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Hand toface. Index finger pointing up the cheek while the other finger covers the mouth and thumb supports the chin. Arms cross the body (defensive)
Its as if she is saying "I dont like what you are saying and I disagree with you"
Asta Nielsen: The Revolutionary Diva of Silent Cinema
Introduction to the Image Series
Asta Nielsen (1881–1972) was more than an actress—she was an artistic force who transformed the language of cinema and redefined the role of women on screen. Born in Copenhagen to a working-class family, she rose from humble beginnings to become the world’s first true film star. After training at the Royal Danish Theatre’s acting school and performing in Copenhagen’s theatres, she achieved her breakthrough in Urban Gad’s Afgrunden (The Abyss, 1910), a film that not only launched her international career but also revolutionised silent cinema.
Nielsen broke away from the exaggerated theatrical style of the time, developing a more natural and nuanced physicality perfectly suited to the intimate medium of film. She mastered the art of conveying emotion through facial expressions and body language—a skill that made her an iconic figure of the silent era. Her roles were vast and varied: from the tragic, lovelorn woman suffering unrequited love to the seductive vamp who defied the era’s gender norms. With films like Die arme Jenny (Poor Jenny, 1912), Dora Brandes (1916), and her groundbreaking portrayal of Hamlet (1921) as a woman, she proved she could do it all—from melodrama to comedy to psychological depth.
The Film Landscape: Denmark and Germany, Two Worlds, One Star
Denmark: A Pioneer of Silent Cinema
When Asta Nielsen began her career, Denmark was a global leader in film production. Nordisk Film, founded in 1906, was a powerhouse of silent cinema, and Danish filmmakers like Urban Gad and August Blom were pushing the boundaries of storytelling. Danish silent films were renowned for their technical quality, dramatic narratives, and often a social or moral message. Films like Afgrunden and Balletdanserinden (The Ballet Dancer, 1911) demonstrated that Danish cinema could compete internationally—and Asta Nielsen became its face. Yet, despite her success, the German film industry offered greater creative freedom, and in 1911, she moved to Berlin after only four Danish films.
Germany: A Creative Laboratory for Silent Cinema
In Germany, Asta Nielsen’s career flourished. She found a film industry that was more experimental and open-minded than Denmark’s. Berlin was a cultural melting pot, where artists, directors, and actors from across Europe gathered to create something new. Nielsen established her own production company and collaborated closely with her husband, Urban Gad, until 1916. She became known as Die Asta—a star who could carry entire films on her own. Her ability to portray complex female characters who defied societal norms made her a cult figure, and her films were exported worldwide.
Germany was also the birthplace of Expressionism, where directors like F.W. Murnau and Fritz Lang crafted visual masterpieces. Nielsen was part of this era, where film evolved from mere entertainment into art. Her influence extended far beyond her time, and she became an inspiration for generations of actors and filmmakers.
Asta Nielsen’s Legacy: A Woman Ahead of Her Time
Asta Nielsen was more than a star—she was a pioneer. She proved that film could be a medium for depth, emotion, and social commentary. She challenged gender roles, both on and off screen, and her career opened doors for other women in the film industry. Though she retired with the advent of sound, her impact endured. Today, she is remembered as one of the greatest actresses in film history—a woman who dared to break boundaries and create something new.
This image series celebrates not only Asta Nielsen as an actress but also as a symbol of an era when cinema became art, and a Danish woman stood at the centre of a global revolution.
Poem: "The Silent Diva"
In shadows cast by flickering light,
A face emerges—pale, yet bright.
No voice to speak, yet all is said,
In eyes that burn, in hands that tread.
A dance of fire, a glance so bold,
A story spun in black and gold.
No words to bind, no sound to chain,
Her silence roars—a storm, a flame.
From Copenhagen’s streets so grey,
To Berlin’s stage, she led the way.
A queen of grief, of love, of strife,
Asta Nielsen—cinema’s life.
Three Haikus
I. The Abyss
Eyes lock, hearts ignite,
a dance of fire, fierce, untamed—
silence speaks her name.
II. Berlin Nights
Lights dim, shadows play,
her face a map of sorrow,
starlight on the screen.
III. Legacy
Reels turn, time stands still,
her ghost in every frame—
film’s first queen remains.
Diaspora Climate
Exhibition: February 12 to March 5, 2026
Reception: Thursday, February 12 from 5-7PM
Curated by Yan Zhou, 2025–26 Curator-in-Residence
artLAB Gallery
Sara Angelucci
Teresa Chan
Ma Yongfeng
Rehab Nazzal
Public Programs and Events:
Ink Marbling Workshop
Led by Teresa Chan
VA 206 / JLVAC, February 12, 12-2PM
Murmuration
Live Sound Performance
Teresa Chan and Jan Lai
February 12, 5:45–6:15 PM
artLAB Gallery
Screening and Discussion: Rehab Nazal's documentary film Vibrations from Gaza
Participants: Rehab Nazal, Kirsty Robertson, Sheri Nault, Ma Yongfeng and Yan Zhou
February 23 from 1:15-3PM
In-person: VAC 249
Online: Zoom
Curatorial Statement
Diaspora Climate brings together diverse climates, cultures, languages, histories, memories, feelings, perspectives, and connections through personal experiences and artistic expressions, linking an affinity with both natural environments and cultural dispositions. Human beings are as sensitive to displacement and transplantation as plants and animals. Diaspora Climate signals the ethical and emotional bonds diasporic people hold with the climatic pressures affecting them both “here” and “there”, including struggles, suffering, and the shared fate of the world and planet Earth.
The exhibition features work by four artists: Sara Angelucci (Toronto), Teresa Chan (Toronto), Ma Yongfeng (Berlin), and Rehab Nazzal (occupied West Bank, Palestine). Their works respond to relationships with particular places, cultures, histories, climates, and environments, while also addressing ongoing afflictions of social and environmental violence, driven by brutal global capitalism, colonialism, and arbitrary state apparatuses. These forces bring wars, relentless exploitation, and the dispossession of living space and life for both nature and people, intensifying the Climate Crisis. The voices and gestures that artists share through their works are ripples of Global Diaspora Solidarity.
The Japanese word fudo (Chinese and Japanese Kanji: ??) is translated as “climate,” yet its meaning extends beyond meteorological conditions. It signifies the inseparable and mutually formative relationship among seasons, climate, nature, and modes of human life and sensibility in a particular place, culture, and its history. A related Chinese saying, ????????, expresses a similar idea: that the soil and waters of a given land nurture the distinctive dispositions of its people. In this sense, fudo (????) is comparable to the ancient Greek concept of chorographia, which refers to the description or mapping of a specific region or country, emphasizing local features, history, natural history, and culture, in contrast to geography, which sought to describe the world as a whole. Chorographia suggests that the topography, natural environment, and social and political structures of a particular area are interconnected.[1] fudo (????) is still embodied in East Asian perceptions of the world and in their aesthetic–climatic sensibilities, whereas in the modern Western world, a scientific divide tends to separate and dominate human relationships with nature.
When the modern Japanese philosopher Tetsuro Watsuji (1889–1960) brought the traditional East Asian concept of fudo (??) into dialogue with Western scientific notions of “climate” and “environment,” he understood climate not merely as a natural phenomenon. Rather, he argued that human existence, history, and climate are inseparable. In a climatic register, humans apprehend themselves and shape both individual and collective sensibilities. Therefore, social, cultural, and political transformation depends upon the transformation of climatic culture; as it changes, the customs and habits of a people change accordingly (????). Furthermore, Watsuji suggests that diaspora, those who have left and become distanced from their homeland, and the “other,” who does not fully belong to a given climatic culture, may grasp a climate and fudo (??) in a uniquely profound and nuanced way, one that is often more reflective and thought-provoking.[2]
Diaspora holds an acute and incisive political position from which to question and reinterpret the relationship between climate and culture. It activates each individual as a micro-center, responsible for addressing issues of climate change and for pursuing climate and social justice.
Diaspora refuses to be fixed to a single position. Carried on in migration and drifting, diaspora lives simultaneously inside and outside of “home” and “homelessness,” being here (displaced and adopted) and there (exiled and distanced). As writer Yoko Tawada, who writes in both Japanese and German, argues, diaspora refuses to be integrated into a dominant language and culture and denied parts of themselves, such as accent and one’s history and cultural memory. Meanwhile, diaspora also flies from the cocoon of the mother tongue and journeys into adventurous encounters with other tongues, creating new communities rather than being bound to predetermined communities or fixed identities (2025).[3]
We cannot talk about climate change or social and environmental justice without confronting the ongoing genocide and ecocide in Palestine, the environmental disaster following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the erasure of Indigenous communities and forests in the Amazon and elsewhere—all exemplify the devastating consequences of global environmental and social injustices.[4] In particular, I believe, we cannot talk about anything, any change, and any future, if we avoid looking at and talking about Palestine: what has been happening to its people and land under an increasingly brutal Apartheid system of genocide, ecocide, siege and elimination of eco-human life and culture, imposed by a fully techno-weaponized modern state.
Once a terrible world is born through the deprivation, exploitation, and killing of one group of people by another—as in Nazism, colonialism, Apartheid, or dictatorship—its psyche, ideology, and whole mechanism continue to evolve and contaminate the world. It therefore becomes the obligation of everyone, and particularly of critical and creative minds, to resist it and to fight for justice and the rights of every being, human and non-human, with unwavering attention and sustained effort.
We should rethink our dear and precious life and world from the position of “bare life,” which designates the victims of the violence of sovereign power who are deprived of their rights to live as full human beings in every sense.[5] The deprived, abused, and threatened cherish the precious life more deeply; they preserve and shine the light of dignity of life more radiantly; and they hold tight to the faith in justice more adamantly. They are more human, and more humanly, than the abusers and those who support, tolerate, or comply with them. They fight for life with all their means; they fight for life with life itself. They fight for humanity. The “qualified life,” secured by killing others and by imposing segregation and deprivation, is not true life. Instead, it is soulless slavery that abandons humanity and being human together with other human and nonhuman beings.
Yan Zhou
January 2026
Notes
[1] The ancient Greek term chorographia (or chorography) derives from khoros, meaning place or region, and graphia, meaning writing or drawing. The term appears in the work Geography by the ancient Greek geographer Strabo and later reemerged during the Renaissance, notably in Athanasius Kircher’s Mundus subterraneus. Interest in this form of study continued into the late eighteenth century, before the emergence of modern scientific disciplines. Strabo. Geography. Loeb Classical Library. Accessed via Internet Archive.
archive.org/details/Strabo08Geography17AndIndex Kircher, Athanasius. 1662. Mundus subterraneus. Amstelodami: Apud Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge & filios.
Buonanno, Rossella. 2014. The Stars of Galileo Galilei and the Universal Knowledge of Athanasius Kircher. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
[2] Watsuji, Tetsuro. 1961. A Climate: A Philosophical Study. Translated by Geoffrey Bownas. Tokyo: Printing Bureau, Japanese Government. Accessed via Internet Archive. archive.org/details/climatephilosoph0000wats_g9l6
Watsuji, Tetsuro. 2022. Intro / Climate & Culture. Introduced by Nathan Hohipuha. YouTube video, December 17, 2022. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIxBjWtu-fU&t=13s
[3] Tawada, Yoko. 2025. Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue. Translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda. New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation.
[4] Dinc, Pinar, and Necmettin Türk. 2025. “Roots of Destruction: Exploring the Genocide-Ecocide Nexus through the Destruction of Olive Trees in Occupied Palestine and Rojava.” The International Journal of Human Rights, August, 1–25. doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2025.2541756. IMEU (Institute for Middle East Understanding). 2022. “Fact Sheet: Israel’s Environmental Apartheid in Palestine.” November 3, 2022. imeu.org/resources/resources/fact-sheet-israels-environme....
Joseph, Lesley. 2025. “This Is What Ecocide Looks Like: Reflections on Israel’s War on the Environment in Gaza.” Journal of Palestine Studies 54 (2): 82–87. doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.2025.2520728
Forensic Architecture. n.d. “Environmental Violence.” Accessed January 10, 2026. forensic-architecture.org/category/environmental-violence
[5] Agamben, Giorgio. 1998. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press.
artLAB Gallery Gallery
JL Visual Arts Centre
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada
© 2026; Department of Visual Arts; Western University
Underwater Odyssey snorkeling sea tour in Pattaya 25 December 2024
One of the best for observing the tropical underwater world, guided snorkeling tour from Pattaya City to Samae Sarn National Park. In the first half of the day there will be a speed boat trip with snorkeling near a group of uninhabited islands, where Nemo fish and sea turtles live. And secondary, after a delicious lunch - time to relax at Hat Nang Ram, the beach in Sattahip. Snorkeling equipment, meal and transfer are provided.
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ALL THINGS TO DO IN PATTAYA
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Pattaya exhibitions and galleries
Beaches and islands of Pattaya
Pattaya snorkeling tours, sea cruises
Pattaya water parks and attraction parks
Pattaya sea fishing, lake fishing
Religious tour, Sak Yant tattoos
Journays from Thailand to other countries
Overnight island tours from Pattaya
Kanchanaburi - River Kwai from Pattaya
Cambodia Angkor Wat from Pattaya
Tours to Northern Thailand from Pattaya, Phuket, Bangkok
Phuket, Samui, Songkla, Narathiwat from Pattaya
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Once again I spent the night down at The Ship. The Diamond Minds had a send off show, they are touring across Canada now. They played with Dead Language, The Dardanelles, and Joanna Barker tonight, it was great.
"Linguistic Integrity in Cross-Cultural Filmmaking"
A Lecture by Bentley Brown, US Writer & Filmmaker
(Berlin, February 13th, 2014)
The Berlin Language of Art & Music Conference 2014
"Cinematic Cultural Diplomacy: Practicing Cultural Diplomacy through Film"
(Berlin; February 14th, 2014)
The Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies - Publications.
The Institute for Cultural Diplomacy
Underwater Odyssey snorkeling sea tour in Pattaya 17 December 2024
One of the best for observing the tropical underwater world, guided snorkeling tour from Pattaya City to Samae Sarn National Park. In the first half of the day there will be a speed boat trip with snorkeling near a group of uninhabited islands, where Nemo fish and sea turtles live. And secondary, after a delicious lunch - time to relax at Hat Nang Ram, the beach in Sattahip. Snorkeling equipment, meal and transfer are provided.
Details and reservation online: thai-online.tours
Instant reservation: +66-838-383-539
WhatsApp: +66-838-383-539
Viber: +66-838-383-539
Telegram: @thaionlinetours
E-mail info@thai-online.org
Read in Russian language: thai-online.org/
Around the world excursions and guided tours: www.7stars-tours.com. Use the link to search best deals and online reservations with the lowest prices!
ALL THINGS TO DO IN PATTAYA
All the best, newest, popular and not expensive excursions in Pattaya - on our THAI-ONLINE website. Can read and download the price with all of our proposals.
Reserve excursions in Pattaya online +668-3838-3539
Pattaya exhibitions and galleries
Beaches and islands of Pattaya
Pattaya snorkeling tours, sea cruises
Pattaya water parks and attraction parks
Pattaya sea fishing, lake fishing
Religious tour, Sak Yant tattoos
Journays from Thailand to other countries
Overnight island tours from Pattaya
Kanchanaburi - River Kwai from Pattaya
Cambodia Angkor Wat from Pattaya
Tours to Northern Thailand from Pattaya, Phuket, Bangkok
Phuket, Samui, Songkla, Narathiwat from Pattaya
Exclusive overnight excursions
Package tours to Thailand and not only
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VIRTLANTIS is a free language learning resource and community of practice in the virtual worlds of Second Life® and Avination®. We have been offering and facilitating free language learning activities since 2006.
What do we do at VIRTLANTIS?
We offer free informal learning activities for a growing number of languages: English, French, German, Spanish and more! Simply check out our activity calendar for additional information about our activities and how to participate.
Teleport Link (SLurl): maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/VIRTLANTIS%20Community/178...
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Speakers Debra Basham and Joel Bowman PhD brought a new understanding of healing through the words we use with patients
23 October, 2024.
A language student’s notebook in a classroom at the new Wāqsecewan Language Campus, home to Menomini yoU, a nonprofit based in Keshena, in the Menominee Reservation, that is dedicated to the revitalization and renormalization of the Menominee language and lifeways. Keshena is a destination of the 2025 Wisconsin Idea Seminar. (Photo by Catherine Reiland/UW-Madison)
Underwater Odyssey snorkeling-tour in Pattaya on April-11-2024
One of the best for observing the tropical underwater world, guided snorkeling tour from Pattaya City to Samae Sarn National Park. In the first half of the day there will be a speed boat trip with snorkeling near a group of uninhabited islands, where Nemo fish and sea turtles live. And secondary, after a delicious lunch - time to relax at Hat Nang Ram, the beach in Sattahip. Snorkeling equipment, meal and transfer are provided.
Reserve excursion in Pattaya online +668-3838-3539
Details and reservation online: thai-online.tours
Excursion available in English, Thai and Russian languages, international group
Экскурсия "Подводная Одиссея" в Паттайе - фото поездки 11 Апреля 2024
Погружайся, наслаждайся, впечатляйся!
Заказ напрямую: +668-3838-3539
Детальное описание на сайте: thai-online.org
В программу входит:
- Снорклинг на коралловых рифах у островов морского заповедника – излюбленные места погружения местных дайверов!
- Скоростной катер, маски с трубками, инструктаж.
- Бесплатная профессиональная подводная фотосессия. Фотографии - в виде ссылки на Гугл диск, высылаем на следующий день.
- Плаваем, ныряем, наслаждаемся подводным миром 3 часа у разных островов.
- Самые красивые коралловые рифы Сиамского залива.
- Профессиональная команда сопровождения.
- Максимальная группа 12 человек.
- Рыбки Нэмо и тысячи других обитателей подводного мира!
Далее:
- Крупная черепашья ферма в самом центре военного, закрытого комплекса.
- 4 часа на пляже Хат Нанг Рам.
- Лежаки, циновки, вода.
- Вкусные сытный обед и легкий ужин.
- Сопровождение гида.
Взрослый 2300 ฿
Детский 1900 ฿, дети до 130 см. Бесплатных детей нет.
Консультации и заказ: +6683838-3539 Ватсап, Вайбер, Телеграм, Лайн, Мобильный
Оплата возможна в том числе в рублях на российскую карту МИР или по СБП
Have a few classes here... Most of the buildings at SU look like castles. The guy who made Louvre, Paris was the architect of one of the buildings.
GIC Talk December 2, 4 p.m.
Language and Self-Identity: How I Found/Lost Myself Through Korean Study
Speaker: Miranda New
MA, Chonnam National University, Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language
Miranda New, originally from Texas, USA, has lived in Gwangju for several years. Starting as an English teacher, she worked her way up to be the first native English speaker to complete a Master’s degree in Chonnam National University’s Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language Program. Her graduate thesis focuses on a case study of native English speakers’ challenges while learning Korean. In this talk, she will be discussing language learning, specifically Korean language study and its relationship to self- identity, using as an example her own journey of learning Korean and how this was affected by and changed her self-identity as a native English speaker. She will then discuss points from her thesis, some of the interesting sociolinguistic phenomena that confront native English Teachers who attempt to learn Korean during their time here.
GIC 토크 12월 2일(토) 오후 4시
언어와 자기 정체성: 나는 한국어를 공부하며 어떻게 자아를 찾고 몰두하게 되었는가?
연사: 미란다 뉴
전남대학교 석사과정, 외국어로서의 한국어 교직
미국 텍사스 출신의 미란다 뉴는 몇 년 동안 광주에서 살고 있다. 처음 영어 교사로 온 그녀는 전남대에서 외국어로서 한국어 교육 프로그램 분야 석사 학위를 취득한 최초의 영어 원어민이 되었고 졸업논문은 한국어를 배우면서 영어 원어민들이 겪는 어려움들에 관한 사례연구를 다루고 있다. 이번 토크에서 미란다 뉴는 자신의 한국어 학습 여정 및 어떻게 영어 원어민으로서 자신의 자아정체성이 이에 영향을 주고 바꿨는지를 예로 들며 언어 학습, 특히 한국어 학습과 자기 정체성과의 관계에 대해 얘기할 것이다. 이후 자신의 논문 요점사항(한국에서 지내며 한국어를 배우려 하는 원어민 영어교사들이 맞닥뜨리는 흥미로운 사회언어학 현상)에 대해 논의할 것이다.
Underwater Odyssey snorkeling sea tour in Pattaya 16 December 2024
One of the best for observing the tropical underwater world, guided snorkeling tour from Pattaya City to Samae Sarn National Park. In the first half of the day there will be a speed boat trip with snorkeling near a group of uninhabited islands, where Nemo fish and sea turtles live. And secondary, after a delicious lunch - time to relax at Hat Nang Ram, the beach in Sattahip. Snorkeling equipment, meal and transfer are provided.
Details and reservation online: thai-online.tours
Instant reservation: +66-838-383-539
WhatsApp: +66-838-383-539
Viber: +66-838-383-539
Telegram: @thaionlinetours
E-mail info@thai-online.org
Read in Russian language: thai-online.org/
Around the world excursions and guided tours: www.7stars-tours.com. Use the link to search best deals and online reservations with the lowest prices!
ALL THINGS TO DO IN PATTAYA
All the best, newest, popular and not expensive excursions in Pattaya - on our THAI-ONLINE website. Can read and download the price with all of our proposals.
Reserve excursions in Pattaya online +668-3838-3539
Pattaya exhibitions and galleries
Beaches and islands of Pattaya
Pattaya snorkeling tours, sea cruises
Pattaya water parks and attraction parks
Pattaya sea fishing, lake fishing
Religious tour, Sak Yant tattoos
Journays from Thailand to other countries
Overnight island tours from Pattaya
Kanchanaburi - River Kwai from Pattaya
Cambodia Angkor Wat from Pattaya
Tours to Northern Thailand from Pattaya, Phuket, Bangkok
Phuket, Samui, Songkla, Narathiwat from Pattaya
Exclusive overnight excursions
Package tours to Thailand and not only
TOURIST OFFERS IN OTHER COUNTRIES: