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Wilde Lieder
On 5 May 1818, Karl Marx was born in Trier. Two hundred years later, his ideas remain the focus of continued debate and discussion. His analyses on the cyclic nature of crises, on globalisation and the alienation of labour have hardly diminished in...
We Have Delivered Ourselves from the Tonal – of, with, towards, on Julius Eastman
The African-American composer, musician and performer Julius Eastman (1940-1990) was a leading figure of American minimal music of the 1970s and 1980s. Following his premature death, he was quickly forgotten, but as of late people have been...
Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of CalArts
Post Studio is the name of the now legendary university department, initiated by the artist John Baldessari in 1970 at the then newly established California Institute of the Arts, or CalArts, for short. Post Studio advocated a concept that shifted...
AMBITUS Art and Music in the 21st Century
The fine arts and music have become more and more intertwined in recent years. This has made it increasingly difficult to ascribe one or the other genre to a growing body of works. We are seeing performance and video artists making use of existing...
Wrested from Oblivion
The Ukrainian composer Alexander Weprik was a musical child prodigy who received a professorship at the Moscow Conservatory at the age of 24. In the 1920s and 30s, he was one of the best-known Soviet composers on the international scene. Hermann...
Lorenza Böttner
This retrospective in Stuttgart and Barcelona offered a comprehensive study of Lorenza Böttner’s artistic estate. Böttner was an extraordinary artist in many ways. She was born in Chile to parents of German descent and christened Ernst Lorenz...
LandART Cultural Calendar
The Haina Cooperative (Thuringia) and the Meuchefitz Communication Centre (Lower Saxony) jointly developed a series of events titled "LandART Cultural Calendar". Every quarter year was given a different motto. During the first three months, two...
It takes two to unite
The Kulturfabrik in Hoyerswerda and the Initiative Bürgerzentrum Schuhfabrik in Ahlen have developed an extensive socio-cultural project, scheduled to run from February 2004 to December 2005. This cross-genre programme is directed toward various age...
Slavs and Tatars. Made in Dschermany
The artists’ collective Slavs and Tatars investigates reciprocal relationships between supposedly disparate cultural spheres. In its research-based works, it focuses on the “region east of the Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as...
Remembering Landscape
When we think of landscape, most of us imagine an aesthetic ideal – if not unspoiled nature, then at least a diversified, organically developed agricultural and rural living environment. But in reality, landscape has long been altered by war,...
