Monday, October 25, 2010

How to pack a hammer:

















1) Put the hammer on a diet...

















2) ... with a personal trainer

















3) ... and Bob´s your uncle!

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Russian inflable tank decoys

Quite interesting video about the production of russian army inflatables.
The textile has a metal coating from the inside so it reflects magnetic waves from the radar..


see:
http://www.spiegel.de/video/video-1089627.html

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Workshop Documentation Video

The hammer in Leipzig on the 15/10



The hammer has made it into the news! Last Friday we were in Leipzig at the "Für ein ganz anderes Klima" demo, protesting CCS and the trade with carbon emission rights. To view the article, click this link:


Another article on the same action:

Niederlausitz Aktuell

Here is also a newsreport from the video collective Left Vision in collaboration with the climate justice group Gegenstrom Berlin about the Action.
At 1:17 you see El Martillo crushing 4 (paper maché) coal-fired powerstations.
Spectacular!


Monday, October 11, 2010

First Hammer Pictures

Some pictures from our action on Sunday, 10.10.2010.














Saturday, October 9, 2010

EL MARTILLO AT CLIMATE PARADE, SUNDAY 10.10.2010 BRANDENBURGER TOR, 2 PM




EL MARTILLO / THE HAMMER
El Martillo is the result of an Eclectic Electric Collective project for the climate conference in Cancún. After its use in Sundays Climate parade at Brandenburger Tor, it will be sent to Mexico folded up and packed into a suitcase. Upon arrival it will be carried by a climate caravan through the streets, from Puebla, through Mexico City, all the way to Cancún. El Martillo is our contribution to the struggle for climate justice during the COP 16, the climate conference in Mexico. The concept and the construction of the hammer is the result of a collective work process.

Rafael Ibara says:

"The hammer is a symbol for a movement from below. It is our gift to the demonstrators in Mexico in order to lend their demands a visual presence."
Sarah Drain explains:
"The hammer is a tool which can be used in both a constructive as well as a destructive way. Its connection to climate change is that we now have a choice to take responsibility for a change in our own hands or to let the destruction go on."

"El Ratillo" is a part of the "Battle of the Spectacle" exhibition, which will be simultaneous with the climate conference in Cancún from the 27th November to the 10th December in OKK, Prinzenallee 29, Wedding.

OKK/ Raum 29 Prinzenallee 29 U-Bhf Osloer Straße 13359 Berlin-Wedding

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Programm für die letzte Woche des Workshops

Wednesday, 6th Oct. 19:00

Mittwoch 6. Oktober 19 Uhr

Film night/Filmabend

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The White Diamond von Werner Herzog und Filmclips von Bread and Puppet Theatre

OKK Raum, Prinzenallee 29, U-Bhf Osloer Straße

Zuerst gibt es eine Präsentation über die „Bread and Puppet“-Theatergruppe aus Vermont, die die absolut erste war, die überhaupt Rießenpuppen in Demos benutzt haben. Das Bread and Puppet Theater ist durch Workshops und gelegentliche Aktionen, auch durch seine Studenten und Schüler, präsent und aktiv, zum Beispiel in Sarajevo während des Jugoslawienkriegs, bei Protesten gegen die Weltbank, die Welthandelsorganisation WTO oder die Republican National Convention, die George W. Bush nominierte, wo Dutzende von Puppenspielern verhaftet, misshandelt und deren Puppen konfisziert und zerstört wurden.

Wir zeigen danach einen Herzog-Film über eine Expedition in Guyana, wo Wissenschaftler mithilfe von einem Zeppelin mit dem Namen The White Diamonddie unerforschte Natur der Gegend zu untersuchen versuchen.

Der Film, der dabei entstand, überhöhte die Ereignisse und Bilder jedoch in eine andere, eine "kosmische" Dimension. Man hat eher den Eindruck eines Requiems für einen Planeten, der für Menschen unbewohnbar geworden ist; die Ereignisse verwandeln sich in etwas Anderes, Neues. Das Ergebnis ähnelt so eher einem Science-fiction Film, als einer herkömmlichen Dokumentation.“

- Werner Herzog

www.breadandpuppet.org

http://www.thewhitediamond.de/



Donnerstag 7. Oktober 19 Uhr

Prosperity without growth“

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Gemeinsamer Ausflug zu einem Gesprächsforum in die Uferhallen

www.z-n-e.info


Freitag 8. Oktober 19 Uhr

die Narrative des Handelns“

Susanne Quehenberger

Vortrag und Diskussion

OKK Raum, Prinzenallee 29, U-Bhf Osloer Straße


"Talk about our Climate Change future is always embedded in certain narratives: Acceleration, decline, Apocalypse... »We have only a window of 10-15 years to take the steps we need to avoid crossing a catastrophic tipping point,« declared Tony Bair to the heads of the G8. Susanne will elaborate on the Tipping Point narrative as her cultural studies research field and then try to find out in a wider scope which narrative fits best to encourage its audience to take action.


Liebe Grüße

Eclectic Electric Collective & OKK

Prinzenallee 29, Berlin