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The MacGhillie Hall presents

In constantly renewed combinations and variants, there are only three protagonists who appear in the ball room – the figure of the unrecognizable BlackGhillie, who in some cases assumes a portrait-like resemblance to the viewer, MacGhillie, and the anonymous “mob, clothes without heads”. The carousel of figures, props and landscapes revolves around them

dancing with’without Darwin

voice-generated ornaments – as a follow-up of the reciprocal affair of critical Blackness and Whiteness, the signifyin’ voice of spoken word artist Zulile Blinker is weaving the post/colonial history/ies via an open mic into ornaments, variations of camouflage/costumes and potential parodistic dances. footnotes:  Charleston Parade, Jean Renoir, 1927

kotomisi, non essential mix Vol 1

kotomisi – non essential mix Vol 1 is a diagram of ornaments and voices, clothes and foldings, performative inventions , audio pieces, and radio tracks. voices: Zulile, Radio Stanvaste/Helen Mijnals, Eiko, MacGhillie remix: Aito, costume: Bilkiss, mask: Lapuneet, visual software: Simon Broggi Shedhalle Zürich, “connect”, 14.7.-11.9.2011 Moscow Biennal, “DADA Moscow”, 22.9.-30.10.2011 Museo Maga, Gallarte (I), [...]

macghillie _ just a void

Brest (F), 1917 macghillie is roaming around, defying a goal, without intention, withdrawing from purpose, crossing the cybernetic loops. macghillie defies classification, attributions are shifted into the void, no will to communicate. recognition does not help. how long this can last in a postutopian space? are there moments for something that does not want to [...]

Soul Train

Inmates based in a juvenile prison, juvenile correction center are overcoding the rule systems of their surveilled spaces with the re-staging of a Soul Train: a line dance which was practiced in the seventies in an afro-american TV show called Soul Train. The imprisoned participants will perform an improvised line dance in a fictive,anonymising mask/costume [...]

huwwara_anybody, looking

A participative dis/play – Is the voice of the piece renarrating a TV-report about a failed and half way interrupted attack of a Palestinian boy on an Israelian checkpoint, or,  unfolding a fictive imagination  about a hybridisation of the suicide bomber with a military robot and its surrounding security architecture into an undecodable  animated being?

opaque presence

Opaque Presence / Manual of Latent Invisibilities ed.: Andreas Broeckmann , knowbotic research 156 pages, Broschur / ISBN 978-3-03734-108-7 published by diaphanes Berlin, Edition Jardins des Pilotes

pizzaboy, disappearing without trace

Hacking the City 05.06 – 26. 09. 2010 Folkwang Museum Essen Kuratorin: Sabine Schmidt

be prepared! tiger!

FEEDFORWARD. The Angel of History Cleaning up after the 20th century. What is progress now? The Angel of History addresses the current moment in history where the wreckage of political conflict and economic inequality is piling up, while globalized forces­largely enabled by the “progress” of digital information technologies ­inexorably feed us forward. The exhibition title [...]

BlackBenz.race

BlackBenz Race BBR focuses on the often hidden space of Albanian migrants in Switzerland. BBR is aiming to render temporarily visible the dynamics of the Swiss/Albanian migrational space by conducting a semi-fictional car race from Zurich (CH) via Bari (IT), Tirana (AL) and Tetovo (MAZ) to Pristina (Kosovo, UNMIK controlled) and back to Zurich. A [...]

NEWBORN_undeliverable?

A NEWBORN sign was circulating  through the media, i.e. New York Times, Syndey Morning Herald, BBC and Pravda, and had been made visible by hundreds of  internet-postings in blogs, Flickr and  Youtube. The media presence made the sign apparently  hyperprecise and generic: One could get any information about the sign: Produced by the global advertising [...]