CPH:Dox Border Documents

I need to find some time to write something up about our CPH:DOX Border Documents event (AHRC Beyond Text: Creativity Beyond Borders Network event #3)… It was great fun, though we were decimated by various illnesses (Mette, Frederik, Mary Claire – be well). I have to say first, it was really cold in Copenhagen, and [...]

Workshop for PhDs at QM – 4 Dec 2009

Queen Mary and Goldsmiths PhD Master Class – “Consensus is Oppression: Creating Conflictive Democracy through Global Movement Networks” – Friday, December 4th 2009, 1.30 – 3.30 pm, Room 4.08, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London. – Democratic rhetoric has never been so widespread, yet democracy is in deep crisis. Dominant approaches reliant on representative [...]

Beyond Borders: London and Gothenburg… (to come)

Hi all I mean ‘all’ on the Beyond Text: Creativity Beyond Borders network (plus anyone who wants to chip in): After a very successful meeting in Copenhagen (write ups pending here) we’ve been thinking a little in advance of our next meetings – in London (March 2010) and Gothenburg (June 2010): In each case there will [...]

To Gaza with Love – 6pm Goldsmiths Cinema, Monday 30 Nov 2009

The true story a rag-tag team of international peace activists aboard two fishing boats, who decided to take on the might of the Israeli military and break the siege of Gaza. Refusing to be intimidated, only one thing could stop them; and that was them-selves. Screening, 6pm Goldsmiths Cinema, Monday 30 Nov 2009 Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi2755068441/

WEDNESDAY 2 DECEMBER: AGAINST THE POINTS-BASED VISA SYSTEM IN UNIVERSITIES

Goldsmiths UCU and Goldsmiths Students Union Open Meeting The new ‘points based’ new immigration rules represent a serious threat to campus democracy and freedom of speech. They require non-EU students and staff to have biometric ID cards, involve checks on the financial background of applicants and mean that staff are obliged to report students to [...]

Proposal for presentation in Kolkata – 15 December 2009 at the Cultural Preservation Workshop

Preserves Takes More than Standard Time: Internationalism, Corporate Citizenship, and Security Fear – John Hutnyk I am wondering if preservation-talk is confined to certain areas and domains and should be either expanded or done away with. This is not just a two-part provocation, but in between the calculations of intervention and documentation, can we talk of continuities of action, of [...]

Crash Course in Australian 1970s music

First band I went to see was Skyhooks, though apparently I was taken to Sunbury Festival, but I do not remember (first international act I saw was Deep Purple, followed soon after by the Sweet). Anyway, Australia had some fine live bands allthrough the seventies, and thanks to things like GTK, Meldrum’s Countdown and Rage, [...]

Eleven theses on art and politics, #10 & #11 (not the last)

10. Repetitions as farce from the Brumaire. 20 years ago Rushdie was the part catalyst for an insurgent Muslim political articulation in Britain. Among the reasons why the threat to Rushdie was picked up so prominently – as a case of freedom of expression – was that the demonization of Islam and the Ayatollah greatly [...]

Border Documents – final program, with venues

PROGRAM Monday 9th November 2009 Venue: Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi Kongens Nytorv 1, 1050 København K (The seminar is free) 11.30-12.00 (Room: Den gule resilit) Prof Frederik Tystrup & Prof John Hutnyk:
‘Introduction’ to “Border Documents” 12.00-13.30 (Room: Den gule resilit) Lecture by Mathias Danbolt:
‘Queers Without Borders: Activist Travels in Elliat Graney-Saucke’s Travel Queeries’. Presentation and [...]

uses of trinketization

Various posts from the interwebtoday using the term trinketization (I claim no copyrite): From Maverick Kansas: “So I’m part New Yorker, so what? But that’s not the end of the story, not by a long shot, because it’s a part of my identity that has a lot less purchase now that I am back in [...]