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You Are Here.
Ann Cotten
Anna Bro
Agnieszka Drotkiewicz
Martin John Callanan
Volha Martynenka
Francesca Musiani
Christophe Van Gerrewey
Urszula Wozniak
http://brokendimanche.eu/youarehere
Broken Dimanche Press is pleased to launch with the release of a
catalogue of intention, a guide book to Europe from a unique point of
view. From interrogating Nicolas Bourriaud‘s ideas of a new age of the
altermodern to the daily life of a political actitivist in the last
dictatorship in Europe,Belarus, You Are Here goes a way to offering a
unique field book for contemporary Europe. A continent where young
artists and activists blend forms and travel in their work, living in
one country while all the while subtly interrogating their home
countries’ traditions and expectations. A generation has come of age in
a post-Wall Europe who no longer feel obligated to answer the national
questions, but instead answer to their unique personal experience, one
of borderless work and travel, mediated by translation and the Internet.
Such instances of artistic, intellectual and activist projects are given
space in You Are Here, offering the chance to see whether such young
practitioners really are writing from a freedom and plurality born in
1989 back into a new, wider and pan-European tradition in 2009.
Featuring:
Martin John Callanan
Martin John Callanan is an artist whose work spans numerous mediums and
engages both emerging and commonplace technology. Some of his more
well-known pieces include the ambient audio installation Sonification of
You, the meta-news aggregator I Wanted to See All the News From Today
and Text Trends, which abstracts the casual manner in which we receive,
scan and process information and language on a daily basis. Martin is
currently Artist in Residence at UCL Environment Institute and Teaching
Fellow at the Slade School of Fine Art UCL. Grounds (Berliner Mauer) is
the result of a research residency in Simon Faithfull’s Mobile Research
Unit no.1 at Skulpturenpark Berlin, August 2009.
Anna Bro
Anna Bro was born at Fyn in 1980. Her parents were actors and met each
other in a theatre group called Banden. They tool part in political
group theatre and tried out lots of things until it all dissolved and
they moved to Copenhagen. Although she was not old back then, the group
theatre of the 70s and 80s has influenced her considerably (in what is
somewhat a love-hate relationship!). She started doing theatre at the
age of 18 and created her own theatre group. Since she finished her
degree in dramaturgy at the Århus Theatre, she has written scripts for
several different theatres in Denmark. She has worked amongst other
places in Mungo Park Theatre and been part of the Royal Theatre’s
“Ensemble in the Ensemble”, Turbo Town. At the moment she is working on
several film projects.
Ann Cotten
Born 1982 in Ames, Iowa, grew up in Vienna and now lives in Vienna and
Berlin. She published a book of sonnets on foreign words,
Fremdwörterbuchsonette (edition Suhrkamp 2007) and Nach der Welt. Die
Listen der Konkreten Poesie und ihre Folgen, Klever Verlag 2008 (‘After
the World. Lists of Concrete Poetry and their Effects’). Her latest
project is the website www.glossarattrappen.de featuring alphabetically
indexed texts, images and an experiment in reading. Irregularly in
Berlin she hosts the "Rotten Kinck Schow" together with Monika Rinck,
Sabine Scho and shifting guests.
Agnieszka Drotkiewicz
Born in 1981 in Warsaw Agnieszka is a writer and journalist. Author of
three novels: Paris London Dachau (2004), Dla mnie to samo (‘The Same
for Me’, 2006) and Teraz (‘Right Now’, 2009), and co-author of two books
– collections of interviews with writers and artists (among them Michel
Houellebecq, Marlene Streeruwitz, Dubravka
Ugresic). She published in several Polish magazines, such as “Lampa”,
“Gazeta Wyborcza”, “Wysokie Obcasy”, “Krytyka Polityczna”, the German
“Der Tagesspiegel” and many others. Moderator of several panel
discussions (among them: “We want the entire life!” in Uppsala, during
“Kobieta betyder kvinna” festival in 2008). In 2006 Drotkiewicz was
awarded the scholarship for writers in Villa Decius, Cracow and in 2009
in Literarisches Colloquium Berlin.
Volha Martynenka
Born in 1983 in Minsk, Belarus, Martynenka graduated from the Philosophy
and Social Science Department of the Belarusian State University, Minsk
in 2006. Scientific interests include immigration within the context of
globalization, women and queer studies. Following a nomadic lifestyle
since 2007, she has engaged with freelance journalism, sporadic
political analysis and translation. Volunteer work with mentally
disabled people is Martynenka’s present main social activity.
Ursuala Wozniak
Born in 1984 in Szczecin, Poland, she grew up in West Germany. She lives
in Berlin, where she studies European Ethnology and Art History at
Humboldt University and Political Science at Free University. As an
anthropologist she works on the topics of migration, postcolonialism and
urban development. Since 2008, she took part in several exhibitions and
art projects in Berlin: She co-curated an exhibition on globalist
projects in-between Istanbul and Berlin TransglobalLiveMemoryBox,
contributed an installation on Herbert Marcuse to the exhibition Berlin
68 Sichten einer Revolte and most recently, she did research on polish
migrant’s perspectives on the fall of the Berlin Wall in the project
Placemaking.
Francesca Musiani
Born in 1984 in Padova, Italy Musiani is currently a PhD candidate at
the Centre for the Sociology of Innovation, Mines ParisTech in Paris,
France; she is also a member of the Vox Internet II research project,
and maintains a collaboration with the University of Padova. Her thesis
research focuses on the processes of social construction of the Internet
governance realm, and in particular, explores features and implications
of alternative uses of peer-to-peer technology. Francesca is fluent in
English, French, Spanish and her native Italian, and before joining the
CSI, she has been a student in California, a journalist at the United
Nations in New York, a graduate student and research assistant in Costa
Rica, and a radio speaker in Padova. She likes to define herself as a
citizen of the world in-the-making and is passionate about interesting
people, music, movies and stories from around the world.
Christophe Van Gerrewey
Born in 1982, Van Gerrewey studied architecture at the University of
Ghent and literature at the University of Leuven. He has published both
fiction and non-fiction in magazines and books, such as Reality without
Restraint, Bathtime in the Villa dall'Ava (2005) and Rotterdam (2007,
together with Bas Princen). He works as a researcher and teacher at the
Department of Architecture and Urbanism at Ghent University. In 2008, he
was awarded with the First Price for Young Art Criticism (Amsterdam).
With translations by:
Joy Hawley
Born and raised in Walnut, California, Joy Hawley earned her degree in
Literary Journalism and German from the Johnston Center for Integrative
Studies at the University of Redlands. She lives in her adopted home
city of Berlin, where she works as a freelance translator. She is also
regularly involved in cultural and literary projects and strives to
bridge the German- and English-speaking worlds by introducing people to
new writers, because, in the words of Lyn Hejinian, “language is a
medium for experiencing experience,” and stepping into these other
experiences is crucial for our understanding of the world, as well as
for motivating us to change it.
Antonia Lloyd-Jones
An editor and translator Lloyd-Jones read Russian and Ancient Greek at
Oxford. Her translations from Polish include Who was David Weiser? by
Pawel Huelle (nominated for the Independent Foreign Fiction Award) and
House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk.
Edited by:
Line Madsen Simenstad
Born 1985, has studied development studies and political science. She
lives in Oslo where she works in the youth exchange organisation AFS, as
well as a freelance journalist.
John Holten
Novelist , poet and editor, from Ireland, educated in Dublin and Paris,
has lived in France, Norway and Germany.
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