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A theatre evening in Cape Town Like every year, I invite friends and colleagues to dinner this year to say goodbye and also to present my work here in South Africa: Pictures and sculptures I made. The atmosphere is characterized by warmth and affection, but also always new ideas and conversations come up. This time… A theatre evening in Cape Town weiterlesen

In der jüngsten Ausstellung im Zeitz MOCAA Museum in Kapstadt unter den Titel „Seismography of Struggle“ wird eine historische Zusammenfassung der revolutionären Bewegungen in Kuba, Afrika und Asien gezeigt. Ein Bild, das wir als Linke vor 50 Jahren teilten.  Heute im Kampf  um Demokratie in Europe, sehen wir das anders. Bei uns ist es das Ringen… Zeitz MOCAA weiterlesen

To work in South Africa is a change of perspective that is very impressive. Europe is not everything and soon every fourth inhabitant on earth will be African. Much of what we long for in Europe, such as human warmth, youth, imagination, dreaming, is here in abundance, but also injustice, poverty and the “economy of… International Art Fair. Cape Town 2024 weiterlesen

February 7th 2024 The “Victoria Mxenge Housing Project” is a wonderful example of a grassroot initiative together with government housing policy. It is noteworthy that the initiative came from women in the townships. A quarter of South Africa’s population still lives in the shacks of townships. They are the remnants of the apartheid era. In… The Victoria Mxenge Housing Project weiterlesen

Why is it just South Africa accusing Israel of genocide against Palestinians in Gazah? Has this war been a kind of retraumatisation of Southafrican people with the apartheid history?  Israelis treating Palestinians  as apartheid did with the black people in South Africa.  Or is it just a kind of freeloader politics? I asked different friends and… 16. January 2024 South Africa accuses Israel weiterlesen

January 6th, 2024 Jay Pather talked about his production of the play “hold still” by Nadia Davids. It’s about a married couple, he the son of Holocaust survivors, she the daughter of anti-apartheid fighters and their son who hides a refugee who is wanted by the police. The parents are outraged that their son is… 6. Jan 2024 Ripley continued weiterlesen

Self-analysis, crime novel, or a Wednesday Salon? rather a book of Fernando Pessoas disquiet Since my childhood at school, the phenomenon of bad attitude in my colleagues has accompanied me in a strange way: it is the concept of “I am not stupid” coupled with extreme cynicism, a kind of invulnerability vis-a-vis me. I’ve already… 17. Dezember 2023 weiterlesen

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