[thingist] wake up call

[Chris Byrne]

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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