Wearing the hijab riding motorbikes. Women never gazing in public spaces as some asian wonder woman. Bold unapologetic women who hold out against pakistani digital artists shares will mannix work cuts through patriarchal consciousness and judging by the viral impact theyve had online she has struck a chord so my art mostly deals with identity trying to figure out what it means to be young and pakistani having influences from the west and the east flying out what kind of art work with that look like a report published by the World Economic forum ranks pakistan second to last in terms of gender equality women who push social boundaries often face violence and stigmatize ation. In trying to sixteen social media star can do below church was strangled to death by her brother in a case of socalled honor killing join from her own experiences she still challenges the status quo. In which women in pakistan are held hostage by the suffocating standards of patriarchy. I made a brown wonder woman and that was when i was actually feeling a lot of pressure for getting married and i just wanted to draw this woman who is you know comfortably saying i do it its my destiny i can do what i want with it thanks to the bitter legacy of colonialism is still prized in pakistan growing up she will remember the use of potentially toxic concoctions in an attempt to lighten his skin. It was only abroad when she was surrounded by women of all its new cities but she still first felt beautiful to return home brewed new discomfit hard to go outside and i was just something as simple as going for a walk on this really like anxiety written experience i just ended up drawing about it and drawing for myself where i give myself the usual models essentially an art and i hadnt realized that that would resonate with so many women like. Broad. Uses social media to tell his story she feels that much of her work has gone viral because it speaks to a collective trauma women share it to communicate their own struggles through the medium of. Often in pakistan you feel invisible having a passport is the Second Lowest year to have so i think a lot of us feel disenfranchised so its almost for us this alternative reality where if this is not giving you the stimulus you need i think the internet kind of becomes that and the digital medium also provides her with fresh an innovative art forms like moving images or gifts such as in a work about the surveillance of womens bodies. Well the internet represents freedom for shares will monic its still largely inaccessible to most pakistani women that either lack the means or. Are prevented from using it by the men in their lives. Back signing women is like this huge can class differences and i like science as you have essentially very privileged already to be made surrounding access to the internet smartphones where at the top of the food chain in fact. She sees the importance of taking her almost beyond online spaces into the streets in twenty seventeen she made a graffiti on a busy intersection a woman wearing a hitch up riding a motorbike a three and a half Missile Launch provocation. With more than seven thousand instagram father was always has taken different forms including the countrys first feminist fashion line she hopes its where it was will spread her message and reclaim public spaces for themselves. So women and so she has kind of like the stack two words on her that says down hold yourself back and step out. And playful as a two two tradition and identity is a breath of fresh air for many for example when she combines pakistani folk icons with western rock musicians with crossdressing i think identity is. Im honestly quite how people are usually very wily were coming off what i put out there and i think that is the power of art more than anything its not me on my views i think its just this is what artist supposed to do it fosters empathy and mixing feminism. Pays tribute to ordinary women in his daily struggles are often neglected she has to cross lines of class and inspire young women and men to take ownership of their lives. Made of Synthetic Materials crumble break or melt over time as a result of natural decay we take a look at what museums do to save their treasures. In the west takes to great according to their own in a pluck sometimes a bit faster sometimes a bit slower. When comes in to show i do wonder what will remain about generation our hero how much will enjoy all of us book and thats he pushed on. To invest told is waging a battle against time hes responsible for the preservation of around one hundred thousand objects in the noise im not a renowned Design Museum in munich many are made of plastic oxygen and light accelerate the aging process the most fragile objects are kept in the museums warehouse. Or in. This chair made with corrugated foam padding has definitely seen better days. When jets hit off corporate over detroit were to press down on the phone itself structure would collapse. I can demonstrate it right here on the samples that the tickets were going for mom and ships yes to this foam here is about the same age and gets you more torque when i push down on it the foam just collapses thats a huge problem especially in a post of furniture from the late one nine hundred fifty s. If you dont handle them gently the foam starts to crumble fest on the supports that are this falls. There are also other signs of age this hybrid grocery cart to slowly turning brown. Are the plastic on this all of it a calculator turned gray in the sunlight. The decaying paint on this stereo system is forming a salty crust. Other objects are more resistant to aging. The most vulnerable objects are those that contain plasticizers which slowly evaporate away. Discomfort you can compare them to chocolate which is relatively soft fragile that melts easily. Others are more like a loaf of bread after baking theyre chemically stable which makes them more robust. Even newer objects control is a challenge this installation called Double Garage is by swiss born artist thomas here. Its made of low Grade Materials like packing tape. The one hundred forty square meter work was a response to the events of september eleventh its over fifteen years old now and time has left its traces wasnt so much fear that must remember there for example bend over under its own weight. We rated it again thats what is the big surprise was that most of the packing tape was still in such good shape. The installation needs constant upkeep and attention u. V. Filters help keep the snippets of newspaper from fading the most vulnerable spots need even more Preventive Care was even here they can do it and still sticky at these spots if it fell down it would stick to itself. That would be very damaging for the. Tile. In the Museum Warehouse the most delicate objects get v. I. P. Treatment. And this bathing cap which dates from the late one nine hundred ninety s. Can only survive with the help of an oxygen free environment in foreclosure. When you look at a regular bathing cap thats been lying about somewhere today it would look like this like a piece of dry crisp or it was connected port. This is one of the largest plastic installations in recent years the few turow the u. F. O. Was designed in the one nine hundred sixty s. As im. Alpine heart. Crisis increase the price of plastic and the few tour was a flop. Restoring the weather beaten icon of design took more than a year. In the museum heat like the humidity are perfectly regulated. But this monumental plexiglas sculpture by off metal is slowly getting brittle and no wonder its fifteen years old. Even though preservation can be expensive museums dont demand that artworks have a sell by date. As event and psychosocial so when we acquire a piece of contemporary art we do that because its so important that we want to add a Tile Collection with someone else if it wasnt created to last as long as a Museum Installation should last we deal with that. Then thats the way it is. A great deal of effort goes into preserving the plastic objects that make up our world one day its these works of art and design that will tell the story of our modern age our history our mistakes who we were or who we hoped to be. Next what we picked up on our radar this week. The Roaring Twenties and unrestrained exhilarating time full of contradictions social upheavals and artistic revolutions an exhibition in frankfurt puts the splendor and misery of the Weimar Republic on display in a society between two world wars women cut off their hair and throw morals out the window they live and love as they please sex and drugs are rampant but then the hideous face of fascism appears. The unemployed and the wounded fill the streets. Artists like the two dicks or george goss take a discerning look at these times of political turmoil even poking fun at hitler. But disaster is quickly approaching. The exhibition depicts an era in which everything seemed possible unlimited freedom and the darkest of business. Driven and restless he was one of the best dancers of the Twentieth Century thats love nugents king his life story has now been turned into a ballet directed by marko gupta one of todays most fascinating choreographers. It. He rose to fame and fell hard he was a celebrated russian ballet star but plagued by selfdoubt cast and his bodys iron discipline the dancers soul hinged and he slid into madness. Marko good uncovers the beauty behind this despair. Little. Talk a trial that sings about what it feels like to grow up in a small town theyre back with a new album this time with private instead of political topics twelve songs twelve stories from front singer dirk for those wild life rebellion escape loneliness. Twenty five years ago the musicians quit their studies to start making intelligent popular sick. Their ambitions lyrics with death that took them to the top ten in germany and all the way to asia. Will it work again this time around they still have poise but their sound is different rougher harder but as uncompromising as ever. Next were off to silicon tiger with the good to institute its hosting an interactive exhibition with the gaming scene in siberia. Russias Third Largest city and the stronghold it has a flourishing gaming scene with many Creative Developers and producers who also work outside the commercial mainstream. Of our developers have already created more than four hundred video and smartphone games the company is successful around the world. Young producers like helping expand all of ours international reach. Russian Game Developers are very active right now. Theyre increasingly open to the International Games industry. Thats a really cool Development Im glad to be a part of it. Most russian video games are designed purely for entertainment but all of our has also made a name with more complex and subversive projects. In. The game or is trapped in a dystopian police state where spies and informants reap the rewards. Every gamer responds differently to behold. Everyone sees Something Else or not some find it. To government and others say the opposite. Develop an. Uncomfortable questions. Then we watch the game and find their own. To support the development of games that take on real world social and political themes germany is good to institute launched the International Marketing this project. One of the game jams was scheduled for november to be at risk. As a member of the jury nine year took helped mentor the Young Developers. Bring to me at the beginning games they have just forty eight hours to come up with a game. That really pushes the participants and encourages them to come up with some fantastic ideas there as the good at what they say she do. Their games end up reflecting their personalities says. The winners of the International Competition will get to present their work at the International Games week this april in berlin. That opportunity helped spur on the competition. Shoot was a jury favorite its a moral dilemma the gamer has to decide who will be run over by a train. I think i thought it was something to do with when you got lost with one of the ive been playing with the idea for a while. I pitched its my team and they all liked it you know here i did have to think about selling the game or explaining the concept or we could be free and creative so what its even the thought of missing. The gaming industry took off in novosibirsk about seven years ago the most successful games are simple ones designed for social media on the farmville model. Independent Developers Like valentino are trying to launch more creative projects. One of her current games deals with racism but funding isnt easy to come by. You have to support yourself through what you have to pay for rent food clothes. And that takes up a lot of your time about that your wish you could have because if youre developing games that wont earn much it can be very very difficult. But Valentini Jacobo is not giving up designing new games as a way to leave the daily grind behind in create new worlds. The institute has also launched a traveling exhibition called games and politics which showcases the best of the indie gaming scene in novosibirsk the focus was on games with political subtext games the draw and themes of justice and encourage reflection for your cover its also an opportunity to meet like minded people. Just alert but now its full of events like this one show youre not just developing these ideas for yourself in a vacuum. Its an incredible feeling when you see that there are so many people interested in this but with so many people who are engaged by the minute. And so many who are interested in playing video games. With the. With its political focus the go to institutes exhibition is pushing the boundaries of whats permitted in russia. Cultural commissioner attended the Opening Ceremony a coup in the eyes of the organizers. Who is not to mention tim of course censorship is an issue but even so all of the games are being shown here in russia even ones that take on feelings of homosexuality states of aliens or computers as a tool for surveillance meant for burka or and i hope will stay that way and im looking forward to the reaction of one of. The exhibition and the arc games in novosibirsk capture a broad image from games that have a social and political message to ones with more artistic aspirations. For not your children thats what makes the project so interesting. But shows you bill is not eager to. Would be great if we could have more opportunities to appreciate games not just as work or a hobby but as a form of alice in creativity or just dealing with the limit this forces that. Siberias gaming world is on the move and the Young Developers here are brimming with creativity and optimism. And if youre curious to see more you can download the games developed at novosibirsk our games free of charge on our facebook page. He went from that interest to become one of todays leading clarinetists and with his compelling interpretations davida orlowski transcends musical genres. We met up with the last of the in hostile when he was rehearsing for a festival concert this time hes playing mozarts clarinet concerto in a major. Do it lets do it. Its the most important work in a classical parametric which. Is paired with the human north watch a film money which showcases younger performers. In their hands mozart dances lips and solos. Always surprised when i talk to musicians who say they dont like to dance how can you make music im not want to dance. In recent years stop at a loss he has become one of the worlds most sought after clarinet player hes performed everywhere from amsterdams concerts about to the berlin philharmonic. Baskets klezmer music that holds a special place in his heart and helps make a mistake. Simply use rhythm a bit differently and he plays a much larger role that ends up helping you with classical works to. This modesty belies all of these many talents he travels between the different worlds of music without losing any of his technical perfection or emotional force. Davido skill grew up in to begin University Town in southwestern germany. He took up the karen its when he was ten his teacher worked almost entirely in the Classical Tradition but so loved the scene announce that he would play nothing but plasma music. As a teenager he took part in a workshop in this church held by the class marking glorified. He was so taken by the Young Musician that he dubbed him the next viola. Whenever i improvise klezmer is my source i can never really turn it off i could never do a big staccato major improvisation it automatically comes from that other repertoire. One. In alaskas hands the underlying affinity of mozart and place not revealed any surface. They know how to use ever more delicate nuances of intonation and phrasing. Time microscopic shades of timing thats what lets you express something deeply personal in an opening that consists of just three segments and im fascinated by the challenge of finding your own voice to use a second language to express what you yourself want to say also with us one thats one. Of course you have to have something worth saying like davidow yes. I. 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Twenty fifty they have to start them by starting to decrease the amount of c o two for them as for now this is actually not a hard problem to just place will power over there are very important economic interests to all in the heart of coal will own a lot of oil that are doing Everything Possible to make sure this doesnt happen we have to fight them by twenty fifth to grow be well on the way to reliable renewable saw their way and im optimistic that. Oh. Dropping bombs on civilians trying to change the situation escalates theres no longer a need for scruples. Ruthless contemplation military leaders were kopi extended the basketball Technological Progress to come the christians massacres stretching. From beginning to. Starting february third on d w. Ls. This is the. Twin suicide bomber strike at rush hour in central baghdad dozens are dead and scores injured after the attackers blow themselves up in the citys Tyrone Square a blow to public morale coming just a month after iraq declares victory over the socalled islamic state. Backed out also coming up palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas says the landmark oslo peace accord is over and lays the blame squarely with israel and donald trump. And turkeys president warns are cross border