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after us, after use
I called this blog "after use" because it is an anagram of features, the name of the Kunsthalle Vermittlung series. Now I see it serves...
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S Plant
Sep 15, 20231 min
fluid things
Unlike the earth, as far as we know, our star, the sun, is not a solid thing. It too has poles, and they swap quite often - every 11...
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Sep 12, 20231 min
pole positions
“All these thoughts about the poles make my head spin.” So writes one contributor, who has watched the video based on one of the NTU...
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Sep 11, 20231 min
rich in contrasts
The aftermath of an earthquake in Morocco. On page 2 of the NZZ on Sonntag I read: Marokko zählt seine Toten. On page 20, another story...
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Sep 6, 20232 min
in other worlds
In Kim Stanley Robinson's novel Aurora, a ship carrying some 2'000 people from earth arrives, after several generations, at a new home in...
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Sep 3, 20231 min
brighter than the sun
Yesterday a ship called Aditya was launched from Sriharikota in India. It shares its name with a Sanskrit name for a god of the sun,...
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Aug 29, 20232 min
mundane
I wonder what Martine Syms would say. She's a black American artist with a biting sense of humour and keen eye for unhelpful platitudes...
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Aug 24, 20231 min
on the poverty of twenty-first century life
I've been waiting for someone to complain about this last reference to poverty. Since no one has responded, I'll do it myself: isn't it...
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Aug 18, 20232 min
lost afrofutures
I still haven't found it. But searches for one treasure often lead to other, unexpected finds. On a friend's extensive bookshelves I came...
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Aug 7, 20232 min
afrofuturismus
I hesitate to use the term "Afrofuturism", even though it's one I like, and one which quickly comes to mind amongst these interminglings...
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Aug 2, 20232 min
pattern recognition
NTU is working on a cosmic scale. The global south and the western world are elements of a much bigger picture, in both space and time....
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Jul 25, 20232 min
a guided tour
And so it was that I first saw this exhibition a few days after the opening, with a small group of Kunsthalle visitors and a guide. What...
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S Plant
Jul 23, 20231 min
en vacances
Blog posts can be written anywhere, even in a garden on the shore, by a stretch of warm and shallow water screened off from the road by...
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S Plant
Jul 9, 20231 min
A view from inside
"Shifting landscapes", writes Christoph Studer. "The exhibitions of Jackie Karuti and Archival Ramblings end today, and tomorrow they...
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Jul 7, 20231 min
a weather report
"It was very warm that day," writes Sophia Fries, "at least outside. As in most exhibition spaces, in the Kunsthalle the temperatures...
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S Plant
Jun 27, 20231 min
the score so far
Last week, at the opening of the CAP Diploma show at the Pasquart in Biel/Bienne, I fell into conversation with Francesca Verga, a...
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Jun 22, 20231 min
additions
On the radio this morning I heard a leading mathematician explain that 1 + 1 does not always = 2. It all depends on the context. Adding...
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Jun 16, 20232 min
on the terrace
The Kunsthalle's terrace bar has become my favourite watering hole in Bern. A lot of interesting animals come to drink here - humans are...
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Jun 12, 20232 min
on location
Two other contributors have raised the question of specificity: are Karuti's landscapes located or could they be anywhere? Is this...
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S Plant
Jun 9, 20232 min
more cows
The cows have stirred some interest. Maya Hottarek writes: "Über meine Google Suche ob Kühe larmempfindlich sind, gelange ich bevor ich...
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