.
What is a waterfall? A cascade of water tumbling over boulders, brilliant in the sun, beckoning backpackers with sturdy leather boots to climb into remote, magical valleys? Or inspiring tourists to follow road signs to popular, sublime spectacles, such as Niagara Falls. Or the path taken by droplets of moisture falling to the sidewalk from an air conditioner hanging out of the window of an eleventh-floor apartment in NYC.

.

Looking up at the Westway[i] in London as it spans above my head, I find myself viewing it as a monument from a former time[ii], a time that promised an ambitious, permanent solution to fast auto-mobility, fuelled by cheap, limitless energy.

Ningún encomio ni hagiografía oportunista: el comentario a uno de los últimos proyectos Allan Sekula (1951-2013) quiere reivindicar el legado de un compromiso intelectual que raramente se materializa con tanto rigor en aquellos que trabajan con la imagen.

Con ello ha cambiado radicalmente para los hombres el mundo en los mares…

There was a sense of trepidation preceding a creative development trip to Australia’s remote Pilbara with some of India’s finest photographers, Ketaki Sheth and Bharat Sikka. My experience as a Curator working with the photographers illuminated the complexities of inter-cultural exchanges, but also the unexpected outcomes that can emerge.

Interview:

Exchange, Cooperation and Cultural Mobility: Visions from Vietnam. Interview with Nguyen Phuong Hoa | HERMAN BASHIRON MENDOLICCHIO (english)

Texts:

 català 

español  

Proves de projecció a Sant Climent de Taüll. Foto: DGABMP, Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya

.

português

Si no fuera por la extraordinaria fuerza financiera y creativa de los cómics en la primera década del siglo XX, las dibujantes mujeres podrían sentirse aplastadas entre el dulce genio de los querubines de Rose O´Neill y las diabólicas mujeres fatales de la magnífica Nell Brinkley, uno de los primeros - y mejores - autores de girls strips.