Category: language

  • Blue Mistflower

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    Blue Mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum) attracts butterflies.

    via USF Herbarium

    Info on acquiring native plants. The Florida Wildflower Foundation prepared a plant guide. Botanical vocabulary.

  • BE.BOP 2016

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    BE.BOP 2016.
    BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS.
    CALL & RESPONSE.

    A project of Art Labour Archives
    Curated by Alanna Lockward
    Walter Mignolo + Advisor
    Julia Roth + Commissioned Works Coordinator
    Elena Quintarelli + Curatorial Assistant

    1-3 June 2016
    Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
    https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/praxis/bebop_2016/
    Screenings + Talks + Performances

    An extensive and varied 3-day programme with eight panel discussions, accompanied by exciting commissioned performances, films and site-specific installations will take place.

    BE.BOP 2016 introduces international guests, artists, activists and scholars: Sandra Abd’Allah-Alvarez Ramírez + Laura Alegre + Dalida María Benfield + Gurminder K. Bhambra + Manuela Boatca + Erna Brodber + Lesley–Ann Brown + Artwell Cain + Kjell Caminha + Augustus Casely-Hayford + Mathias Danbolt + Teresa María Díaz Nerio + Yoel Díaz Vázquez + Frank Dragtenstein + Rebecca Drammeh + Simmi Dullay + Jeannette Ehlers + Fatima El Tayeb + Quinsy Gario + Cristel Gbaguidi + Pedro Pablo Gómez + Gillion Grantsaan + Adler Guerrier + Ylva Habel + Sasha Huber + Malcolm Momodou Jallow + Jane Jin Kaisen + Patricia Kaersenhout + Nazila Kivi + Krudas Cubensi + Napuli Langa + Mette Moestrup + Mwangi Hutter + Patrice Naimbana + Tone O. Nielsen + Tanja Ostojic + Zulma Palermo + Malena Pestellini + Anne Ring Petersen + Tuleka Prah + Rod Sachs + Moritz Schramm + Robbie Shilliam + Helle Stenum + Javier Tapia + Ovidiu Tichindeleanu + Rolando Vázquez.

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  • Brickell

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    assigned spots and long casted shadows.

  • Graham Harman – Object-oriented Philosophy

    Graham Harman at Moderna Museet: What is an Object?
    On 16 January 2015 the theorist Graham Harman held a lecture about his object-oriented ideas in the Auditorium of Moderna Museet. The lecture was part of a symposium that posed questions about the role of the object in the spheres of aesthetics, society and the market. The symposium was a collaboration between, Moderna Museet, the Stockholm School of Economics and SASSE Art Division.

    Another talk atICA London
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    The Third Table

    A review of Third Table.

    Related:
    Dylan Kerr for Artspace.com
    e-flux conversations.
    Critique on mariborchan.si

  • On The Peregrine

    Werner Herzog talks books with author Robert Pogue Harrison; including John Alec Baker’s The Peregrine

    Darley for LRB.

  • labor vs. uber(or any of the shared-economy business)

    a “state of conscious and permanent visibility [] assures the automatic functioning of power” – Foucault.

    via MotherJones on Shannon Liss-Riordan taking on Uber. Liss-Riordan argues for the classification of their dependent labor as employees.

  • Edwidge Danticat reads Felix Morisseau-Leroy

    “Tourist” and “Boat People” in Haitian Creole, by Felix Morisseau-Leroy. Via PEN podcast.