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James Worner is an Australian-based writer and scholar currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Technology Sydney. His research seeks to expose masculinities lost in the shadow of Australia's Anzac hegemony while exploring new opportunities for contemporary historiography. He is the recipient of the Doctoral Scholarship in Historical Consciousness at the university's Australian Centre of Public History and will be hosted by the University of Bologna during 2017 on a doctoral research writing scholarship. 'Parallel Lines' is one of a collection of stories, The Shapes of Us, exploring liminal spaces of modern life: class, gender, sexuality, race, religion and education. It looks at lives, like lines, that do not meet but which travel in proximity, simultaneously attracted and repelled. James' short stories have been published in various journals and anthologies.

This installation is one of three –matrix sets– that was created for the Great Hall of Les Tanneries Centre for Contemporary Art in Amilly, France. Entitled Life Line, it reactivates Lucy Orta's interest in the increasing fragility of human populations by associating a military ambulance with a large deployment of customised camp beds. These new Life Guards are designed as genuine individual refuges, echoing her Refuge Wear project from the 1990s. While questioning the fragility and precariousness of the body and of human nature, the artist also underlines resilience and outbursts of solidarity.

Lines can evoke notions of form, contour, and trains of thought; they may indicate order or randomness, continuity or division, give rise to complex meanings or shapeless chaos. Their 'breadthless length' (Euclid) serves as a foundation for geometry, the basis of alphabets and writing, the elementary component of visual representation; it provides the frame for musical notation, the basic unit of poetry and literature, the possibility of political division and segregation, and a fundamental resource for philosophical and historical reflections on the nature of movement, temporality, (dis)continuity, and change. What is the red thread running through these different notions and manifestations of linearity? Or does their multiplicity point to the boundless variety of possible trajectories and discontinuities already present within the one-dimensionality of the single line? Is every line a wandering away from another, or an extension of the line's innate errant potential, its play of tangential forces? The ICI Library Event explored the creative and menacing potential of the notion of lines within the context of the core project, ERRANS. Part 1 A Nonlinear Panel With Rosa Barotsi, Pearl Brilmyer, James Burton, Antonio Castore, Maria José De Abreu, Preciosa Regina de Joya, Walid El-Houri, Ewa Majewska, and Zairong Xiang Part 2 To Draw a Line: Writing Performance with Axel Malik Over the course of the last 25 years, Axel Malik has explored, in his daily writing practice, varied potentials of the scriptural line freed from all signification. He will demonstrate his 'scriptural method' and present a single canvas on which he wrote for an entire year. Malik will be introduced by Claire Nioche-Sibony. ; Errant Lines , ici library event, ICI Berlin, 10 December 2014

The neutrality of medicine and health care professionals in different conflict settings in the Middle East have come under scrutiny in recent human rights reports, and should be seen as part of the broader fallout of the US-led 'global war on terror.' The last two decades of US military attacks on health infrastructures in Iraq and the use of polio-vaccination campaigns to track down 'terrorists' are acts of war that have further blurred the lines between health care and warfare. The failure of international legal processes and institutions to prevent such assaults or to prosecute those responsible raises questions about the Eurocentric system of checks and balances that shape international humanitarian law and its invocation as a 'legal' and 'moral' framework.

Letter from Mr. Gustav, of the Leyland Line Company Limited, to Gen. Alvaro Obregón, expressing his political support. / Carta del Sr. Gustav, de la Leyland Line Company Limited al Gral. Alvaro Obregón, manifestándole su adhesión política.

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