Visualizing Transnationalism
Preparatory workshop in the context of the upcoming TRANSEUROPA Festival 2011
Visualizing Transnationalism is a project conceived, organized and produced by European Alternatives with the support of the European Cultural Foundation.
The project will take place within the context of the Transeuropa Festival 2011 and will inform its artistic programme.
The meeting is not open to an external audience.
Participants:
Luchezar Boyadjiev – artist (Sofia)
Sonya Dyer – artist, Chelsea College of Arts (London) /// http://cltad.arts.ac.uk/users/chelseaprogblog/
Anna de Manincor / Zimmerfrei – artist (Bologna) /// www.zimmerfrei.co.it/
Jacopo Gallico – Stalker/ Osservatorio Nomade (Berlin) /// http://www.osservatorionomade.net/
Emanuele Guidi – curator and artistic coordinator EA (Berlin)
Hackitectura.net – Architects and media activists (Spain) / http://hackitectura.net/blog/
Bouchra Kahlili – artist (Paris)
Lorenzo Sandoval – Artist and Curator (Spain/Berlin) /// http://www.ieii.blogspot.com/
Maria Ptqk – curator (Spain/Berlin) /// http://ptqkblogzine.blogspot.com/; http://www.genderartnet.eu/emerge/
Nicolas Maleve – artist (Brussels) /// http://www.constantvzw.org/site/; http://www.genderartnet.eu/emerge/
Introduction
Preliminary Meeting – Saturday, 22nd January 2010 in collaboration with Altes Finanzamt
The meeting is organized by European Alternatives to discuss and prepare two parallel projects conceived by the organization: TRANSEUROPA Festival 2011 and Visualizing Transnationalism.
The preparatory meeting will take place in form of 1 day workshop in Berlin where artists, curators, activists will come together with members of the European Alternatives team and will be invited to contribute to the conceptualization of ideas and formats to be realized in 2011.
During the workshop, the structure, the organization and the platforms of the TRANSEUROPA Festival will be presented, so as to clear the context, within which it will be possible to collaborate, and introduce the already existing tools that will be possible to employ. The invitation to the preliminary meeting is aimed at establishing productive working cooperation among the participants or at least a critical exchange that could direct and instigate future actions.
Visualizing Transnationalism
It is a collaborative research-based process aimed at exploring the way in which transnationalism is becoming an embedded reality in the social fabric of Europe. Far from being reserved only to a jet-setting cosmopolitan elite, forms of transnationalism are becoming constitutive of everyday life in many parts of Europe, amongst many groups. This embedded transnationalism is found in migrant groups, in forms of political activism, in online networking and media spaces, and in the everyday social life of metropolises and border spaces throughout Europe. Transnational fluxes, practices and movements ‘from below’ constitute a cultural backdrop that needs to be explored, decoded, re-imagined and brought back into the ‘public sphere’ through visual languages.
The project will gather European artists and activists, who operate in different cultural and political contexts and with different concerns to explore Europe not as a political or economical ‘institution’ but as a space that is continuously reconfigured by collective movements. This idea is referred more precisely to those groups – very often invisible and unheard – that exist as ‘collectivity’ beyond geographical circumstances; communities that need to be imagined exactly because they do share immaterial values, they enact forms of solidarity, of collaboration and common action, although they come from different local contexts.
This scenario composed by articulated and ever-changing relationships and alliances continuously produce a new space of action that is not anymore perceivable through conventional spatial and temporal coordinates but it demands new ways and methodologies to be approached. How can such a complex territory be mapped? Are these collective actions and practices to be understood, paraphrasing the philosopher Henry Lefebvre, as producers of a new space? Is this space a form of public space? What are the tools to design new real and fictional cartographies that can help to better understand this multifaceted picture? How can fictional mapping strategies help to orient oneself and identify potential terrains vague and residual spaces that can be occupied? Are still maps, cartographies and archives a suitable tool to represent and track the movements of the present day ‘imaginary communities’?
A series of meeting and workshops will give the chance to investigate embedded forms of transnationalism in the social fabric of contemporary Europe, by researching forms of representation adequate for the highly networked and cross-border natures of many social activities. This exploration of Europe as transnational space crossed by a multitude of formal and informal networks will be the starting point to look for new forms of representation for Europe itself. The need to find new ways of thinking and representing our social connections and inter-dependencies seems in the present socio-economic context both urgent and vital: and it is particularly important that these connections and inter-dependencies are understood to be more than simply the economic benefits of trade.
“We are in the epoch of simultaneity: we are in the epoch of juxtaposition, the epoch of the near and far, of the side-by-side, of the dispersed. We are at a moment. I believe, when our experience of the world is less that of a long life developing through time than that of a network that connects points and intersects with its own skein.” Michel Foucault. Of Other Spaces (1967)
Visualizing Transnationalism, in the context offered by the TRANSEUROPA Festival 2011, intends to start a reflection around the role and importance of visual culture and communication as a form of knowledge production and information dissemination, at the same time as revealing the already-existing forms of transnationalism embedded in our societies. Europe and its transnational dimension offers a perfect context to explore the potential of artistic and cultural practices to research and imagine forms of representation aimed at looking the idea of Europe not only as political and economical space but as a unique space crossed by parallel fluxes that need to be recognized as common. The profound cultural differences between European countries demand the imagination of new cultural and artistic vision that can make emerge a shared narrative. In this sense a visual approach can operate within more immediate, intuitive and imaginative channels that can acknowledge diversities, and even conflicts, as potential territories for common actions.
Visualizing Transnationalism
Preparatory workshop in the context of the upcoming TRANSEUROPA Festival 2011
Visualizing Transnationalism is a project conceived, organized and produced by European Alternatives with the support of the European Cultural Foundation.
The project will take place within the context of the Transeuropa Festival 2011 and will inform its artistic programme.
The meeting is not open to an external audience.
Participants:
Luchezar Boyadjiev – artist (Sofia)
Sonya Dyer – artist, Chelsea College of Arts (London) /// http://cltad.arts.ac.uk/users/chelseaprogblog/
Anna de Manincor / Zimmerfrei – artist (Bologna) /// www.zimmerfrei.co.it/
Jacopo Gallico – Stalker/ Osservatorio Nomade (Berlin) /// http://www.osservatorionomade.net/
Emanuele Guidi – curator and artistic coordinator EA (Berlin)
Hackitectura.net – Architects and media activists (Spain) / http://hackitectura.net/blog/
Bouchra Kahlili – artist (Paris)
Lorenzo Sandoval – Artist and Curator (Spain/Berlin) /// http://www.ieii.blogspot.com/
Maria Ptqk – curator (Spain/Berlin) /// http://ptqkblogzine.blogspot.com/; http://www.genderartnet.eu/emerge/
Nicolas Maleve – artist (Brussels) /// http://www.constantvzw.org/site/; http://www.genderartnet.eu/emerge/
Introduction
Preliminary Meeting – Saturday, 22nd January 2010 in collaboration with Altes Finanzamt
The meeting is organized by European Alternatives to discuss and prepare two parallel projects conceived by the organization: TRANSEUROPA Festival 2011 and Visualizing Transnationalism.
The preparatory meeting will take place in form of 1 day workshop in Berlin where artists, curators, activists will come together with members of the European Alternatives team and will be invited to contribute to the conceptualization of ideas and formats to be realized in 2011.
During the workshop, the structure, the organization and the platforms of the TRANSEUROPA Festival will be presented, so as to clear the context, within which it will be possible to collaborate, and introduce the already existing tools that will be possible to employ. The invitation to the preliminary meeting is aimed at establishing productive working cooperation among the participants or at least a critical exchange that could direct and instigate future actions.
Visualizing Transnationalism
It is a collaborative research-based process aimed at exploring the way in which transnationalism is becoming an embedded reality in the social fabric of Europe. Far from being reserved only to a jet-setting cosmopolitan elite, forms of transnationalism are becoming constitutive of everyday life in many parts of Europe, amongst many groups. This embedded transnationalism is found in migrant groups, in forms of political activism, in online networking and media spaces, and in the everyday social life of metropolises and border spaces throughout Europe. Transnational fluxes, practices and movements ‘from below’ constitute a cultural backdrop that needs to be explored, decoded, re-imagined and brought back into the ‘public sphere’ through visual languages.
The project will gather European artists and activists, who operate in different cultural and political contexts and with different concerns to explore Europe not as a political or economical ‘institution’ but as a space that is continuously reconfigured by collective movements. This idea is referred more precisely to those groups – very often invisible and unheard – that exist as ‘collectivity’ beyond geographical circumstances; communities that need to be imagined exactly because they do share immaterial values, they enact forms of solidarity, of collaboration and common action, although they come from different local contexts.
This scenario composed by articulated and ever-changing relationships and alliances continuously produce a new space of action that is not anymore perceivable through conventional spatial and temporal coordinates but it demands new ways and methodologies to be approached. How can such a complex territory be mapped? Are these collective actions and practices to be understood, paraphrasing the philosopher Henry Lefebvre, as producers of a new space? Is this space a form of public space? What are the tools to design new real and fictional cartographies that can help to better understand this multifaceted picture? How can fictional mapping strategies help to orient oneself and identify potential terrains vague and residual spaces that can be occupied? Are still maps, cartographies and archives a suitable tool to represent and track the movements of the present day ‘imaginary communities’?
A series of meeting and workshops will give the chance to investigate embedded forms of transnationalism in the social fabric of contemporary Europe, by researching forms of representation adequate for the highly networked and cross-border natures of many social activities. This exploration of Europe as transnational space crossed by a multitude of formal and informal networks will be the starting point to look for new forms of representation for Europe itself. The need to find new ways of thinking and representing our social connections and inter-dependencies seems in the present socio-economic context both urgent and vital: and it is particularly important that these connections and inter-dependencies are understood to be more than simply the economic benefits of trade.
“We are in the epoch of simultaneity: we are in the epoch of juxtaposition, the epoch of the near and far, of the side-by-side, of the dispersed. We are at a moment. I believe, when our experience of the world is less that of a long life developing through time than that of a network that connects points and intersects with its own skein.” Michel Foucault. Of Other Spaces (1967)
Visualizing Transnationalism, in the context offered by the TRANSEUROPA Festival 2011, intends to start a reflection around the role and importance of visual culture and communication as a form of knowledge production and information dissemination, at the same time as revealing the already-existing forms of transnationalism embedded in our societies. Europe and its transnational dimension offers a perfect context to explore the potential of artistic and cultural practices to research and imagine forms of representation aimed at looking the idea of Europe not only as political and economical space but as a unique space crossed by parallel fluxes that need to be recognized as common. The profound cultural differences between European countries demand the imagination of new cultural and artistic vision that can make emerge a shared narrative. In this sense a visual approach can operate within more immediate, intuitive and imaginative channels that can acknowledge diversities, and even conflicts, as potential territories for common actions.
Visualizing Transnationalism
Preparatory workshop in the context of the upcoming TRANSEUROPA Festival 2011
Visualizing Transnationalism is a project conceived, organized and produced by European Alternatives with the support of the European Cultural Foundation.
The project will take place within the context of the Transeuropa Festival 2011 and will inform its artistic programme.
The meeting is not open to an external audience.
Participants:
Luchezar Boyadjiev – artist (Sofia)
Sonya Dyer – artist, Chelsea College of Arts (London) /// http://cltad.arts.ac.uk/users/chelseaprogblog/
Anna de Manincor / Zimmerfrei – artist (Bologna) /// www.zimmerfrei.co.it/
Jacopo Gallico – Stalker/ Osservatorio Nomade (Berlin) /// http://www.osservatorionomade.net/
Emanuele Guidi – curator and artistic coordinator EA (Berlin)
Hackitectura.net – Architects and media activists (Spain) / http://hackitectura.net/blog/
Bouchra Kahlili – artist (Paris)
Lorenzo Sandoval – Artist and Curator (Spain/Berlin) /// http://www.ieii.blogspot.com/
Maria Ptqk – curator (Spain/Berlin) /// http://ptqkblogzine.blogspot.com/; http://www.genderartnet.eu/emerge/
Nicolas Maleve – artist (Brussels) /// http://www.constantvzw.org/site/; http://www.genderartnet.eu/emerge/
Introduction
Preliminary Meeting – Saturday, 22nd January 2010 in collaboration with Altes Finanzamt
The meeting is organized by European Alternatives to discuss and prepare two parallel projects conceived by the organization: TRANSEUROPA Festival 2011 and Visualizing Transnationalism.
The preparatory meeting will take place in form of 1 day workshop in Berlin where artists, curators, activists will come together with members of the European Alternatives team and will be invited to contribute to the conceptualization of ideas and formats to be realized in 2011.
During the workshop, the structure, the organization and the platforms of the TRANSEUROPA Festival will be presented, so as to clear the context, within which it will be possible to collaborate, and introduce the already existing tools that will be possible to employ. The invitation to the preliminary meeting is aimed at establishing productive working cooperation among the participants or at least a critical exchange that could direct and instigate future actions.
Visualizing Transnationalism
It is a collaborative research-based process aimed at exploring the way in which transnationalism is becoming an embedded reality in the social fabric of Europe. Far from being reserved only to a jet-setting cosmopolitan elite, forms of transnationalism are becoming constitutive of everyday life in many parts of Europe, amongst many groups. This embedded transnationalism is found in migrant groups, in forms of political activism, in online networking and media spaces, and in the everyday social life of metropolises and border spaces throughout Europe. Transnational fluxes, practices and movements ‘from below’ constitute a cultural backdrop that needs to be explored, decoded, re-imagined and brought back into the ‘public sphere’ through visual languages.
The project will gather European artists and activists, who operate in different cultural and political contexts and with different concerns to explore Europe not as a political or economical ‘institution’ but as a space that is continuously reconfigured by collective movements. This idea is referred more precisely to those groups – very often invisible and unheard – that exist as ‘collectivity’ beyond geographical circumstances; communities that need to be imagined exactly because they do share immaterial values, they enact forms of solidarity, of collaboration and common action, although they come from different local contexts.
This scenario composed by articulated and ever-changing relationships and alliances continuously produce a new space of action that is not anymore perceivable through conventional spatial and temporal coordinates but it demands new ways and methodologies to be approached. How can such a complex territory be mapped? Are these collective actions and practices to be understood, paraphrasing the philosopher Henry Lefebvre, as producers of a new space? Is this space a form of public space? What are the tools to design new real and fictional cartographies that can help to better understand this multifaceted picture? How can fictional mapping strategies help to orient oneself and identify potential terrains vague and residual spaces that can be occupied? Are still maps, cartographies and archives a suitable tool to represent and track the movements of the present day ‘imaginary communities’?
A series of meeting and workshops will give the chance to investigate embedded forms of transnationalism in the social fabric of contemporary Europe, by researching forms of representation adequate for the highly networked and cross-border natures of many social activities. This exploration of Europe as transnational space crossed by a multitude of formal and informal networks will be the starting point to look for new forms of representation for Europe itself. The need to find new ways of thinking and representing our social connections and inter-dependencies seems in the present socio-economic context both urgent and vital: and it is particularly important that these connections and inter-dependencies are understood to be more than simply the economic benefits of trade.
“We are in the epoch of simultaneity: we are in the epoch of juxtaposition, the epoch of the near and far, of the side-by-side, of the dispersed. We are at a moment. I believe, when our experience of the world is less that of a long life developing through time than that of a network that connects points and intersects with its own skein.” Michel Foucault. Of Other Spaces (1967)
Visualizing Transnationalism, in the context offered by the TRANSEUROPA Festival 2011, intends to start a reflection around the role and importance of visual culture and communication as a form of knowledge production and information dissemination, at the same time as revealing the already-existing forms of transnationalism embedded in our societies. Europe and its transnational dimension offers a perfect context to explore the potential of artistic and cultural practices to research and imagine forms of representation aimed at looking the idea of Europe not only as political and economical space but as a unique space crossed by parallel fluxes that need to be recognized as common. The profound cultural differences between European countries demand the imagination of new cultural and artistic vision that can make emerge a shared narrative. In this sense a visual approach can operate within more immediate, intuitive and imaginative channels that can acknowledge diversities, and even conflicts, as potential territories for common actions.
Visualizing Transnationalism
Preparatory workshop in the context of the upcoming TRANSEUROPA Festival 2011
Visualizing Transnationalism is a project conceived, organized and produced by European Alternatives with the support of the European Cultural Foundation.
The project will take place within the context of the Transeuropa Festival 2011 and will inform its artistic programme.
The meeting is not open to an external audience.
Participants:
Luchezar Boyadjiev – artist (Sofia)
Sonya Dyer – artist, Chelsea College of Arts (London) /// http://cltad.arts.ac.uk/users/chelseaprogblog/
Anna de Manincor / Zimmerfrei – artist (Bologna) /// www.zimmerfrei.co.it/
Jacopo Gallico – Stalker/ Osservatorio Nomade (Berlin) /// http://www.osservatorionomade.net/
Emanuele Guidi – curator and artistic coordinator EA (Berlin)
Hackitectura.net – Architects and media activists (Spain) / http://hackitectura.net/blog/
Bouchra Kahlili – artist (Paris)
Lorenzo Sandoval – Artist and Curator (Spain/Berlin) /// http://www.ieii.blogspot.com/
Maria Ptqk – curator (Spain/Berlin) /// http://ptqkblogzine.blogspot.com/; http://www.genderartnet.eu/emerge/
Nicolas Maleve – artist (Brussels) /// http://www.constantvzw.org/site/; http://www.genderartnet.eu/emerge/
Introduction
Preliminary Meeting – Saturday, 22nd January 2010 in collaboration with Altes Finanzamt
The meeting is organized by European Alternatives to discuss and prepare two parallel projects conceived by the organization: TRANSEUROPA Festival 2011 and Visualizing Transnationalism.
The preparatory meeting will take place in form of 1 day workshop in Berlin where artists, curators, activists will come together with members of the European Alternatives team and will be invited to contribute to the conceptualization of ideas and formats to be realized in 2011.
During the workshop, the structure, the organization and the platforms of the TRANSEUROPA Festival will be presented, so as to clear the context, within which it will be possible to collaborate, and introduce the already existing tools that will be possible to employ. The invitation to the preliminary meeting is aimed at establishing productive working cooperation among the participants or at least a critical exchange that could direct and instigate future actions.
Visualizing Transnationalism
It is a collaborative research-based process aimed at exploring the way in which transnationalism is becoming an embedded reality in the social fabric of Europe. Far from being reserved only to a jet-setting cosmopolitan elite, forms of transnationalism are becoming constitutive of everyday life in many parts of Europe, amongst many groups. This embedded transnationalism is found in migrant groups, in forms of political activism, in online networking and media spaces, and in the everyday social life of metropolises and border spaces throughout Europe. Transnational fluxes, practices and movements ‘from below’ constitute a cultural backdrop that needs to be explored, decoded, re-imagined and brought back into the ‘public sphere’ through visual languages.
The project will gather European artists and activists, who operate in different cultural and political contexts and with different concerns to explore Europe not as a political or economical ‘institution’ but as a space that is continuously reconfigured by collective movements. This idea is referred more precisely to those groups – very often invisible and unheard – that exist as ‘collectivity’ beyond geographical circumstances; communities that need to be imagined exactly because they do share immaterial values, they enact forms of solidarity, of collaboration and common action, although they come from different local contexts.
This scenario composed by articulated and ever-changing relationships and alliances continuously produce a new space of action that is not anymore perceivable through conventional spatial and temporal coordinates but it demands new ways and methodologies to be approached. How can such a complex territory be mapped? Are these collective actions and practices to be understood, paraphrasing the philosopher Henry Lefebvre, as producers of a new space? Is this space a form of public space? What are the tools to design new real and fictional cartographies that can help to better understand this multifaceted picture? How can fictional mapping strategies help to orient oneself and identify potential terrains vague and residual spaces that can be occupied? Are still maps, cartographies and archives a suitable tool to represent and track the movements of the present day ‘imaginary communities’?
A series of meeting and workshops will give the chance to investigate embedded forms of transnationalism in the social fabric of contemporary Europe, by researching forms of representation adequate for the highly networked and cross-border natures of many social activities. This exploration of Europe as transnational space crossed by a multitude of formal and informal networks will be the starting point to look for new forms of representation for Europe itself. The need to find new ways of thinking and representing our social connections and inter-dependencies seems in the present socio-economic context both urgent and vital: and it is particularly important that these connections and inter-dependencies are understood to be more than simply the economic benefits of trade.
“We are in the epoch of simultaneity: we are in the epoch of juxtaposition, the epoch of the near and far, of the side-by-side, of the dispersed. We are at a moment. I believe, when our experience of the world is less that of a long life developing through time than that of a network that connects points and intersects with its own skein.” Michel Foucault. Of Other Spaces (1967)
Visualizing Transnationalism, in the context offered by the TRANSEUROPA Festival 2011, intends to start a reflection around the role and importance of visual culture and communication as a form of knowledge production and information dissemination, at the same time as revealing the already-existing forms of transnationalism embedded in our societies. Europe and its transnational dimension offers a perfect context to explore the potential of artistic and cultural practices to research and imagine forms of representation aimed at looking the idea of Europe not only as political and economical space but as a unique space crossed by parallel fluxes that need to be recognized as common. The profound cultural differences between European countries demand the imagination of new cultural and artistic vision that can make emerge a shared narrative. In this sense a visual approach can operate within more immediate, intuitive and imaginative channels that can acknowledge diversities, and even conflicts, as potential territories for common actions.
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22 01 2011
Berlin
