Статьи
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Boris Ceko
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grant theft auto
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01.01.2011
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AN UNSUCCESSFUL CO-PRODUCTION
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| If you know your way around, you might discover that every month and maybe even every week you stand the chance to receive money for your cultural project. Successful applicants have enough money, average applicants have enough to keep their mouths shut, and the unsuccessful ones are kept in check by the chance that they might get lucky in the future. One natural result has been the emergence of… |
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Alena Boika
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grant theft auto
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01.01.2011
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TEFLON PROJECT OR A TOUR TO THE RUDOLFINUM (HOWL WAS SHOWING THE RUDOLFINUM)
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| Once on a Saturday afternoon, when the clock hands were approaching five and, feeling satisfied with what I had managed to do, I was about to leave Karlin Studios, which houses the publishers Divus and the Umelec editorial team, when the doorbell suddenly rang. We have quite a peculiar doorbell, and realizing that in order to open the door I needed to go all the way downstairs, I was ready to… |
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Milena Dimitrova
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geometry
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01.01.2011
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TILLMAN KAISER: ABSTRACT POP-CULTURE
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| It is a well-known fact that we think in terms of categories. But if we open them up, that which was dubious and ambiguous begins to be interesting. We start to reflect, to take a closer look, and–while our eye tries to sort and arrange–we re-evaluate. For these reasons, categories should occasionally be subjected to such a procedure.
The art of Tillman Kaiser possesses a certain ambiguity; his… |
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Boris Chukhovich und Oksana Shalatova
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geometry
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01.01.2011
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БИШКЕКСКИЙ КОНСТРУКТИВИЗМ
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| Пять лет назад куратор 12-й Документы Roger M. Buergel адресовал арт-миру вопрос – является ли modernity нашей античностью? – спровоцировав лавину откликов. При этом было ощущение, что для самого Бюргеля это вопрошание было скорее внешним (навеянным, возможно, Бодрийяром), во всяком случае, по отношению к подготавливаемой в Касселе экспозиции. Ведь Документа не только не сконцентрировалась на… |
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Tristan Russel
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solutions
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01.01.2011
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WHAT’S TO BE SEEN FROM THE TOP OF THE DARK MOUNTAIN
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| Interview with Dougald Hine
As with so many things the future is an uncertain place. Do we make plans only to see them wither on the vine or just let the tide of history wash over us? With so many things to think about and so many metaphors for us to use it is a wonder we get anything done at all. The future then; it might be seen as an imaginative space that in this fast paced modern world is… |
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Octavian Esanu
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political aesthetics
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01.01.2011
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ICONOCLASH IN CHISINAU: WINGS VERSUS TORCHES, OR THE ROCK-PAPER-SCISSORS DIALECTICS
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| 1. Iconoclash in Eastern Europe
For two decades many countries located in the Eastern and Southern parts of Europe have been caught in the midst of iconoclastic campaigns – a situation which may bring to mind the Western and Northern European 16th century Protestant Reformation.1 In the more recent revolts, which were at their peak in the late 1980s and early 1990s, great masses of people… |
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Alena Boika
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essay
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01.01.2011
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LOBOTOMIES AT EVERY TURN
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| Winter is over; summer’s begun –
Thanks, dear Communist Party, for the seasons again.
This is a once-popular couplet that any citizen of the former USSR with at least some sense of humor had no trouble understanding. Despite its sad irony, this laconic rhyme could bring a smile to their faces.
Summer was over, autumn had begun – and there I was again, face to face with these strange creatures… |
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Petr Ferenc
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music
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01.01.2011
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THE SUGAR GREEK OF MUSIC AND THE VAIN YEARING FOR HIERARCHY
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| Sugar Creek was only two inches deep and fifty yards wide at the bend. Now they had put the Mildred Barry Memorial Center for the Arts there. It was beautiful. Sugar Creek flooded now and then. In a land so flat, flooding was a queerly pretty thing for water to do. Sugar Creek brimmed over silently, formed a vast mirror in which children might safely play. The mirror showed the citizens the shape… |
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Jozef Cseres
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music
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01.01.2011
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МУЗЫКА, ЖЕСТЫ КОТОРОЙ НЕВИДИМЫ, НО КОТОРУЮ ВСЕ ХОТЯТ СЛУШАТЬ
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| Существует не так много способов понимания современной музыки во всех проявлениях её запутанного лабиринта, как олицитворения этой музыки, и всё же есть важные признаки (или, скорее, тенденции), с помощью которых можно её примерно описать и дифференцировать от музыки предыдущих десятилетий. Безусловно, они включают в себя промежуточную ориентацию и технологическую неприхотливость музыки. Первая… |
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Hilary Davidson
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cinema
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01.01.2011
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THE RED SHOES
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| It is night. On a platform edge in an empty subway station sits a pair of beautiful pink shoes, alone and ready to wear. No one is present; the shoes are abandoned, ownerless. Why not pick them up, put them on and take them home?
In the Korean film The Red Shoes (Bunhongsin (Yong-gyun Kim, 2005)) gruesome answers to this question reveal the fatality of possessiveness in a ghost-tale concerning… |
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