Black.Light Project – exhibition
Singapore International Photography Festival 2014
31.10.2014 – 28.12.2014
Presented by SIPF and Noorderlicht (The Netherlands), in partnership with ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands
Black.Light Project – exhibition
4. Mediations Biennale Poznan 2014
„When Nowhere Becomes Here”
20.09.2014 – 27.10.2014
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Neem het Black.Light Project van de Duitse fotograaf Wolf Böwig en de Portugese journalist Pedro Rosa Mendes. Wie zich ondermeer per koptelefoon laat meevoeren naar Sierra Leone en Liberia, beide lange tijd geteisterd door burgeroorlogen, zal niet snel vergeten waar dit werk over gaat. Sterker, wie luistert naar de in prachtige taal gegoten verschrikkingen en de bijbehorende foto’s en tekeningen bekijkt, neemt dit met zich mee naar huis.
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„AN OCEAN OF POSSIBILITIES“
De Volkskrant 3. September 2014
Black.Light Project – exhibition
Noorderlicht Photofestival 2014
An Ocean of Possibilities
Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
31.08.2014 – 26.10.2014
„city of rest“ – Black.Light Project
Noorderlicht Photofestival 2014,
Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
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The 21st Noorderlicht International Photofestival is inspired by the growing quest for different means to shape our collective future, in a hopeful answer to the structural failings of our current economic and political systems.
With To Have and Have Not (2013), Noorderlicht shed light on the causes and agents behind the current global economic and political crisis. An Ocean of Possibilities moves beyond dissecting what went wrong, and looks at the decisive potential of those who go against the tide and plot their own course.
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„reporting violence – one night in Florida“
Screenshot from film/animation
25 minutes
Black.Light Project
Noorderlicht Photofestival 2014,
Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
Singapore International Photography Festival 2014
Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Asphalt Magazin
Juli 2014
Fotocollage: Wolf Böwig
Text: Philipp Scharper, Volker Macke
Bosnia’s Future
While the physical scars of the 1992-1995 Bosnia war have healed, political agony and ethnic tension persist. Real peace requires a new constitution and bottom-up political change.
Protests in February that led to the fall of four canton governments revealed deep popular disaffection and an urgent need for reform. But the Bosnian political elite’s lack of vision goes along with ineffective institutions and a constitution that impedes political change. A suffocating system of ethnic quotas contributes to bad governance and no longer meets any of the three communities’ interests. In its latest report, Bosnia’s Future, the International Crisis Group examines factors pushing the country toward disintegration and outlines alternative scenarios based on democratic reform from within.
The report’s major findings and recommendations are:
Bosnia’s constitution (Annex 4 to the Dayton Peace Agreement) defines two state entities for three constituent peoples: Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs. It is based on a mix of ethnic and civic identity that is open to abuse and has led to paralysis in political and administrative institutions. The state’s political communities – self-defined groups of like-minded citizens that overlap but are not identical with the ethnically-based constituent peoples – are left without effective representation.
Bosnia needs to break from its system based on constituent peoples and implement a constitution based on a territorially defined federation, without a special role for constituent peoples but responsive to the interests of its three communities and the rights of all citizens.
The head of state should reflect Bosnia’s diversity, something a collective does better than an individual, and should be directly elected. Ethnic quotas should be abolished. Instead, representation should reflect self-defined regions and all their voters.
The ten cantons in the larger state entity, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, are an under-performing, superfluous layer. They should be removed, together with a number of inefficient state-level agencies and institutions. The cantons should be replaced by a new form of autonomy for Croat regions, while the state will need new capacities as it prepares for European integration.
The European Union (EU) and the wider international community should support Bosnia without high-handed interventions. The UN should close the Office of the High Representative and dissolve the Peace Implementation Council. The EU should welcome a Bosnian membership application as a first step towards eventual accession.
“Bosnia is torn between an outmoded ethnic model and an easily-abused civic model. It needs to find a new approach incorporating parts of both and based on federalism” says Marko Prelec, Executive Director of the Balkans Policy Research Group and former Crisis Group Balkans Project Director. “To survive as one state, Bosnia must conceive new foundations. Agreement may take years and much experimentation, but the search should begin”.
“Dayton acts as a mirror of the past, not a roadmap for the future. It keeps the country trapped in ill thought-out, internationally-imposed tasks”, says Hugh Pope, Europe and Central Asia Deputy Program Director. “It is time to treat Bosnia normally, without extraneous tests or High Representatives”.
International Crisis Group
July 2014
POLAR.
HALBJAHRESMAGAZIN FÜR POLITIK – THEORIE – ALLTAG
RELEASE #16 – HEAVY
EIN ABEND ZUR DRASTIK IN GESELLSCHAFT UND KUNST
Sophienstraße 18, 10178 Berlin-Mitte
U-Bahn Weinmeisterstraße, S-Bahn Hackescher Markt, S-Bahn Oranienburger Straße
PROGRAMM
Einführung /Heftvorstellung polar 16:
Was ist die Kunst der Drastik?
Peter Siller (polar)
Animation:
BLACK.LIGHT PROJECT
Wolf Böwig (Fotojournalist)
Slide-Performance II:
ÜBER MONSTER
Jörg Buttgereit (Regisseur/Autor) im Gespräch
Diskussion:
KRASS. ZUR FUNKTION DER DRASTIK IN GESELLSCHAFT UND KUNST
MIT Jörg Buttgereit (Regisseur/Autor), Julie Miess (Kulturwissenschaftlerin/Musikerin), Anna-Catharina Gebbers (Kuratorin), Peter Siller (polar) MODERATION Arnd Pollmann (polar) IM ANSCHLUSS PARTY MIT DRASTISCHER MUSIK VOM POLAR-DJ-TEAM
migozarad [it will pass]* – written on a wall in Kunduz
Magazin für Politik, Theorie, Alltag
Mai 2014
Black.Light Project was chosen by the KOLGA AWARD international jury members among the best photos of the year 2014!
Two reportages of Black.Light Project will be exhibited on May 1 at KOLGA AWARD exhibition to be held in Tbilisi, Georgia and will be printed in the annual photo catalogue. The KOLGA AWARD finalists will be announced at the exhibition.
KOLGA AWARD 2014
May 1-7 2014
Screenshots from the catalog
Die kleine Gemeinde Tugu am Rande der 18-Millionen-Stadt Jakarta bewahrt ein weltweit einzigartiges musikalisches Erbe, das auf portugiesische, indische, arabische und javanische Wurzeln zurückgeht.
Foto und Illustration: Wolf Böwig
Grafik: Christoph Ermisch
Text: Pedro Rosa Mendez, aus dem
Englischen von Renate Schwarzbauer
Asphalt Magazin
April 2014
Ausstellung in der Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover
Ausstellungsdauer:
Freitag, 10. Januar, bis Sonntag, 12. Januar 2014
Vernissage: Donnerstag, 9. Januar 2014, 18 Uhr
Grußwort: Gabriele Ciecior, Kulturbüro der Landeshauptstadt Hannover
Jahresempfang, Auktion und Tanzmusik:
Sonntag, 12. Januar 2014, 15 Uhr
15 Uhr Jahresempfang mit Sekt
16 Uhr Auktion mit Prof. Rolf Hüper, ehem. Dekan Design und Medien, Hochschule Hannover
18 Uhr Musik von Brasswurst aka Gegenwind of Change aka Königliche Braut
Öffnungszeiten: Fr 16-20 Uhr, Sa und So 14-18 Uhr
Eintritt: 3 Euro, ermäßigt: 2 Euro, Sonntag frei
