Culture & Critique

Everything on culture and the arts.

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In May, OVNI organizes its 2012 festival with film screenings, debates and interventions. This year, the Commune and  Mahabharata take center stage.

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Fighting for our lives: why we need a revolution

by Talita Soares on February 22, 2012

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We need a revolution because this system is not a system for the people; because even those who are on the favored side are not able to find true fulfillment.

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Throughout history, art has been the heart and blood of society. Let’s reclaim it to break the illusion of the consumerist prison within which we find ourselves.

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The grassroots movement that started with the Arab Spring has, for the first time in history, made global civil society fully aware of itself and its power.

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Observing the sudden outpouring of sentimentalism, there is no doubt that the passing of Steve Jobs has struck a chord in our collective commodity fetish.

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Living as form: the art of social engagement

by Jerome Roos on September 15, 2011

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Living as Form explores twenty years of cultural works that blur the forms of art and everyday life, emphasizing participation, dialogue and engagement.

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Bauman: consumerism coming home to roost

by Jerome Roos on August 18, 2011

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The famous sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argues that the London riots point us towards a minefield of defective and disqualified consumers.

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Happy overcome: the bright side of burning fire

by I.G. Karfield on July 18, 2011

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Moving from poetry to prophecy, I.G. Karfield is glad to get rid of those rigiddy bonds, funds and stocks. The time has come for happy to overcome.  

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An ode to the skeptics: our gratitude is great

by I.G. Karfield on June 3, 2011

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Our poet-in-chief, I.G. Karfield, spits words like fire at the skeptics who refuse to revolt, the never-so-critical, the never-this-pitifully lyrical.

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An explosive insight into the attack on civil liberties occurring in western democracies and how artists and writers encourage the people’s right to resist against banker occupation.

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