14. November 2017

IGBK Berlin /// international artistic collaborations symposion



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Fragile Affinities - (Re)strengthening international artistic collaboration
Symposium organised by Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste in cooperation with Akademie der Künste, Berlin, on the occasion of IGBK's 60th anniversary.

Against the background of authoritarian and nationalist movements in many countries, artists, too, are becoming growingly restricted in their rights to freedom or excluded from exchange. We are concerned about the alarming developments in Turkey, the increasing erosion of democratic institutions in the EU Member States of Poland and Hungary, and the British vote to exit the EU. With this year’s election a nationalist party is 3rd strongest group in the German Bundestag. Considering also most recent German-German history, these examples cause us to debate the ways in which artists preserve and shape necessary spaces for their activity in times of decreasing social cohesion within Europe.

Find the programme attached and on www.igbk.de.

23 and 24 November 2017
Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin


Free entry. Please register until 16 November 2017 <affinities@igbk.de>.

Speakers: Selda Asal (Artist, Apartment Project, Berlin and Istanbul) - Lutz Dammbeck (Artist, Hamburg) - Katherine Heid (Deputy Secretary-General, Culture Action Europe, Brussels) - Prof. Dr. Wulf Herzogenrath (Director Visual Arts Section, Akademie der Künste, Berlin) - Joanna Krawczyk (Head of Polish Office, Evens Foundation, Warsaw) - Via Lewandowsky (Artist, Berlin) - Małgorzata Ludwisiak (Director, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw) - Dr. Elke Ritt (Head of Arts, British Council Germany, Berlin) - belit sağ (videomaker/visual artist, Amsterdam) - Andreas Schmid (Artist and Curator, Berlin) - Jeanie Scott (a-n The Artists Information Company, London) - Esther Slevogt (Theatre Critic and Managing Director, nachtkritik.de, Berlin) - Dr. Necmi Sönmez (Curator, Düsseldorf) - György Szabó (Artistic Director, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest) - Achim Wagner (Poet and Translator, Berlin) - Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska (Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, Berlin) - Joseph Young (Sound Artist, Brighton and Berlin) - Claudia Zeiske (Director, Deveron Projects, Huntly) - Johanna Zinecker (Centre for British Studies, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin).

The event will be in German on 23 November (w interpreter German/English) and in English on 24 November.
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­ The IGBK and its projects are supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and by the Kulturstiftung der Länder.

Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (IGBK)
Office of IAA Europe
Mohrenstr. 63, D – 10117 Berlin
Tel.: +49 (0)30 23 45 76 66, E-Mail: art@igbk.de
Quelle: 
www.igbk.de // www.iaa-europe.eu

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