“WE ALL think ourselves martyrs to the Irish language, just because we were held hostage for a few years by Peig Sayers, or suffered mild torture at the hands of the modh coinniollach. But spare a thought for St Koloman (or Colmán of Austria), who may be history’s only recorded case of someone who did die – violently – for the cúpla focal.”
> text by Frank McNally (c) IRISH TIMES, 2012
The worldwide trend from America, namely seeking psychological support
from practicing philosophers, has been adopted in Serbia as well.
> text (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
Some flesh is beautiful, some meat you can eat?
Activists of Anima Naturalis took part in a protest with fellow demonstrators wrapped in packaging labelled ‘carne humana’ (human meat) to promote vegetarianism in central Barcelona, Spain.
Eventually, Germany got the president it has wanted for years. From now on, two “Ossis” rule the country.
A good choice in times when people are asking for more German “leadership” in Europe and others are spooked by it?
Analysis (c) NYT, 2012; photo by AP.
Incredibly intense movie by Béla Tarr.
Depression à la Central Europe.
“In his new film The Mill and the Cross Polish director Lech Majewski explores the life and work of painter Pieter Bruegel.” Interview (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
An art exhibition at the MUSA in Vienna tries to challenge our daily obsession
with bodily “beauty” > full text (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
“Péter Nádas’ Parallel Stories is actually a hugely ambitious, breathtakingly inventive and at times maddeningly dense novel intent on obliterating historical, geographical, literary and structural borders. ‘Parallel’ doesn’t really begin to describe how these stories interact with one another. They converge and diverge; they overlap; they crisscross, loop around and double back on one another, resulting in a defiantly nonlinear novel that attempts the daunting feat of recreating the fragmented, and perhaps even shell-shocked experience of living in Hungary during the 20th century.”
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> full text by Adam Langer; photo: Barna Burger (c) NYT, 2011
“In silence, with my eyes closed, I spent 5 minutes drinking a glass of water. It was ‘a ritualization of everyday life’ administered to me by Marina Abramović to illustrate the methods behind her art.
The Yugoslavia-born, New York-based Abramovic, is at 65, one of the world’s best-known performance artists: she has rendered herself unconscious, whipped and poisoned herself and stood motionless for six hours while audience members were invited to use any of 75 display objects upon her – including knives and chains.” >read more
(c) Ross Simonini, THE GLOBE & MAIL, 20 February 2012; photo: Michael Falco
delirium clemens 