Aug 31, 2010

Around the city of Lublin, Poland, on empty buildings as well as inhabited ones, in the alleys of the old city and on streets of the newer parts, Ronen posted photos of different examples of Jewish people who lived on these streets in these houses of the center of Lublin in between in the nineteen twenties ’till 1941.
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Aug 29, 2010

From October 21st to 26th, Graz’s Elevate Festival once again stimulates new ways of thinking and listening through an extraordinary combination of electronic music, art and political discourse. Elevate highlights the role and importance of social movements as well as progressive initiatives in civil society and the importance of generating positive change in our society as a whole. At the same time, Elevate presents many live acts that offer fascinating odysseys into innovative worlds of sound far off the beaten path.
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Aug 9, 2010
Dutch designer Tomáš Gabzdil Libertiny built a glass vitrine and suspended this martyred figure in the middle. He then released 40,000 worker bees over the course of the event to create a wax honeycomb structure over the figure.
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Aug 9, 2010
Sun Boxes is a solar powered sound installation by Craig Colorusso.
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Aug 6, 2010

Jacob Dahlgren‘s I, The World, Things, Life fills a whole wall with dartboards. Visitors are invited to help themselves with the red darts on offer in nearby cardboard boxes and play a game of darts. Except that the exercise is absurd. How do you check if you’ve scored? Which red dart is your dart?
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Jun 13, 2010
For Electrified02, the young artist Roberta Gigante decided to ‘hack’ the harbour of Ghent with a sound installation that turned twelve rusty, gigantic metal pipes stored there into didgeridoo-like sound cylinders.
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Jan 12, 2010

Nollywood is said to be the third largest film industry in the world, releasing onto the home video market approximately 1.000 movies each year.
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Jan 11, 2010

O.T. (Marmeladenbrotstreichmaschine), 2007
“It seems that art, for Johannes Vogl, is a miraculous means to deal with a surrounding reality in a constant exceptional state of a raised intensity where senses are sharpened and perception becomes activated.
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Jan 6, 2010

Spanish graffiti artist SUSO33
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Nov 11, 2009

Capaci. 1980. Woman who believes her son has been killed. ©Letizia Battaglia
Photographer Letizia Battaglia who gained fame in the ’70s and ’80s for her documentation of the internal war of the Mafia in Sicily at its bloodiest, and its devastating impact on the rest of the society.
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