tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76712325371175287972024-03-05T04:58:45.221+01:00Fachschaft World Arts and World LiteratureBlog of World Arts and World Literature students at the University of Bern. We offer tips, fun and culture. Join us! fWALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624647025188299565noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671232537117528797.post-21881607347159145842016-05-11T22:37:00.003+02:002016-05-11T22:37:34.561+02:00<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
We made it! Say goodbye to the semester and let us welcome the long-awaited holidays!</div>
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fWALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624647025188299565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671232537117528797.post-51130475315845160882016-03-27T21:36:00.003+02:002016-03-27T21:36:36.605+02:00First Coffee Break<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />fWALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624647025188299565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671232537117528797.post-60727295492218647242016-02-28T23:49:00.001+01:002016-02-29T18:07:03.652+01:00Semester Beginning Apéro and Monthly Coffee BreaksDear all<br />
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We hope that all of you had a good start into the new semester.<br />
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To share, exchange and express your experiences, we would love to have all World Arts and World Literature students at our <u>Semester Beginning Apéro. </u><br />
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<b>When:</b> Wednesday, 2 March 2016<br />
16:00 - 18:30<br />
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<b>Where: </b>Unitobler, Walter Benjamin Kolleg<br />
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To keep in touch with each other, there will also be <u>Coffee Breaks</u> in April and May at the Walter Benjamin Kolleg.<br />
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<b>April Coffee Break</b>: Thursday, 7 April 2016, 14:00 - 16:00<br />
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<b>May Coffee Break</b>: Thursday, 12 May 2016, 14:00 - 16:00<br />
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We are looking forward to meeting new and old faces!<br />
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Questions? Write us an e-mail or contact us on Facebook!fWALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624647025188299565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671232537117528797.post-61260567503918377422016-02-02T20:08:00.000+01:002016-02-02T20:08:26.813+01:00New Fachschaft, New Blog, New SemesterDear all<br />
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To cut a long story short, World Arts and World Literature has a new Fachschaft:<br />
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Aleksandra "Sasha" Logvinova (President)<br />
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Valentina "Vale" Peduzzi (Secretary)<br />
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Ekaterina "Katja" Kurilova-Markarjan (Treasurer)<br />
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Mirdina "Dina" Muchtadi (Social Media)<br />
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We are currently freshening up our blog to keep you updated. So stay tuned!<br />
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If you have something you want us to post on our blog, please feel free to contact us. Inputs are also welcome!<br />
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Your FachschaftfWALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624647025188299565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671232537117528797.post-7277793159938420332014-05-24T18:13:00.001+02:002014-05-24T18:13:07.155+02:00BarbecueHi everbody!<br /><br />The semester is ending and we would like to celebrate that with you!<br />You are all welcome to join us at the barbecue! It will take place next Friday, 30 May, at 6 pm at the Sub House.<br />The grill will be available, please bring your own drinks and things to grill. The Fachschaft organizes the side dishes.<br /><br />See you all there!<br />Your Fachschaft<br />
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<br />fWALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624647025188299565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671232537117528797.post-74260156300630705702014-05-07T16:16:00.001+02:002014-05-07T16:16:16.292+02:00Petition Dr. Wendy ShawDear Students of World Arts and World Literature<br />
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As you may
have heard we started a petition. You can sign it in some of the classes
of this and next week, as well as in the Masterwerkstatt next Tuesday.<br />
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If you want to help us to collect as many signatures as possible, you
could print the petition, let it circulate in the classes you're
attending this semester and start collecting signatures yourself! If you
do so, please bring the signature sheet to the Masterwerkstatt next<span class="text_exposed_show">
Tuesday, scan it and send it to Devon (her email is on the sheet) or
bring it to Delia's office at the Germanistik Institute B323b at the
Muesmatt building (near Unitobler, only Wednesday mornings and
Tuesdays).<br /> Deadline is the 15 May.</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show">If you want to print the petition, please email us, we will send it to you as a pfd.</span><br />
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Thank you!<br />
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Your Fachschaft <br />
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fWALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624647025188299565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671232537117528797.post-26040487907369471572014-04-11T13:59:00.000+02:002014-04-29T16:06:05.148+02:00General AssemblyDear Students of World Arts and World Literature!<br />
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We would like to invite you to our <b>General Assembly on April 28th at 4 p.m.!</b><br />
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It will take place at the <b>SUB Haus</b> in the Unitobler Areal (Lerchenweg 32, 3012 Bern).<br />
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As there are some vacant positions in the executive committee we would be incredibly happy if you were interested in representing the students of our programs and help making their student life a cheerful one :)!<br />
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More information about the Fachschaft and the upcoming General Assembly were sent yesterday by email. If you didn't get this email, please let us know!<br />
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Mark this date, too: On <b>May 30th at 4 p.m.</b> we will do an <b>"end of the semester"-BBQ</b>!<br />
We are looking forward to clink glasses :)<br />
More infromation about that will follow soon.<br />
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Best wishes<br />
Your Fachschaft<br />
Katrin Sperry, Tatiana Sadovskaya, Perla Ciommi, Hannah Rocchi, Maja Taneva<br />
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fwal@sub.unibe.ch<br />
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<br />fWALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624647025188299565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671232537117528797.post-38019327965191962442013-10-24T10:14:00.001+02:002013-10-24T10:14:23.156+02:00New Cultural Reviews!We hope you are all doing well!<br />
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We have some new <b>cultural reviews</b> on our website: Corinna Hirrle, who attended Wendy Shaw's cultural critique course, sent us two blog posts she wrote last semester. Thanks!<br />
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Read Perla's film critique and Hannah's blog post aswell and let us know what you think.<br />
Your critiques and reviews are always very welcome!<br />
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Your FachschaftfWALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624647025188299565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671232537117528797.post-36406562411870357552013-09-23T18:57:00.002+02:002013-09-23T18:57:28.580+02:00Monthly coffee break of World Arts and Literature studentsOur monthly coffee break between classes is starting next week!<br />
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Tuesday, 1st October at 2pm at the SUB-Haus<br />
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We hope to see you there!<br />
Your Fachschaft<br />
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fWALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624647025188299565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671232537117528797.post-37282440752373940492013-08-26T17:13:00.000+02:002013-08-26T17:22:07.092+02:00Can (and should) we preserve performing arts?To collect and preserve are two of our most favorite occupations.
What formerly was crucial in order to survive (next to hunting), today
has become a hobby: collecting stamps, old records or postcards are
some of the more frequent examples.<br />
We are fascinated by old
things as well as by the idea, that we can hold on to someting, even if
we know that everything is fading, especially us humans.<br />
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Collecting and preserving is what made the institution of the
museum necessary. But it was also the reason museum's critics came up
with the term of the mausoleum: a dusty place were inanimated objects of
the past are storaged and on display.<br />
We want to collect everything: visual arts, all kinds of furniture, means of transport, even life!<br />
The
way we display life shows the contradiction of this: natural history
museums are full of immobile dolls, bones and padded dead animals. But
we seem to be fine with it, in fact, it is most normal to us.<br />
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But there are still some things we are just starting to collect and preserve, and that pose a challange:<br />
the performing arts.<br />
Originally, they are more true to life because they base upon the concept of ephemerality.<br />
Perofrmances
and Happenings of the 1960ies wanted to connect art with life and with
the public. They were situational and ephemeral, could never be repeated
the exact same way.<br />
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The museum was criticised and
called a mausoleum because of its lack of life. So that was what they
wanted to change about it. Choreographers are being invited
more and more often to dance and perform in museums nowadays. This may
seem a paradox at first, because we often connect
museums with statues and paintings on the wall. Dance
on the other hand we see as something ephemeral, one course of movement
after the other, always changing. <br />
To display
something ephemeral in a place were otherwise lifeless objects are
exposed nonetheless could be seen as a contradiction. But is it really?<br />
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Boris Charmatz, well known French choreographer, thought that too...at first.<br />
In 2009 he took over the "Centre National Choréographique" in Rennes,
northern France. He wasn't happy with the name of his Centre and chose
to rename it "Musée de la Danse" - Dancing Museum. He restructured it as
well: It shouldn't be just a place of production and residence but also
an experimental place of thinking and "pushing further the borders of
this phenomenon called dance".<br />
Then, in the following years, the dead objects and the mausoleum
began to interst him more and more, something you can also see if you
look at his exhibition: For "brouillon" (2010) he confronted his dancers
with works of art he brought into the museum. Later he even chose the
traditional format of the monographic exhibition: First he invited
famous choreographer Jérôme Bel (2011), followed by Xavier Le Roy (2012)
whose "Rétrospective" may be the first retrospective of a dancer in a museum.<br />
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You can display dance and performance also with its documenting material. Historic dance
exhibitions work this way: "Move: Choreographing you" (2010 in London)
and "Danser sa vie" (2011 in Paris) were two recent examples of this
kind of exhibition. Both showed the relationship between dance and art
in the last century, and to do that videos, texts, photographies, and
other documenting material, were used.<br />
My guess is that dance exhibition will increase rapidly
in the future. One of the reasons is that the museum isn't just an
archival storage anymore, but opened it self up to the performing arts a few
decades ago. If the museum wants to stay up-to-date it has to experiment
and invite artists from other lines into its spaces. <br />
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But can and should we preserve performing arts, as we do with all other arts
displayed in museums?<br />
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Fact is: Videos and photographies as well as descriptions and other relicts of
performances are often equally important and well known as the
performance itself. To name just two examples:<br />
The black and white photography of Carolee Schneemann's piece "Interior
Scroll" (1975) has found its way into many art history books, as well as
VALIE EXPORT's pictures from the "Tapp- und Tastkino" (around 1970).<br />
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Can performing arts be preserved in
their original way? <br />
Is it enough to preserve them with documents like flyers, descriptions and photographies?<br />
Or is the reenactment the more authentic way to preserve them?<br />
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Yes, says Marina Abramovic, often referred to as "mother (or grandmother) of performance".<br />
She lately founded her own institute, which dedicates
itself to preserving "her legacy and will serve as her homage to
time-based and immaterial art".<br />
She not only tries to safe (a verb she uses often in this
context) her performances by documenting them with video, photography
and descriptions, but she also teaches people how to re-perform them. <br />
Abramovic explains that she is afraid that people are going to forget
about performances if they aren't put on record in one way or another.<br />
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I
don't doupt that this is one of the main reasons she is doing it, but
my guess is that it is also about the fame: to have something material
you can preserve and storage not only means that it can be secured for
the future but also that it can be canonised.<br />
But what does it mean, if a performance can be repeated again and again, in other contexts and from other performers? <br />
Is seeing Abramovic and her former boyfriend Ulay (with whom she had a
troubled relationship) in one of their performances the same thing, as
seeing it performed by two students of Ambramovic, many years later?<br />
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It is clearly a current topic that requires discussions, because not everyone agrees about it.<br />
Like
former dancer and Turner prize nominee Tino Sehgal: he mocks this
conservation delusion by leaving documentation out completely. For his
exhibitions neither
taking videos and photographies is allowed nor catalogues are being
published. And by doing so he broaches the issue of preserving
performing art just the same!<br />
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Charmatz' "Musée de la Danse": <a href="http://www.museedeladanse.org/">http://www.museedeladanse.org/</a><br />
Abramovic's Institute: <a href="http://www.marinaabramovicinstitute.org/">http://www.marinaabramovicinstitute.org/</a><br />
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by Hannah Rocchi<br />
Blog: <a href="http://hannah-rocchi.blogspot.ch/">http://hannah-rocchi.blogspot.ch/ </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671232537117528797.post-53834800706186161392013-08-26T17:07:00.000+02:002013-08-26T17:24:47.194+02:00A photograph's truthMovement is the most natural thing: Every living creature moves
constantly and stops doing that only after its death. We notice each
other by motion, like gestures or facial expressions, and we aren't used
to see someone immobile.<br />
Because of that a photograph should be something unnatural, even unrealistic. <br />
Nevertheless,
the contrary became accepted. With cameras and their popularity we got
more and more used to fixed moments. In fact, today the real is
presented by fixity.<br />
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In
his book "Camera Lucida" (1980) Roland Barthes tells an anecodote: He
once recived a picture with himself in it, but he couldn't remember it
being taken. But since he was in the picture, it must have been true. In
the same paragraph he says: "The photograph's essence is to ratify what
it represents." Everything we see on the photograph must have happened
sometime and therefore must be true.<br />
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Is that so? Does a photograph always depict (what once was) reality? Can we really trust photography?<br />
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The
history of photomontage goes a long way back and has become a common
practice. Hannah Höch, some of the Surrealists and many more
experimented with it, but one could tell that these pictures had been
manipulated. But also back then there were some examples that could fool
even our trained Photoshop-eye. Joseph Stalin made use of photo
retouching for propaganda purposes: Several people "vanished" from
important pictures, like the famous commissar who was removed from an
official press photo, after he was executed.<br />
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In the
early 1980ies a "National Geographic" cover triggerd a debate by putting
two of the Egyptian pyramids closer together, so they would fit on a
vertical cover. The technology of
photomontage and photo manipulation had become so elaborated that no one
could tell the difference anymore.<br />
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Naturally, the following question came up: Should it be used by news magazines
and photojournalists?<br />
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Fact is: Today there are very few pictures in magazines which aren't, in a way or another, retouched, cut or enhanced.<br />
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But this isn't a secret!<br />
We
are used to it because it has become the most natural
thing. We know that the wrinkles, spots and pores of the models in the
fashion magazines were removed digitally, as well as we know that a
picture in the news may has been brighten up a little bit, for example
because of poor light conditions on the day it was taken.<br />
We even
know how to do it ourselves! We do it with the profile pictures on
facebook (red eyes and a double chin can be removed in no time), with
our holiday pictures (because the sunset didn't look as great as in real
life), as well as with everyday subjects: with programs like Instagram
or Photoshop evey picture will turn out just great! That it has become
normal also shows the term "photoshopping", which found its way into our
dictionarys.<br />
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So we actually know, that we can't trust pictures and that they don't tell the whole truth!<br />
Take
the court, for example: in several cases photographs can't be used as
evidence, because there is a chance that they could have been
manipulated.<br />
Photos can't be authentic. Think about it: Every
detail of a picture is chosen by its photographer, and therefore is his
own particular view. And like mentioned in the beginning: to freeze a
moment in time isn't realistic either.<br />
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But if we know better, then why are there still debates like the one about the latest World Press Photo winner Paul Hansen?<br />
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His
picture of a funeral procession of two Palestinian boys, killed during
an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, captures feelings like anger, grief,
despair and doesn't leave anyone cold. Everything matches: the narrow
street, the emotional men, the reflected light on their faces. But is
this photograph realistic? How much was it "photoshopped" afterwards and
where is the limit for photojournalism?<br />
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In a report of
"Kulturplatz" two people were interviewed: Reto Camenisch, photographer
and chief of the photography department at the school for journalism
MAZ, and Jann Jenatsch, CEO of Keystone, Switzerland's largest stock
photography agency.<br />
Camenish asks: "What is the picture about? Is
it about grief or about political agitation?" He thinks that it isn't
right for "this kind of photography" (i.e. photojournalism) to go this
far with post-editing. The colors of the faces have been worked on, as
has the light situation.<br />
Jenatsch doesn't agree with him. He says
that he can't say for sure, if the light is that artificial. "We can't
see if there is or isn't a reflection of that wall next to the group",
he argues. He thinks the picture is "acceptable". Besides: "Today
eveyone works with Photoshop or similar programs. It's about underlining
the essence of the picture without changing its content." But there are
some rules: "The photographer mustn't change the pixels, everything
else is more or less allowed." That means: no photomontage and no
"vanishing" or cancelling objects out. </div>
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There
are many articles about this in the internet at the moment, but this
debate about how much post-production is justifiable doesn't interest me
that much. But it brought up some other questions: Why did this debate
emerge? Why does the public think that this winning photograph is
misleading? After all, a big jury of professionals picked out this
photo, surely knowing what has been done in post-production! </div>
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I
find it more interesting, that the public still seems to feel fooled or
tricked by photos like this one. Even if we know and we see that many
of the submitted photos clearly have been modified in some way and we
are surrounded by such images all day long, this one seems to be to
much.<br />
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Is there a debate because of the award?<br />
Are we irritated because a photographer won with this photoshopped picture?<br />
If
you look at other contestant photos, war scenes, devastation and
suffering are some of the more common topics. If you compare the
pictures from the last 3 years to the pictures that won a dacade ago,
you notice that there has been a clear move away from realism towards
what some have called "illustration-like" styles. What does that
say about us? We are so used to these perfect looking pictures in the
magazines, in the internet and even on our cell phones, that also photojournalism had to follow up.<br />
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Is it because of the topic?<br />
Do we accept Photoshop in fashion magazines but want documenting photographs on
events like this one in Gaza to be left as untouched as possible?<br />
Fact still is: the airstrike happened, the boys got killed and were taken <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">to the mosque for the funeral </span>by this group of men. The event took place, as Barthes said - no matter if the light was't exactly as depicted in the photo.<br />
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Or is it because it shows us dead children?<br />
Is
this picture of the greatest fear we all share too much? Not so long
ago, it was common that many children didn't survive their childhood.
Photographing (or painting) them on their deathbed was also current. But
fortunately, childhood mortality has been successfully decreased in the
past decades. As a result, we aren't used to that anymore, as we aren't
used to see dead children.<br />
In this photograph we have to add to
the dead children the fact that they were killed during an attack: It
reminds us that young innocent kids, their whole life ahead of them, are
dying every day. And we, the observers, aren't able to change this
unjust situation.</div>
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World Press Photo: <a href="http://www.worldpressphoto.org/awards/2013/spot-news/paul-hansen">http://www.worldpressphoto.org/awards/2013/spot-news/paul-hansen</a><br />
Kulturplatz report: <a href="http://www.srf.ch/player/tv/kulturplatz/video/praemiertes-world-press-photo-unter-verdacht?id=e97375a1-897f-4b77-a103-9dfab5802e89">http://www.srf.ch/player/tv/kulturplatz/video/praemiertes-world-press-photo-unter-verdacht?id=e97375a1-897f-4b77-a103-9dfab5802e89</a><br />
Article about "'Fake' World Press Photo": <a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/16/photo-faking-controversy">http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/16/photo-faking-controversy</a><br />
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by Hannah Rocchi<br />
Blog: <a href="http://hannah-rocchi.blogspot.ch/">http://hannah-rocchi.blogspot.ch/ </a></div>
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<br />fWALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624647025188299565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671232537117528797.post-48064653744226885882013-03-21T22:23:00.002+01:002013-03-21T22:55:30.931+01:00Wenn RaBe die rosarote Brille aufsetzt - Ein theatrales RadioballettSaturday 23 March 2-4 pm there is a special happening in the city of Bern. <br />
It's an hybrid performance between theatre, radio and city guide. It's a walk trough utopia and reality to break down prejudices.<br />
I hope to see you there!<b> </b>(Perla)<b> </b><b><br /></b><br />
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<b>"Wenn RaBe die rosarote Brille aufsetzt - Ein theatrales Radioballett"</b></h3>
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<a name='more'></a>Gut möglich, dass in Bern noch nie eine vergleichbare Veranstaltung stattgefunden hat! Unser Radio-Parcours, der am <b>SA 23. März von 14-16h und am MI 27. März von 18-20h</b> stattfindet, ist nämlich dreifach spannend: Als Radiosendung, als Stadtführung und als Radioballett.<br />
Begleitet von Anweisungen, die live auf Radio RaBe 95,6MHz zu hören sind, machen sich die Teilnehmenden des Radio-Parcours auf den Weg durch die Berner Innenstadt. Dabei werden sie in eine Welt zwischen Realität und Utopie entführt, in der altbekannte Orte in neue Geschichten gekleidet werden. So wird die Rathausgasse zu einem grossen Spielfeld, der Chindlifrässerbrunnen zur Drehscheibe oder die Reitschule zu einem Tempel. Zu hören ist Musik von Port Roh oder Müslüm, Wortakrobatik von zwei Salzburger Stier-Preisträgern: dem Geschichtenerzähler Ferruccio Cainero und Slampoet Gabriel Vetter, sowie hörspielartige Beiträge der RaBe-SendungsmacherInnen mit unterschiedlichen antirassistischen Inhalten.<br />
Die Anleitungen sind hörspielartig aufgebaut – die zuhause gebliebenen können die Reise also imaginär unternehmen. Es lohnt sich aber das Geschehen vor Ort zu begleiten – an verschiedenen Posten gibt es nämlich schauspielerische Einlagen. Des Weiteren können die Teilnehmenden des Spaziergangs auch selber aktiv werden: In Radioballett-Einschüben entstehen kleine, an Flashmobs erinnernde Aktionen, die wiederum von den nichtsahnenden Passanten als Irritationen wahrgenommen werden.<br />
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Was? <b>"Wenn RaBe die rosarote Brille aufsetzt - Ein theatrales Radioballett"<br />
</b>Wann?<b> 2x: SA 23. März 14-16h und MI 27. März 18-20h. <br />
</b>Wo? <b>Treffpunkt: Bundesplatz! Oder zuhause Live auf RaBe 95,6MHz <br />
</b>Wer?<b> Für jede Altersstufe geeignet <br />
</b>Mitbringen? <b>Portables UKW-Radio oder UKW-radiotaugliches Handy und Kopfhörer<span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b>(Falls nicht vorhanden, werdet ihr vor Ort damit eingedeckt)<b><b><b><b><b><br />
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fWALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624647025188299565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671232537117528797.post-43451388135322076612013-03-06T13:18:00.001+01:002013-03-06T13:19:29.311+01:00STUDENTS INFOTAG<div dir="ltr">
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<span style="font-size: small;">Master Infotag for "World Literature" and "World Arts" <br />14th of March (Thursday) - 10 am to 11.30 am - room F 014 at Unitobler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"It is open to prospective and current students of World Literature and World Arts alike. <br />The aim is to get together and meet your study counsellors, student representatives and collegues to talk about the study program, the questions, the doubts, the suggestions etc.</span><span style="font-size: small;">"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The student<span style="font-size: small;"> advisers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> of World Literature</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span>Viola Marchi and of World Arts Sarah Ross will be there.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">We of</span><span style="font-size: small;"> the Student <span style="font-size: small;">committee</span> too. <br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Happy to see you there<span style="font-size: small;">!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">P </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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fWALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624647025188299565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671232537117528797.post-37187510657815013562013-03-05T18:11:00.002+01:002013-03-06T13:20:02.247+01:00Call for paper: "Art Without Borders"Dear all,<br />
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Some of us from World Arts and IASH are conducting a conference titled "Art without Borders" in the<br />
first week of June 2013. On behalf of the committee, I would like to invite you to submit an abstract for the conference. Please find the call for paper at the end of this post. Please go through it for details and feel free to contact us for any clarifications.<br />
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Best Regards,<br />
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<a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/62803024/CfP_ArtsWithoutBorders.pdf" target="_blank">Call for papers: Arts Without Borders</a> <br />
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fWALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624647025188299565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671232537117528797.post-48452997659323436022012-11-29T12:17:00.005+01:002012-11-29T12:20:12.825+01:00Fachschaft Party<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dear all,<br />
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We invite you with great
pleasure to the party organised by the FWAL on December 7 from 19:00<br />
in the SUB house. We would arrange
for some music and if somebody wishes to bring along their own music,
you are most welcome to do so.<br />
See you all there!<br />
<br />fWALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624647025188299565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671232537117528797.post-26750127956397217582012-09-18T17:39:00.002+02:002012-09-18T18:22:51.268+02:00Viaggio a ThorbergCritica del Film documentario / esposizione "Thorberg"<br />
<a name='more'></a><br />Genere: Documentario / Esposizione, Svizzera 2012<br />
Regia: Dieter Fahrer, Autori: Dieter Fahrer e Marcel Wyss<br />
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Oggi ho visitato Thorberg. Ho visto uomini di tutti i colori rinchiusi dentro delle gabbie. Lì non mancano di niente: cibo, acqua, sport, passatempi. Tutto ciò che è necessario ad un uomo per sopravvivere gli viene offerto. Ciò che è necessario ad un uomo per vivere invece gli viene tolto: familia, capacità di azione e di movimento, in altre parole libertà. <br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sono degli uomini cattivi, quelli che ho visto oggi al cinema, parlano male delle donne, hanno degli scatti d'ira e peccano di accidia. Allora forse è giusto che stiano rinchiusi, lontano da me. Soltanto che non sono davvero lontani... Io li ho visti su uno schermo, ma loro sono di carne e ossa, e anche se rinchiusi, vivono a pochi chilometri da me. Tra qualche anno usciranno e io li incontrerò per strada. Come li guarderò? Chi saranno diventati nel frattempo?</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Il documentario di Dieter Fahrer ci porta in una realtà parallela normalmente impenetrabile. Non ritrae i personaggi come delle vittime ma arriva egualmente a mostrarci la prigione nella sua assurdità. La detenzione provoca dolore, follia, delirio. I "criminali" sono lasciati a se stessi e possono misurare l'ampiezza del loro misfatto solo sulla loro coscienza, che con il tempo si affievolisce. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Il film è un bel punto di partenza per una riflessione sul sistema penitenziario. Non è un film difficile e non sconvolge lo spettatore. E un film tutto sommato piacevole, ma irritante, come una visita allo zoo. Si assiste allo spettacolo della crudeltà umana contro la crudeltà umana e ci si chiede: è davvero necessario tutto ciò? Il film in ogni caso lo è: la prigione esiste e ignorarla è solo un modo per peggiorarla.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Inoltre l'insieme del progetto di Fahrer e Wyss va al di là del film. Contemporaneamente è infatti in corso un esposizione al museo della comunicazione, a Berna. Qui in sei celle di 8.5 metri quadri, in cui l'unico punto di fuga è un televisore, scopriamo le storie (a volte agghiaccianti) di 18 prigionieri. Dopo una visita all'esposizione ci si ritrova talmente vicini alle persone rinchiuse e ai loro crimini che l'effetto è davvero claustrofobico e malsano. Rompendo il tabù che la società ci impone nei confronti del "male", dove l'orrore è proiettato su alcuni agenti "mostrificati" dai media, questo progetto ci confronta con le persone che l'hanno vissuto sulla propria pelle. L'orrore per i criminali diventa allora l'orrore per l'atto commesso e, infine, si capisce come ogni essere umano possa, in determinate condizioni, commettere un omicidio (azione che tra l'altro in circostanze militari è considerato "giusto"). Alla fine ci si domanda se è possibile un'alternativa all'illusoria esclusione attuata oggi con le prigioni e se questo progetto sarà davvero capace di sollevare un dibattito o resterà una bella visita a Thorberg.</span><br />
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Perla Ciommi <br />
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mehr Info: www.thorberg.chfWALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624647025188299565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671232537117528797.post-63184511237202134602012-09-05T14:19:00.001+02:002012-09-18T18:11:43.317+02:00Info DayWe invite all WAL students to an "Information Day of the students association"<br />
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Old students meet new students to transfer studies and off-studies knowledges. <br />
We meet Friday 28.09 at 12:00 at the "Haupgebaede" at Hochschulstr. 4. <br />
In front of the big Door at the side of "Grosse Schanze" <br />
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The autumn 2012 semester<i></i> is about to begin.. <span class="st"><span class="f"> </span>very best wishes<i></i> to all of you.</span><br />
<span class="st">See you soon on this site with our tips to survive and to have fun at the university!!!</span>fWALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09624647025188299565noreply@blogger.com0