http://www.translocal-practices.net Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:08:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A truck is circulating through Zurich. Seven extra-large letters stand on its open holding area. They form the word NEWBORN. At different locations, the trucks pulls up. A rapper, EKI NOX, performs. But the truck has to leave again after a very short time. Will its cargo remain undeliverable? http://newborn.krcf.org/ ... http://www.translocal-practices.net/?p=247 Employing a whole mix of attitudes, viewpoints and forms, the artists in Territorial Phantom respond to occupying and possessing space. In today's culture, based around claiming and possession, organizations, businesses and countries appropriate ever more space, by privatizing public space or bringing 'democracy' to countries, and where necessary eliminating ... http://www.translocal-practices.net/?p=244 In collaboration with The Globalised Crystal Ball this is the fifth issue of Visual Foreign Correspondents. VFC is an independent platform in which 11 distinguished artists from around the world are invited each month to give their personal visual commentary on events and situations from their locally situated perspective. Their ... http://www.translocal-practices.net/?p=243 This blog is meant as a platform for research and debate about the field of TRANSLOCALITY. In a performative act at the 12th of October 2006 Bettina Wind and Alexandra Ferreira proclaimed the STATE OF TRANSLOCALITY and distributed first visa for free. The STATE OF TRANSLOCALITY is a state of ... http://www.translocal-practices.net/?p=242 The representation of geography and the intricacies of global relations influence Alfredo Jaar’s work as an artist. In the Project „A Logo for America“ this led to critical investigations of cartography. „A Logo for America“ was an explicit demonstration of the significanca of the images and language of geography – ... http://www.translocal-practices.net/?p=239 LIMINAL SPACES is a project by the Palestinian Association of Contemporary Arts (PACA), Ramallah, The Israeli Centre for Digital Art, Holon, and the University of the Arts, Berlin. The project was launched with a conference in March 2006, in the area of the Qalandiya checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah and ... http://www.translocal-practices.net/?p=238 «Airports can be understood as compressors of space and time, they act as a conduit from one physical location in the world to another. But at the same time the extraterritorial zones of airports become an important threshold controlling the flow of people in a free market economy. This space ... http://www.translocal-practices.net/?p=232 «For Slought Foundation, Territorial Agency (Ann-Sofi Rönnskog & John Palmesino) has proposed a project entitled North, as an occasion to think about how water is rapidly becoming the central issue in the management of inhabited territories. The changing conditions related to its ownership, protection from shortages and excesses, disputes on ... http://www.translocal-practices.net/?p=228 Starting from the question  «is New York City as translocal as ever?» Katherine Carl states that it is a shift in perception, feasible due to the distance from the 20th century, coming translocal practices into focus. Thereby she also sums up the Translocal Practices Workshop from June in Zurich ... http://www.translocal-practices.net/?p=227 http://www.eu-urbanism-bordercities.de Bauhaus Kolleg IX: EU-Urbanism Border Cities - The Baltic Sea Region The Bauhaus Kolleg IX will investigate border cities in the Baltic Sea Region as locations at which a new Europe is taking shape. The Baltic Sea Region numbers amongst the most dynamic laboratories in which, since the end of the Cold ... http://www.translocal-practices.net/?p=226