Rayya El Zein is working towards a PhD in Theatre at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research is increas- ingly focusing on theories of spectatorship and historical studies of audience behavior. She holds an MA in Performance Studies from NYU and is currently a teaching fellow at City College in Harlem. She tweets from @rayelz.
A biography on Christoph Schlingensief.
By Till Briegleb.
The Raqs Media Collective enjoys playing a plurality of roles, often appearing as artists, occasionally as curators, sometimes as philosophical agent provocateurs.
ReadBorn 1969 in Nova Gorica, Slovenia, Peljhan in 1992 graduated from the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana. Also in 1992 he founded the arts organization 'Projekt Atol' and in 1995 Project Atol`s technological branch 'Pact Systems' (Projekt Atol Communication Technologies) in the frame of which he carries out research in the fields of performance, technology applications, radio, sound, video, film, lectures and situations.
ReadGermany 1998: 2 years before the New Millenium a new form of
Political Party came into existence: CHANCE 2000 - The Party of the
Last Chance. In the midst of an election that was one of the most
important in postfascist Germany an artist jumped into the political
arena to "make politics more aesthetic and aesthetics more political".
The film- and theatremaker and talk show host Christoph Schlingensief
started the Campagne: "VOTE YOURSELF!" In Berlin he started the project
with an "Election Circus". Together with a famous circus-family from
former East Germany and with his crew of actors and his family of
handicapped performers he founded "CHANCE 2000 - Party of the Last
Chance" in a circus tent in Berlin/ Prenzlauer Berg. The message for
the Republic was: "Vote Yourself, we know how to do it!" Every citizen
was asked to become an independent candidate for the new Bundestag.
Manuals were sent out how to become a direct candidate. And many
different people realized their chance to "prove that they exist" by
bringing their name on the ballot sheet: "Chance Meier", "Chance
Mueller", "Chance Schmidt". If you managed to collect 200 signatures of
support in your political region you were part of the game and you
could vote yourself. Why not voting somebody you know by heart, you
trust and love?
Laboratory n.
1 a facility for experiment, research and learning.
2 a space where small quantities of hazardous materials can have an effect greater than the sum of their parts.
In solidarity with and participation in the popular uprisings taking place across Lebanon against the current systems of power, we the undersigned cultural organizations and structures collectively commit to Open Strike, and call for our colleagues in the cultural sector to join us.
ReadRight in time for the 1998 German elections, Christoph Schlingensief decided to found his own party with the futuristic-sounding name CHANCE2000 - motto: Vote Yourself!
Conference on Information Politics, Digital Culture & Global Protest Movements April 4th 2014 - King's College London
ReadVakuumTV was founded in February 1994 on the initiative of László
Kistamás. Its members presented weekly broadcasts on Monday nights at
the most popular cultural club in Budapest, Tilos az Á. Needless to
say, the designation 'VakuumTV' was not meant to refer to any kind of
conventional television channel which could be received on TV sets in
commercial circulation. Rather, its founders envisioned a live show in
which a large frame separating the stage from the audience imitates the
experience of watching TV for the audience. Thus VakuumTV can be
received only where this frame is set up.
An exhibition exploring activist strategies undertaken by media collectives, organized with EAI and ICA
The second edition of DICTIONARY OF WAR, July 22 and 23 in Muffathalle Munich
ReadAh, the oil industry. While most people are resigned to the knowledge
that large petroleum manufacturers are at least partly to blame when it
comes to destroying Third World infrastructures, propping up meritless
dictators, or encouraging blind consumerism in the face of an
environmentally poisoned and diseased future ? the question I often ask
is 'What about the music'?
And while they are fiendishly scarce, the oil industry, like many other
bastions of capitalism, indeed produced a number of privately pressed,
in-house motivational musicals, and several squeaked out on LP (for
employees only, of course). They're known as industrial shows: lavish
stage productions that serve to entertain, educate, and encourage
employees to do their job with gusto.
a work in progress in solidarity with OWS - live and online
Citizens join us!
Every Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 1.30pm, March
through May, we come to Liberty Square (Zuccotti Park) to work on The
Days of the Commune, a play by Bert Brecht. Each scene in the play
denotes one day. Each day is
documented and posted on our website thedaysofthecommune.com
