Archive for September, 2004
Of air travel and airports
Saturday, September 25th, 2004CABIN PRESSURE — a series of one-night performance events to be held in the famous Cabin club in Liverpool, timed to coincide with the Liverpool Biennial.
“The events aim to bring together a wide and diverse selection of live art works based around the theme of air travel. You are invited to contribute live performance installations […]
Black Atlantic
Monday, September 20th, 2004From Berlin’s Haus Der Kulteren Der Welt/House of World Cultures comes Black Atlantic, a series of events running 17 September to 14 November, 2004.
Black Atlantic refers not to a clearly defined region or specific period, but to a novel variety of space: a multidimensional and trans-cultural space characterised more by movement, networking and flows than […]
The Ludic City
Sunday, September 19th, 2004New Babylon: the world of Homo Ludens
Constant Nieuwenhuis, 1970
“The world of plenty is New Babylon, the world in which man no longer toils, but plays; poetry as a way of life for the masses. New Babylon, perhaps, is not so much a picture of the future as a leitmotiv, the conception of an all-comprehensive culture […]
Beyond metropolis
Friday, September 17th, 2004My partner has commented that if this city is one of the new centres of wealth in and growth in Canada it doesn’t show. There isn’t the energy or pace of the wealthy metropolis. Plodding traffic, endless suburbia and dull buildings. But its more than those - beyond the metropolitan cities is […]