de

Rebecca Schneider/Ann Pellegrini: Passing on

2005-04-22T14:06+00:00

Rebecca Schneider and Ann Pellegrini present "Passing on" at the summeracademy in Frankfurt on August 22, 2004. Rebecca Schneider is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Brown University. As a "performing theorist" she has occasionally collaborated with artists, most recently in an installation by Hannah Hurtzig and Heike Roms at the British Museum in London as part of the London International Festival of Theatre. Ann Pellegrini is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Performance Studies at New York University. Her most recebt work ist the coedited volume Queer Theory and the Jewish Question.

Slavoj Žižek: The Spectator´s Malevolent Neutrality

2005-04-22T09:32+00:00

Slavoj Zizek is philosopher and Psychoanalyst from Ljubljana. His lecture on the specific roles of viewers and doers is entitled "The Spectator´s Malevolent Neutrality" and was held on June 8, 2004 during the Theaterformen festival in Brunswick (DE).

Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet in conversation

2005-04-22T09:15+00:00

Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet talk about Ford, Fassbinder and their own films at the Viennale Filmfestival in Vienna, on October 19th, 2004. The conversation with Hartmut Bitomsky, Tag Gallagher, Jean-Pierre Gorin and Hans Hurch is in german, parts in english and french.

Franco B: Illustrated Lecture

2005-04-21T21:20+00:00

Franco B, performance artist based in London, presents "Illustrated Lecture" at the international summer academy in Franfurt on August 24, 2004.

Antonio Negri: Der Schauspieler und der Zuschauer

2005-04-21T21:07+00:00

In his lecture "Der Schauspieler und der Zuschauer" from June 13th 2004 in Hannover at the Thaterformen Festival, Antonio Negri talks about immaterial labor, public services, collaboration and the construction of community. The lecture is held in italian with consecutive translation into german.

Jacques Rancière: The Emancipated Spectator

2005-04-21T11:44+00:00

Jacques Rancière presents "The Emancipated Spectator" at the opening of the 5th international summer academy in Frankfurt on August 20, 2004.

Performance Lecture by Daniel Belasco Rogers

2005-04-01T22:11+00:00

"Unfallen" - Lecture Performance by Daniel Belasco Rogers/Plan B (D/GB), September 30th 2004 in Frankfurt. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover.

Lecture Performance by A Rose Is

2005-03-28T23:49+00:00

"Adsense Lecture" - Lecture Performance by A Rose Is, December 8th in Frankfurt. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover.

Lecture Performance by Pirkko Husemann

2005-03-28T22:12+00:00

"Die anwesende Abwesenheit künstlerischer Arbeitsprozesse" - Lecture Performance by Pirkko Husemann, August 5th 2004 in Frankfurt. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover.

Lecture Performance by Marten Spangberg

2005-03-28T19:08+00:00

"Extra Clear Power" - Lecture Performance by Marten Spangberg, July 8th in Frankfurt. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover.

Lecture David Weber-Krebs

2005-03-28T11:13+00:00

Lecture Performance by David Weber-Krebs as part of the programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover in Frankfurt/Main. www.unfriendly-takeover.de

Academy as potentiality

2005-03-23T15:03+00:00

On Saturday, March 19th, 2005, the last day of MODE05, Irit Rogoff joined for a lecture on "Academy as Potentiality".