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Author Archives: Sofia Tussis
Echoes Across the Divide
Forty-one years after the construction of the wall which divides Cyprus’s capital Nicosia into a Turkish and a Greek half, citizens from both sides of town gathered at one of the check points, armed with all sorts of instruments. Children, mothers, fathers and elders started playing and singing from the rooftops across the wall, then [...]
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Activist Art Does Not Have a Home
Spending a four month, -30 degree winter with the street as a home is not something everyone can handle easily. After a couple of hours on the square Emilie Gamelin in central Montreal last November, for the event État d’urgence, my body was begging for warmth, although the thermometer only sank till -10. For four [...]
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Cracking down on kraakers – the end of Dutch squatting as we know it
I come from a city where culture and entertainment belong to those with a thick wallet. For the others, Milan has not much to offer, which pushes to seek for alternatives. The centri sociali, social centers, are the places where music, art, food and politics are collective and cheap if not free, mushrooms of resistance sprouting [...]
Avant-garde Messages- The Dadaists are Back
This collective poem-writing performance connecting art and censure is inspired by the works of the Dadaists and most notably Tristan Tzara and his newspaper collages.
All workshop participants (and even passers-by) were invited to contribute to poems, by “throwing” words into the poem. Some however were also be given authority rights, having [...]