το μέλλον μιας υπόσχεσης

με αυτό τον τίτλο πραγματοποιήθηκε η μεγάλη παναραβική έκθεση σύγχρονων καλλιτεχνών στην Μπιενάλε της Βενετίας με curator την lina lazaar.
επειδή δεν μου επιτρέπει η ιστοσελίδα να μεταφέρω εδώ φωτό και κείμενα, σας παραπέμπω κατευθείαν στην πηγή.

http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/bien/venice_biennale/2011/tour/the_future_of_a_promise

http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/bien/venice_biennale/2011/tour/the_future_of_a_promise/lara_baladi_2

http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/bien/venice_biennale/2011/tour/the_future_of_a_promise/abdelkader_benchamma

http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/bien/venice_biennale/2011/tour/the_future_of_a_promise/ayman_yossri_daydban

stop the dams in sudan

Having experienced the effects of the Merowe Dam on the environment of the Fourth Cataract region (flooding), the local people (forced resettlement), and their past and present culture (drowned), we are extremely concerned that the Sudanese Government seems ready to implement four more hydropower projects in northern and eastern Sudan.



This means that there will be three dams constructed on the River Nile, one at the Dal Cataract, one at Kajbar in the Third Cataract, and one at Shereik in the Fifth Cataract. The fourth dam will be built on the Atbara River, the last tributary of the Nile. None of these dams is actually necessary given the existence of alternative sources for energy production.

None of these dams has the consent of the local population who will be the ones most affected by the dam implementations.

Διαβάστε πολύ προσεκτικά το κείμενο της έκλησης για να σταματήσουν οι ενέργειες κατασκευής των τεσσάρων νέων φραγμάτων στον Νείλο και υποστηρίξτε με την υπογραφή σας τον αγώνα να αντικασταθούν οι κατασκευές αυτές με εναλλακτικές μορφές ενέργειας εδώ:

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/stop-the-dams-in-sudan.html#fbbox

Πολλές και ενδιαφέρουσες πληροφορίες για την περιοχή αυτή θα βρείτε στο μπλογκ:

http://medievalsaiproject.wordpress.com/page/2/

Magic Squares

The Patterned Imagination of Muslim Africa in Contemporary Culture

Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto

May 18, 2011 - Nov 20, 2011

Four contemporary artists explore the relationship of patterns, communication and spirit in conversation with textiles and symbols from the Museum’s permanent collection of Islamic African artifacts. Magic squares, known all over the world as mathematical games like Sudoku and Kenken, become carriers of powerful and diverse cultural meanings when they are painted, woven or embroidered on textiles in Muslim Africa.

Join artists Jamelie Hasssan, Tim Whiten, Alia Toor and Hamid Kachmar for a discussion of the intersections between their work and the richly diverse patterned imagination of Muslim Africa. Co-produced with Subtle Technologies and the Institute for Ismaili Studies.

http://www.textilemuseum.ca/apps/index.cfm?page=exhibition.detail&exhId=323