Hi, Min. How are you? Hi, Chelsea. I’m okay, thanks. I was looking forward to play some soccer later today, but when I woke up this morning, my heel was swollen, out of nothing. No idea why. It really hurts when I step on it.
AK: Hi, Markus. Hello, Arqam, hello, Aymen. AK: Here we are again, more than 90 days later. Yes, here we are. I am happy to see that you are both still alive and well. AK: Alive, yes. Well, not so much. AA: Yeah, these lockdowns
The Work of Art in the Age of Second-Order Observation On June 3, 2021, the online magazine artnet reported that the hitherto little known Italian artist Salvatore Garau, “auctioned off an ‘Invisible Sculpture’ for $18,300.” The sculpture, it was added, is “made literally of nothing.”
AK: Markus, how do you explain the resurgence of what is called ‘the lab-leak thesis’ in the Western media, which was already believed to be dead? Politically. And mass media-wise. These are the two factors one needs to look at. And of course one must
Professor Fuchs, we assume that you are currently also following the lab leak debate. What do you notice? I notice that – as is actually always the case – the question of causality is at the centre. The search is on for the reason, the
Hi, Yuka! Hi, Khai. Yuka, you are first of all an artist. I wonder why you decided to join the Place M Film Festival and become a kind of curator and manager? As I worked at the photo gallery as a filmmaker, I always wondered:
‘We are Lovers of the Qalandar’. Piety, Pilgrimage, and Ritual in Pakistani Sufi Islam This book is about Pakistan’s most popular Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar whose shrine in Sehwan Sharif is one of the most fascinating sanctuaries in the Muslim world. At the time
In this lecture, which will be in English with English-Chinese bilingual PPT slides, Karl-Heinz Pohl (卜松山) looks at the “Basics of Chinese Aesthetics – Its Philosophical and Cross-Cultural Frame of Reference”. For Pohl, a “symbolic and aesthetic orientation” (references to literature, art, religion and philosophy) is
Since its establishment in 1987, Place M, a photography gallery located in Shinjuku, Tokyo, has served as a venue for the experience of photographic expression and experimentation. With the establishment of the film department and the first Place M Film Festival in 2019, the organizers