Inspired by the Dadaist Oulipo movement, some people created a Mastodon server where the letter “e” must not be… By chance, I had visited a guest lecture addressed to a STEM audience distant from the arts
, by the Düsseldorf computational linguist Esther Seyffarth who mentioned this…
I had not dared to blog about theater before, apart from filmed and funny light theatre, fearing that my naive enthusiasm for apparent innovations outdated for decades… – but unfinished sentences and choral speaking never ceased to amaze me again and… similar to empty stages that have long been obsoleted by maximalism and camera operations… but not a those low budget independent performances that I tend to prefer for various reasons including affordable ticket prices and a distance towards the established…
Such a performance, at ITZ Zimmertheater Tübingen, is where this post’s title image has…
Worth mentioning, train romanticism reminiscing nostalgic films of the 1990s, where people meet on a train, discuss, maybe spend a night or a few days together and then letting go without staying in contact. A painful necessity back then, a scarce exception now, when everyone is quick to exchange their social media accounts or phone…
An unexpected encounter of a different kind, which I will not go into detail here, felt like time travelling, meeting an earlier version of myself, the one that has been travelling to Kashmir in 1997. Kashmir: “Roof of the Earth”, “Paradise on Earth”, “An Accident in Paradise” (the name of a techno pop hit back then, complementing the advertorial claim that didn’t seem to match any…), “You should have been here in 1987”, “no, in 1967”, “Kashmir is Hotel California” (cynical statement alluding at the Eagles’ song lyrics). We have also talked about fate lines and attractors and that “the advice to your younger and/or future self” might be a psycho cliché, but it can still provoke very intense emotions and a certain cringe moment, much like my photo of…
