Buchpräsentation Wort im Bild – 100 ausgezeichnete Fotografien
am 15. Juni 2022 um 19.30 im Robert Musil Museum und Robert Musil Institut in Klagenfurt präsentiert
– während der Tage der deutschsprachigen Literatur im Garten des ORF
– im Lendhafen
– der BV Galerie
– im Jugendstiltheater Klagenfurt
– an der Außenwand des Künstlerhauses Klagenfurt, im Cafè Kamot sowie der Kornstube
…how Shahzia Sikander remade the art of miniature painting:
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In 2019, two Persian paintings sold in a private-auction house, in London, for roughly eight hundred thousand pounds each. The paintings were illuminated manuscripts, or “miniature” paintings, and they belonged to the same book: a fifteenth-century edition of the Nahj al-Faradis, which narrates Muhammad’s journey through the layers of heaven and hell. The original book, once an artistic masterpiece, had been ripped apart, reduced to sixty lavish images. Bound, the manuscript was likely worth a few million pounds; dismembered, its contents have sold for more than fifty million.
The dismembering of manuscripts is part of a larger story, a tale of extractive patronage and the passage of empires. The term “miniature” is a colonial creation, a catchall category for a diverse array of figurative paintings that emerged in modern-day Iran, Turkey, and Central and South Asia.
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collection C.O. – june 27th
bookshelf for client – june 20th
war|rape – first elements layout and framing; 48x68cm – june 18th
collection P.R.M. – june 17th
june 15th
more …
may 9th: War by another name – Joshua Craze and Wolf Böwig in The Baffler
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Sanctions are not a gentler alternative to conflict
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With the end of the Bretton Woods system in 1971, the dollar became the world’s reserve currency, used for the vast majority of international trade, and sanctions in turn became an instrument of first resort for the propagation of American power. For a disobedient country, exclusion from the international financial system meant economic death, and the corpses piled up. The Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites, as well as Vietnam and China, were all severely affected by sanctions during the Cold War.
The morgue grew even more crowded after 1989, which inaugurated what experts call “the sanctions decade,” in which a newly toothless UNSC signed off on America’s pursuit of “rogue nations.” Iraq was an early victim. UNSC Resolution 661, passed in August 1990, shortly after Iraq invaded Kuwait, banned all UN member states from trading with Saddam Hussein’s regime, with some exceptions for medicine and food. The move was intended to force him to withdraw from Kuwait, but that required an American-led invasion. Yet sanctions remained in place for another thirteen years, backed by an ever-changing set of justifications.
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The Baffler
3QuarksDaily
poster for Lost Panorama; Dhaka|Berlin – may 31st
may 30th
collection P.S. – may 28th
may 27th
may 26th
back|front „in the making“ – may 23rd
more …
for Felix – april 28th
2003|2021 – april 27th
april 24th
april 18th
for Leah – april 12th
april 10th
april 6th
shelf in the making – april 5th
SIGNUM MORTIS: Krieg in Europa – april 3rd
To the Ashes
We’re heading into the night. We’re shadows of ash
on transparent stallions.
The piebalds won’t budge.
They just wail and burn.
Whip the horses and see the scars,
scoop water from an empty pail.
Behind us, nothing but loss.
Sail off, but where to? – nothing around but soot
Our dead are everywhere –
in the trees, blossoms and fetes.
That same ash in their mouths
won’t let them wake from death.
The light floods in, but wait; it’s hard
when night falls from your eyes.
When coals in place of hearts
die out and quickly turn to dust.
march 30th
march 27th
Sri Lankas Tier- und Pflanzenwelt ist äußerst vielfältig und von exotischer Üppigkeit. Im bergigen, zentralgelegenen Ritigala Strict Nature Reserve dominiert Regenwald mit dichtem Unterwuchs und uralten, knorrigen Baumriesen
march 22nd
march 21st
march 19th
Wo an der Nordsee Land und Meer aufeinandertreffen, entstand eine Landschaft von besonderer Eigenart und Schönheit. Wenn wie hier bei der Halbinsel Eiderstadt in Schleswig-Holstein noch das Lichtspiel des Sonnenuntergangs hinzukommt, ist das Naturwunder perfekt – march 18th
march 17th
more …
upcoming: SIGNUM MORTIS – St.Thomas Gemeinde
final layout
third layout
second layout
…aus dem Leningrader Hungertagebuch der elfjährigen Tatjana Sawitschewa – es lautet in voller Länge:
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Schenja starb am 28. Dezember um 12.00 vormittags 1941
Großmutter starb am 25. Januar, 3 Uhr nachmittags 1942
Ljoka starb am 17. März um 5 Uhr vormittags 1942
Onkel Wasja starb am 13. April um 2 Uhr nach Mitternacht 1942
Onkel Ljoscha am 10. Mai um 4 Uhr nachmittags 1942
Mutter am 13. Mai um 7.30 vormittags 1942
Die Sawitschews sind tot.
Alle sind tot.
Nur Tanja ist übrig
„
Tatjana Sawitschewa starb 1944
first layout
–
2nd-24th april
„
In battle, life would not say goodbye to us.
…
So what shall we do with the not dead and all of his kind?
“
Simon Armitage
St.Thomas Gemeinde
Wallensteinstraße 32/34
30459 Hannover
MaidanDonezk14
Maidan14
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Call for a demonstration in support of Ukraine’s independence
and sovereignty
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Dear Ladies and Gentleman,
the Central Association of Ukrainians in Germany (ZVDU) and Kyiv Dialogue invite you to join the European Day of Solidarity with Ukraine in Berlin. In many capitals and cities of Europe will be held rallies on the global campaign STAND WITH UKRAINE. The international literature festival berlin joins this campaign. Together we call on all interested parties to hold a demonstration in support of Ukraine’s independence and sovereignty. We demand the immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukrainian borders and an end to the threats against Ukraine!
February 19th at 3 pm | Pariser Platz; Berlin
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Happy are those who died without ever having had to ask themselves: „If they tear out my fingernails, will I talk?“. But even happier are others, barely out of their childhood, who have not had to ask themselves that other question: „If my friends, fellow soldiers, and leaders tear out an enemy’s fingernails in my presence, what will I do?“
Jean Paul Sartre
Maidan14|22
Donezk14|15
Charkiw15
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image and diary © Wolf Böwig
