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Friday, July 3th, 2009 at 10:29
[ still from Ron Fricke’s Chronos ]
< 8.7 > ETHNOTRONISCHE ZEIT & INTERKONTINENTALREISE mit DJ SHAZAM & VJ PODINSKI with special guests Lillevan and Jen-Mai at the Altes Museum, Berlin for the MuseumsInselFestival 2009 ( ab 21h in the Lustgarten )
“Combining museum archives with both cinematic bits and still imagery, XLterrestrial media ecologists provide the emotional and historical triggers to venture deeper into the anthropological overviews, which is usually reserved for a cool detached gaze, as if all these cultural artifacts were not in our being today. “All Art Has Been Contemporary” reads the red neon above the entrance to the Altes Museum, and yet all art can also awaken a sense of presence in a continuum. Like two double-helix decoding tracks, Podinski’s vj cuts intertwined with DJ Shazam’s ethnotronic time-travelling discoveries are an audio-visual experience taking you beyond a “read-only” and “rear-view” perception, to a crossover point where the history comes alive in the present.”
[ Schinkel’s Alte Museum completed in 1828. The neon art by Maurizio Nannucci has been above the entrance since 2005 ]
Four screens will be set up between the pillars of the Altes Museum and we will be interweaving the times and regions and sounds to fill yur head with cultural crystallizations with their glittering multi-faceted secrets. In assembling the archives for the remix, we had to ask ourselves, “Who killed Bambi ?!” Have the days of soft exploration and ethnological treasure collecting been replaced by a globalized hamburger-making catastrophe ?! … the days of understanding the world’s diversity turned to total readjustment programs and indoctrination to the homogenization factory ?!!
AND News on the way:
Yes Men Say No! , 21 peace activists hijacked off the coast of Gaza, Ridley Scott NOT David Lynch will make Monopoly, XLt proposes Yloponom - the rear-screen board game movie, Report Back from Fusion Festival - a Cultural/Community Laboratory on an ex-Soviet bloc airbase.
[ The Spirit of Humanity, aid vessel to Gaza ]
News update > Peace Activists and humanitarian workers still being detained as of Sunday by Israel after attempting to enter Gaza by sea, defying a 2-year blockade. Articles at Common Dreams and interview with Irish peace activist and Nobel laureate, Mairead Corrigan Maguire at Al Jazeera.