<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[WERKSTATT | SAMMLUNG | KOMPOSITION]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artikel]]></description><link>http://polypragmon.eu/</link><copyright><![CDATA[Copyright WERKSTATT | SAMMLUNG | KOMPOSITION]]></copyright><generator>sNews CMS</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Fatoumata Diwara beim Festival au Fil des Voix]]></title><description><![CDATA[                ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:06:24 +0000</pubDate><link>http://polypragmon.eu/weltmusik/fatoumata-diwara-beim-festival-au-fil-des-voix/</link><guid>http://polypragmon.eu/weltmusik/fatoumata-diwara-beim-festival-au-fil-des-voix/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Program]]></title><description><![CDATA[              BYRDCLIFFE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM      The Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Program provides uninterrupted time, creative space and an inspiring environment to artists of exceptional talent. Month long residencies are available to visual artists, composers, playwrights/screenwriters, and writers of fiction, nonfiction and poetry in the months of June, July, August, and September. It is Byrdcliffe's mission to provide solitude in a creative community and uninterrupted time in which to concentrate on producing independent and enduring creative work alongside fellow artists.    Opened in 1903, the Byrdcliffe Art Colony was placed on the National Register of Historic Sites in 1979 for its architectural and historical significance. It is located in the Catskill Mountains, 1.5 miles from the center of Woodstock, New York.    Read what one of the 2011 residents has to say about her stay at Byrdcliffe in her   blog  !            2012 ONLINE APPLICATION      
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        les matins - Olivier Roy     par   franceculture    
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      KW Institute for Contemporary Art is looking for a chief
curator  &nbsp;  

    KW Institute for Contemporary Art is looking for a chief curator to
work at KW for a fixed term of three years, starting on January 1, 2013.
The term can be extended for an additional two years.    
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  The Association Shedhalle Z&uuml;rich is looking for a new curatorial
and operational team (180%)&nbsp;starting August 1, 2012.  
  Referring to the role and positioning of Shedhalle as a self-organised
exhibition space, which is not&nbsp;hierarchically structured and part of
the compound of the cultural centre Rote Fabrik in Zurich, the&nbsp;board
of the association is looking for a new curatorial and operational team by
August 2012.  
  The team effort should span all of the various spheres of activity. The
Association Shedhalle Z&uuml;rich&rsquo;s&nbsp;programmatic orientation
focuses on opening up a critical thinking space that mirrors its policies
and&nbsp;its practices as well as topical issues. The emphasis lies on
questions regarding politics of display and&nbsp;the euro-centrist history
of exhibition making.  The term is limited to 4 years.  

  Applications (in German or in English) including a statement concerning
contents and approaches&nbsp;should be submitted in digital form (pdf, up
to 3 MB) by December 31, 2011 to &nbsp;  vorstand@shedhalle.ch  .  
  Teams will be invited for a talk at the Shedhalle, between February 27
and March 3, 2012. The conversations will be held in German or in
English. The board is interested in providing translations&nbsp;into other
languages.  
  Further information regarding the job opening can be found&nbsp;at
Shedhalle (  www.shedhalle.ch/en/request-proposal  )  

  For further questions, please contact
  vorstand@shedhalle.ch  .  
    Verein Shedhalle    Rote Fabrik  Seestrasse 395  Postfach 771  CH-8038 Z&uuml;rich    www.shedhalle.ch    

            
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  The Emdash Award is open to artists living outside of the UK, up to five years from graduating from an undergraduate or postgraduate degree or under 35 years of age. The Emdash Award is organised by Frieze Projects, supported by the Emdash Foundation and presented in collaboration with Gasworks.  

  The recipient of the prize will have the unique opportunity to present their work at Frieze Art Fair 2012 to a significant international audience. Additionally the prize will cover production costs of up to £10,000, an artist’s fee, per diems, travel expenses and a studio residency at Gasworks in London from August to October 2012.  

  The closing date for applications is 9 January 2012. The winner of the award will be announced in May 2012.  

  Proposals for work can take the form of site-specific installations; performance; film; video or print work. Applicants will be judged on the innovative nature of their proposal and its suitability for realisation at Frieze Art Fair.  

  The Emdash Award winner in 2011 was Anahita Razmi, whose work Roof Piece Tehran was launched at Frieze Art Fair 2011 to significant critical acclaim.  

    
  

       
   
        
      
  
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        What is the EMDASH award?    
        Application form    

        How to apply    
        Further information    
  

  


      The Emdash Award 2012 selection panel is:  

  
  Andrea Dibelius (Emdash Foundation)  

  Ryan Gander (Artist)  
  Rowan Geddis (Residencies Co-ordinator, Gasworks)  
  Udo Kittelmann (Director of the National Gallery, Berlin)  
  Sarah McCrory (Curator, Frieze Foundation)  
  Dr. Matthias Mühling (Curator of the Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Munich)  
  Amelie von Wedel (Emdash Foundation)  
  

  The Emdash Award for emerging artists living outside the UK is a major initiative in collaboration with gasworks and supported by the Emdash Foundation.  

  Emdash is a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to promoting new ideas across disciplines from artistic and cultural projects to scientific research. Founded by Andrea Dibelius in 2010, Emdash’s activities are motivated by philanthropy, a commitment to supporting new ideas and emerging talent and a love for the arts. The Emdash Foundation will aim to support artists on a long-term basis.  

  For more information on Emdash please visit   emdashfoundation.com  
  

    
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the location    

In the forested Treptower Park along the Spreeriver in East Berlin, find an abandoned amusement park. Built by the GDR in 1969, Kulturpark Planterwald was a site for Eastern Bloc amusement and exchange. After the fall of the Wall, the park became the family owned Spreepark, and suffered challenges of attendance and economy, and the bankrupt park closed its gates in 2001. Perhaps you have been there since, and have already hopped the fence and explored this jungle of collapsed thrill machines.    


the proposal    

Amusement parks contain a vast repository of memories, histories, imaginaries, dreams, fantasies, fears, and temporalities. This park is a constellation of political, ecological, machinic, economic, natural, and cultural cycles. Its ruins, traces, and stories provide fertile grounds for re-positioning amusement kultur, charting new potentials for physical, social, and collective movements. Kulurbahn will re-imagine the future for the 21st C. kulturpark.    


Kulturbahn    

On June 28-31st 2012, the park will awake once again for a participatory exhibition that investigates the park’s past, illuminates its presence, and designs its futures. Kulturbahn--the train that traverses the park’s perimeter and the only functioning ride--will host a moving landscape of sound, lights, music, performances, projections, and installations.  The park will be animated as as a time machine, a landscape of awareness, a thriving ecology, a remainder of history, a political expression, a playground of possibility, a platform for observation, and a site for social exchange.    
Contact and application:   kulturpark.org  
    
  DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: DECEMBER 15th 2011  

    

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		  NEWS #3 2011  
	  
	    please scroll down for English version    
	    DIE 7. BERLIN BIENNALE STELLT ASSOZIIERTE KURATORINNEN
	VOR: DIE GRUPPE VOINA AUS RUSSLAND UND JOANNA WARSZA     Artur
	Żmijewski hat die Gruppe Voina aus Russland und Joanna Warsza aus
	Warschau zu assoziierten KuratorInnen ernannt, die gemeinsam das
	Konzept und Programm der 7. Berlin Biennale weiterentwickeln werden.  

	  VOINA  Oleg Vorotnikov (a.k.a. Vor), Natalya Sokol (a.k.a.
	Kozljonok or Koza), Leonid Nikolajew (a.k.a. Leo the Fucknut) und
	Kasper Nienagliadny Sokol  
	  Das KünstlerInnenkollektiv Voina (dt.: Krieg) aus Russland wurde
	2005 von Oleg Vorotnikov und Natalya Sokol gegründet. Voina
	engagiert sich in aktionistischer Straßenkunst, die sich gegen die
	russischen Autoritäten richtet. Ihre Aktionen werden regelmäßig
	von einer Vielzahl von anonymen AktivistInnen unterstützt. Gegen
	die Gruppe und ihre AktivistInnen wurden bereits zahlreiche
	strafrechtliche Prozesse angestrengt. Zuletzt wurden Mitte Oktober
	2011 Natalya Sokol und ihr Sohn Kasper für mehrere Stunden in
	Arrest genommen. Oleg Vorotnikov, Natalya Sokol, Leonid Nikolajew
	und Kasper Nienagliadny Sokol verweigern die Verwendung von Geld und
	leben ohne permanenten Wohnsitz in St. Petersburg. Ihr Credo lautet,
	wie Natalya Sokol erklärt: „Ein Künstler, der sich dem
	politischen Bewusstsein verschließt, ist nur ein Designer.“  


  
	  „Wir gehen nicht davon aus, dass die Gruppe Voina als
	herkömmliche KuratorInnen agieren werden. Vielleicht werden Sie an
	die Türen von Ateliers klopfen, aber sicher nicht, um Kunstwerke
	auszuwählen, sondern um uns an das Ethos der KünstlerInnen zu
	erinnern. Sie gehören zu den letzten wenigen Gläubigen, die eine
	Kunst ausüben, die einen direkten politischen Auftrag hat. Sie
	verfolgen ihre eigene, grenzenlose, erratische und ernsthafte
	Praktik in Russland. Haben sie bereits ihr „bestes Kunstwerk“
	geschaffen? Vielleicht der riesige Penis auf der Litiejnyj-Brücke
	in St. Petersburg? Das glauben wir nicht. Ihr bestes Kunstwerk ist
	die Erinnerung daran, dass wir uns als die Kunstwelt auf dem Weg
	befinden, zu einer neoliberalen Elite zu werden, die nur noch an
	finanziellem Gewinn und der Anhäufung symbolischen Kapitals
	arbeitet.“ (Artur Żmijewski und Joanna Warsza)  
	  Lesen Sie   HIER  
	Zitate aus einem Gespräch mit Leonid Nikolajew.  

	  Weitere Informationen    http://en.free-voina.org    
	  Letzte Aktionen von Voina  Aktion “  Dick
	captured by KGB  ”. 14. Juni 2010  
	  Aktion “  Leo
	the Fucknut is our President!  ”. 16.–22. Mai 2010 
	  
	  JOANNA WARSZA  Joanna Warsza, geboren 1976, ist Kuratorin an
	der Schwelle von darstellender und bildender Kunst. Nach ihrem
	Abschluss an der Warschauer Akademie für Theater absolvierte sie
	ein Aufbaustudium an der Tanzfakultät der Universität Paris 8. Sie
	ist Mitgründerin der unabhängigen Plattform Laura Palmer
	Foundation (www.laura-palmer.pl). Joanna Warsza arbeitet überwiegend
	im öffentlichen Raum, wo sie Projekte kuratiert, die soziale und
	politische Fragestellungen untersuchen, darunter zur
	Nicht-Sichtbarkeit der vietnamesischen Gemeinde in Warschau, dem
	Phänomen der israelischen Jugenddelegationen in Polen oder dem
	post-sowjetischen Architektur-Erbe im Kaukasus. Gemeinsam mit
	Krzysztof Wodiczko leitet sie ein Seminar zu Konflikt, Trauma und
	Kunst an der Warschauer Hochschule für Sozialpsychologie sowie
	eines zur Performativität in der zeitgenössischen Kultur. Sie hat
	Projekte unter anderem mit dem Berliner Theater Hebbel am Ufer, dem
	Museum für Moderne Kunst Warschau, dem AICA Armenien, dem GeoAir
	Tbilisi, dem Centre Pompidou und der Biennale de Belleville, beides
	in Paris, organisiert. Außerdem ist sie Herausgeberin des Readers
	  Stadium X – A Place That Never Was.    Seit Anfang 2011
	arbeitet sie mit Artur Żmijewski an der Entwicklung und Umsetzung
	des Konzeptes der 7. Berlin Biennale. Joanna Warsza lebt und
	arbeitet in Berlin und Warschau.  

	  Lesen Sie   HIER  
	ein Gespräch zwischen Artur Żmijewski und Joanna Warsza. 
	  
	    KRYTYKA POLITYCZNA IN BERLIN    1.12.2011, 20
	Uhr    FORMS OF ENGAGEMENT: ART/KNOWNLEDGE/POLITICS  Diskussion
	mit Vasyl Cherepanyn, Kinga Dunin, Oleksiy Radynski und Artur
	Żmijewski  
	  Die Debatte über neue Formen des Zusammenspiels zwischen Kunst,
	Wissen und Politik hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren zunehmend
	verschärft. Im Kontext von Osteuropa mündete dies in der
	gleichzeitigen Entstehung unabhängiger Initiativen, die die
	Vermischung von Kunst, akademischem Diskurs und politischem
	Aktivismus anstreben. Diese Bereiche gelten in den höchst
	individualistischen und anti-solidarischen Gemeinschaften des
	Post-Sozialismus als unterschiedliche, aber dennoch miteinander
	verbundene Arten von Engagement und kollektiver Aktion. In Polen
	manifestierte Artur Żmijewskis Text   Applied Social Arts /
	Angewandte Gesellschaftskunst   die Notwendigkeit politisch
	engagierter Kunst vor dem Hintergrund negativer Hinterlassenschaften
	des sozialistischen Realismus. In Russland und der Ukraine zielen
	zahlreiche künstlerische und politische Initiativen mit ihren
	Aktionen auf die Neuordnung des öffentlichen Raums, der heute durch
	das Fehlen demokratischer Prozesse geprägt ist. Fokus der
	Diskussion sind die Aktivitäten dieser Initiativen im Zusammenhang
	mit dem Bedeutungsverlust des demokratischen öffentlichen Raumes in
	Ost- und Westeuropa.  

	  Diskussion in Englisch  Eintritt frei  
	  Vasyl Cherepanyn, PhD, Cultural Studies Department. Er ist
	Direktor des Visual Culture Research Centre an der
	Nationaluniversität von Kiew (Mohyla Akademie) und Redakteur der
	ukrainischen Ausgabe des Magazins von Krytyka Polityczna.  
	  Kinga Dunin ist Journalistin, Autorin, Literaturkritikerin,
	Kultursoziologin und Feministin. Sie ist eine der Hauptfiguren der
	Gruppe um Krytyka Polityczna und langjährige Kolumnistin für
	  Wysokie Obcasy  . Als Autorin verschiedener Publikationen
	hält sie seit vielen Jahren Vorträge zur Soziologie der Medizin an
	der Medizinischen Universität Warschau.  
	  Oleksiy Radynski ist Redakteur der ukrainischen Ausgabe des
	Magazins von Krytyka Polityczna und Aktivist des Visual Culture
	Research Center der Nationaluniversität von Kiew (Mohyla Akademie).  
	    JEWISH RENAISSANCE MOVEMENT IN POLAND / JRMIP: ZWEITER
	WORKSHOP ZUR NATIONALEN IDENTITÄT      13. +
	14.12.2011     Die Bewegung Jüdischer Wiedergeburt in
	Polen (Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland, JRMiP) veranstaltet
	einen zweiten internationalen Workshop zur nationalen Identität,
	diesmal speziell für Deutsche, Israelis, Palästinenser und Polen.
	Der Workshop findet am 13. und 14. Dezember 2011 in den KW Institute
	for Contemporary Art in Berlin statt. Im Vorfeld des im Frühjahr
	2012 stattfindenden JRMiP-Kongresses untersucht der Workshop
	Spannungen und Überschneidungen zwischen den vier Identitäten. Das
	kritische Seminar wird erneut von Illa Ben-Porat geleitet. Bitte
	schreiben Sie eine E-Mail mit einem kurzen Lebenslauf an
	  info@jrmip.org  , wenn Sie
	Interesse daran haben, an dem Workschop teilzunehmen oder wenn Sie
	weitere Fragen dazu haben.  

	  Eine kurze Zusammenfassung des ersten Workshops zur nationalen
	Identität finden Sie   HIER  .
		  
	  Die 7. Berlin Biennale findet vom 27. April bis 1. Juli 2012
	statt.  
	  Die Berlin Biennale wird organisiert von den KW Institute for
	Contemporary Art und gefördert durch die Kulturstiftung des Bundes.  
	  
		      
		  

	  
	    THE 7TH BERLIN BIENNALE ANNOUNCES ASSOCIATE CURATORS:
	VOINA GROUP FROM RUSSIA AND JOANNA WARSZA    Artur
	Żmijewski appointed the Voina group from Russia and Joanna Warsza
	from Warsaw as Associate Curators, who will work together to develop
	the concept and program of the 7th Berlin Biennale.  
	  VOINA  Oleg Vorotnikov (a.k.a. Vor), Natalya Sokol (a.k.a.
	Kozljonok or Koza), Leonid Nikolajew (a.k.a. Leo the Fucknut) and
	Kasper Nienagliadny Sokol  
	  The art collective Voina (engl.: war) from Russia was founded in
	2005 by Oleg Vorotnikov and Natalya Sokol. Voina engages in street
	action art that is directed against the Russian authorities. Their
	actions are regularly joined by a large group of anonymous
	activists. Numerous lawsuits have been filed against the group and
	its activists. Most recently Natalya Sokol and her son Kasper have
	been arrested for several hours in mid-October 2011.  Oleg
	Vorotnikov, Natalya Sokol, Leonid Nikolajew and Kasper decline the
	use of money and live in St. Petersburg without a permanent home.
	Their creed is, as Natalya Sokol declares: “The artist who denies
	political awareness is just a designer.”  
	  “We do not expect that the Voina group will be practicing an
	ordinary curatorship. Maybe they will knock at the doors of artists’
	studios, but not to check the art works, but to remind us about the
	ethos of the artist. They are among the last few believers who
	practice an art that is a direct political job. They continue their
	own, limitless, erratic and serious practice in Russia. Have they
	already done their ‘best artwork’? Is it maybe the huge dick on
	Litiejnyj brigde in St. Petersburg? We do not think so. Their best
	artwork is the reminder that as the art world, we are on the way to
	just become a neoliberal elite who plays for financial gain and the
	accumulation of symbolic capital.“ (Artur Żmijewski and Joanna
	Warsza) 
	  

	  Read a quote from a conversation with Leonid Nikolajew   HERE  .
		  
	  For further information    http://en.free-voina.org    
	  Most recent actions by Voina  Action “  Dick
	captured by KGB  ”. June 14, 2010  
	  Action “  Leo
	the Fucknut is our President!  ”. May 16–22, 2010 
	  

	  JOANNA WARSZA  Joanna Warsza,     born in 1976, is
	a curator on the cusp of the performing and visual arts. She
	graduated from the Warsaw Theater Academy and completed a
	postgraduate course at the University of Paris 8 dance department.
	She is a founder of the independent platform Laura Palmer Foundation
	(www.laura-palmer.pl). Joanna Warsza has worked mostly in the public
	realm, curating projects that examine social and political agendas,
	such as the invisibility of the Vietnamese community in Warsaw, the
	phenomenon of Israeli Youth Delegations to Poland, or the legacy of
	post-Soviet architecture in the Caucasus. Together with Krzysztof
	Wodiczko she runs a seminar on conflict, trauma and art at the
	Warsaw Higher School for Social Psychology as well as on the
	performativity in contemporary culture. She has realized projects
	with Berlin theater Hebbel am Ufer, Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, the
	AICA Armenia, the GeoAir Tbilisi, the Centre Pompidou or Biennale de
	Belleville, both in Paris, among others. She is an editor of
	  Stadium-X – A Place That Never Was  .   Since the
	beginning of 2011 she has worked with Artur Żmijewski on the
	development and realization of the concept of the 7th Berlin
	Biennale. Joanna Warsza lives and works in Berlin and Warsaw.  
	  Read a conversation between Joanna Warsza and Artur Żmijewski
	  HERE  .  
	    KRYTYKA POLITYCZNA IN BERLIN     1.12.2011, 8
	pm    FORMS OF ENGAGEMENT: ART/KNOWNLEDGE/POLITICS  Debate
	with Vasyl Cherepanyn, Kinga Dunin, Oleksiy Radynski, and Artur
	Żmijewski  

	  In recent years, the debate on new forms of interaction between
	art, knowledge and politics has intensified. In the context of
	Eastern Europe, this resulted in the simultaneous emergence of
	several independent initiatives that aim at merging the fields of
	art, scientific discourse and political activism. In the context of
	highly atomized and anti-solidary post-Socialist societies these
	fields are regarded as distinct but related forms of engagement and
	collective action. In Poland, Artur Żmijewski’s text   Applied
	Social Arts   manifested the need for politically engaged art in
	the context marked by a negative legacy of Socialist Realism. In
	Russia and Ukraine, activities of numerous artistic and political
	initiatives aim at introducing a new order into a public sphere
	marked by a lack of democratic procedures. The discussion will focus
	on the activities of those initiatives in the context of the
	withering away of the democratic public sphere in both Eastern and
	Western Europe.  
	  Debate in English  Free admission  
	  Vasyl Cherepanyn, PhD, Cultural Studies Department. He is the
	director of the Visual Culture Research Center at the National
	University of Kiev – Mohyla Academy and an editor of the Ukrainian
	edition of the Krytyka Polityczna magazine.  
	  Kinga Dunin is a journalist, writer, literary critic, sociologist
	of culture and feminist. She is one of the main figures in the group
	associated with Krytyka Polityczna and a long-time columnist for
	  Wysokie Obcasy  . She is author of various publications and
	for many years has been lecturing in sociology of medicine at the
	Warsaw Medical University.  

	  Oleksiy Radynski is an editor of the Ukrainian edition of the
	Krytyka Polityczna magazine as well as an activist of the Visual
	Culture Research Center at the National University of Kiev –
	Mohyla Academy.  
	    JEWISH RENAISSANCE MOVEMENT IN POLAND / JRMIP: SECOND
	NATIONAL IDENTITY WORKSHOP       13. + 14.12.2011  
	  The Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland (JRMiP) will be
	hosting a second international identity workshop, this time
	specifically for Germans, Israelis, Palestinians, and Poles, at KW
	Institute for Contemporary Art on December 13 and 14, 2011 ahead of
	the international JRMiP Congress in Spring 2012. The workshop will
	consider the tensions and overlaps between the four identities, in a
	critical seminar format devised by the education specialist Illa
	Ben-Porat. Please write to info@jrmip.org with a short biography if
	you are interested in participating, or if you have any further
	questions.  
	  A short summary of the first national identity workshop can be
	found   HERE  .  
	  The 7th Berlin Biennale takes place from April 27 to July 1,
	2012.  

	  The Berlin Biennale is organized by KW Institute for Contemporary
	Art and supported by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal
	Cultural Foundation). 
	  
	  
		          
		  
	  
	  CONTACT  office@berlinbiennale.de  press@berlinbiennale.de    Auguststraße
	69  D-10117 Berlin  T +49 (0)30-24 34 59-0  F +49 (0)30-24 34
	59-99  

	  
		          The
		Berlin Biennale is organized by  KW Institute for Contemporary
		Art  and funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal
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  ]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:58:07 +0000</pubDate><link>http://polypragmon.eu/kunstszene/news-3-die-7-berlin-biennale-stellt-assoziierte-kuratorinnen-vor-die-gruppe-voina-aus-russland-und-j/</link><guid>http://polypragmon.eu/kunstszene/news-3-die-7-berlin-biennale-stellt-assoziierte-kuratorinnen-vor-die-gruppe-voina-aus-russland-und-j/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeppelinstart über der Reutergracht]]></title><description><![CDATA[            
    (Zum Festivalprogramm Nacht-und-Nebel 2011)    ]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:33:46 +0000</pubDate><link>http://polypragmon.eu/reise-zur-weltkultur-neuklln/zeppelinstart-ber-der-reutergracht/</link><guid>http://polypragmon.eu/reise-zur-weltkultur-neuklln/zeppelinstart-ber-der-reutergracht/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New AAN Report &#039;A Knock on the Door. 22 Months of ISAF Press Releases&#039;]]></title><description><![CDATA[                      13-10-2011                                        ISAF officials have long presented the capture&#8208;or&#8208;kill operations as one of the most effe
 ctive parts of the military mission in Afghanistan. They regularly release large figures describing the number of 'leaders', 'facilitators' and 'insurgents' that were killed or captured, to illustrate the success of the campaign. AAN's latest report, by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn, is based on an analysis of all ISAF press releases over the last 22 months.                                           The report covers the period from 1 December 2009 to 30 September 2011 and 3,771 ISAF press releases. It provides important baseline data, as well as insight into how ISAF sees the success of their operations. The numbers provid
 ed by ISAF show a steady general increase in reported kills and captures each month until June 2011, with a slight decrease over the winter (2010-11). After June 2011 there is a steady decline in almost all of the analysed metrics, which may be linked to the unsustainable pace of capture&#8208;or&#8208;kill operations and the departure of General Petraeus.                        The data shows differences in operational pace and impact across the country, and reveals some important inconsistencies in ISAF's use of terminology with regard to 'leaders' and 'facilitators'. The data further suggests that ISAF is pursuing a 'networked' targeting strategy, targeting not only specific individuals, but also others perhaps only tangentially connected to them.             
             The Guardian newspaper was given access to the compiled press release data and has produced visualisations to accompany this paper, which can be viewed here    read&nbsp;more&nbsp;&raquo;                          The full report can be viewed here    read&nbsp;more&nbsp;&raquo;                      AAN Blog
 s    In the meantime AAN has been writing more blogs than you can count on the most wide ranging topics. These include the intricacies surrounding Rabbani's death, the ever-continuing Parliamentary crisis, developments in different parts of the country (among others Nuristan, Mazar, Badghis and Nimruz), UNAMA's report on torture, Afghanistan's first human rights film festival, women and reconciliation, ten years of international intervention, Karzai's new peace strategy, and much more. The blogs can be found here    read&nbsp;more&nbsp;&raquo;                          As always with best regards, The Afghanistan Analysts Network                            
  
  
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