Christina Mitrentse (born 1977, Greece) began her Wounded Book series as a response to her contribution to the Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street project, organised by Beau Beausoleil in 2010, to reflect on the damage to humanity and the loss of material knowledge caused by the car bombing in Baghdad’s booksellers’ street on 5 March 2007. Being an artist who works in series, unsurprisingly this one has continued to grow, and it has since been added to Mitrentse’s own ongoing project initiative, Add To My Library, vol. III.

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Texts:

Allan Sekula y Noël Burch: The Forgotten Space | RAFAEL PINILLA (spanish)

text by: Maria Domenica Arcuri

[english]

español

Nossa vida é um negócio; outrora era uma existência”.
(Jacob Burckhardt, Cartas)

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El pasado mes de Noviembre el MIRA Festival de Música y Artes Visuales volvió a Barcelona para acercarnos una vez más al panorama actual de las intersecciones entre música y espectáculo visual, con las nuevas tecnologías como trasfondo, hilo conductor y elemento mediador entre los dos ámbitos.

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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.

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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…