Skype Session Audio Protocols

Hi Guys.

For everyone who's interested or who wants to have a little laugh about some weird people talking about typical european topics in a very funny english:

Here are the audio recordings from 2 of our skype sessions. The files are rather big, so I put them on rapidshare. Could be worth a peak especially for catching up on past ideas which possibly came up during discussions and eventually vanished into the interspace of our kollective memory before wo could get a grip on them.


I don't know why, but hyperlinks won't work, so just copy the links below, paste, load, laugh, get inspired, change the world and get famous!

best, jo

http://rapidshare.de/files/43539115/INterspace_Skype01a.mp3.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/43543233/INterspace_Skype01b.mp3.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/43546753/INterspace_Skype03a.mp3.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/43550944/INterspace_Skype03b.mp3.html

(De?)constructing national identity

Hi, everybody in the interspace,

here comes some more messing around!

Since national identity seems to be THE hot stuff these days, I wrote a little text concerning this topic...also thinking about nationrelated stereotypes, where they might come from, how they can be replaced by others, how random they can be, in which form they exist today....
Here you go:


I’m german: my favorite sport is soccer.
I’m german: my decission is between Lidl and Aldi.
I’m german: I’m very giving.
I’m german: I’m very selfconscious.
I’m german: I’m always the first at the pool.
I’m german: most of the times I’m blonde.
I’m german: I always have beer in the fridge.
I’m german: I’m afraid of the future.
I’m german: I have a “Dirndl” in my closet.
I’m german: I’m definetly not black.
I’m german: I’m aware of my degeneration.
I’m german: I’ve never been to the Hofbräuhaus.
I’m german: I have to point out my female leader.
I’m german: You should come see the mountains
I’m german: You should come see the seaside.
I’m german: I feel sorry for myself.
I’m german: I love New York but US citizens are suspicious to me.
I’m german: I’m very ambitious.
I’m german: I’m always at home by myself.
I’m german: I love the green of the hills.
I’m german: I’m in the mood for more.
I’m german: I have no right to be proud.
I’m german: My black red and gold is red gold and green.
I’m german: Actually I’ve always liked to party.
I’m german: Everybody here has a cellphone.
I’m german: I never think about my history.
I’m german: I’m well aware of our history.
I’m german: I never learned how to flirt appropriately.
I'm german: I never eat in the kitchen.
I’m german: how could you not have noticed.
I’m german: Nobody goes to church anymore.
I’m german: I always go by car.
I’m german: I’m on youtube
I’m german: I laugh a lot.
I’m german: I’m always open for something new and exciting.
I’m german: I prefer Burger King.
I’m german…

identity and the arts. have a look at: Christoph Büchel

As we’re going to talk about national identity once more on Tuesday, I’d like to point Christoph Büchel out to you. He is an artist, born in Switzerland, and for his recent exhibition Deutsche Grammatik (German Grammar) he worked on German National Identity. Just to show you an example of an artistic approach to our favourite topic.

An installation shows “typical” german environments, artefacts, traces of everyday life. Detailed in-depth and hyperrealistic. People can walk through it and the diffenrence between fake and fiction is hard to find, if you are not informed - quite similar to the idea in the first concept the german group wrote. And while walking through it, subtly, you get an idea of the history and current political and social structures in the country (the catalog says).

The museums rooms were made available for various interim uses. The new occupants at the Fridericianum include a branch of the discount store Mäc-Geiz, a gaming arcade, a tanning studio and a fitness centre. One whole wing was used as an event venue for the first fair showcasing the German political parties, the “politica”. In another wing, the torn-up files of the former German Democratic Republic’s Ministry for State Security are being re-constructed.

Eh voila - he shows identitiy manifestated in space.

Read more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/arts/design/16robe.html?_r=1

margret

HOMEWORK> The Globe Story

Hi, everyone... Happy New Year. I wish U all the best, including the best performance made by our group. :))) ... Here is the short story.
Love,
Minja

I wanted to have a globe.
I wanted it, for ages, I think...
For every birthday, every holiday... Whenever I was unwrapping silky, silver and shine present paper, I was doing it, hoping that I will find the globe. Finally, it happened. It was not my birthday. Nor holiday. Just an ordinary day.
Postman knocked on my door and gave me a huge box. Person who send it was not my friend. My enemy, neither.
It was just someone who red an article about me, in some gossiping papers.
It was just someone who wanted to send me a gift.
Until that day, I have my globe, with the lamp in it, on my desk.
I am seeing the world.
All the time.
Or an image of the world, at least.
All the time.
Globe is an excellent thing.
You can spin it, and you can dream... Imagining places.
Kirghistan. Nigeria. Fiji. L.A. Iceland. South Pole.
World is huge! But, the most interesting thing is that there is still no place to hide. From yourself.
I hate that person who send me a gift!
What for?! ... I mean: why?
Sometimes, I am just looking at the globe, and I realise that the only thing I actually see are the borders.
Globe is a scary thing, also.
It reminds me that everything in this world have it's own borders. Or limitations.
Seeing the world, or an image of the world, is all about discovering of your own limitations.
If You really want me to tell you what I see, I can tell that I see myself.
My life and the fact that it is passing away.
I wanted to have a globe.
I wanted it, for ages, I think.
Now, I just want to go across my personal borders.
My time-space limits. My end.

Tomorrow Is Another Day////

Hej guys... long time no see.

Happy New Year.

I saw this movie few days ago actually in the evening of December 31st 2008. And when I discover something new I really like i feel that crazy need to share it with somebody. The name of the movie is You the living or in Swedish Du Levande (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445336/). I dont want to make comments because im not sure did anybody saw this movie and I dont want it to sound like my confessions of life emptiness and vanity. So what I am going to do is just to post few intersting segments of the movie... I hope it is going to tickle your imagination and encourage you to download it maybe (http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4074876/Du.Levande.2007.DVDRip.XviD-DnB)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43R1k8vHCh0

embedding of this video is disabled by request so follow the link.

On imdb you can read a very interesting discussion about swastikas on the table (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445336/board/nest/102742457).










see you soon

Andrija