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  1. Of interest in Mechelen, NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights is a major international contemporary art exhibition... fb.me/10gPVVWiH
  2. Video recordings of the 3rd FORMER WEST Research Congress: Beyond What Was Contemporary Art, Part One are up on... fb.me/1N7O0Zwma
  3. This Saturday at BAK basis voor actuele kunst: the opening of the FORMER WEST Research Exhibition "After History:... fb.me/1nFlyvEzJ
  4. Of interest in Amsterdam, Zygmunt Bauman will give a keynote lecture entitled 'Freedom and Security, a case of... fb.me/1DBeCqq5M
  5. Opening on 19 May at BAK, FORMER WEST Research Exhibition "After History: Alexandre Kojeve as a Photographer"... fb.me/BupDFekH
  6. Come check out the FORMER WEST website for new videos, a Research Interview with Hans Belting and the recording... fb.me/1zXkmtUXO
  7. The discussion is sparking at the open forum, the final part of #FWcongress unfolding now at the academy of fine art Vienna.
  8. We're wrapping up here now, but join us tomorrow for live stream of the open forum to reflect upon the past two days together #FWcongress
  9. Rogoff's proposal: understanding our world as in epistomological crisis rather than collapsing because of competing interests #FWcongress
  10. Part II Speculating Forward has commenced--pondering about how a difference gets organized with Irit Rogoff & Ruth Sonderegger #FWcongress
  11. Simon Sheikh has joined aaa at the discussion table #FWcongress
  12. those of you watching #FWcongress on formerwest.org live stream may have noticed we're running behind schedule. Trying to catch up now
  13. More information on R-Urban, the project aaa is working on: r-urban.net or rhyzom.net/projects/rurba… #FWCongress
  14. now on formerwest.org live stream: aaa / atelier d’architecture autogérée discussing their utopian (?) R-Urban project. #FWcongress
  15. its question time again at the Academy and on live stream via formerwest.org. Welcoming all your queries at #FWcongress
  16. Ekaterina Degot: In a moment of profound social change, gender once again becomes a battlefield #FWCongress
  17. Ekaterina Degot: discussing the recent arrest of Pussy Riot in Moscow. How can we understand such an event? #FWcongress
  18. h.arta at #FWcongress: the freedom of art is so often obliterated in a state of emergency
  19. h.arta: What could feminist art be in times when the rise of sexism, racism, and nationalism is accelerated by financial crisis? #FWCongress
  20. Hlavajova: why do we still make exhibitions? Van Osten: exhibitions value lies in the social encounters that emerge from them #FWcongress