Author Archives: Alfred Banze

About Alfred Banze

I make films, performances, installations, drawings and objects. Since 2001 I work on participatory art projects where children, young people and adults, artists and specialists in various fields are involved into the artistic production. Exhibitions, screenings, lectures and workshops worldwide. www.alfred-banze.de

Kinshasa

2.12.11, Kinshasa The race has an end. Tired from 1000 Jobs and things i am sitting in front of the guesthouse of the art academy of Kinshasa in R.D. Congo and have my breakfast. In the last two months i … Continue reading …

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October 2011: “Artist in Transit” Symposium in Berlin

Hello from Apana, Indonesia. I just found the time to type my handwritten diary into the laptop: 29. 10. 2011, Berlin I was asked to direct a workshop at a symposium by NGBK “Artists in Transit”. Here is a collection … Continue reading …

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Getting into transit

The German Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen is supporting my art project H-O-P-E , so i will go to R.D. Congo end of november and to Cambodia in January. And, the Congolese artist Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo and the Cameroon artist Guy Wouete will be … Continue reading …

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H-O-P-E in Moabit

The show goes on in Moabit. After some time of preperations, my next project H-O-P-E will come to another level. On 24/25 september, an art event in public space in front of Heilandskirche, Turmstrasse in Moabit will happen. A live … Continue reading …

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Exotic City

Difficult times. Back in Berlin since 12 weeks, i am locked in a loop of bad luck. Christine Falk and I made several applications, trying to build up a structure for our intercultural oriented art + education projects. But we failed. … Continue reading …

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Erosion and global networking

In the train back from Lijiang to Kunming. Christine and I revisited the artists recidency Lijiangstudio, www.lijiangstudio.org We both went here in 2006 for a two month working stay. I could realize my project IN THE HEIGHTS www.alfred-banze.de/lashihai It was … Continue reading …

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Berliner Tafel daily India

BKK Airport. In transit, Mozarella Sandwich Aircon. Thinking of India, beloved India. Again and again, I have so mutch smpathy for this overwhelming country of many ethnic groups, religions and cultural diversity. But why I am so tired of it? Thinking of the eyes of … Continue reading …

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Waiteland

In trance. In transit, ‘artist in transit’ means for me: waiting. From A to B; switching planes or trains; from one meeting to another one; lost in a cultural Limboland transit. This is not Asia, not Europe; this is a … Continue reading …

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Global Gardening

Latest news from another traveller blog: All the corals around the Adaman Islands are dead. Some as the corals around the famous thai Surin Islands and Similan Islands. Last Year in May, the Indian Ocean got 3 degree to hot. … Continue reading …

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The Banyan Tree – Art + Encounters in Varanasi

Just checked out India, passed the immigration desk. Tired of India, got sick on the last days, diarrhea. After finnishing the Banyan exhibition at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, after packing and transport back to the hotel, christine and I … Continue reading …

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