Going in-formal: learning arts and contemporaneity

A two years collaborative programme (08.2012 – 7.2014) together with Institute for Colour from Oslo and kim? Contemporary Art Centre from Riga, supported by the EU programme for lifelong learning – Grundtvig: practical learning for adults. The project entitled “Going in-formal: learning arts and contemporaneity” aims to improve the international collaboration in the field of non-formal education, to share experience, to exchange ideas and knowledge on interdisciplinary culture, to strengthen awareness regarding contemporary art and to create a certain basis for a long-lasting collaboration. Read More

POT

June-July 2012, Kassel
http://pot.top-ev.de/

The city of Kassel in Germany — some say “near Frankfurt” — is known as the place for the “world’s largest art exhibition”. Every five years a “circus” comes to town and expulses the normal day life and wakes a Sleeping Beauty. Thus Kassel is known for the fairytales of the Brothers Grimm as well as for armament industries. In fact the exhibition Documenta is an outcome of the cold war depression in this region and is internally quite inconsistent, since there are some effects to the population. But on the one hand these remain cursorily on the surface, on the other hand they are burried deeply — for instance the believe in art as social practice or the educational benefit of internationality. Taking this as an operation field the top e.V. association, which has strong and cultivated ties to Kassel, will open up a working and festivity space called sketchily “POT” in Kassel during Summer 2012. The association seeks to invite all interested parties to find ways of co-operation for this undertaking. This can be a rent-the-space action or a symposion about the questionable terms of gentrification. The POT will offer infrastructure and support for foreign cultural producers and create a program for discussions and presentations.

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Abandoned Mystery

Abandoned Mystery is a Multi/Inter/Trans/Cross/Non-disciplinary Expedition pilot project on exploring the constitution of the phenomena of abandoned military sites of the European edges in the Baltic Sea area. (Pre-WWII fortifications, Soviet military heritages in Koenigsberg/Kaliningrad, Memel/Klaipeda and Riga, Curonian Spit, Vyborg, Karelian Isthmus/Russia, Liepaja, Vainode, Skrunda/Latvia as well as Porkkala, Hamina/Finland and Plateliai, Gulbiniskiai, Rimsai/Lithuania).
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Migrationshintergrundrauschen

Migrationshintergrundrauschen

Migration ist eine Art Rauschen im Hintergrund, und manchmal ein Kriterium für Ausschluss oder Einschluss. Ein LKW bringt Rauschen von der einen Seite des Landwehrkanals über die Brücke auf die andere Seite. Wir nehmen Sound in Neukölln auf und spielen ihn jenseits wieder ab, beim Nachbarn in Kreuzberg. Dann nehmen wir dort auf und transportieren wieder zurück. Und so weiter. So entsteht ein Verkehr über die unsichtbare Bezirksgrenze hinweg. Von Neukölln nach Kreuzberg, von Kreuzberg nach Neukölln. Sans papier, ohne Pass, no landlord.
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