Call for Participants: Hey You, Kanaken!!!

The project "Die Migranten" Workshops
September 2008 to Juni 2009
Genre: Performing Arts / Theatre, Society / Sciences

For the project Die Migranten, the House of World Cultures is seeking Participants from migrant backgrounds

Between June 2008 and June 2009 Cuban artist Tania Bruguera carries out the project Die Migranten at the House of World Cultures. Tania Bruguera is internationally renowned for her work as a performance artist. She was born in Cuba in 1968 and lives in Chicago and Paris. Her work, through which she has been invited to numerous exhibitions and biennials all over the world, merges art with society. Tania Bruguera has been head of an art school in her home town of Havana for five years.

For Die Migranten we are looking for participants who will together with Tania Bruguera work on a socio-political art project. The project’s aim is to give migrants in Europe a strong voice using the strategies that will be devised in regular meetings.Throughout the year, various workshops each lasting several days will take place along with round tables joined by experts. Also, a living archive will be set up which will be open to the public. The participants are invited to bring personal documents, objects and photographs that relate to their migration history.

People from all nations and of all ages are invited to call or email to sign up for the work with Tania Bruguera. The workshops are in English and will be translated. Refreshments will be provided. Participation in the workshops is free of charge.

Contact:
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Katharina Haverich
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin
Tel: 030 / 39 787 0
Email: haverich@hkw.de

Gorgeous morning here -- clear & cold.

Two days in a row -- Not bad.

Breaking News

Flash flash flash!

There's a new campaign around town, and AA now has the whole background story, from a whipping boy we've cultivated over at Reuters. You may have seen the T-shirts, stickers and billboards around town:

Cute, no? But nothing in this town is without controversy. Our inside source tells us that the original campaign was outlined as:

... until it became clear that NO ONE can just BE German, as it's a state of being that is earned only through hundreds of years of concerted effort, superlative language skills, and generally far-above-average intelligence. The correct bloodlines are also essential. The Committee on Truth and Migration added the "von wegen," but the Aussiedler Union, allied with the Tourism & Other Imports Ministry, blocked this addition, as well as the finger the Committee added to the left of this additional slogan.

Fear not. There is an initiative by the mitburger of the Institut fuer Parallel Gesellschaft, which will be coming out in the coming weeks. AA got a sneak peek:

That's something we can all agree on, no?

Graffiti du jour

HALLO! We're back blogging, and this time we won't add two posts and then forget to write again for six months. We swear it! In fact, we're introducing a new feature: Graffiti of the (almost every) Day. We'll start with:

Soft Launch: Introducing the Kanakistan Verlag-i-tron!

CFP: The Kanakistan Verlag-i-tron

KANAKISTAN, March 18, 2008:

ATTENTION ACADEMICS. A select and highly-trained group of Kanak information engineers have recently unveiled the Kanakistan Verlag-i-tron, a program which automatically generates academic research topics of interest to Kanakistan’s public policy initiatives. Under the auspices of the Kanakistan Bibliotheks Researchstipendium program (KBR), academics worldwide are invited to submit previously unpublished work on the following topics:

-- Racism and Migration in the New Europe: It’s the Same Old Europe

-- Imam Deported for “Germans are Stinky” Commentary: State Persecution of Islamic Olfactory Perception

-- Oral Narratives of Capitalism & Labor Migration: My Father was a Guestworker and all I got was this Stupid T-Shirt

-- Kim Kimi Sikiyor?: Islamic Masculinity in the New Europe

-- “Egal, Du stinkst von tr-ink-en”: Germany’s Inner-Empire Raps Back

-- Schwartzfahren: BVG as Melting Pot

Submit academic CV or resume, chosen research area, and funding requirements online to Cedric W. Burgher, SVP & CFO of KBR at: http://kbrcareers.webrecruiter.com/pls/kbr/maine.d?s=42AF738B14F92BA2E0440003BA74E87F

And check back to this site -- Kanakademiker plans to put the Verlag-i-Tron to good use, generating ideas on a regular basis. Check back HERE every week, every YEAR, to further your caREER. Grateful subscribers, send BEER.

COLUMBUS, OHIO, March 18 (Hurry up News Of The World) -- The American flag waves gently over a State Capitol that has seen -- and survived -- harder times than these. In fact, these are happy times, reports Governor Ted Strickland. "All across the United States, the European Union -- indeed, The West -- G8 nations and allies are in a hard-fought race to entice immigrants to our shores. Or, if we have no shores -- like the fine state of Ohio, and also Luxembourg -- to our streets and pavement and homes and factories and cafes, etc. We'd like to announce, with the arrival of Metin Hamsioglu -- I'm sorry, I believe I mispronounced that -- we here in Columbus are welcoming our 415,000th immigrant. And we couldn't be happier."

Metin Hamsioglu, a native of Trabzon by way of Kreuzberg, Berlin, reports he is very happy to be in Columbus, and was suprised at reports that there are two Turkish restaurant in Columbus city limits: Cafe Shish Kebab and Cafe Istanbul. "There used to be three," local news anchor Andrea Cambern reports, "But the third one closed down when the chef got deported. Good times."

Hamsioglu -- the son of Gamzeh and Ahmed Hamsioglu of the Black Sea region of northern Turkey -- also reported that he is looking forward to joining the Electrical Egineering program at Ohio Satte University, which has accepted him for Spring enrollment. He also reported that already the people of Columbus were much friendlier than the Krauts he had to live with in Berlin. He is not quoted here directly, as his English is not yet up to snuff, but he reports he's working on that.

"Is Luxembourg a country?" Governor Strickland asked an aide nearby, closing the State House ceremony. "Is it landlocked?"

There are no doctors but the doctors in Germany

Well, it was difficult trying to decide what to post on the very first Inlanderextremismus entry!

Should it be the police dogs with shoes? The government's guide to becoming German? Gay penguins? The three-page letter threatening to deport my cat? Great topics all, and eventually they will be shared (watchout, Tieramt!).

But something came up very recently and it was too good to be true.

Prosecutors are actually targeting American academics who have been recruited into top positions at institutes (e.g. Max Planck). Turns out, those silly Ph.D.'s don't have doctorates after all! Not, at least, according to a Nazi-era law that only recogizes European doctorates. (Although the Nazis didn't recognize those silly Jewish Europeans' Ph.D.s, either. Oops!)

To read more silly details, just google Non-European PhDs, or follow the yellow brick road.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/13/AR2008031304353.html

Do we see a recurring theme here? Silly, silly, silly.

Herzlich Wilkommen

Herlixh wilkoemmen, du -- warum hast du so longe gewartet meine neue blog univers zu finden?Naja, jetzt bist du hier. Mehr kommt gleich.

Warum wartest du?

Hau ab. Raus!


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