and the microscopic planets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-bHnM3Uwuk As you see the whole video is in German but I made a quick translation at least of what this is about. I still need to think about what I just heard and I am thinking about it. Talk by Hartmut Rosa, Professor of Sociology, at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, author of the book …
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a free translation from the article published by Revista Prosa Verso e Arte - Culture and society (photo is linked to the original article). Written by João Fellet - BBC Brazil in Washington D.C. There are more indigenous people in São Paulo than in Pará or Maranhão [States]. The number of indigenous people living in Brazilian urban areas is …
Gilvan Samico, 2005, 56 x 94 cm, 19/120, xilogravura Em exposição: Samico Between Worlds [Rumors of War in Times of Peace], curadoria de Marcio Harum, na Dream Box, Nova York, 4 de fevereiro a 5 de março de 2017 – http://www.dreambox.nyc Marcia Vaitsman: o assunto sobre os tempos que a contemporaneidade suporta surgiu durante a visita à …
Trabalho de Isaura Pena, 2015. Percebi na abertura da exposição que falava com entusiasmo de Ver Lonjuras de Isaura Pena sem que nunca tivesse feito perguntas à artista sobre a obra. Falava sobre as escolhas íntimas, da decisão entre fazer ou não fazer, deixar ou não deixar, adequar ou inadequar. Marcamos então uma conversa e como resultante …
My son is insisting that I start giving my "intelligent" contribution to society disconnected from Facebook and he is right. "Go back to the Web, Mom". Now, I am decided to start feeding the WWW directly as we did back in 1996, writing HTML directly to Pico on a Unix terminal (just a joke - …
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Almost three months have passed since I arrived from Morocco passing through Lisbon, landing by taxi at Glogauerstr. 16 in Kreuzberg, Berlin. What to tell about an experience that is basically waking up every day to a new unpredictable day - getting to know K who made me mass fitting clothes; H who could be …
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One should always ask themselves why would an artist want to have a PhD. Many of them because they also have a day job as an university professor. I am still dwelling with the idea of art in the university system, and the several (SEVERAL) concessions one has to make, as a researcher and even …
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Marcia Vaitsman 