Arts internships as exploitation?

Posted on March 16, 2010 by nicole

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2010/feb/23/arts-unpaid-interns-exploitation

Art Garden on East Hastings: a refuge for the imagination

Posted on February 23, 2010 by verena

Art confounds so many of the problematics that come with the politics of power and poverty. Take the Hastings Folk Garden, for example. You can’t find it through the Cultural Olympiad. There are no Tourism BC pamphlets that tell you how to get there. You find it by walking around in Canada’s poorest neighbourhood, the [...]

Visual inspiration

Posted on January 21, 2010 by bryony

Frankfurt School BBCi Player ‘In Our Time’

Posted on January 17, 2010 by john

Frankfurt School
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00pr54s/In_Our_Time_The_Frankfurt_School/

New internet piracy law comes into effect in France

Posted on January 4, 2010 by john

New internet piracy law comes into effect in France
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8436745.stm

‘if I retire to the country to have children, please kill me’

Posted on December 8, 2009 by bryony

Pam Hogg, renegade fashion designer, is Angela McRobbie’s prime example of non-conformity in fashion, how to grow up and not, as a recent article and interview on her work in Vice put it ‘design for Debenhams’
Are you pleased you didn’t end up designing a range for Debenhams?
It seems more and more likely that designing for [...]

Female Toilets in Mumbai

Posted on December 6, 2009 by john

Here is the film I mentioned a month or so … bit tough in places … about female toilets in Mumbai  
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nicI52FXVtg&feature=related
 
Part 1 of documentary on gender, public space and urban development in Mumbai, India. Directed by Paromita Vohra  
 
 
 

Interview with Crystal

Posted on October 16, 2009 by ko chieh

1.Crystal’s favourite culture space is a multiple bookshop which includes books, café and other shops, like ‘eslite ‘In Taiwan. She felt  most bookshops in China(or in Beijing)seems more like department store than cultural spaces because people too focus on  development of economy. However, in the bookshop which runs for 24 hours and also provides space [...]

Verena’s cultural space by Leonie

Posted on October 15, 2009 by leonie

1.      What is your favorite cultural space? Why?
A Café in Dalston, it’s a rough warehouse. Vernena likes to bring her laptop or book and sit among the quiet environment, she likes to listen to what people are talking about and sometimes can hear some interesting events. Also, Barbican Centre is impressive since she [...]

Interview with Amadeus .F

Posted on October 15, 2009 by amadeus

  Q1:  What is your favourite culture space? And why? 
A.F:  My favourite culture space is something like the “Golden touch”. The idea that people can repackaging and bring something new or reinterpret the oldfashioned or outdated culture elements which surround us in our daily life which might bring new market value. Because firstly, the culture industry [...]