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Germany Calling
Sep 3, 2006 (1 photos) We ran out of time and had to miss out Berlin. So we cut west from Prague and headed across Germany. They were digging up Germany and that caused us a pretty miserable day's traveling - in fact the only bad day we could remember on the whole trip. ... |
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The second installment of Northern Germany
Oct 23, 2005 (15 photos) ... some day. I got back to Freiburg on Sunday (16) and since then I have been reminscing about my great trip to northern Germany. I have also been trying to get ready for school which finally begins this Monday (24). I took a trip to Loerrach as well, but ...
A travel blog entry by d.matheusik
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Fairytale Land
May 27, 2006 (13 photos) ... are famous for writing fairy tales and it is easy to see where they get their inspiration in this town. Our first impressions of Kassel were not great. It reminded me of the slimy part of Frankfurt actually. But as you slowly moved away from the train ...
A travel blog entry by sanderson256
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Goodbye Hannover
Mar 21, 2006 I just came back from Hannover, where I left my flat forever and the city for at least the next 1.5 years. Now I will relax one more evening in Kassel, before I will go on to the south tomorrow.
A travel blog entry by dreamchaser
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Uhh Ohh!
Apr 5, 2006 (3 photos) ... find a slow road that took us to Hanau. Our biggest problem was that our map is too large a scale to include many towns - and Germany is built out in this region; so they have had 10 cities before the one we've been aiming for. A better map would have ...
A travel blog entry by uber.mutzelburg
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The perfect ride to Poland
May 4, 2007 (4 photos) ... believing in the Polish's reputation and culture of HHing) Slawek is a nice guy who's occupation is to fetch VW Bugs to Germany, drive them back to a friend in Warsaw. His friend refurbishes and sells them. He assures me the Bug is getting fashionable in ...
A travel blog entry by koaclarck
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Returning Home and a final Resumee
May 28, 2008 ... later we touched down in Frankfurt. I managed to get my "overload" on ciggis through customs and had to buy a trainticket up to Kassel. On the train i fall asleep . In Kassel i caught the local train to my suburb. It was a funny feeling to come home ...
A travel blog entry by aleman
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Poor memory and the Fail-y Tale Road
Oct 20, 2009 ... Grimm Museum. Unfortunately, when we got there, the museum was closed for renovations. Not wanting to make the trip to Kassel a total waste, we visited Wilhelmshöhe. It's a great park and wooded area with castles, fountains, and beautiful views. We hiked ...
A travel blog entry by javawarlord
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Saâdane Afif
Aug 17, 2007 (3 photos) *1970 in Vendôme (FR), lives in Berlin (DE) In his work, Saâdane Afif adopts strategies from the fields of art and music, for example the method of appropriation, in order to critically explore the concepts of interpretation and repetition. Among other ...
A travel blog entry by shumake
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Iole de Freitas
Aug 17, 2007 (4 photos) *1945 in Belo Horizonte (BR), lives in Rio de Janeiro (BR) The artistic programme of the sculptor de Freitas is dedicated to the exploration of form, material and space, their interdependencies and the perception by the audience. Her constant extension ...
A travel blog entry by shumake
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Ai Weiwei
Aug 17, 2007 (5 photos) Ai Wei Wei's work Fairytale involves the transport of 1001 Chinese citizens to Documenta in five stages. Awaiting their arrival are 1001 wooden chairs from the Quing dynasty, spread throughout the four main venues of Documenta, and it's okay to sit on ...
A travel blog entry by shumake
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Sheela Gowda
Aug 17, 2007 (1 photos) *1957 in Bhadravati (IN), lives in Bangalore (IN) The artist, who studied both in India and Europe, employs a process-orientated working method to combine modern aesthetics with local traditions. By using everyday materials such as cow dung or ashes, a ...
A travel blog entry by shumake
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Romuald Hazoumé
Aug 17, 2007 (1 photos) *1962 in Porto Novo (BJ), lives in Porto Novo (BJ) Hazoumés artistic work is deeply rooted in the consciousness of an independent African cultural tradition and identity. In his paintings, he transfers rituals - symbols of the Fa oracle - into ...
A travel blog entry by shumake
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Ines Doujak
Aug 17, 2007 (2 photos) *1959 in Klagenfurt (AT), lives in Vienna (AT) In her photographs, installations and projects, Ines Doujak examines the norms of human behaviour as structural and constituent elements of society from a decidedly feminist perspective. Her work is ...
A travel blog entry by shumake
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Gerwald Rockenschaub
Aug 17, 2007 (3 photos) *1952 in Linz (AT), lebt in Berlin (DE) Rockenschaub bezieht seine verführerisch-emblematischen Formen aus der Kunstgeschichte, Popkultur und Architektur. Indem der Fokus seiner Arbeiten auf räumliche und perzeptive Wechselbeziehungen gerichtet ist, ...
A travel blog entry by shumake
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Sanja Ivekovic
Aug 17, 2007 (1 photos) Sanja Ivekovic was born in 1949 in Zagreb, Croatia, and lives there still. The following was copied from Culturenet.hr: In the English-speaking world, the red poppy has become a symbol for the memory of soldiers killed in the war, while in ...
A travel blog entry by shumake
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Trisha Brown
Aug 17, 2007 (14 photos) *1936 in Aberdeen (US), lives in New York (US) In the early 1960s, the dancer and choreographer Trisha Brown began to explore everyday movements and place, their function and their substance. She let dancers perform on rooftops or walk along the fronts ...
A travel blog entry by shumake
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Churchill Madikida
Aug 17, 2007 (3 photos) *1973 in Butterworth (ZA), lebt in Johannesburg (ZA) Der Ausgangspunkt von Madikidas Arbeit ist die soziopolitische Dimension autobiografischer Erfahrung und kollektiver Traumata. Dabei bezieht er sich in seinen Installationen, Performances, Video- ...
A travel blog entry by shumake
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John McCracken
Aug 17, 2007 (2 photos) *1934 in Berkeley (US), lives in Santa Fé (US) McCracken's work is characterised by a highly distilled formal vocabulary, refined over many years of development. Colour and surface are utilised to create perceptual shifts between materiality and ...
A travel blog entry by shumake
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Dmitri Gutov
Aug 17, 2007 (4 photos) *1960 in Moscow (RU), lives in Moscow (RU) The artist's and theorist's work is strongly connected with the criticism on western modernism and temporary art. Gutov's main interest lies in the Marxist aesthetic, as to be found in the works by Michail ...
A travel blog entry by shumake
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Nedko Solakov
Aug 17, 2007 (9 photos) We greatly enjoyed this Bulgarian artist's drawings on the subject of "Fears." You can view more of Nedko Solakov's work here.
A travel blog entry by shumake
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Introduction
Jul 22, 2007 (32 photos) ... to see what, if anything, would happen." In this photo album, I have included some photos from the orginal trip to Kassel with Claudia and a few of the larger installations in Documenta Halle. Otherwise, there is a separate entry for each of the artists ...
A travel blog entry by shumake
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Eleanor Antin
Aug 17, 2007 (7 photos) *1935 in New York (US), lives in New York (US) Eleanor Antin explores the potential of identity and moves between reality and role, image and self, past and present in her photographs, films, performances, installations and literary texts. She invents ...
A travel blog entry by shumake
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James Coleman
Aug 17, 2007 (2 photos) "Retake with Evidence" (2007), with its large empty room and large projection of actor Harvey Keitel standing before an empty background, at first sent my minimalism-appreciation neurons happily firing. But it was awful listening to Keitel drone on for ...
A travel blog entry by shumake
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Bill Kouélany
Aug 17, 2007 (2 photos) *1965 in Brazaville (CG), lives in Brazaville (CG) Bill Kouélany is author, playwright and painter. Her paintings, installations, videos, photographs and calligraphies deal with current issues and potential violence of humans. The visual language she ...
A travel blog entry by shumake
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Kerry James Marshall
Aug 17, 2007 (8 photos) *1955 in Birmingham (US), lives in Chicago (US) Marshall makes use of various époques and styles and develops many different methods of portrayal in his painting, collages, videos and comics. Black figures enter the image and stand centre-stage. He ...
A travel blog entry by shumake
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Immenhausen near Kassel
Jul 28, 2004 Der Kurs beginnt am Mittwoch, den 28. Juli, 18.00 Uhr mit dem Abendessen und endet am Sonntag, den 8. August 2004 mit dem Mittagessen. "Zweiter internationaler Meditationskurs" Mittwoch, 28. Juli abends bis Dienstag, 3. August 2004 abends mit S. H. 17. ...
A travel blog entry by hello-ulli
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Fajitas in Kassel
Dec 8, 2006 Well, I made it to Germany, and just had dinner with Sarah! She made some wonderbar Fajitas for us in her charming little apartment. I am very tired from all the travelling, and am very greatfull to be staying put for a few days. I guess ...
A travel blog entry by dragland
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