Archive for April, 2006

Bracha Lichtenberg-Ettinger

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

I’m thinking about emotion and space to post something soon. Its an intersection that artists know well. Bracha Lichtenberg - Ettinger’s art explores collective memories and traumas, including the Holocaust, and the feminine ground of our subjectivity, finding routes past oedipal and other psychoanalytic dualisms which separate the Symbolic from the Real. […]

Bench Sitting in France

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

Recent unrest in France over a labour law known as the CPE has everyone a twitter. “The French are backward!” say the capitalists; “The French are an inspiration,” say the socialist-types; “The French are screwed,” say the free-market believers with an eye on China and India; “The French are lazy,” say those who don’t know […]

Post-Pastoral

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

Visible cities is another great project exhibited at Zonezero.
Anuschka Reichmann Lemos and her colleagues starkly show how the city is encountered, perceived. We need to take a moment and get past the nostalgic fetishes of the wilderness or the agrarian landscape. The post-pastoral by contrast is what we have now. Although the sun […]

Lisbon’s Wonderground

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

The Design Research Society - International Conference in Lisbon 2006.
CFP - submissions due May 1
After a few minutes browsing their hand-drawn website, reading their call for papers, a vague feeling of looking in on a playful, creative moment starts to brew. How come they are having so much fun? We worry about how to inspire […]

Mobility

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

International journal & weblog dedicated to social spaces of all kinds.