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Kassel, August 28, 1997

News +++ The documenta hotline 70 72 70 is enjoying great popularity: Since January 1997 25,000 calls have been placed to this number +++ Guests at the documenta X: on August 28 Expo chief commissary Birgit Breuel visited the documenta X and had an informal meeting with Catherine David +++

Programme 100 Days - 100 Guests +++ daily at 7 p.m. in the documenta-Halle, admission 6.30 p.m. to 7 p.m. +++ Programme-Hotline: (0561) 70 72 70 +++ August 29: Daniel Defert, medical sociologist, Peter Gente, literary scientist, and Walter Seitter, philosopher +++ August 30: Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, philosopher +++ August 31: Marko Peljhan, artist +++ September 1: Diedrich Diederichsen, critic and Mike Kelley, artist +++ September 2: Mikhail Ryklin, philosopher +++ September 3: Yan Ciret, theatre critic, and Stanislas Nordey, theatre director +++ September 4: Ritsaert ten Cate, theatre director +++ September 5., 6. and 7. : Theaterskizzen - for this event there are special tickets, dX entrance tickets and press accreditation cards are not valid. Ticket reservation in writing to: documenta GmbH, Marion Sprenger, Friedrichsplatz 18, 34117 Kassel or via fax 0561-728 27 24 +++

dX-Filmprogram +++ daily at 10 p.m.in the small film theatre of the cinema BALI at the Kulturbahnhof +++ ticket reservation 0561-71 05 50 +++ Programme Hotline: 0561-71 05 50 +++ August 29: Aleksandr Sokurov: "Mother and Son" +++ August 30: Charles Burnett: "The Final Insult" +++ August 31: Antonia Lerch "Last Round" +++ September 1: Abderrahmane Sissako: "Rostov-Luanda" +++ September 2: Harun Farocki: "Still Life" +++ September 3: Raoul Peck "Chère Catherine" and "Lumumba" +++ September 4: Aleksandr Sokurov: "Mother and Son" +++ September 5: Charles Burnett: "The Final Insult" +++ September 6: Antonia Lerch: "Last Round" +++ September 7: Abderrahmane Sissako: "Rostov-Luanda" +++

Performance +++ August 29 and September 5, on both days at 5 p.m., Museum Fridericianum (Art & Language hall): Performance after the Art & Language text "We are trying to be amateurs." +++

Dates +++ August 29 and 30 within the framework of the documenta X: colloquium on the theme "Can works of art be documented 'objectively'?". The dX restorator team discusses new procedures for the documentation of works of art with colleagues and other experts. Press meeting on August at 12 a.m. in the Ottoneum, Steinweg 2, in Kassel. For further information, contact Marion Sprenger 0561-728 27 33 +++ Press meeting documenta X Theaterskizzen on September 3 1997, at 11 a.m., in the documenta V.I.P Lounge (gym hall of Dock 4), access behind the screen of the open air cinema, Untere Karlsstraße 4, in Kassel +++

Hybrid WorkSpace in the Orangerie +++ Hotline: 0561-10 88 90, Internet: javascript:openInfo();// +++ August 27 to September 1: luxus cont. "Sound System - System Sound" and Convex TV. "On air time all the time" - electronic Audio-Culture with live events, Sound, Architecture and Do-It-Yourself Radio +++ August 30 and 31: Christoph Schlingensief and friends two days round the clock as guests in Hybrid WorkSpace: "Mein Filz, mein Fett, mein Hase - 48 hours survival for Germany!" - Please bring sandbags with you +++ September 3 to 7: no-name cologne: „Das Glatte und das gekerbte, Fluchtlinien der Arbeit" (Students of the College of Art and Media, Cologne) +++

The next Newsletter will be released on September 4, 1997