Kategorie: FREEZE
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Nanterre 2023.
France football captain Kylian Mbappé and Les Bleus urged for an end to violence and called for „dialogue and reconstruction“ on Friday, June 30, as France was hit by a fourth night of protests after the fatal police shooting of a teenager earlier this week. (Le Monde July 1, 2023)
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For a city to come.
It is the invisible structure of urban environment – hidden from view in the same manner as the blackness of film negative conceals the whiteness of positive print – that disrupts the emergence of new forms of thinking, or acting, and thus causes any form of artistic practice to be either complicit or impossible. […] corridors…
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Walk in Konohana.
»A walk with Henguchi« Henguchi is a Japanese artist and poet, who introduced us to Konohana, a local district in Osaka, quite central, near the harbor, surrounded by rivers and water. Some years ago we very briefly met British sociologist Iza Kavedžija on a street in Konohana who did some research there for her paper …
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Freeze: 185 km de voies olympiques.
Freeze in a different way: L’organisation des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques risque de perturber fortement la circulation en Île-de-France pendant plus de deux mois, entre juillet et septembre 2024. Au total, 185 km de voies en région parisienne seront réservées aux personnes accréditées, aux transports et aux secours. read more »»
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لا شيء يزعجني مع دنغل
Video by Middle Eastern Rapper The Synaptik. With Dancer & Choreographer Amina Abuelghar. more about The Synaptic»» more about Amina Abuelghar »»
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Tutorials
Printed tutorials, books, and magazines have been a significant part of the hip hop culture in teaching kids how to dance correctly. Hip hop dance is a highly stylized and technical form of dance that requires a lot of practice and dedication to master. While many people learn hip hop dance from watching music videos…
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Time.
Klaus Rinke is a German artist who used the movement of the body, captured through performance and photographs, as a means to express the passing of time.
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How to …
»As an introduction, a conversation in a café to situate the first experiences. Everything then takes place in the Ménagerie de Verre in Paris where Junior Almeïda, Gabin Nuissier and other members of Aktuel Force and the Boogies Lockers show, in a few chapters, the development and maturity of a dance style that has both…
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Youth and Death.
In four abstract minutes Marcel Marceau progresses through the seven ages of man, relying on nuances of gait and posture to convey each stage. Youth, Maturity, Old Age, and Death (1965).
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From here to here.
Jim Jarmusch’s Permanent Vacation follows two and a half days in the life of Aloysious Parker in New York, a young wanderer with no home, no school, and no job. At the age of sixteen, Allie drifts into and out of strange encounters with other misfits; almost all of them exiles from the daily, working…
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Ca peut plus dure.
Video clip by KASH Leone feat Dj RAGE in support of the workers of PSA of Aulnay sous Bois in fight against the closing of their factory.
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Breaking in Africa.
From Cape Town to Casablanca, from Goma to Algiers, the new series on arte Bboys & Bgirls Africa traces the history of breakdancing on the African continent and gets to know personalities. read more»» A short clip from an arte documentary about Hio-Hop in Algeria, Marocco, Nigeria, South Africa or Kongo – also about their…
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Grands Ensembles.
Mc Solaar: Ils s’étaient rencontrés sur les bancs d’l’écoleEntre une heure de colle, de maths ou un cours d’espagnolC’était une fille fun, fana de footballLui ne craignait pas les balles, c’était le goalCe qu’il lui promettait c’était des ballades en CorvettePour l’instant en survêt‘, il volait des mobylettesMais entre eux c’était toujours complicitéEscale sur un…
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Versammlung.
From the catalogue: Hamburger Kunsthalle, Das schwarze Quadrat, 2007Franz Erhard Walther, Versammlung No. 20, 1. Werksatz 1966
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BIEST — Kimono.
Not only since their intensive working stays in Japan, BIEST have been concerned with the structure, the understanding of self and world, the processing and the thinking that is condensed in and with a piece of fabric like the kimono. With the series Kimono 2.0 they have made an adaptation and an update in linking…
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Fashion.
How cultural and social movements have changed the way we dress. »The explosion of hip-hop and rap (and the subsequent airing of such music videos on MTV) validated a maximalist mode of dressing. Dapper Dan of Harlem minted screaming-loud ‘knocked-up’ coats and tracksuits with Louis Vuitton and Gucci logos all over them.« read more»» photo…
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Paris B-Boy culture.
The radical history of Paris B-Boy culture is under threat. Born in the Bronx back in the ’70s, breakdancing later found a similar home in the banlieues of Paris, where marginalised communities adopted the style as a vessel for protest. In 2024, it will feature as an Olympic sport for the first time – but…
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cult places.
10 cult places of Parisian Hip Hop in the 80s. « Regarde ta jeunesse dans les yeux, toi qui commande en haut lieu » rapped NTM in Le Monde de Demain in 1990. It is this youth of the 80s – more particularly the youth who lived through the arrival of Hip Hop in France.…
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Mythical places of Hip Hop.
The exhibition »Terrains les lieux mythiques du Hip Hop à Paris“ took place Médiathèque Marguerite Duras in 2016, looking back in photos, videos and music at the beginnings of Hip Hop culture in France. read more»»
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80*81
»80*81« is a retro visionary research by Christopher Roth and Georg Diez. Roth and Diez explore in this year-long quest with the collaboration of artists, philosophers, writers, movie directors, actors, astrologists the central question: What happened? Each month one volume will be published, each with a distinct timeline of the events of 1980 and 1981,…
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Battle of the Year.
Portrait from Oliver Sieber’s Imaginary Club.2on2 Breakin Battle World Bboy Classic Rotterdam 2012
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A Sport now.
Breaking is an Olympic discipline now. Read more about that on the official website »»
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Beastie Boys.
Beastie Boys Story is a 2020 American live documentary film, directed, produced, and written by Spike Jonze, alongside Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz. It was filmed at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, New York and adapted from Beastie Boys Book, a memoir of the Beastie Boys. trailer»»
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Freeze the moment.
A photograph stops time and reduced it to a frozen instant. Life goes on, the subject changes but the photography stays the same, even when the person dies, the image is left behind. The photograph is both the sole remaining relic of the individual and the most inadequate record imaginable.
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Hip-hop-museum.
»Anchored in the birthplace of the culture, the Universal Hip Hop Museum in the Bronx celebrates and preserves the history of local and global Hip Hop to inspire, empower, and promote understanding«, a still very small place including over 30,000 objects. You also find a 1986-1990 timeline on their websiste more »» A lot of…
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Street, Art, Life.
In a group exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the arts in 2007, guest curator Lydia Yee historicizes the street as subject and stage, a space onto which artists project their shifting visions of public life. read»»
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An Escape.
In Clichy-sous-Bois, a poverty-ridden suburb of Paris, residents are making movies about their lives. Supported by superstar filmmaker Ladj Ly, it could offer some a way out. read»»
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Banlieueconnexion.
A website»» about music and artists from the French banlieue including an extensive collection of links and information.
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Freeze.
A moment of Freeze: Climate activists glue themselves to airport tarmac in Berlin and Munich. Read more»»
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Keny Arkana.
Onora Dafor, professionally known by her stage name Keny Arkana, is an Argentine-French rapper who is active in the alter-globalization and civil disobedience movements. In 2004 she founded a music collective called La Rage du peuple [fr], in the neighborhood of Noailles, Marseille.
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William Klein.
William Klein‘s »Dance Happening June 1961« in collaboration with Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio.
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Gut. Echt.
Deichkind is a German electropunk band formed in Hamburg in 1997. In this video they are collaborationg with German actor Lars Eidinger.
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La Haine.
La Haine is a 1995 French crime drama film written and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. Starring Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé and Saïd Taghmaoui, the film chronicles a day and night in the lives of three friends from a poor immigrant neighbourhood in the suburbs of Paris.