FOR A COMPLETE OVERVIEW OF THE PROJECT LIFE ON EARTH, CLICK:
ZUSAMMENFASSUNG LIFE ON EARTH 2009 (PDF - DEUTSCH)
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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 [...]
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Aktuelle Situation:
Macondo/Zinnergasse befindet sich in seiner 50 jährigen Geschichte in einer sehr kritischen Situation. Die Ursachen sind zwei einschneidende Änderungen:
Das Integrationshaus wird im September 2009 geschlossen. Das bedeutet den Wegfall von Deutschkursen, Koordinationsfunktionen, Betreuungsfunktionen, Sicherheit und Stabilitätsfunktionen für ca. 3000 Leute
Die 40 jährige Gartenkultur, die der Boden für ein gutes nachbarschaftliches Verhältnis zwischen den einzelnen [...]
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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 [...]
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(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 [...]
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MONDAY - SATURDAY
THE BUS (only runs monday - saturday, otherwise scroll down to see streetcar directions)
Take U3 to the End Station “Simmering”
Catch the 73A Bus to LANDWEHRSTRASSE (**DO NOT TAKE to “PANTUCEKGASSE”)
(go up a very long escalator - which will be in the middle-ish of the platform. at the top, you will see [...]
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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 [...]
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Macondo - Life on Earth
CABULA6
“LIFE ON EARTH” is the third installment of the Trilogy “ON EARTH” by Performance and Film Company CABULA6 (under the direction of Claudia Heu and Jeremy Xido) - a Trilogy about travel, storytelling and the slippery search for home.
It all began in October 2006 when a night watchman, Ramon Villalobos led [...]
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Macondo - Life on Earth
CABULA6
“Life on Earth” ist der dritte Teil der Trilogie “On Earth” der internationalen Performance- und Film Company CABULA6 unter der Leitung von Claudia Heu und Jeremy Xido über das Reisen, Geschichtenerzählen und der holprigen Suche nach Heimat.
Alles beginnt im Oktober 2006, als der Nachtwächter Ramon Villalobos die Künstlerin Claudia Heu auf [...]
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Here is a link to a PDF file of the original proposal for LIFE ON EARTH.
The project has shifted and become more focussed since we wrote it, but it is perhaps useful to understand a bit of the history and our trajectory.
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