die deutsche Sphäre

Monday, September 04, 2006

Planet Football Weltsprache Fußball

With the World Cup Fever catching on faster than you can say "Deutschland für Weltmeister~!" how could die deutsche Sphäre not be part of the action?

With great support from Goethe Institut Singapur, as well the NUS Photographic Society and Centre for Language Studies, we were able to bring the exhibition "Weltsprache Fußball" to the campus.

50 photographs by leading photographers from MAGNUM PHOTOS agency, including masters like Henri Cartier-Bresson and René Burri, Abbas and Martin Parr.In pursuing the FIFA motto of “A time to make friends”, this touring exhibition is the Goethe-Institut’s official contribution to the FIFA World Cup™ art and culture programme, showing football - a passion shared across the world - is an “anthropological constant” (global language)
which unites people, and a sport which has no national or cultural boundaries.The exhibition covers themes directly associated with football, such as urbanity, society at play, social structures and the role of the sexes.

Here were some of the photographs on display, an assortment of both colour and black and white.

For more information about "Tor für Deutschland" as well as other photos on display, click here.

In addition to the photo exhibition were other activities like "Torwand schießen", Tippkick, Football Quiz, vote for your favourite poster, and screenings of the best goals from the World cup. Cool prizes like memorabillia from the Deutsche Bundesliga were generously sponsored by Goethe Institut.

The stage was set: Along Arts Walkway