Coincidences in Prepositions is a publication program conceptualized in order to review questions, propositions, and solutions that have been set up in the dis/continuities of many colonial milieus.
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Coincidence is a moment of flourishing trivialities. Of all the liberal individualist constructions, it could be taken as one of the most forgiving subjectivities ...
May 16th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04(curatorial) reconstitution | apparatus | assemblage | chief enemy | class-room | compositing | critique | de- | formation | inter-activation | re- | translatability/unforgettability | reset
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Narrative interweaving conceived by Haytham el-Wardany walking along a thread of various historical and fictional events and alphabetical and social system from the Paris Commune to a hidden spell.
September 15th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
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The documentary yield of humor and satire in Wuhan Diaries by the anonymous z and his friends narrates how daily life thrives in the thicket of pandemic priorities.
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Otty Widasari’s moving-image documents locate people, histories, and development in a complex journey of political and cultural transformation through what she calls “poetic science.”
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Clio Nicastro analyzes the different notions and involvements of empathy, both in relation to films, performative works and texts by different authors and as well within Rosa Mercedes Issue 04.
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The historian Farabi Fakih discusses the formation of managerialism in decolonizing Indonesia. Based on his recent book "Authoritarian Modernization in Indonesia’s Early Independence Period," Fakih introduces the making of the indigenous Indonesian manager.
June 20th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
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An article by Christoph Balzar on how German museums with their so-called ethnographic collections have successfully defied anti-colonial and institutional critique.
May 13th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
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In this 1975 television production, Farocki shows and comments on excerpts from the film "Song of Ceylon" by Basil Wright.
May 13th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
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"What does it mean to hang colonial paintings in a university museum in Manila?" An essay by Patrick Flores.
May 13th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
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An interview by Ying Sze Pek: Ho Tzu Nyen discusses three of his recent productions: "The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia" (2017–ongoing), "Hotel Aporia" (2019), and "Night March of Hundred Monsters" (2021–22).
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An essay by Nora M. Alter on Farocki's television film on "About 'Song of Ceylon' by Basil Wright," (1975).
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An artistic contribution in form of a textual weaving process of real encounters and unexpected delays around a gift and a yet-to-come film once named Meat Bag.
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A series of drawings by Andreas Siekmann, which unfold around the state-directed violence on fleeing bodies and the global spread and supranational intensification of the fourth power: the Exclusive as an excluding force.
May 13th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
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How to speak when to speak is to find yourself as if at a confessional, an interrogation booth, a court of law, or a border? An essay by Soyoung Yoon.
May 13th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
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An artistic contribution by Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho, based on their ongoing study of a church mural by Alfonso Ossorio on the island of Negros in the Philippines.
May 13th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
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The writer Glenn Diaz reflects on the possibilities and limitations of empathy as a social instrument.
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The artist Alice Creischer provides the footnotes to her work with the same title in which the history of New Caledonia coincides with the present of Tropical Islands Resorts in Brandenburg.
May 13th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
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An article by Zikri Rahman on the undocumented and stateless seafaring Bajau Laut community and the alternative pedagogical practice of the network of schools Sekolah Alternatif.
May 13th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
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An artistic contribution by Lim Paik Yin that approaches the practice of Bantengan while reflecting on its own approximation.
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An article by Ramon Guillermo on the practice of translation by analyzing the openings and closures of Walter Benjamin’s essay „The Task of the Translator.“
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An article by Nazir Harith Fadzilah on the revival of the Jawi language through the medium of education, publication and research.
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