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Bidoun issue 10, TECHNOLOGY,
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The spring issue of Bidoun takes on technology in its myriad forms. In these pages, Anand Balakrishnan ponders the relevance of the 1965 sci-fi epic novel Dune given our current historical juncture, Binyavanga Wainana takes on technology as grand gesture in Africa, Eric Fassin deconstructs the Dutch government’s peculiar equation of sexual freedom and democracy, and Marwa Elshakry traces the rather cultish origins of the Suez Canal—in 19th century France, no less. Also, Hassan Khan and Haytham El-Wardany revisit a science show on Egyptian National Television in the 1970s; hosted by an enigmatically zany host named Dr Mustafa Mahmoud, the program magically reconciled the worlds of faith and science—for everyone from spellbound schoolchildren to housewives and stoners.

In the architecture section, Neyran Turan maps the North Sea as a bold new (liquid) territory.

In the film section, Tirdad Zolghadr lends a Gombrichian reading to the new James Bond, wondering if it is in fact a break from the blockbuster leitmotif. And Bruce Hainley looks at the body as technology in the popular high school American drama Friday Night Lights.

In the music section, Sukhdev Sandhu writes about musician Sushil K Dade, better known as Future Pilot AKA—and en route steps through the genre-mashing stylistic frottage that is the Scottish music scene. Michael C Vazquez explores the perils of the decidedly un-politically correct in the works of Seattle-based music label Sublime Frequencies.

And we have our usual installments of exhibition reviews and previews, columns devoted to artist profiles, works in progress, museums, curatorial issues, and arts infrastructure. Here, Elizabeth Rubin accompanies artist Jill Magid as she penetrates various closed systems through her practice, Magali Arriola takes on Los Angeles-based artist Yoshua Okon’s elaborate staged life performances, curator Mirjam Shatanawi looks at the fate of ethnographic museums in Europe, and Sean Dockray recuperates the very lost history of Kingdom of the Dolls—a museum once built of miniature models in the California desert.

In our exhibition reviews section: Claire Fontaine/Sensorium/Wael Shawky/Amir Fallah and Ala Ebtekar/The Exotic Journey Ends/Melik Ohanian/Akram Zaatari/The Maghreb Connection/Camp Campaign/Nazgol Ansarinia/Rokni Haerizadeh. Book reviews: Reading ‘Legitimation Crisis’ in Tehran (by Danny Postel) and Chicago (by Alaa Al Aswani).

Plus, cooking by Shirin Aliabadi and Farhad Moshiri.

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PROGRAM

Mladen Bizumic
How If – A Translation in III Acts

29 March – 28 April 2007
Finissage April 27, 19.00

PROGRAM
initiative for art + architectural collaborations
Invalidenstrasse 115, D-10115 Berlin
t: +49 (0)30 39509318
http://www.programonline.de

in collaboration with Künstlerhaus Bethanien

PROGRAM – initiative for art + architectural collaborations presents ACT III of the exhibition How If – A Translation in III Acts by New Zealand artist Mladen Bizumic. Bizumic’s first solo exhibition in Germany is structured as a ‘spatial opera’ in which he explores the facets of contemporary geopolitics in relation to representations of architecture. In each of the piece’s three acts, we find the contribution of other artists, musicians, theorists and in one instance, his mother. Act III is presented at PROGRAM, while ACT I&II form the installation at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (open 29.03–15.04 / visit http://www.bethanien.de for more details).

Bizumic’s work is often based on the architecture, urban context and history of the space in which he is living. How If - A Translation in III Acts activates Berlin, his current abode, as the urban fabric comprising the space between Künstlerhaus Bethanien and PROGRAM.

ACT III (at PROGRAM)
Since 2004 Bizumic has been working on a multi-channel video project called event.horizon.black.hole. An angled wall in the gallery acts as a screen for a pair of mirrored video projections. A video of the crumbling architecture of the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris is projected back-to-back with images of an avalanche on Mt. Cook, itself a UNESCO world heritage site in New Zealand. Mirrored along the bend in the wall, each pair of projections resembles an enormous, constantly morphing Rorschach blot. On this occasion, a multi-channel soundtrack has been added, bringing together ambient sounds taken from the Berlin Museum Island (also a world heritage site), with the flapping noises of flags outside the UN Headquarters in New York. The projections dematerialize the wall while the soundtrack organizes notions of nationality, geography, and the concept of a world heritage.

ACT I (at Künstlerhaus Bethanien)
Freud Museum (for her) 2006-2007 is a vitrine of fragments from buildings in Vienna. Two commissioned works accompany this: a piano piece composed by his Viennese girlfriend (a musician), and a ‘psychoanalytic poem’ written by his mother (a psychologist) which both articulate the personal dimensions embedded in the work. The material index of Vienna’s built environment becomes a self-consciously museological display – it’s materiality abstracted and questioned in turn by the music and poetry.

ACT II (at Künstlerhaus Bethanien)
Sister Cities of Berlin (Paris) 2007 is a video installation depicting streetlights seen through the glazed door of a building near the National Highway 7 in Paris. The distorted image through the glass is contextualized as a voice-over begins to tell a story of the Parisian suburb Le Kremlin-Bicetre, loosely based on an interview conducted by Bizumic with French artists Saadane Afif and Valerie Chartrain – themselves residents of the aforementioned building. The characters in the narrative are reduced in their description, but a counter point of complexity is provided by the collision of images, poetic verses and ambient sounds composed by MINIT.

Mladen Bizumic (born 1976, lives and works in Berlin) will present his work in the New Zealand Book at the Venice Biennale (2007). Notable exhibitions in the past include: Through the Picture at the 2nd Moscow Biennale (2007), Busan Biennale (2006), Hide-Tide, CAC, Vilnius and Zacheta National Art Museum, Warsaw (2006), Re: Modern, Künstlerhaus Vienna (2005), Fiji Biennale Pavilions, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth (2003), Mladen Bizumic, ARTSPACE, Auckland (2002).

PROGRAM is a nonprofit project aimed at testing the disciplinary boundaries of architecture through collaborations with other fields. Initiated in 2006 by Carson Chan and Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, PROGRAM provides a discursive platform for artists, architects, critics and curators to explore ideas through exhibitions, performances, workshops, lectures, and residencies. PROGRAM intends to diversify the ways we understand and make architecture by engaging the discourse with emerging creative processes that activate the space between pure theoretical research, professional praxis and architecture’s social role.

The exhibition is generously supported by Creative New Zealand and the New Zealand Embassy in Berlin.

opening hours:
Tuesday–Friday 14.00–19.00 hrs
Saturday 11.00–19:00 hrs

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Centre culturel suisse de Paris

e-flux video rental
April 15th - July 15, 2007
Opening reception:
Saturday, April 14th, 6-9PM.

Centre culturel suisse de Paris
32 et 38, rue des Francs- Bourgeois
75003 Paris, France
T: +33 (0) 1 4271 4450
http://www.ccsparis.com

Opening hours:
Wednesday to Sunday :1 pm – 8 pm
late night Thursday till 10 pm

e-flux video rental (EVR) is a project by Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda, comprising a free video rental, a public screening room, and a film and video archive that is constantly growing. This collection of over 700 works of film and video art has been assembled in collaboration with near 100 international artists, curators and critics. Orignally presented in New York, at 53 Ludlow Street in 2004, EVR has traveled to Amsterdam, Berlin, Frankfurt, Seoul, Istanbul, Canary Islands, Austin, Budapest, Boston, Antwerp, and Miami.

In the 1960s and 70s, artists were drawn to working with video in part because it was cheap to use and easily reproduced and distributed. But video art has become increasingly assimilated to the precious-object economy of the art world. EVR is an exploration on the current processes of circulation and distribution of video art, and is structured to function like a regular video store, except that it operates for free. VHS tapes can be watched in the space, or, once a viewer fills out a membership form and contract, they can be checked out and taken home.

Every time EVR is installed in a new city, local artists, curators and writers are invited to serve as selectors, choosing artists whose work is added to the collection. In addition, a special program of screenings of works from the EVR collection is part of the project. In Paris, the program will continue with the participation from Christine Macel, Michel Ritter, Maria-Ines Rodriguez, Fabrice Stroun and Nicolas Trembley.

The opening evening’s program will include a screening of a selection of EVR staff picks and a conversation with Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda. Additionally, a special program of silent or nearly silent works will be screened continuously on the window of the library of Swiss Cultural Center at 38, rue des Francs-Bourgeios throughout the duration of the project in Paris.

Special screenings will take place on April 14th 2007, April 26th 2007, June 21st 2007, and July 12th 2007. All screenings are at 6 pm (free admission).

Works selected by: fernanda arruda, marilyn arsem, defne ayas, gabriel perez barreiro, rene barilleaux, regine basha, thomas bayrle, katrin becker, ariane beyn, cis bierinckx, daniel birnbaum, zoulikha bouabdellah, osman bozkurt, adam budak, cac tv, annette dimeo carlozzi, luca cerizza, binna choi, mariana david, catherine david, nikola dietrich, power ekroth, mai abu eldahab, esra ersen, jose louis falconi, hedwig fijen, elena filipovic, lauri firstenberg, susanne gaensheimer, gabrielle giattino, massimiliano gionni, julieta gonzález, francesca grassi, andrea grover, cao guimaraes, alfred guzzetti, jörg heiser, arne hendriks, sofia hernández, maria hlavajova, jens hoffmann, christian holstad, teresa hubbard & alexander birchler, anthony huberman, pierre huyghe, eungie joo, yu hyun jung, christoph keller, sung won kim, adam klimczak, anders krueger, carrie lambert-beatty, pablo leon de la barra, fernando llanos, omar lópez-chahoud, jaroslaw lubia
k, bill lundberg, christine macel, ives maes, karen mahaffy, raimundas malasauskas, franco marinotti, vincent meessen, viktor misiano, edit molnár, kassandra nakas, molly nesbit, hans ulrich obrist, lívia páldi, november paynter, wim peeters & marie denkens, zsolt petrányi natasa petresin, stephen prina, risa puleo, alia rayyan, karyn riegel, michel ritter, maria inés rodríguez, david rych, hyun jun ryu, esra sarigedik, nermin saybasili, itala schmeltz, stefanie schulte strathaus, basak senova, henk slager, hajnalka somogy, fabrice stroun, ali subotnik, christine tohme, nicolas trembley, regina vater, gilbert vicario, florian waldvogel, franciska zólyom, nathalie zonnenberg

Artists: 24/7 tv, a-clip, vahram aghasyan, doug aitken, lucas ajemian, nevin aladag, kamal aljafari, jennifer allora & guillermo calzadilla, paulo almeida, can altay, carlos amorales, andré amparo, j tobias anderson, ziad antar, alexander apóstol, vasco araújo, john armleder, assume vivid astro focus, michel auder, sven augustijnen, alexandra bachzetsis, miriam bäckström, lucas bambozzi, alberto baraya, edson barrus, judith barry, yael bartana, taysir batniji, thomas bayrle, sarah beddington, patricia belli, elisabetta benassi, kazimierz bendkowski, roberto berliner, ursula biemann, biggs, colectivo bijari, marc bijl, johanna billing, julien jonas bismuth, alberto bitar e leonardo bitar, john bock, manon de boer, mike bouchet, frank boue, andrea bowers, osman bozkurt, ulla von brandenburg, pavel braila, candice breitz, gary breslin, wojciech bruszewski, martin butler, chris caccamise, yane calovski & FOS, mircea cantor, domenico cappello
, carolina caycedo, alex cecchetti & christian frosi, alejandro cesarco, juan céspedes, paul chan, terry chatkupt, marcos chaves, mina cheon, loulou cherinet, olga chernysheva, ali cherri, sunah choi, heman chong & isabel cornaro, kerstin cmelka, cecilia condit, joost conijn, marie cool & fabio balducci, alexander costello, alfredo b. crevenna, carlo crovato, roberto cuoghi, federico curiel, hubert czerepok, marilá dardot, simona denicolai & ivo provoost, marta deskur, angela detanico y rafael lain, stefaan dheedene, wilson diaz, christoph draeger, melissa dubbin & aaron s. davidson, ivan edeza, effi & amir, james elaine/william basinski, fouad elkoury, hala elkoussy, shahram entekhabi & mieke bal, annika eriksson, espacio la culpable, marcell esterházy, extrastruggle, héctor falcón, matias faldbakken, jeanne faust/jorn zehe, rochelle feinstein, jakup ferri, dirk fleischmann, oriana fox, alicia framis, jonah freeman, gabrielle fridriksdottir, anna friedel, peter friedl, yang fudong, rene gabri, rubén galindo, andrea geyer, gilbert & george, jérémie gindre, christoph girardet, piero golia, emilio gómez muriel, francis gomila, dominique gonzales-foerster, rogelio a. gonzáles, rogelio a. gonzáles jr., jacqueline goss, laurent grasso, loris gréaud, sagi groner, christian grou & tapio snellman, eva grubinger, cao guimaraes, dmitry gutov & radek group, joanna hadjithomas & khalil joreige, driton hajredini, yang-ah ham, adad hannah, sharon hayes, daniel herskowitz, shere hite, karl holmqvist, judith hopf & stephan geene, vlatka horvat, laszlo hudak & imre lenart, jane hudson, oliver husain, kristina inciuraite, las indestables, matthew day jackson, christian jankowski, evaldas jansas, tom johnson, ilya kabakov, gülsün karamustafa, franka kaßner, leopold kessler, hassan khan, nesrine khodr, laleh khorramian, heidi kilpelainen, changkyum kim, se-jin kim, shin il kim, tae-eun kim, szabolcs kisspál, leszek knaflewski, seung wook koh, jeroen kooijmans, korpys/löffler, katarzyna kozyra, elke krystufek, pawel kwiek, tim lee, cristóbal lehyt, dominik lejman, jesse lerner, xavier le roy, erik van lieshout, deborah ligorio, khoór lilla & will potter, minouk lim & frederic michon, daniel lima, lana lin, lin + lam, petra lindholm, fernando llanos, dora longo bahia, polonca lovsin, cecilia lundqvist, mary lucier, maria lusitano, jorge macchi, cynthia madansky, gintaras makarevicius, joanna malinowska, marepe, teresa margolles, gilberto martínez solares, trish maud, marssares, eileen maxson, mc messiah, mc liezuvis, vincent meessen, jonas mekas, bjørn melhus & yves netzjammer, john menick, ohad meromi, wieslaw michalak, simone michelin, christopher miner, lim minouk & frederic michon, sarah minter, aleksandra mir, mixrice, slava mizin & sasha shaburov, avi mograbi, naeem mohaiemen, sebastián díaz morales, olivier mosset, frédéric moser & philippe schwinger, melvin moti, tova mozard, rabih mroue, felipe mujica, matthias müller, takeshi murata, juan nascimento & daniela lovera, deimantas narkevicius, argentino neto, sergio & rivane neuenschwader, tuan andrew nguyen, jesper nordahl, love nordberg, filip noterdaeme, sophie nys, yoshua okon, bjargey ólafsdóttir, anneè olofsson, yoko ono, els opsomer, anna orlikowska, tanja ostojic, the otolith group, chan-kyong park, philippe parreno, sean paul & david dempewolf, jenny perlin, diego perrone, alessandro pessoli, walter pfeiffer, michael pfrommer, pablo pijnappel, john pilson, steven pippin, michelangelo pistoletto, shannon plumb, elodie pong, rafael portillo & manuel san fernando, linda post, liza may post, jeff preiss, dean proctor & michael laub, walid raad/the atlas group, judy radul, orit raff, anne-britt rage, arturas raila, khaled d. ramadan, tere recarens, mandla reuter, jae oon rho, robin rhode, józef robakowski, camila rocha, d.n. rodowick, tracey rose, douglas ross, karl ingar røys, julika rudelius, daniel rumiancew, david rych, natascha sadr haghigian, anri sala, samir, fernando sánchez castillo, beatriz santiago muñoz, julia scher, markus schinwald, andrea schneemeier, karin schneider & nicolás guagnini, meggie schneider & bin-chuen choi, corinna schnitt, solmaz shahbazi, wael shawky, taro shinoda, santiago sierra, silverio, guy richards smit, gregg smith, michael smith, sean snyder, aaron steffes, a.l. steiner, hito steyerl, deborah stratman, jános sugar, özlem sulak, superflex, pál szacsva y, mathilde ter heijne, tetine, kika thorne, rirkrit tiravanija, maciej toporowicz, ana torfs, cecilia torquato & andré amparo, mario garcía torres, kerry tribe, caecilia tripp, stefanos tsivopoulos, nasan tur, alexander ugay, johanna unzueta, utopia station, michael van den abeele, mona vatamanu & florin tudor, gabriel acevedo velarde, mark verabioff, katleen vermeir & ronny heiremans, dmitry vilensky, joe villablanca, gitte villesen, barbara visser, jenny vogel, sharif waked, marek wasilewski, ryszard wasko, douglas weathersby, clemens von wedemeyer, lawrence weiner, suara welitoff, aleksandra went & alicja karska, klaus weber, adrian williams, marten winters jordan wolfson, tin tin wulia, erwin wurm, cerith wyn evans, sislej xhafa, haegue yang, adnan yildiz, carey young, akram zaatari, olivier zabat, florian zeyfang, igor zupe and others

Centre culturel suisse de Paris
The Centre culturel suisse de Paris is the representation of Pro Helvetia, Arts Council of Switzerland

For more information go to: http://www.ccsparis.com