Travelling to Helgoland I found small signs of the relationship to Zanzibar. I also found the deep pit in the landscape from the largest bomb ever discharged, dropped by the British. Next to the crater is a memorial to Heisenberg, at the spot where he allegedly...
I was just reading another biography of LF in which it states that Snow White was her inspiration to become a dancer: Then, like one of those signpost moments that define Riefenstahl’s life and career, she visited the theatre for a presentation of the ballet...
Stills of Leni Riefenstahl in Ray Müller's 1993 documentary The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl.… See...
I've been bothered by this photography of Leni Riefenstahl since first seeing it in a book given to me on my 19th birthday. I am currently showing with Rieifenstahl in MONA, Tasmania in a show called Red Queen. Riefenstahl, who is best known for directing the Nazi...
Leni Riefenstahl dancing, somehow that name/biography changes the reading of the dance. What matters to me is this notorious cinema photographer to Hitler dancing on Heligoland for the film Holy Mountain, an Island (Heligoland) which was swapped between the British...
Concerning the human life stories Antonio Damasio says consciousness itself only begins when the brain acquires the simple power to tell a story. I have been musing on life stories and their troubled but omnipresent status in art. Often their use comes imbued with a...
This new year for various reasons I have been re-visiting works that fell under the name/theme of Extramission dating back to 2005. Clearing off my old computer I found this old text by MA Penwill. Extramission A child utters her first words at the age of eight....
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