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Magazine 30: The Other Library - A letter to an old acquaintance
Richard David Lankes Dear Bibi, You are not the only librarian who has expressed concerns about the future of libraries. Either you hear them saying that they’re old-fashioned or obsolete, or they envision them as community centres more focused on...
Magazine 30: Senseless – With Good Reason
Hans-Joachim Müller Art or folklore? Why Victor Vasarely’s pictures have been unjustly relegated to the trashy corners of art museums. A rehabilitation. Leafing through his old catalogues, listening to the quiet crackle of the glossy pages peeling...
Magazine 30: Rules of Rapture – Ecstasy as an Artistic Process
Questions for Jeremy Shaw What led you to more intensively explore the phenomena of ecstasy in your works? I have been drawn to altered states in general from a very young age. At 6 or 7 years old, my friends and I used to hyperventilate and then...
Magazine 30: Frightening Raptures
Robert Pfaller We are pretty useless as shamans, but a few smaller and larger ecstasies would do our society good 01 The ecstatics and us Although we may be fascinated by foreign cultures with their colourful dances, their trances, their rituals of...
Magazine 30
Magazine #30 was published in April 2018. The texts in this issue adress aspects of "altered states". Since the age of Socrates, the transcendental, ecstatic experience has been associated with the artistic process. In fact, it is possibly one of the...
Next Library Conference 2018
Public libraries are places of knowledge-gathering and dissemination. Yet this knowledge grows and changes as modern society develops. In the future, libraries will not so much resemble a collection of media as they will a platform for bringing...
Distant Companions
The year 2011 marked the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Germany and Japan. In 1861 the two countries signed a friendship, trade and navigation treaty which paved the way for intensive bilateral cooperation in the second half of the...
Thomana 2012
The St. Thomas Choir of Leipzig – one of the world’s oldest and most famous boys’ choirs – commemorated its 800th anniversary in 2012. Its reputation is primarily tied to Johann Sebastian Bach’s position as cantor of St. Thomas’s between 1723 and...
Pèlerinages Kunstfest Weimar 2010
This year’s Kunstfest Weimar probed the boundary that separates genius from madness. Based on the motto “Feux follets – Irrlichter” (Will-o’-the-wisps), the festival presented over 30 music and dance performances, readings and discussions from 20...
The Great Potlatch
The potlatch is a ritual festival in indigenous society in western Canada where the gifts are so luxurious they can drive the gift-giver to financial ruin. The potlatch has enormous significance among the indigenous peoples and frequently accompanies...
