Vienna Zocalo: Januar 2011

Donnerstag, 27. Januar 2011

African Threads and Laces

The Austrian Film Archive, has set up a film programme based on the current exhibition African Lace, Österreichische Stoffe für Nigeria of the Museum für Völkerkunde Vienna. The programme deals with identity, aspects of perception, multiplicity of self-conception and construction of the foreign. What means african identity after the end of colonialisation what is the role of europe in this identity.

-> programm Filmarchiv

-> Filmheft #1, with text from the curators Katja Wiederspahn & J Enoka Ayemba
source: 27.11.2011,19:00 http://filmarchiv.at/show_content.php?sid=413&menuaction=closeall

Donnerstag, 20. Januar 2011

Return or Loan?

Austria thinks about giving the Montezuma-Krona to Mexico as a loan

and would get Maximilian's golden carriage in return.

-> article at Ö1 (in german)

-> article at der Standard (in german)

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http://derstandard.at/1256745564475/Wieder-Aufregung-um-Montezumas-Federkrone

27.01.2011 14:28

Mittwoch, 19. Januar 2011

In- Between in Brazil

Text by Ruby Sircar "Antropophagia vs. Postkolonialismus“ in: „Entre Pindorama“, Elke aus dem Moore/ Giorgio Ronna (Hrsg.), Verlag für moderne Kunst Edition 1200, Nürnberg (2005)

In-Between in Brazil

Dienstag, 18. Januar 2011

Support for our Project

Siria Gastelum will support our press-team.

Curriculum Vitae:

Siria Gastelum has a Masters in Journalism from Carleton University  
(Canada). She also has a Communications B.A. from the Universidad de  
las Americas-Puebla (Mexico) and has studied media production in the  
University of Leeds, United Kingdom. Ms. Gastelum joined the United  
Nations in 2008 as a programme officer with the International  
Narcotics Control Board (INCB), where she coordinated the  
international launch of the INCB annual report, one of the most  
important UN reports on drugs. As a journalist, she worked most  
recently as a foreign correspondent for one of the largest TV networks  
in the US. She has covered a national election, natural disasters and  
a wide range of social issues, interviewing key decision makers such  
as Mexico’s presidents and leaders of the US Senate. In 2007, she won  
an Emmy Award of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She has  
also written, directed and produced documentaries that have been  
screened in film festivals around the world. She has also worked as  
the editorial coordinator of a national magazine and written for  
several publications in English and Spanish. Ms. Gastelum has also  
worked as a communications designer implementing awareness campaigns  
for one of Mexico's top universities.