Battles -- Atlas

From Rembrandt to Vermeer Civic values in Dutch and Flemish paintings of the 1600s

Da Rembrandt a Vermeer Valori civili nella pittura fiamminga e olandese del '600 Fondazione Roma Museo, Roma 11 Novembre 2008 - 15 Febbraio 2009

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re.act.feminism – performance art of the 1960s and 70s today

exhibition, video archive, live performances and conference

13. Dezember 2008 – 8. Februar 2009
Akademie der Künste
Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin

A project by cross links e.V., curated by Bettina Knaup and Beatrice E. Stammer, produced in partnership with Akademie der Künste, Berlin, supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Schering Stiftung and Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung.
info@artberlin-online.de, Web: http://www.artberlin-online.de/

Abbildungen:
Kate Gilmore: Star Bright, Star Might, 2007, Video Still, Courtesy of the Artist and Smith-Stewart Gallery
Esther Ferrer: Intimo y Personal, 1998 © Esther Ferrer
Verena Kyselka: Nachrichtensprecherin, Performance Stadtraum Erfurt, 1990, Photo: Bernd Hiepe
Antonia Baehr: Lachen, 2008, Photo: Julie Pagnier © Antonia Baehr
Ewa Partum: Poem by Ewa, 1971 © Ewa Partum / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2008

Performance art emerging in the 1960s and 70s was infused with ideas of social emancipation and fundamentally influenced by women artists interested in feminism. Performance art explored the intersection of art and life, of private and public. It offered an ideal medium for examining, deconstructing or reinventing (female) identity moving beyond attributions of femininity in mainstream culture. Moreover, as a new art form, occurring outside the confines of the traditional art space, performance was a medium for collective and social intervention in the public sphere.
re.act.feminism provides an exemplary overview of gender-critical performance art and investigates its resonances in current artistic productions in the form of re-enactments, re-appropriations, new formulations or documentary and archival projects.

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Quiet Earth (1985)

O Joy O Rapture, we survived

2009 is here and we are a mere 15 days from having survived the most dangerous calamity of recent memory. It is time for closure as we have much to do and to repair. In this article, Tom, palpably excited and relieved for having survived the same, puts it away so we can start the year and hopefully the rest of this planet's life without wasting anymore time on George W. Bush's presidency. Here is to a year that despite being probably one of the toughest on our planet since the 1930's -- will also be most certainly better than the year that came before it.

The Ponzi Scheme Presidency

Bush's Legacy of Destruction
By Tom Engelhardt

It may finally be 2009, but in some ways, given these last years, it might as well be 800 BCE.

From the ninth to the seventh centuries BCE, the palace walls of the kings who ruled the Assyrian Empire were decorated with vast stone friezes, filled with enough dead bodies to sate any video-game maker and often depicting -- in almost comic strip-style -- various bloody royal victories and conquests. At least one of them shows Assyrian soldiers lopping off the heads of defeated enemies and piling them into pyramids for an early version of what, in the VCE (Vietnam Common Era) of the 1960s, Americans came to know as the "body count."

So I learned recently by wandering through a traveling exhibit of ancient Assyrian art from the British Museum. On the audio tour accompanying the show, one expert pointed out that Assyrian scribes, part of an impressive imperial bureaucracy, carefully counted those heads and recorded the numbers for the greater glory of the king (as, in earlier centuries, Egyptian scribes had recorded counts of severed hands for victorious Pharaohs).

Hand it to art museums. Is there anything stranger than wandering through one and locking eyes with a Vermeer lady, a Van Eyck portrait, or one of Rembrandt's burghers staring out at you across the centuries? What a reminder of the common humanity we share with the distant past. In a darker sense, it's no less a reminder of our kinship across time to spot a little pyramid of heads on a frieze, imagine an Assyrian scribe making his count, and -- eerily enough -- feel at home. What a measure of just how few miles "the march of civilization" (as my parents' generation once called it) has actually covered.

Prejudiced Toward War

If you need an epitaph for the Bush administration, here's one to test out: They tried. They really tried. But they couldn't help it. They just had to count.

In a sense, George W. Bush did the Assyrians proud. With his secret prisons, his outsourced torture chambers, his officially approved kidnappings, the murders committed by his interrogators, the massacres committed by his troops and mercenaries, and the shock.........

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City Trees

Baeume der Stadt by Florian Rexrot

Ring Out, Wild Bells

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.

Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.

Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.

Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be


-- Alfred Lord Tennyson