Echoes Across the Divide

Posted on April 24, 2011 by Sofia Tussis

 
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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First Maas Sessions Video: Mervie And Alessandro

Posted on April 4, 2011 by zaimoon
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MassSession Mervie & Alessandro from Maas Media on Vimeo.
 
Performance by: Mervie & Alessandro
Original song: “To Build a Home” by Cinematic Orchestra and Patrick Watson
All rights reserved to artists & no copyright infringement intended.
Shot by Daniel Van Hauten
Directed by Zai Moon

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A bridge of solidarity

Posted on March 21, 2011 by admin
Photo by Tim Strasser

By Katalina Präkelt
"We Build a Bridge of Solidarity" Photo by Tim Strasser
 
The revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya have not only shaken the Arab countries in North Africa, they have had an impact on the entire world – and they have surely ignited some action in Maastricht. On the theme ‘a bridge of solidarity‘, more [...]

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Gonzo Photojournalism

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Tim
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We are on a mission to portray an array of various subjectivities and to narrate the spectacle of this festivity through precisely the stand points of these subject positions, including our own. Equipped with a camera and a creative approach we tell the diverse stories of participants of various ages, ethnicities and social strata who [...]

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Calcutta/Kolkata – A Personal Memoir

Posted on March 14, 2011 by aranyo.aarjan

A typical afternoon scene for the old Calcutta
In the last week of December 2009, just as the whole of Europe froze over, like a migratory bird I headed out to warmer climes. Yet my destination, tropical as it is by location, was Calcutta (known officially now as Kolkata, a ‘reclaiming’ of pre-colonial city names), not [...]

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Living Off the Grid

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Tim
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Who are “Woodsies” and why do we ask, you might wonder? Well, it is not so much merely a matter of idealizing some ‘hippie lifestyle’, as it might seem, which has been and still very much is a characteristic feature of Santa Cruz, California. Maybe that too, but rather our intention is to point out, [...]

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Activist Art Does Not Have a Home

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Sofia Tussis
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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

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Sofia Tussis
Squat in Maastricht

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 [...]

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Arts and censorship

Posted on July 18, 2010 by admin
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As part of the Creating Waves 2 event, we invited the participants to express their reflections on the relationship between art and censorship through figurative arts.

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Avant-garde Messages- The Dadaists are Back

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Sofia Tussis

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 [...]

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