Kategorie: Politics
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Human relationships.
»For me… a work of art can itself constitute a model of human relationships.« British artist Stephen Willats (b.1943) richly complex works combine modular abstraction with pictures and texts that tell the life stories of our own neighbourhoods. Inspired by cybernetics and communication theory, Willats has deployed photography, architecture and abstraction to examine ‘the function…
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Visibility.
Who needs the streets anymore, who the city – to show what you can. Who needs to place cardboard or vinyl on the asphalt to creat a stage, to get visible. Who needs public spaces if there’s TikTok to create your own private stage, your own audience, to get visible? Who owns the cities? How…
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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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Fremd im eigenen Land.
Advanced Chemistry was a hip-hop crew from Heidelberg, Germany, founded in 1987 and considered one of the pioneers of German hip-hop. They made their breakthrough with the single »Foreigner in my own country« released in 1992.
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In the Banlieues.
Regardless of what they are called—suburbs, outskirts, banlieues—this exhibition highlights the symbolic reversal of the center and the periphery through an exploration of how Oakland, California, and Saint-Denis, near Paris, are asserting their influence and inventing solutions to the challenges of inequity and accelerated urban development that metropolises are facing through artistic movements, social struggles,…
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Gounedi Traoré.
Committed to the inhabitants of Clichy/Montf, and particularly those of the Bosquets district, Gounedi Traoré was one of those who walked the streets of Clichy to calm the youth during the 2005 riots.
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Neue Heimat.
»Neue Heimat« was Europe’s largest housing company, non-profit and in DGB / union-hands. In 1982 mismanagement and self-enrichment was exposed. The company broke up – and left a huge social gap in Germany. read more »»
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Banlieue PLUS.
»The Banlieues have come to symbolise the urban and societal failures of modern France struggling to come to terms with how it wants itself to look and what it wants itself to say.« Interesting research »» by Richard Baker from the School of Journalism in Manchester about the banlieue, politics, culture, history, football… including maps,…