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Paolo Woods and journalist Serge Michel, follows China’s industrial neo-colonialism in African lands at FotoGrafia Rome International Festival of Photography, April 4th – May 25th 2008. The subject choosen for this edition is Seeing normality. Photography portrays daily life that – according to Marco Delogu – shows “how photography for us is the best instrument to describe every day life: a concept that comes from a will to tell normality in opposition to extraordinary”.
Ni hao, ni hao. “I had been walking along a street in Brazzaville only 10 minutes when a merry band of Congolese kids interrupted their ballplaying to greet me. In Africa, white visitors usually hear greetings like “hello, mista” or “hey, whitey,” but these smiling kids lined along the street have expanded their repertoire. They yell “hello” in Chinese, and then they start up their game again. To them, all foreigners are Chinese.” Serge Michel comments in FP.
Brentford Biopsy, a community mapping project is showing at Watermans Gallery in London.
Sat 5th Apr – Sun 15th Jun
40 High Street Brentford TW8 0DS
The Brentford Biopsy is an evolving exhibition initiated through series of participatory mapping workshops by the artist Christian Nold with the designer Daniela Boraschi. During the next two months, the Watermans gallery will act as a live design and mapping studio gathering local information that will be used to create a range of visualisations of the cultural, ecological and economic ‘health’ of Brentford.
Bio Mapping involves people going for a walk in the local area strapped to a portable lie detector as well as a GPS. The device records their Galvanic Skin Response. Using Google Earth, the system plots a map that highlights point of high and low arousal. By sharing this data maps can be created that visualise where we as a community feel stressed and excited. Instead of taking tissue samples as one would from a human subject they will be using range of cultural probes to investigate the local social body and its particular issues. Read the rest of this entry »
Different Ways of Being.Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world’s indigenous cultures, many of which are disappearing, as ancestral land is lost and languages die. He is an anthropologist and ethnobotanist who has traveled and lived among the people of traditional cultures in many countries.
In this talk, Davis argues that we should be concerned not only for preserving the biosphere, but also the “ethnosphere,” which he describes as “the sum total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, intuitions brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness.”
From TEDBlog.More about Wade Davis:
