ABSTRACT
In March 2008, the Dubai Art Fair was held for the second time in the hotel, shopping and conference complex of Madinat Jumeirah, a private and discreetly monitored part of town built in an Oriental old-fort style. The previously mentioned compendium Al Manakh was created as part of the International Design Forum in May 2007 in Dubai. Al Manakh practices a universalism that makes people immune to the subjectivity of indignation. It is the universalism of the equality of categories. In the film A Bird's Nest for the People, Christoph Schaub and Michael Schindhelm, former Director of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority, interview the architects Herzog and de Meuron about the construction of the stadium of the same name for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. The fate of the Inca princess Alzire touches the audience as a moral call to free the Indians from Spanish bondage, while in the ship's hold the African slaves lie penned up.
