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BLACKMARKET FOR USEFULL KNOWLEDGE AND NON-KNOWLEDGE NR. 1-10
ENCYCLOPEDIA 2005-2008

A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

 

FEELING

What You Can't See but Feel in a Photo (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Mikolaj Grynberg, photographer, ex-psychologist [Warsaw]

Murder with Velvet Gloves: Psychological Violence in the Family. On the book "Stalking the Soul: Emotional Abuse and the Erosion of Identity" by Marie France Hirigoyen (1998) (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Aleksandra Konieczna, theatre director [Warsaw]

Sex, Fear and Rock'n'Roll - The Joy of Frightening other People and Being Scared (And Why We Can't Live Without It) (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Zygmunt Miloszewski, journalist, author [Warsaw]


FEMINISM

Feminist Economics (BM3/unknown knowledge)
Ewa Charkiewicz, activist and academic researcher with interest in theorizing on power, ecology and feminism as social movements and new social critiques [Warsaw]

Feministic Grandmothers: Forgotten History of the Feminist Movement in Poland (BM3)
Anka Czerwinska, activist and feminist, working at OSKa (National Women's Information Center) and Porozumienie Kobiet 8 Marca [Warsaw]

Does the U.S.A. Need a Feminism (BM6)
Dr. Gabriele Dietze, Guest Professor at the Institute for Cultural Studies, HU Berlin, Former Lecturer for Rotbuch Verlag [Berlin]

A Little Introduction to Cyberfeminism, which Does Not Exist (BM8)
Reni Hofmüller, media artist and activist, operator of ESC (Graz), president of Radio Helsinki (Graz), member of IMA - Institute for Media Archeology (Hainburg, AT), co-organizer of Ecletic Tech Carnival, international feminist tech network [Graz]

Feminism of Housewives: Practical and Theoretical Advices (BM3)
Teresa Oleszczuk, graphic designer at "Res Publica Nowa", practicing feminist [Warsaw]


FIGURES

Ecstatic, Hysterical and Other Saintly Ladies (BM3/ghostly knowledge)
Anna Baumgart, visual artist [Warsaw]

Fragments of an Unknown Teaching - Georg Iwanowicz Gurdijew, One of the Great Mystics of the 20th Century (BM3/ghostly knowledge)
Marcin Cecko, poet and photographer [Warsaw]

The Polish Devil "Boruta"(BM3/ghostly knowledge)
Wiktoryn Grabczewski, owner of a private museum of Polish devils (Przedpielke) [Warsaw]

Wraith, Vampire, Lamia or Succubus? The Connections Between Ghosts, Monsters and Women (BM3/ghostly knowledge)
Barbara Smolen, Polish literature historian, Editor of "Teksty Drugie", teacher [Warsaw]

What Makes a Ghost Real and Believable. With Examples from Film and Theatre (BM3/ghostly knowledge)
Jacqueline Sobiszewski, light designer, director of photography [Warsaw]

Let's Talk about our Dibbuks (BM3/ghostly knowledge)
Krzysztof Warlikowski, director [Warsaw]

The Refugee as Contemporary Figure of a Ghost (BM3/ghostly knowledge)
Vita Welakeviciute, Documentarian [Warsaw]


FIGURES & PLAYERS

____automatic
Human-Like Robots. How Far Can We Go? (BM7)
Dr. Joseph Weizenbaum, Prof. of computer science, taught at MIT for 25 years [Berlin, Silicon Valley, Massachusetts, Berlin]

____criminal
On the Figure of the People Trafficker (BM7)
Farida Heuck, artist, co-founder of the German Federal Association Schleppen&Schleusen [Munich, Berlin]

____curatorial
Recordings from the KIOSK-Archives. "A Life in Four Hours" (BM7)
Hans Ulricht Obrist, curator working internationally and critic and Michael Diers,
art historian, professor at the HfBK in Hamburg

____flexible
The Promise of Freedom within the Ideal of the Flexible and Mobile Person (BM7)
Peggy Mädler, dramaturge, cultural scientist, prepares a doctoral thesis on the topic: "Die Inszenierung von Arbeit und Geschlecht in der Dramatik der DDR und bei ostdeutschen Autoren nach der Wiedervereinigung" [Dresden, Berlin]

____fugitive
The Figure of the Trustee - the Escape Agent of Money (BM7)
Ulf Mailänder, coach, author of the autobiographies of Jürgen Schneider ("Bekenntnisse eines Baulöwen") and Jürgen Harksen ("Wie ich den Reichen ihr Geld abnahm") [Bünde, Berlin, La Palma]

____nationalistic
The Myth of Identity: The Nationalist as the Prototype of the European Citizen, with Former Yugoslavia as a Point in Case (BM7)
Dr. phil. Zoran Terzic, cultural scientist, author ("Kunst des Nationalismus: Kultur und Konflikt im jugoslawischen Zerfall") [Banja Luka, Berlin]


FILM

FlipBook Cinematography: Teaching Images to Walk, By Carrying Them Around (BM4)
Volker Gerling, flip-book cinematographer, philosopher of temporality, takes to the road on a regular basis with his flip-books [Berlin]

What Are the Raised Hands of Students Who Were Not Called On Doing in the Airspace of the Classroom? From an Outline of the Gaze to the Movement of Thought: Camera Ethnography as Movement Research with the Senses (BM4)
Dr. Elisabeth Mohn, camera ethnographer, cultural anthropologist, sociologist of knowledge, documentary filmmaker, writer [Berlin]

On the Use of Movement Analysis in Forensic Investigations on the Basis of Selected Examples from American Television Series (BM4)
Jochen Roller, dancer and choreographer, researches on the functionality of choreography [Berlin]

Dance, Film, Dance! - How To Choreograph for the Camera (BM4)
Marc Siegel, research associate at the Seminar for Film Studies at the FU Berlin, member of the group CHEAP [Berlin]

____Disaster
The Sight and Sound of Things Falling Apart - The Element of Accident and Disaster in American Filmmaking (BM6)
Andrew Horn, Filmmaker, Journalist [New York, Berlin]

____Dubbing
Dubbing Films - Hollywood Speaks German (BM6)
Änne Troester, Dubbing Scriptwriter [Berlin]

____Hollywood Star
Center Parting, Ecstasy and Secret Communication Systems: Hedy Lamarr (BM6)
Nanna Heidenreich, Media Scientist, works at Film Festivals, arsenal experimental and kanak attak [Berlin]

____L.A.
Stories About the Film Business in Los Angeles, 1996-2003 (BM6)
Jale Arikan, Actress, plays in German, Turkish and American Films [Berlin]

____Retold I
Mythologies of the New World. "Red River" (Howard Hawks, 1948) and "Key Largo" retold (John Huston, 1948) (BM6)
Dr. Hannes Böhringer, Professor for Philosophy at the Hochschule für bildende Künste, Braunschweig [Berlin]

____Retold II
Film retold: "The Night of the Hunter" by Charles Laughton (BM6)
Antje Ehmann, Film Scientist, Author, Curator [Berlin]

____Western
"Shall We Gather at the River": The Western (BM6)
Bert Rebhandl, Journalist, Film Critic [Berlin]


FLUXUS

Flexible History of Fluxus Facts and Fictions (BM6)
Emmett Williams, visual artist and Fluxus artist [Berlin]


FOLKLORE - FAKELORE

____Anti
Explaining Anti- and Freak-Folk With Examples from Film and Music. Complementary CD (BM6)
Sebastian Hoffmann, Student at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, FU Berlin, Concert Organizer "Four Track on Stage" [Berlin]

____Burlesque I
Burlesque At the Intersection of Fashion, Gender and Class (BM6)
Michelle Carr, Creator, Producer and Director of the Velvet Hammer Burlesque [Los Angeles, Berlin]

____Burlesque II
A Short History of Burlesque: Visit Dixie Evans, Tempest Storm and Other Notables At the Exotic World Burlesque Museum (BM6)
Anna Curtis, Burlesque superstar, photographer and performer [New York, Berlin]

____Dance I
Pirouette and Splits Instead of Cheers and Chants. The Berlin Thunder Dance Team of the NFL Europe (BM6)
Stefanie Ader, Dance Team Director Berlin Thunders [Berlin]

____Dance II
Michael Jackson Meets Line Dance: First Steps (BM6)
Enrico Adler, World and European Champion in Line Dance, Dance Teacher and Choreographer, Expert in E-Technology [Kleinmachnow]

____Dance III
Dancing in a Square: Spin Chain Through, Box the Gnat and Other Square Dance Calls (BM6)
Rainer Peter, Square Dance Caller, Dancer, Manager of Software-Quality [Berlin]

____Hero
Death by Hammer: The Importance of Kicking Ass or Dying Trying (A Brief History of Industrial Revolution Era, American Folk Hero and "Steel-Driving Man", John Henry) (BM6)
Hannah Dougherty, visual artist [Philadelphia, Berlin]

____Ritual
Welcome Wagons, Baby Showers and Quilting Bees: Culture of Encounter in American Everyday-Life (BM6)
Jacqueline Heer, Swiss-American Artist and Cultural Worker [Berlin]


FOOD

Ambassador of Taste. How I Make the Germans Familiar With American Cuisine (BM6)
Cynthia Barcomi, Founder and Manager of Barcomi's Coffee Roasters and Deli, former Dancer [Seattle/ Berlin]

American Cooking in Berlin: Keeping the Bastard Beautiful (BM6)
Suzy Fracassa, Co-Owner of Hazelwood Restaurant and Owner of the Catering Company Fortuna's Table [New York/ Berlin]

Regional Diversity of American Cuisine. Plus Recipes to Cook on Your Own (BM6)
Curt Pagel, cooks in Florida, Austria, Ireland and Germany for more than 25 years now, currently Chef de Cuisine at Café Obermeier in Kreuzberg [Milwaukee, Berlin]

Migrating Food - The Cases of Coffee and Sugar (BM7)
Dr. Zafer Yenal, sociologist of consumption and culture, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bogaziçi Üniversitesi, Istanbul [Konya, Ankara, Istanbul]


FORGIVENESS

If People do not Reconcile, God Does not Forgive (BM10)
Carla Amina Baghajati, media speaker of the Islamic Congregation, teacher educating future Islamic religion teachers, teaches creative design at the professional Islamic school for social professions [Vienna]

Guilty shall be he who has not "excused" himself (BM10)
Paul Chaim Eisenberg, chief rabbi of the Austrian Federal Association
of the Jewish Communities [Vienna]

Forgiveness! From Tribunalization, Scapegoats and the Culture of Forgiveness (BM10)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrich Körtner, Protestant theologian and expert in medical ethics, vice-dean of the Protestant Theological Faculty and head of the Institute of Systematic Theology and the Institute of Ethics and Law in Medicine at the University of Vienna; research areas: apocalypse, hermeneutics, bioethics, "scholar of the year" (2001) [Vienna]


FUTURE II (PAST FUTURE)

On the Innocence of Becoming. How you Become What you will Have Become (Pindar, Nietzsche) (BM10)
Dr. Arno Böhler, philosopher, teaches at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, filmmaker (GRENZ-film) [Vienna]

The Future of the Past, Lacan and the Paradoxes of Identity (BM10)
Isolde Charim, philosopher ("The Althusser Effect. Model of a Critique of Ideology", 2002), university lecturer and political journalist (i. e. "taz", "Der Standard", "Falter") [Vienna]

On the Use of the Futurum Exactum on the Basis of Selected Examples (BM10)
Prof. Mag. Dr. Dr. h. c. Wolfgang Dressler, linguist, head of the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Vienna, head of the Commission for Linguistics and Communication Research at the Austrian Academy of Science [Vienna]

Why Nothing Will Have Become of Central Europe (BM10)
Georg Schöllhammer, editor-in-chief of the journal "Springerin. Hefte für Gegenwartskunst", concept and organization of "documenta 12 magazines" [Vienna]

"Perhaps the Impossible Will Have Thus Been Necessary" or The Future Will Have Had to Begin Now (BM10)
Dr. Peter Zeilinger, catholic theologian and philosopher, co-founder of the "Interdisciplinary Forum .UND." (with Matthias Flatscher and Sophie Loidolt), research activities on political theology, political philosophy and so-called ‚post-modernism' [Vienna]


FUTURE SCENARIOS

Launching a business like in San Francisco - impossible in Austria? (BM10)
Paul Böhm, venture capitalist, Hacker Space Community organizer, security adviser and organizer of conferences. His big passion includes: startups as well as strategies and patters in complex self-organizing systems, Metalab [Vienna]

The Connection Between Education and Innovation (BM10)
Dr. Hannes Leo, director of the Institute on the Future of Labour in Bonn; fields of research: innovation, telecommunication, creative business, labor market [Vienna, Bonn]

Can Utopian Literature Recognize Threatening Developments and Warn us About Them in Time? (BM10)
Leo Lukas, cabaret artist, composer, director, author of plays, journey satires and science fiction novels, including "Perry Rodan" , the world's largest science fiction series, Austrian Cabaret Award in 2005 [Vienna]

Early Warning? Prevention! Future Research as Methodological Approach! (BM10)
Mag. Dr. Daniel O. Maerki, social scientist, future researcher, enterpreneurial consultant, managing director of das fernlicht - future research and innovation consulting; fields of interest: future and lifeworlds (e. g. "Future Living") [Vienna]

What will they expect us to put up with? - New biotechnologies: risk and acceptance (BM10)
Dr. Helge Torgersen, biologist (special field: molecular biology), since 1990 at the Institute for Assessing Consequences of Technology (ITA) of the Austrian Academy of Science; fields of interest: public perception of biotechnology, participation, regulation, politics [Vienna]

DJ Ötzi, Paris Hilton, Bill Clinton and The Future Mountain: Conceptions of Alpine Mass Tourism in Tyrol (BM10)
Dr.phil. DI Michael Zinganel, cultural studies scholar, architectural theorist, visual artist and curator, has taught at the University of Technology in Graz; fields of interest: "City and Crime" and "Tourism & Migration" [Vienna, Graz]