Talk in Cairo!!
“Welcome to the Perpetual Revolution” Representation and Closure in Post-Ideological Revolutions
Narrating the Arab Spring Conference
Cairo University – Department of English, Faculty of Arts
Monday 20th February / 12:00 – 1:30 PM Parallel Sessions
Session # 4, Room: 13
I will be showing my video “Je ne rentrerai pas” as part of a collaborative performance at Chewing the Scenery, September 10, 2011 · from 16:00,
Venice Biennial, Teatro Fondamenta Nuove – Cannaregio 5013, Venezia
http://www.chewingthescenery.net/ Come if you are around!
From August 10th to October 8th I will be taking part in the Homebase Build Residency Programme in Pankow, Berlin. Come and visit if you are in the vicinity!
Just got back from the Banff Centre in Canada, where I took part in the residency “La Commune. Die Bühne. The Asylum” with Althea Thauberger and had a wonderful and very productive time completing a couple of new projects. More on those coming very soon.
My friend, journalist Unn Gustafsson, was kind enough to conduct an interview with me a little while ago which has now been published. You can read it here:
http://balticworlds.com/elske-rosenfeld-on-politics-and-longing/
HABEN UND BRAUCHEN – DER OFFENE BRIEF/
TO HAVE AND TO NEED – THE OPEN LETTER
Online-Petition in Reaktion auf die geplante „Leistungsschau junger Kunst aus Berlin“
Online petition in response to the planned “Achievement Show of Young Berlin Art”
228 Berliner Künstler und Künstlerinnen sowie Akteure und Akteurinnen auf dem Feld der Berliner Kunst haben im Januar einen offenen Brief an den Kultursenator und Regierenden Bürgermeister Klaus Wowereit (SPD) unterzeichnet. Die Petition bezieht Stellung zu Wowereits Plänen für die „Leistungsschau junger Kunst aus Berlin“ im Sommer und zur Kulturpolitik im Bereich bildende Kunst.
228 artists and cultural producers from Berlin signed an open letter to Berlin’s Mayor Klaus Wowereit in response to his plans for an “Achievement Show of Young Berlin Art” which it takes as a basis for addressing some of the pertinent problems with the cultural politics of Berlin in more general terms.
Die Petition lesen und unterzeichnen kann man hier/ Read and sign the petition here:
http://www.bbk-berlin.de/con/bbk/front_content.php?idart=826
I recently started my PhD in Practice at the Vienna Art Academy. I will be there for four years conducting the long-term artist research project “Talking about an Oblique Lenin. An Artistic Investigation into the Experience of Historical Critical or Dissident Practices within the Socialisms of Eastern Europe”
Seit Oktober 2010 bin in Teilnehmerin des PhD-in-Practice-Programms an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Wien. Ich werde in diesem Rahmen das vierjährige künstlerische Forschungsprojekt “Wie über einen schiefen Lenin sprechen? Künstlerisch-theoretisches Dissertationsvorhaben zur Erfahrung historischer, kritischer Praktiken innerhalb der Staatsozialismen Osteuropas als Raum der Bestreitung” durchführen.
Mehr unter/ Read more at
I am currently showing my installation Our Brief Autumn of Utopia at „Vectors of the Possible“ at BAK, Utrecht, which opened last week. The installation consists of the video/sound piece May I Interrupt (2009), which some of you may have seen last year, and a new video and collection of materials, Reading the Constitution.
Drop by if you happen to be in the vicinity.
Vectors of the Possible
Opening 11.09.2010
Curated by Simon Sheikh
Der Sommer ist vorbei und damit auch das Projekt Wachturm/ Gespenster: Über die (Un-)möglichkeit 89 zu fassen zu kriegen und die Veranstaltungreihe Bleibe im Lande und wehre die täglich: 89 als politische Ressource. Vielen herzlichen Dank an alle TeilnehmerInnen, BesucherInnen und vor allem an die Projektpartner, das Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte, Berlin, und Flutgraben e.V.