Letter: what is art? what is life on earth?

A REPLY TO A LETTER WE RECEIVED ABOUT THE PROJECT
Dear Dr. R,
Thank you very much for your candid email.  You have addressed important issues and initiated an exciting and important discussion in which we would love to take part.  Namely : what is art? why is what CABULA6 does considered art? what is the relationship [...]

ORF THEMA : “Macondo”

ORF THEMA 22 Juni, 2009

PERFORMANCE : 12, 13 MAI

link to Tanzquartier Wien site

 
LIFE ON EARTH, PART 3
“Crash Course”
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Join us for “Crash Course” the final performance of the trilogy LIFE ON EARTH - a piece about travel, storytelling and the slippery search for home.  Two years ago, Cabula6 drove a busload of people from the Tanzquartier Studios to an unusual place between the airport, freeway [...]

Container Dialogue 2 - images

Read below for Claudia’s Running update about the Container Negotiations…
 

Container Negotiations42 pictures

April 8 : update aus macondo
Posted on April 10th, 2009 by admin 

From: claudia heu
Subject: update aus macondo
Date: April 8, 2009 1:10:40 PM GMT+02:00
hi guys
jeremy und ich haben heute vormittag den garten aufgeräumt, die kinder haben gewüstet und dinge verbrannt
viele möbel sind kaputt.
die couch haben wir jetzt in ramons [...]

“Islets” and Utopia… by Nicolas Bourriaud

Opinion column 22 February 2002.
“Islets” and Utopia… by Nicolas Bourriaud
Rather than speak of ‘intermediary spaces’, I prefer to speak of interstices. Marx gave a particular value to that word, as the assembly of islets of resistance - for example, during the Middle Ages, to the blossoming of capitalism. The interstice, presents the possibility of functioning [...]

From Relational Aesthetics - Nicolas Bourriaud (1998)

 
(To read PDF: From Relational Aesthetics - Nicolas Bourriaud (1998))

 
Relational form

Artistic activity is a game, whose forms, patterns and functions develop and evolve according to periods and social contexts; it is not an immutable essence. It is the critic’s task to study this activity in the present. A certain aspect of the programme of modernity [...]

Container Dialogue

This following conversation took place over Easter Holidays, 2009 
 
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“Life on Earth” in Contemporary Performance Art Context

We’d like to share an article with you by Grant Kester from his book “Conversation Pieces” (http://digitalarts.ucsd.edu/~gkester/Research%20copy/Blackwell.htm), which provides a contextual framework within which Life on Earth fits. The book focuses on art practitioners that who create public works which “challenge the identity and stability of both the artist and the viewer [...]

My Macondo

January 5, 2009
My Macondo
I miss home.
If you were ask me where that was, I couldn’t tell you.
It’s not a place I think I’ve been yet. I used to say it was my grandmother’s couch in new york, but that’s no longer the case. There is a spot inside me that feels like home [...]

Zinnergasse 27, Apartment 32

Zinnergasse 27, Apartment  32 

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This is our home address in Macondo. The official name of the neighborhood is the Kaiserebersdorf Kaserne. Named for when the K and K (Habsburg) monarchy established the area as barracks for the cavalry around 1909. Previously the kings and court and their friends, I suppose, used the wetlands to [...]