Wolfgang & thingists,
I think it is just our mailboxes filter thingist away into neat little folders. It took four months before I read your story about being arrested. I'm glad I did though.
Hope all is well.
Chris
On 3 Oct 2009, at 15:41, Wolfgang Staehle wrote:
hello lurkers,
this is so curious, there are new subscriptions to this list almost every day and nothing ever happens. this must be internet heaven.
anyway, for those of you who are in ny, there is heidrun holzfeind's book launch on october 7 at the swiss institute. since the thing has become nomadic expect things to happen at various partner institutions in the future. check http://the.thing.net for more details and for future announcements.
greetings from berlin,
wolfgang
Heidrun Holzfeind MEXICO 68 / CU Wednesday, October 7, 6 pm
Swiss Institute [SI] 495 Broadway, 3 rd fl NY NY 10012 Tel 212-925 2035 www.swissinstitute.net
"It was a great experience to live through, kind of like being in love." Carlos Sevilla
The two-volume book combines two closely related art projects by Heidrun Holzfeind:
Between 2005 and 2007 Heidrun Holzfeind conducted a series of video interviews with activists of the 1968 student movement. MEXICO 68 investigates the significance and impact of the '68 student movement on Mexican society, politics and culture in general, and on the lives of the participants in particular. Conducted almost forty years after the fact, the 18 interviews with activists compiled in this volume offer a diverse range of personal accounts, political and social analysis as well as reflections on the events that took place during that mythic year. They document the visions and dreams of a generation that aspired to change an authoritarian political system and transform Mexican society.
Interviews with: Renata von Hanffstengel, Carlos Sevilla, Silvia González Marín, Rodolfo Echeverría, Elena Poniatowska, Marcelino Perelló, Raúl Moreno Wonchee, Carolia Paniagua, Selma Beraud, Hira de Gortari, Maria Teresa Losada, Raúl Álvarez Garín, Carmen Soler, Ana Ignacia Rodríguez, Maria Fernanda Campa, Patricia Eugenia de los Ríos Lozano, Mercedes Perelló, Deborah Dultzin Kessler
CU, Mexico City, August 2006 - is a personal portrait of "Ciudad Universitaria", the National University's Mexico City campus. The carefully composed shots of exterior and interior views, architectural details, and eerily unpopulated hallways, class rooms and walkways highlight Holzfeind's interest in aging modernist structures, the conceptualization of the campus as a modern "city" and the use of functionality in the Mexican modernization project.
With texts by Cuauhtémoc Medina and Jorge Reynoso Pohlenz
www.heidrunholzfeind.com | www.mexico68.net | www.kodoji.com | http://the.thing.net
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