fall / winter 2015, fifth issue
FLIP THROUGH SOME PAGES OF SOUTH AS A STATE OF MIND ISSUE # 5!
fall / winter 2015, fifth issue
BREAKING NEWS
20–MIDDLE EAST
Good Photoshop Skills Required
Shumon Basar
22
WHERE IS NORTH, WHERE IS SOUTH?
(main focus)
24
“You Begin to See How Much this Music Improves Me?
– Il Faut Méditerraniser la Musique”
Martin Beck
28
The (Bad) Idea of North
Tod Wodicka
32
Pinta: Enigma as a State of Body
Jorge Alencar and Neto Machado
36
Questions for São Paulo
Interview with Marieke van Hal and Galit Eilat by Marina Fokidis
40
South of Heaven: On Art and Cynicism
Philipp Kleinmichel
44
John Berger: Between Permanent Red and the Black Box of the Universe
Nikos Papastergiadis
50
Comics Beyond North
Juan Canela
56
Cloud Metal Cities
Interview with Vanessa Safavi by Estelle Nabeyrat
58
[Arch]comicologies: How to Construct a Narrative
Samir Harb
64
Together in Solitude
Interview with Jean-Baptiste Joly by Marina Fokidis
67
We Shall Sometime Come to Someplace
Claudia Gehre and Clara Herrmann
70
Questions on the Transformation of Design Work…
from the South of the Alps, the North of Italy and
Other Ambiguous Locations
Brave New Alps
76—TRADITION
Vlassis Caniaris (1928-2011):
An Oppositionist and a Gentleman
Afroditi Panagiotakou
Vlassis Caniaris: Arrivederci – Willkommen
Christoforos Marinos
Neutral Witness: Caniaris at the 1988 Venice Biennale
Emmanuel Mavrommatis
86—MYSTICISM
The Miracle of St Michael’s
Tom Morton
92—ARCHITECTURE / LANDSCAPE
Hotel Nord-Sud, South View
Katarina Burin
98—SHOUT / POLITICS
The Rise of the Instant Activist
Miguel Robles-Durán
100—TRICKSTER
Canoas
Interview with Tamar Guimarães by Pablo León de la Barra
The Florists from Beyond the Grave
Tamar Guimarães
108—SAVE THE ROBOTS / INTERNET
Techno Casa – a reintroduction to (Word version)
A conversation between Filipa Ramos and Riccardo Benassi
FLYING RUMOURS
110—VISUAL ARTS
Home Fires: Jessica Morgan Channels The Talking Heads
Kate Sutton
Museum as Memory Palace:
A Review of the National Archaeology Museum
Raleigh Werberger
We’ll Always Be Eager for the Next Museum to be Built
Michelangelo Corsaro
The Things That Do Exist
Misal Adnan Yıldız
126—FILM
Returning to The Villages
Lisa Rave and Erik Blinderman
128—MUSIC
Escalier du Chant
Olaf Nicolai
138—WORD OF MOUTH
An agenda of exhibitions and events not to be missed:
Athens, Austin, Barcelona, Beirut, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, East Jerusalem, Hobart, Limpopo, Lisbon, Madrid, Marrakech, Mexico City, Milan, Montevideo, New Orleans, New York, Nicosia, Paris, Porto, Ramallah, Rome, San Jose, San Juan, São Paulo, Sharjah, Sydney, Tel Aviv, Valetta, Venice
Klea Charitou, Marina Maniadaki, Eleanna Papathanasiadi, Angeliki Roussou, Jorgina Stamogianni
144—P.S.
Guest: Pablo León de la Barra
