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Dammi i colori [ give ùe the colours ] is an enthralling portrait of a city in transition, the Albanian capital Tirana, and its mayor, the artist Edi Rama. Shot in what one might call “documentary style,” the video captures Rama as he speaks to the camera in a car riding through his city, reflecting on his project to have Tirana painted in vivid colors, the dramatic results of which can be seen in the background. The mayor/artist conceives of the community as a super-brand, a literally all-immersive utopia for everyone to buy into, but derived from one central and sovereign mastermind (even if it is supposedly “popular sovereignty” in this case). As the mayor reflects on what comprises community, the artist in him suggests that political problems may really be problems of form and design. Dammi i colori highlights the conception of the (democratic) body politic as in fact one (sovereign) body, and poses the question of the form that a “multitude” in Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s sense would take.

Anri Sala, is born in Tirana, Albania and lives and works in Paris.

Dammi I Colori (2003), video, 15'24"

Utopians are the new realists - people who turn in small or large scale at the adjusting screws of the sustainability and realize that anyone can make a difference. The most important thing is the first step, no matter how small it is. Utopia on this page shows you people who start just before. A very interesting German initiative on utopia.

The members of the Milena principle are having a conversation with Gilberto Zorio, (the great Italian Arte Povera artist), at the Serralves Foundation Porto Portugal during their lunch. 10.07.2010

Spacepilots is a collaborative, cross-disciplinary practice of architecture and art dedicated to understanding and enriching the complex relationship between you and the things that surround you. Spacepilots are spatial and conceptual interventions with an intended emotional affect. Spacepilots: research and design pieces responsive to a series of urban and architectural sites.Founded by Stephanie Brandt.

SPACEPILOTS set out to explore and develop an experience-driven design approach for the shaping of places. Questioning our relationship with the spaces we use and inhabit, we are challenging design as a medium to provoke new or different ways of interaction with our environments. http://www.spacepilots.net/

Escoitar is a group of artists and sonorous activists working in Spain. Escoitar is composed by anthropologists, musicologists, engineers and multimedia artists. Its main objective is the promotion of the sonorous phenomenon as new way of knowledge of the society (they are promoters in Spain of the current Aural Studies).

ts activities center on the conservation of the sonorous memory, the putting on value of the immaterial cultural heritage, the fomentation of the participation of the listeners on the configuration of the sonorous patrimony and the field works and recording the ambient sound of the country.

Der Wachsblock nomadisiert durch das Feld zwischen Kunst, Philosophie und Politik. Er wird sich 100 Tage während der documenta in Kassel aufhalten. Eine politische Kraft neuer Struktur soll entstehen, die unter anderm auch die Stimmen von Nichtwählern und anderen Politikverdrossenen sammelt und diese bei der nächsten deutschen Bundestagswahl 2009 in Form der "Hambacher Liste" parlamentarisch vertritt. Es geht um eine Revitalisierung unserer demokratischen Kultur.