History is not only the understanding of an event that took place at a certain time, but also the subject connected to a certain space. It is this question that forms the corner stone of Karl Schlegel’s book Im Raume lesen wir die Zeit. We refer to certain spaces as crime scenes, historical battlefields, highlands…
Month: March 2014
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Warum Chinesisch schwierig ist (Swiss German video)
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Textauszug von Barthes “Das Reich der Zeichen”
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“Die Strassen dieser Stadt haben keine Namen. Wohl gibt es eine geschriebene Adresse, aber die hat ausschliesslich postalische Bedeutung; sie bezieht sich auf ein Kataster (nach Vierteln und Blocks ohne jede Geometrie), das der Postbote kennt, nicht aber der Besucher: Die groesste Stadt der Welt besitzt praktisch keine Klassifizierung; die Raeume aus denen sie besteht,…
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Hong Kong English
by Vera Buck • • 0 Comments
There is books about the Hong Kong Accent, which also integrates Cantonese words in the English vocabulary (such as ‘chop’, shroff’, ‘nullah’…). Pronounciation and Grammar are different from the British and American accent. In China, call this ‘fusion-language’ ‘chinglish’ or ‘Cantonese English’. (Hong Kong English seems to be slightly different from this, though.) http://www.waseda.jp/ocw/AsianStudies/9A77WorldEnglishSpring2005/LectureNotes/03_HKE_TonyH/HKE_unit2.pdf
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«Made in Hong Kong»: HK 1997, documentary by Luc Schaedler
by Marc Latzel • • 0 Comments
Dear all I have organized the DVD of Luc Schaedler’s documentary «Made in Hong Kong»: HK 1997 just before and after the passover from the Brits to China. Interesting interviews and pictures from HK changing so rapidly. Who wants to watch this movie? We can organize a viewing one of these evenings @ ZHdK. It…
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Hong Kong Record Series
A records series is a group of documents or volumes that has been brought together for a specific function or activity. These records are usually created by the same organization or individuals, arranged according to the same classification system or in the same physical form.
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The Guqin – Traditional Chinese String Instrument
by katjaglaess • • 0 Comments
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guqin A renowned, Hong Kong-based Guqin player plays one of his compositions:
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Gilles Deleuze on travelling (L’Abécédaire)
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L’Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze is a French television program produced by Pierre-André Boutang in 1988-1989, consisting of an eight-hour series of interviews between Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet (Wikipedia).
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Critical Review “Globalisierung als visuelles Phänomenâ€
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The imaged society or the role of image and image production in a postmodern, global society/community About In the essay “Globalisierung als visuelles Phänomen” Patrizial Faccioli questions the role of images in the production of individual and common identity in postmodern, global societies. Patrizia Faccioli is associate professor of sociology at the University of…
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English as Business Lingua Franca: A comparative analysis of communication behavior strategies in Asian and European contexts, by Bertha Du-Babcock
by Alfred Vorster •
Dr. Bertha Du-Babcock is Associate Professor and Director of CHASS International Exchange Program. She received the Kitty O Locker Outstanding Researcher Award (2008), the Meada Gibbs Outstanding Teaching Award (2004), the Outstanding Article Award in the Journal of Business Communication (2007), and the Outstanding Article Award in the Business Communication Quarterly (2001). Dr Du-Babcock will…
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Architecture of Transgression
by katjaglaess •
The Architecture of Transgression AD Rachel Sara, Jonathan Mosley ISBN: 978-1-118-36179-5 136 pages November 2013 Transgression suggests operating beyond accepted norms and radically reinterpreting practice by pushing at the boundaries of both what architecture is, and what it could or even should be. The current economic crisis and accompanying political/social unrest has exacerbated the difficulty into…
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Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive?
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Alexandra Pirici and Manuel Pelmus, An Immaterial Retrospective of The Venice Biennale, 2013. Enactment of drawing depicting two tigers exhibited in the Japanese room at the 14th International Art Exhibition of the City of Venice, 1924. Performance view, 2013. Photo: Italo Rondinella. Courtesy la Biennale di Venezia. Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left…
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The Syrphe African + Asian Database
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Interview with C-Drik Fermont, curator and producer of the Syrphe African & Asian Database. The aim of the database, run by the label called Syrphe, is to let people know that alternative electronic, experimental and noise music also exist in underrated continents. By Julian Bonequi, published @ norient.com Check Syrphe.com for latest listings, buy their…
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Ethics in everyday clothes
by Sandra Bühler •
Fashion line “Sweater Study of the Impossible” makes its own terms of employment visible. The picture shows the collapse of the textile fabric in Bangladesh, the sweater memorizes and spreads the awareness. http://www.kalinkakalinka.de/2013/11/04/study-of-the-impossible-bobby-kolade-und-manu-washaus-verbinden-mode-und-ethik/
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Urban Intervention: A Reclaimed Parking Spot
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Urban Intervention: A Reclaimed Parking Spot
Green Corner, a collaboration between Helsinki-based artists Otto Karvonen and Jon Irigoyen are installing a grass turf lawn in a parking space creating a temporary park, the are calling it “urban intervention†that brings up questions of ownership and use in public spaces.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/05/urban-intervention-a-reclaimed-parking-spot/
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Straight forward transformation of reality
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Adam Magyar photographer has been experimenting with slit-scan photography, basically he is scanning metro cars and crowded places in big cities all around the world. In his latest work he is using a special slow motion camera with alterations from a moving metro to capture the life of the subway. The video is explaining the…
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Kacey Wong (As a visual Artist )
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Kacey Wong‘s experimental art project investigates the space between men and their living environment with a social intention. He think being an artist is similar to being a detective, the case on hand is to investigate the self. Kacey was born in Hong Kong in 1970. He was the winner of 2012 HK Contemporary Arts…
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Glitch the map
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Apple iOS Maps app is no good for practical reasons but making random artistic glitches. What is creating the futuristic effect is pictures mapped onto a 3D topography, some structures are too complex for the app‘s algorithms to handle. Peder Norrby (graphics company Trapcode) has collected the many failures on the Apple’s Maps app into…
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Abu Dhabi + GULF: responsibility for the politics of its own production and distribution
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G.U.L.F. (Global Ultra Luxury Faction) is a coalition of international artists working to ensure that migrant worker rights are protected during the construction and maintenance of museums on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi. Each time the Guggenheim speaks, its approach to migrant labour issues on Saadiyat Island sounds more like that of a global corporation than…
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Affairs / Urbanism
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Christine Loh spent spent 14 years in the commercial world before becoming a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council. She chose to retire from front-line politics in 2000 to set up a non-profit public policy think tank, Civic Exchange. She has written and edited books on Hong Kong politics, democratic practices, and SARS. She…
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Review on Glocalization as Globalization: Evolution of a Sociological Concept
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Review on Habibul Haque Khondker’s article Glocalization as Globalization: Evolution of a Sociological Concept (Bangladesh e-Journal of Sociology, Vol. 1. No.2. July, 2004 ) Some see globalisation as a devestating notion, other see it as economical accretion and modernization. In social sience globalisation as a notion has a short history. Globalisation as a term came…
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Roland Roos: free repair
by Patricia Nocon •
I would like to add this as a comment to the Post by Patrick “We must construct as well as destroy” FREE REPAIR Roland Roos repairs broken, displaced or damaged things in public space. Each repair is intended to restore a particular detail to its pre-damaged state. Before and after the repair a photograph is…