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Dachil Sado Luftpalme 2019, Bard College Berlin Palm trees have been heavily exoticised and orientalised ever since they were made to travel to Europe. You can see them abstractly patterned on the Ishtar Gate in the Pergamon Museum. To carry dates, they need a special soil and climate and good care. Air plants don’t need…
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Jelizaveta Ostrovska An Unobstructed Eye 2019, Bard College Berlin Sources: Hertle, Hans-Hermann. The Berlin Wall: Monument of the Cold War. Bonn, bpd, 2007. Flemming, Thomas. Koch, Hagen. Die Berliner Mauer: Geschichte eines politischen Bauwerks. Berlin-Brandenburg, be.bra verlag, 1999. Hertle, Hans-Hermann. Nooke, Maria. Die Todesopfer der Berliner Mauer 1961—1989: Ein biographisches Handbuch. Berlin, Christoph Links Verlag,…
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Ameenah Sawan The Syria Campaign 2019, Bard College Berlin Telling the narrative on Syria has not been easy. I constantly ask myself: “what do I want people to see today”?. Do I want them to see the hope in the children’s smiles? Or, do I want to show our anger and pain when we lost…
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Idil Morsallioglu Fifty-eight 2019, Bard College Berlin The word “guest” implies that a person is invited and welcomed by the host. It also means that the person will only stay for a limited amount of time. What is a “guest-worker” (“Gastarbeiter”) – a “guest” that is supposed to work? No, it’s a euphemism to recover…
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Aryana Arian Silent Birds 2019, Bard College Berlin Birds use songs to attract and locate one another. Each song is specific, has its own tone, sequence and arrangement of notes. According to Darwin, when birds migrate and the environmental conditions are different, natural selection gradually chooses the fittest birds. Evolution therefore affects the bird’s population…
