Articles
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Kitty Hauser
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cinema
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01.01.2011
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STAINED CLOTHING, GUILTY HEARTS 1
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| There’s an epigraph to a chapter of Dick Hebdige’s book Subculture: The Meaning of Style which has always struck me with its visionary intensity and decadent air. It’s a quotation from William Burroughs’ 1969 Wild Boys, a novel which describes an apocalyptic future where gangs of promiscuous, violent and amoral young men trample over the ruins of civilisation. In Marrakesh, writes Burroughs, “the… |
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Ivan Mečl
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poetry
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01.01.2011
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DEJA FLAP VU FLAP
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| I can still play like this. When translating I come across words like flip flap. A Flip flap is an artificial flower that moves, as I found out when looking for the word’s meaning. In the same way, I came across this poem in some abandoned corner of the internet. I reckon it was written by some young girl in love. It has no title, and I find it pleasant and at times a bit awkward. This is because… |
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Robert Rigney
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in transition
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01.01.2011
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YUSTALGOS IN BERLIN
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| For many people who come here from New York or London, Berlin is a kind of underground theme park, a film and an adventure. Berlin, for many, has its own curious glamour—a glamour based largely on the Berlin of the nineties when the Wall had just fallen, East Berlin was a new, unexplored territory, a city of ruins, empty cellars, large abandoned factory spaces taken over by squatters, punks and… |
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Alena Boika
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in transition
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01.01.2011
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IN TRANSITION OR WHERE THE RUINED AND OTHER DREAMS MAY LEAD
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| It was the second event of In Transition—an international project with an exhibition and a symposium—which brought me to Yekaterinburg. As it is clear from the title, the project addresses the problems of displaced people, i.e. migrants, refugees, repatriates. The participants are selected through an open online contest and approved by Helene Black and Sheila Pinkel (the founders of NeMe, an… |
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Ilya Plekhanov
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in transition
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01.01.2011
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FRONT WITHOUT A FRONT LINE
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| Ilya Plekhanov is the founder and chief-editor of the Art of War almanac and it is largely thanks Plekhanov that the issuing of Umelec 1/2009 was realized. He is a graduate of the faculty of Economics and Informational Systems at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) and he later attended the institute of Asian and African countries specializing Japanese History and Language. In… |
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Alexey Ulko
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in transition
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01.01.2011
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UMIDA AKHMEDOVA - ACCUSED
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| The young Soviet Union in the 1920’s and 1930’s instigated the national-territorial delimitation of the republics of Central Asia so that the region previously known as the Russian Empire would conform to Stalin’s proscribed policy, as laid out in Marxism and the National Question, that a nation was, “a historically constituted, stable community of people formed on the basis of a common language,… |
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Alena Boika
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in transition
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01.01.2011
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IVARS GRAVLEJS: ALIENS AMONG US
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| If you are walking down the street on an ordinary gray day and suddenly encounter something that looks like the Northern Lights, then you have most likely run into Ivars Gravlejs. Unlike most members of the Czech Republic’s artistic and intellectual circles, Ivars does not find black, gray and other depressing colors particularly elegant (anarchist, reserved, non-staining – insert the right word… |
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Alena Boika
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in transition
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01.01.2011
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PETRA PĚTILETÁ: CATCHING THE BEAUTY
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| Dedicated to the memory of Georgy Ivanov: Subatomic Decomposition.
Every morning when I look out of the window, I see Petra Pětiletá running up the hill. Sometimes I think Petra waits just for me to come to the window before starting her impetuous run, which always ends in the same way: a red cap disappearing beyond the horizon, an instantaneous, bright touch of the holidays that flashes for… |
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Alena Boika
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in transition
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01.01.2011
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RIGA: LIFE IS LIFE
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| Even when they were a part of the Soviet Union, the Baltic States were always a special region, a piece of the West in the East, with a strong scent and sheen of capitalism, though quite reserved due to the conditions of Soviet life. What did the Soviet people know about these republics at the time? Both then and now, people were almost pathologically incapable of distinguishing the three –… |
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Spunk Seipel
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profile
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01.01.2011
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TRANSRAT FASHIONSHOW
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| Wherever you are you are with brody&paetau
A collaborative team of artists who, indiscriminately and bordering on the intolerable, caricature global arrogance and regional slime. They are especially known for their degrading actions aimed at the functioning of contemporary culture. Art critic Adam Budak: “This conceptual neo-dadaistic artistic duo is on the lookout for the worst aspects of… |
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