Caramblogage

This article was originally written in 2013 for the now-defunct platform "Preformance", developed with Noon Enterprises, the Goethe Institute and EPS51 . I have removed links where no longer available.  Bilingual Flyer for an event On the contextual promotion and staging of performances in another culture. The context of a production, and the reception of it, change depending on where it is performed. While this is true of any form of art, there are some considerations to be made when promoting and staging your performative production to an audience with a passing knowledge of the culture it sprang from. In the following, you will find a general outline to making a performance accessible to an international audience and to theatres outside the Arabic- speaking world. The more specific the play is to a certain location, time and society, the more it becomes a code that needs to be deciphered by the recipient, sometimes even explained to them. A play ...

I've been giving myself too little leeway (and reverse escapism) to focus on the little, but nonetheless satisfying little things that pay the bills and ensure that the a negative worldview remains in a firm state of semi-negative, rather than bleak. In this series, I would like to talk about the road that lead to the development of a logo- and a few other things for an NGO. We've been working together for a few years now, so there is a lot to cover, beginning in 2015, which, at the rate at which information currently races through the pipes dedicated to it, feels like it was decades ago- dog years have become human years in their compression. I'm calling this a personal design history, as it is somewhere between a case study and an account of my personal involvement and philosophy during a design process and thus utterly subjective and may not apply in other cases.   Let's start here:  My main body of work, when not arguably artistic*, deals with bilin...