Posts by laurasan

Eight

Published in

2009, Back Issues
One of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. Just some of the grave challenges we faced today – from combating AIDS and improving maternal health to eradicating extreme poverty and hunger…

Foreign Investment

Published in

2009, Back Issues
Mixing the playful with seriousness, British-based art collective. Foreign Investment have developed their own intriguing way of tackling large-scale issues. They appropriate the corporate images, language and rituals that threaten…

A World Apart

Published in

2009, Back Issues
As you descend onto the moonscape of Iceland, a large frosted island located at a point on the mid-Atlantic ridge where tectonic shifts have played incredible tricks on the landscape,…

Flying High

Published in

2009, Back Issues
Fashion, in Hussein Chalayan’s world, is not just about clothes. In his world, it also becomes an expression of sociopolitical ideas and cultural themes, channelled through one man’s steadfast vision.…

Let’s Talk About The Rain

Published in

2008, Back Issues
Jaoui plays the part of Agathe Villanova, a well-known feminist writer who, during an unseasonably rainy summer, travels to her native Lubéron in the south of France for a political…

The Measure Of Success

Published in

2008, Back Issues
The criteria for measuring success   There are expectations – family’s, society’s, our own – all of which change hugely over time. There are qualifications, the weight of which also…

Mondongo, Telling Tales

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Art & Culture
‘There are many ways in which the thing I am trying in vain to say may be tried in vain to be said’ Samuel Beckett: Three Dialogues When I first…

The Heart Of Spain

Published in

2008, Back Issues
  Spain’s reputation for merrymaking with sand, sangria and bullfighting amid humid temperatures precedes her. Add in high-rise hotel developments that rob her of tranquil coastline and unused land for…

The Rules Of The Road

Published in

2008, Back Issues
I’m working from the café on the corner, which has become my regular spot on ‘working from home’ days. Going out in the world gets me going – there are…