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UHC (Ultimate Holding Company)

UHC (Ultimate Holding Company) is an inter-disciplinary art collective, based in Manchester in the UK. Founded in 2002, they work collaboratively over multiple media as well as running a not-for-profit workers co-op specialising in graphic design and visual communications for an ethical client list.
Some of their projects:

Carbon Map //2006

UHC collaborated with inter disciplinary art collective Platform on a commission for the Transport Planning Society.

Who
Based on research from Platform, UHC created a carbon map of the world showing global locations of oil and gas production, consumption and impact. The large format print will be displayed at the Transport Planning Society's London headquarters and at events around the UK.

The Transport Planning Society
The Transport Planning Society is a society for the benefit of the community, to facilitate, develop and promote knowledge, understanding and best practice in transport planning.

Luncheon on the Barge

As part of the Futuresonic 2006 festival, UHC took part in a collaborative project with artist Gustaff Iskandar from Bandung, Indonesia.

Who
Gustaff Iskandar, director of the Common Room arts project in Bandung, Indonesia, visited Manchester to stage his 'Luncheon on the Barge' project on the Bridgewater Canal.

What
Gustaff came to Manchester in order to collect stories and narratives from the city and to tell stories from his own. He  wanted to form a comparative study of Manchester and Bandung, two cities from different continents but both undergoing the effects of neo-liberal governance.

How
UHC introduced Gustaff to Manchester, helping him research his project. An artist from UHC then took part in the 'Luncheon on the Barge' with four other participants including a Libyan refugee and a local environmental campaigner. 'Luncheon on the Barge' consisted of an exchange of stories between Gustaff and the Mancunian residents and a comparison of the narratives of Manchester and Bandung.

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Entrevista a R. Kapuscinski

Saló de lectura. Entrevista a R. Kapuscinski (spanish)

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Polish writer Ryszard Kapuscinski died on January 23, 2007, at the age of 74. As a foreign correspondent, Kapuscinski covered coups and revolutions in the developing world for forty years. Many of his articles appeared in a series of books that made him famous: The Soccer War, Another Day of Life, and Shah of Shahs. Listen to this interview originally aired in 1988.

Kalash film

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Cornelis van Voorthuizen - Photoinstallation

Detail from: Ukraine

The Memory Carpet
The current installation at Gallery G18 (27.2-4.3) is a big mosaic compiled of the photographers life and work during the last decade from past to present. Moments of impact, flashbacks, encounters with friends - a carpet of memories, such as we all experience our own memories. We all like to collect pictures of important moments on the fridge or bulletinboard, moments that are precious or even life altering. The installation could be seen as a large scale fridge-installation of photos, a dialogue of images and encounters of importance. The print quality ranges from duraflex , cibachrome, different fiber papers , resin coated papers etc... the photos represent a collection of everything from snapshots to medium format.

About the artist
Since his childhood i Rwanda, Kenya and the US, the dutch photographer Cornelis van Voorthuizen has lived and travelled across all continents, photographing and making connections between friends and strangers. His work has been exhibited world-wide and published in prestigious magazines and books over the past 20 years. The passion for seeing the world through the lens has held Cornelis almost inseperable to the camera, a duo that hardly ever is seen separate from eachother.
www.photocornelis.com

Galleriet G18
Adress: Georgsgatan 18, 3:rd floor.
00120 Helsingfors
Finland
www.gallerietg18.fi

Struggle for indigenous autonomy

Los olvidados de Oaxaca
The struggle for indigenous autonomy in Mexico.

Thanks to the LIMEDDH (Liga Mexicana por la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos) and the OPIZ (Organización de los Pueblos Indígenas Zapotecos), Alexa Brunet, photographer, and Yves Bonnardel, writer, undertook an extended investigation into state repression in Mexico in January - February 2006.
“Los olvidados” (the forgotten ones) brings together a series of 'on site' portraits and testimonials of Mexican villagers. The project focuses on two indigenous communities in the state of Oaxaca : Loxicha and San Juan Lalana.
The members of these communities assert their right to be liberated from a corrupt power, to live from their land, and to live autonomously and according to their own customs.

The government of the state of Oaxaca is seeking to impose their power on local representatives, in order to profit from the resources of these regions, rich in land, cattle and minerals. The people that we have presented in this investigation have all been victims of violent reprisals. People close to them have been arrested, they have been threatened, sometimes abducted, tortured, and detained without charge for having defended their rights for better living conditions.

The aim of this collaboration is to make the situation of these two communities known to the general public and to contribute as far as possible to a just resolution of the conflict.

Texts : Yves Bonnardel
Translated from French by Ivora

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Sustainable design

Mathieu Acquart, a young designer realize a world tour in 8 months in 15 countries to meet some people and actions on the theme of sustainable design, respectful of the human kind and the environment, to improve the knowledges on this subject and to promote its use.

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The waste of the world

We think that we’re going to read "The Way of the World", but it soon becomes evident that it’s "The Way of the World" that has got hold of us. This is how it starts: to begin with you can’t read anything else, that you can accept, but soon you can’t read anything at all. Bouvier has a way of squeezing out each moment of happiness till the very last drop and preserving the product of this distillation in the phials of his memory in order to draw on it for his survival each time that happiness can’t be found… And for you, where does that leave you? You understand intensely what an enormous turmoil it must have meant for Nicolas Bouvier to fix this journey forever in the scarcity of his words: words perfectly made one for the other, that it becomes intolerable to not be him, at the time and the place when he wrote.

We have to exorcize this book, to reopen it, to accept that it can be a companion on the road of life again- that’s to say how it is possible to recount today, to paraphrase Nicolas, what it means to "undo" "the Way of The World".

Others, dealing with the same problem, had the chance to sort out this question face to face with him. This is not the case for us. Nicolas Bouvier died in 1998. At that time we hadn’t yet been completely obsessed by "the Way". Years later , when it became pressing to offload the weight, seeing that Nicolas was long longer there, the only way to do it was to make the trip. Of course our experience might have taken shape in another way, by staying where we were for instance, but it would have taken someone else and someone much stronger to have done it that way.

More picture from Frédric Lecloux / Vu'

Jacob Holdt

Jacob Holdt is a special photographer. You can find on his website a part of his works and ...his cv.
Extract:
"Having hitchhiked more than 5 times around the globe I thought I had the world record until I saw in Guinness that an American hitched even longer in the 60's.
Well, that was back in the days when you didn't have to wait very long for a ride...."

Wine world tour

We would like to welcome you to the wineworldtour website and invite you to share our wonderful journey. Visit mouth watering to discover how our wine world tour was conceived; go to on the road to travel through 37 wine regions and almost 200 wineries; jump to the looking through the kaleidoscope page to let your imagination wander through the 17 countries we visited; follow insatiable thirst where we share with you our upcoming projects; click on cheers to read and download mementos of our adventure; finally, hit contact to get in touch with us.

Bon voyage and bons vins…
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Jacaranda

Jacaranda is a "guarani word which designates a decorative tree from tropical America and Madagascar with vivid lilac-blue flowers, whose wood is appreciated in ebenistery under the name of purple wood".

Two motivated students found several similarities between this tree and the social entrepreneurs they are going to interview around the globe:
- Like the Jacaranda, whose roots take the best from the ground on which it grows, social entrepreneurs rely on their environment to elaborate solutions to social problems;
- Like the Jacaranda, which grows from South America to the Australian Continent, as well as in Madagascar, there are social entrepreneurs all over the world;
- Like the Jacaranda, that produces a wood of great quality for multiple uses, social entrepreneurs come up with ideas that can be exported and duplicated in different contexts.

The heroes you will discover on their website are not those who appear in adventure novels, history books or action movies. They are not legendary soldiers, famous politicians nor superheroes with magical powers.
But they improve the life of millions of people on all continents and build step by step a better world.
Their weapons : innovating ideas, determination and a deep belief in the capacity of each and everyone of us to change the world.
Their fieds of action: economic development, education, environment, health, social issues...

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Eastern Roads

Soviet Union officially collapses on December 25th, 1991. Fifteen years later, the 15 ex-republics of the Soviet Union are waking up and growing up between democracy and dictatorship, liberalism and neo-communism, between European Union and Vladimir Putin’s Russia, between laicization and religion, between inequality and unity.

Formerly regrouped together in only one block, 15 ex-republics of the Soviet Union are actually countries very different. And it is interesting to notice that when some young people are dreaming of Russia or United States, their parents or grandparents are missing the great Moscow’s Mother.

The goal of Evangeline Masson et Patricio Diez's project is to meet the young people from 20 to 35 years old, to know them and to understand their desires and projects.

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Namibia

Discover the beautiful work of Olivier Culmann / Tendance Floue in Kolmanskop, Grillenthal, Bogenfels, Pomona, Elizabeth Bay...lost towns in the Namib desert.

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Afro Peaks

Concept : trans-afro-mountains scientific expedition

A two-years, over 50,000 kilometer drive around african mountains - crossing the whole continent, through 47 countries - with the aim to climb and film African Mountains from north to south .
In memory of the pioneering Naturalists and Explorers who greatly conribute to better understand Nature , Africa or Moutains wilderness.

Thoses who inspired us , are throroughly referenced in this website . They build the spirit of our adventure : From Linné to Théodore Monod, Livingstone or Roger Frison Roche, Henry Morton Stanley, the duc of Abruzzi, in memory of Jean Rouch, Guy Vienne and others..

Our trip is going to take us trough all African countries, from Morocco to South Africa, from Senegal to Eritrea through the 47 continental African states to symbolically link all peaks according to our travelling.

We are going to participate to study projects on biology, environment conservation and mountain development in about ten selected areas. We wish to meet and help various education and environment conservation actions (water, biodiversity, ecofriendly citizenship) and promote the values of sustainable development we stand for. Beside the help we could bring through these projects, it is for us a way of understanding better the mountains, their people and the cultural diversities which characterize them. In other places, the stops will also give us the opportunity to communicate, pass these values on and make contacts wihout necessarily leading to a thorough study.

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World musicians

Isabelle and Xavier Vayron travelled around the world to meet musicians from all countries.
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Tribute to Theodore Monod

À 360 Productions organize a tribute to Theodore Monod, the renowned French naturalist, geographer and explorer, at the Cité des Sciences, on the 4 of november 2006. Films, debates and lectures about this fantastic man.

Théodore André Monod (Rouen, April 9, 1902 - Versailles, November 22, 2000) was a French naturalist, explorer, and humanist scholar. In the course of his career, Monod was made director of the Institut d'Afrique noire, professor at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, member of the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer in 1949, member of the Académie de la Marine in 1957, and member of the Académie des Sciences in 1963.

He began his career with the study of monk seals on Mauritania's Cap Blanc peninsula. However, he soon turned his attention to the Sahara desert, which he would survey for more than sixty years in search of meteorites. Though he failed to find the meteorite he sought, he discovered numerous plant species as well as several important Neolithic sites. Perhaps his most important find was the Asselar man, a 6,000-year-old skeleton of the Adrar des Ifoghas that many scholars believe to be the first remains of a distinctly black individual.

Monod was also a political activist also took part in pacifist and antinuclear protests, and wrote several articles that adumbrated the emerging environmentalist movement.

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Crossing the Sahara

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À 360 Productions has worked with Régis Belleville, an adventurer trying to cross the Saharan Desert from West to East. Our collaboration has resulted in the creation of a website, helping him to connect to the public and build relationships with other media during his expedition.

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