NOTES FROM UNDER THETABLE: A Literature ofIntimate Space BY James Hopkin Literature The idea of the festival should be about a dialogue between languages, and how good literature with good translators can make nonsense of national borders and take us all to an intimate space not infiltrated by media-speak or nationalism
NOTES FROM UNDER THE TABLE: Flash-mob Miłosz vs. The Long and Lonesome Stand of Tadeusz Różewicz BY James Hopkin Literature The centenary of Miłosz’s birth has been quite well covered in the UK. There was always something magisterial about him, both as a poet and as a man
NOTES FROM UNDER THE TABLE: A Long Time Ago in the Future: Björk’s Biophilia BY James Hopkin Music Can technology really take us closer to nature, and if so, how? Because during the performance, nothing took me closer to nature or to the cosmos than the human voice, whether Björk’s or those of the magnificent choir
NOTES FROM UNDER THE TABLE:A Bicycle Rides Higher than a Car BY James Hopkin Media Of course, the bike-paths are a good idea. It’s just a shame that only cyclists take any notice of them
NOTES FROM UNDER THE TABLE:European Copy BY James Hopkin Media Look at this skit she wrote about Polish workers: ‘Poles are hardworking’ – pretty comprehensive, huh
NOTES FROM UNDER THE TABLE:Kraków-Berlin: an Intervention BY James Hopkin Theatre A collaboration between Kraków’s Stary Theatre and Berlin’s innovative Maxim Gorky Theatre, the inescapably passenger-interactive events have been written and devised to invoke and link the two cities and a few of the stations en route
Schindler’s Art –The Opening of MOCAK BY James Hopkin Art Keen to maintain as ‘much historic fabric as possible’, Claudio Nardi has created a spacious interior, or, following the Italian theme, ‘a diffused museum’
NOTES FROM UNDER THE TABLE:The Snoring of the Machines BY James Hopkin Media Put your machines to sleep more often, leave your phones at home, wander out in search of you know not what, but wander out anyway, and discover something that can’t be shown on a screen
NOTES FROM UNDER THE TABLE:Three Stripes to the Wind BY James Hopkin Media Yes, in Poland at least, Tania Odzież is unashamedly cheap and not aspiring to cool, and you can throw things together and make your own way, make your own – what’s the word? – style
NOTES FROM UNDER THE TABLE:Dampfbad Europa BY James Hopkin Media Dampfbad Europa: a few barely-dressed thoughts from the steam-room
