Physicality: A Dialog Between Two Monks
For a few years now I’ve been studying spatiality and urban space. This year I’ve been particularly interested in embodied knowledges, mobility and access to space. Because of travel restrictions and constrained mobility on a global scale, one of the main strategies of this project evaporated. Therefore I’ve been thinking …
Arrested Development: Appropriation, Covid-19 and What’s Next
Previously on DIYCD: Apart from accumulating, arranging and producing cultural content, time is inevitably devoted to figuring out how to maneuver in this new predicament, as it modifies institutionalized routines, expectations and possibilities on a day-to-day basis. It demands that we adjust, but for how long? At what point does …
Kool Mo Dee x Chuck D
S/o to Roine SexFemman Borgstrand for showing me this one! Listening to OGs talk and share their reflections on their experiences of living and working with Hip Hop is invaluable. The particularities of their histories help calibrate our attitude and relationship to many of the caricatures and meta narratives about Hip Hop that distort the trajectory of the culture.
Head over to Bars Finns for a great selection of pedagogical Hip Hop material!
The Black Experience x Asia as Method
I want to take a moment to appreciate and substantiate the work by a YouTube channel called The Black Experience Japan. I’ve been following it for some years now and I am amazed by the diversity of stories and experiences that are given time and space to be expressed and …
Lurie Daniel-Favor: Funnelling Resources
Source: YouTube
Questioning Cultural Diplomacy
Swedish Cultural Diplomacy is a government run transmedia program, partly based on the ambition to internationalize Swedish culture. Judging from Kulturrådsbloggen – the cultural attachés’ blog – the cultural attaché appear as bound to a particular cultural infrastructure. This infrastructure consists of the embassy, the concert hall, the opera, the …