Some bad and sad news from Detroit – the Catherine Ferguson Academy which enables the majority of its teenage mothers(-to-be) students to aim for college education and a life after teen-motherhood, is threatened with closure. There’s a video piece on the Rachel Maddow blog which goes further into the reasons why this closure (and others […]
BELATED NEWSFLASH!! My book The Detroit Diary has been chosen as one of the winners of The Most Beautiful Swiss Book award – thanks to designer Anna Haas, herself Swiss, who submitted it for the competition. Anyone who happens to be in Zurich toward the end of June could visit the exhibition which will be […]
This evening (sorry for the late post), Saturday 19 March, the opening of ‘From the Relative Truth to the Absolute Error’, at SMART project Space in Amsterdam – 19.00 hrs (Text below courtesy of SMART) ERRORIST NIGHT Join Etcetera… during the opening for a very special Errorist Night of performances, music and screenings presented by […]
Don’t miss the premiere of ‘Museum Songspiel – The Netherlands 20XX’ – new film by Chto Delat? whom I have been working with over the last few weeks – tomorrow at 8pm! Some pictures taken on the set… Dmitry arranging the decor/costumes Security Guard & Museum Director Asya on the set An injured Daniel Rovai […]
Managed to battle my way through the hoards of Amsterdam Lefties to get into Noam Chomsky’s lecture – Contours of Global Order: Domination, Stability, Security in a Changing World and the rise of Xenophobia in the West – in the Westerkerk. Great setting – Chomsky preaching from the pulpit as it were. Here’s the link […]
So, between all the politics, an old-fashioned exhibition… a number of squished creatures from my series of ceramic Roadkill are joining MUD – in the newly renovated Glazenhuis in the Amstelpark in Amsterdam. Opening Sunday March 13th 2011 at 3pm. Exhibition curated by the indefatigable Alite Thijssen of Stichting ZET, co-exhibitors are Gijs Assmann, Chris […]
As part of the International “Practicing Theory” Workshop organized by the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, I’ll be doing a lecture performance on Wednesday March 2nd at 5pm. The location is the University Theatre, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16 in Amsterdam, that’s more or less next door to Grand Cafe ‘De Jaren’. There are a whole lot […]
Just spent a very intereseting and enjoyable two days at SMART Project Space participating with the Russian collective Chto Delat (means What’s to be done – in other words… How to go on!) The event was 48 Hour Communal Life Seminar based around the idea of the didactic performance model by Bertolt Brecht, the ‘learning […]
Prompted by the Open Call for the 7th Berlin Bienniale‘s request to be informed about artists’ political inclinations, I have managed to reduce the passionate and subjective rant of my MFA thesis to 1000 words of passionate and subjective ranting. Same old title – here it is… HOW TO GO ON Making Art When Everything […]
Upsetting news – Mieke Van de Voort (1972-2011) comitted suicide on Tuesday. Dreadful loss of a talented and fragile soul. In remembrance these words which she herself once quoted from a note she’d found on the wall of the house of a person whom had recently died … ‘and when I am dead don’t be […]
