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Mauritian dance mix looking for a haven

By admin | Published: 21 February 2009

Jean Renat Anamah is a dancer based in Mauritius. Dance is a powerful language of identity in an island where Asian, European and African cultures collide. Ahamah’s dance includes elements of the creole Sega, Indian classical and even tango. But this mixing of genres makes it difficult for Ahamah’s dance to find a place in [...]

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Idea of South south installation

By admin | Published: 17 February 2009

Reflecting Glenn Gould’s Idea of North radio performance, here’s a project that attempts a scan of the auditory world across the southern latitude – contributions welcome! Idea of South – Web Map Installation (work in progress) Roger Mills & Neil Jenkins. 21st February – 21st March 2009 Loop Space Gallery, Newcastle. 109 Hunter St, Newcastle, [...]

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Dumont d’Urville’s epic tale of the noble New Zealander

By admin | Published: 8 February 2009

Inspired by Bougainville’s accounts of Tahiti, Jules Sébastien César Dumont d’Urville sought out a mission to explore the south. His first commission was in the Aegean, where he ‘discovered’ the Venus de Milo. In 1822 he was part of an expedition south, when it was still considered possible that France might recover some its recent [...]

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Southern Perspectives website

By admin | Published: 4 February 2009

In many ways, it is shaping to be a grim year. But as the Indian saying goes, ‘The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.’ For once, we have a US President whose southern roots go beyond the Mississippi and extend to Hawaii, Indonesia and Kenya. It seems a [...]

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West, then left

By admin | Published: 26 January 2009

The History of the World travels from East to West, for Europe is absolutely the end of History, Asia the beginning. The History of the World has an East… for although the Earth forms a sphere, History performs no circle around it, but has on the contrary a determinate East, viz, Asia. Here rises the [...]

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