Luftraum [Christof Kurzmann]

Friday, June 2 20:30 - 21:00
when the iraq war started i made a composition called "the air between". a work about powerlessness. now, quite some time later, and with the images of the war distributed by cnn, bbc, ... i examine what's left of the emotions. how do i/we remember?


Life Support [Carl Michael von Hausswolff + Thomas Nordanstad]

Friday, June 2 20:00 - 20:25


Denkfabrik/Think Tank [Dan Perjovschi]

Friday, June 2 18:00 - 18:05
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Relatively Calm [Mansur Jacoubi]

Saturday, June 3 16:30 - 16:55
"Instead of calming the situation, the army shot at people for no reason... We are trying to calm the situation on both sides and I believe that we have almost succeeded. But the protesters are extremely angry. Some of their friends are dead and they are furious."
- Member of the Lebanese Parliament explaining the situation after the shooting of protesters in May 2004


Manhood [Willem de Rooij]

Saturday, June 3 14:30 - 15:00
"Representing manhood in the American war against terror: Pat Tillman and Scott Helvenston": Both Tillman and Helvenston played out traditional masculine roles in American public life before enlisting for combat in Afghanistan and Iraq. The events that followed would colour the personas they had constructed earlier.


Kriegsmaschine / War Machine [Nicolas Siepen]

Friday, June 2 19:30 - 20:00
A montage of two kinds of montage, two types of assembling images
about, in between, beyond, as a war machine within the images
themselves. A fine line between love and hate: 1. Jean Genets »Un chant
d’amour« (A love Song) – how to make love through a wall and que(e)r it
(smoke). 2. The Godard/Gorin/Mieville machine »Ici et Ailleure« (Here
and Elsewhere) – how to use a two-image-assembly to ruin the war
montage itself - are we not mature to read an Image yet? (Fascism)


Arms Race, Architectural [Ines Weizman]

Friday, June 2 16:30 - 16:55
An architectural arms race is a competition between two or more countries for supremacy through the means of architecture and urbanism. Each party competes to produce architectural imagery or concrete built form to achieve a relative gain over the other. Such gain could be accounted for either symbolically, or physically interfering with urban practices in the country of the opponent.


Exergue [Irit Rogoff]

Friday, June 2 16:00 - 16:15


Rog - Smo zacasni / We are temporary

Saturday 25th of March 2006 marked the start of the initiative to open the abandoned bicycle factory Rog for temporary use, with the intent to carry out non-profit, non-established activities on its premises. It is not a classic occupation of space, but a temporary alteration of its purposes. The 7000 square meter large factory - owned by the City of Ljubljana (MOL) - has already been left to decay for 15 years.


Shigeru Ban Talks in Stockholm

"Even in disaster areas, I want to create beautiful buildings,this is what it means to build a monument for common people"
Shigeru Ban gives in this talk at the Museum of Architecture in Stockholm an overview of his practice and his interest in specific materials and extraordinary conditions for architectural creation.
Shigeru Ban is one of the central characters in architecture today due is specific relation to material and innovative approach to residential areas and humanitarian projects.


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