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32 - may our life be vibrations

que notre vie soit vibrations is a wish I have encountered this past summer in one of the art installations spread across a beautiful estate […]of organic winery, architecture and art, where artists from around the world are commissioned to create artworks in conversation with the location where they will settle their vision in.

Artists include Ai Weiwei, Louise Bourgeois, Yoko Ono, Richard Serra, Bob Dylan, Tracey Emin, Siobhán Hapaska, Michael Stipe, Prune Nourry, Sophie Calle, Tadao Ando and many more. Whether they’re a building, like the galleries imagined by Oscar Niemeyer, Renzo Piano or Richard Rogers, or sculptures and installations, the works are monumental and an invitation to root oneself in the space. The connection with nature transforms an artistic journey into a spiritual one. The wish, may our life be vibrations, accompanies me throughout my own exploration of this extraordinary place. 

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32 - may our life be vibrations
Canan Sibel·Abdullah

31 - all the seconds towards love

What a world have we been building, since I sent the last issue of this newsletter last summer. It was issue 30, on Humility and Imagination. I feel none of these two words are part of our mainstream discourses, and it worries me. So here I am. Trying to do my part, attempting to contribute to a narrative of connection and most importantly, trying not to get distracted by voices carrying nothing else but void —from news headlines, algorithms to incompetent politicians.

I promised I would return with new thoughts, reflections, spaces for imagination…

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31 - all the seconds towards love
Canan Sibel·Abdullah

21 - Dreaming of a Home for the Free Word

Read and listen to issue twenty-one of the Attention Span Newsletter, published on 28 February 2024.

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21 - Dreaming of a Home for the Free Word
Canan Sibel·Abdullah

20- From the Streets to the Page: On Multilingualism and Hospitality in Literary Translation

Read and listen to issue twenty of the Attention Span Newsletter, published on 14 February 2024.

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20- From the Streets to the Page: On Multilingualism and Hospitality in Literary Translation