http://kaganof.com/kagablog kagablog Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:40:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en pening: Sunday 29th November, from 15.00 hrs - 17.00 hrs exhibition from November 29th until December 19th opening hours: Friday and Saturday 14.00-17.00hrs and by appointment Middenweg 22 Amsterdam phone: 06-444 444 76 phone: 06-131 753 62 KunstruimteNP40@versatel.nl http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/11/20/robert-simon-recent-workworks-in-progress/ http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/11/20/from-death-row-mumia-abu-jamal/ http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/11/20/makaya-ntshoko/ cherry-bomb has as usual pinpointed the essential- the music-noise rendezvous must have levity, be full of accidents , lack premeditation and especially programs ( college-course hell- noise and music 101). the best would be a detournement , a hijacking or perversion similar to CBs list and as far away ... http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/11/20/jean-pierre-de-la-porte-on-the-informal-settling-of-noise/ http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/11/20/ian-kerkhof-on-re-mix-theory/ http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/11/20/raoul-vaneigem-on-poetry/ This somewhat-twisted tale has nothing to do with faeries, or even about the chicken. Well it started with the chicken, things always start somewhere. A chicken you might not know in your world, but in Mah, a land of the little creatures and of the big creatures, of dangling hands ... http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/11/20/the-tale-of-amefurikozo/ November 17, 2009 By Atiyyah Khan When I interview Aryan Kaganof, I try my best to avoid mentioning that the first time I saw him perform he was naked, suspended from a rope, hanging upside down from the ceiling. Known for pushing the boundaries as a filmmaker, director, poet, novelist, musician and blogger, ... http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/11/20/a-sign-of-culture/ http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/11/20/293-midnight-cowboy-john-schlesinger-1969-usa/ mary corrigall has started her own blog read her opinions and insights into the south african art condition here: http://corrigall.blogspot.com/ http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/11/20/httpcorrigallblogspotcom/ ‘In the land before sunrise, rumbles a cord. Youth vanished like a medieval dream that can haunt even heads that rise to touch foliage on dazzled branches.’ The body. The Self. Projection. The thoughts raced to kiss his mind. “The man. He seemed to have been listening in on my thoughts prior to ... http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/11/20/land-of-the-copper-sky-chapter-2-exile/ http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/11/20/badilisha-poets-in-dialogue/ lALEXIS Preller's art was due for a re-reading. Or so asserts Clive Kellner in the new box set published to coincide with this retrospective - the last was staged in 1972. Pegged as sharing close ties with the Symbolism, Surrealism and other western art movements it is suggested that Preller's art ... http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/11/20/viewing-preller-through-a-new-lens-by-mary-corrigal/ when everybody’s sleeping let’s get up the night is ours at the womb of the town a factory acidic air sweating bodies appears in the dark and castrated love of vampires looks as if turning alive in a gloom the filth on the floor the noises in skulls confused memories of coincidental gestures are falling into cracks falling this crumbling world and it seems that ... http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/11/20/words-for-the-death/ It would be presumptuous of me and it would certainly be pointless to tell you what we owe to language. I am only a guest in the German language, which I learned at the age of eight, and the fact that you are welcoming me in it today means more ... http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/11/20/word-attacks-an-essay-by-elias-canetti/ http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/11/20/babylon-vesterbrogade-copenhagen/ Tonight - Nov 20 presented by Cape Cultural Collective featuring Jitsvinger; Colony; Isaac Sikhakhane; Paula Akugizibwe; Khadija Heeger; Hannah Botsis; Baystars Entertainers; Ihlumelo Youth Organisation; Rustum August; Kurt Langeveld; Melody Shevlane; Nadia Petersen; Ikapa Dance Theatre; The Generics; Bienvenue Mambote & Sibhonda Wood at the District Six Museum, 25A ... http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/11/20/health-is-no-private-matter/ Lowave is an independent film label founded in 2002 by Marc Horchler and Silke Schmickl to promote experimental film and contemporary video art and make them accessible beyond the film festival and gallery circuit. Our catalogue features artists with varied backgrounds working with different techniques and multiple modes of expression, ... http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/11/20/lowave-independent-dvd-label/ http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/11/19/african-noise-foundation-live-aktion-4-at-badilisha-poetry-exchange-november-27-28-featuring-zim-ngqawana/ In what South Africans might view as an unusual bit of casting, Variety reports that Oscar-winner and ex-American Idol finalist Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls, Sex and The City, The Secret Life of Bees) has been signed to play the controversial Winnie Mandela in the independent film, Winnie. Oscar-nominated Darrell James Roodt ... http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/11/19/roodt%e2%80%99s-winnie-mandela-biopic/ The very first one: standing by the front door, looking at the paisley pattern in the frosted glass, and thinking: ‘I will always remember this’. I still can, over 40 years later. Most of my memories are traumatic. Pissing in my pants just before I acted as Noddy on TV. ... http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/11/19/childhood-memories/ reviewed by Terry Reis Kennedy erbacce-press, Liverpool UK 2009 36 pp., $8.00 It’s holy. It’s blue as a bruise. It’s A.D. Winans at his best, so merged with Billie—her pain, her songs, her longing for love—that we feel their Oneness. Winans identifies with the Jazz saint’s ability to ... http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/11/19/billie-holiday-me-and-the-blues-by-ad-winans/ Kelwyn Sole Poetry and Political Issues after 1994 It is easy to presume that literature plays something of a minor public role in a postcolonial context such as South Africa, and thereafter to assume that, within the domain of literature, the importance afforded poetry must be marginal. This has a degree of ... http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/11/19/licking-the-stage-clean-or-hauling-down-the-sky-the-profile-of-the-poet-and-the-politics-of-poetry-in-contemporary-south-africa/ Gylan Kain - The ShalimarUploaded by goodvinyl. - Watch more music videos, in HD! http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/11/18/kain-the-shalimar/ Brilliant military strategist, charismatic leader, and a true Warrior Queen, all of these terms aptly describe the remarkable character of Queen Nzingha of Angola. Nzingha's rise to power occurred during the early 17th century in the kingdom of Ndongo, which is now the present day country of Angola, in South West ... http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/11/18/queen-nzhinga-of-angola-1583-1663/