HOT OR COLD (HEISS ODER KALT) MEMORIES OF WAR, FLIGHT AND EXPULSION AFTER 1989
The interdisciplinary project “Memory, Culture and Art: Remembrance and Dealing with the past after 1989” opens a dialogue between arts, culture and science on discourses and politics of individual and collective memories in post-socialist Europe after 1989. Project countries are Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosova. Despite the differing historical contexts of these countries in Central Europe and former Yugoslavia, people and societies face similar experiences of war, flight, expulsion and (ethnic) post-war conflicts.
The project consists of interlinked parts
1. International conference in Berlin (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin) and roundtable discussion (Goethe-Institute, Belgrade)
2. Workshops with artists (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin)
3. Interview project with leading representatives from art and culture in Central Europe
4. Internet documentation at the site:
5. Exhibition in Berlin (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin)
6. Publication by the publisher transcript Verlag
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Film Screening: Wed 28 Oct. 2009, 20 h
Šejla Kameric, What do I know, 2007 , 15:37'
Frédéric Moser & Philippe Schwinger, Acting Facts, 2003, 9:40’
Julika Rudelius, Adrift, 2007, 5: 25’
Mario Rizzi, Impermanent, 2007, 15:08’
Anri Sala, Intervista, 1998, 26’
Deimantas Narkevicius, The Role of a Lifetime, 2003, 10’
Jeanne Faust, IV, 2005, 9’
Josephine Meckseper, Rest in Peace, 2004, 7:48’
Films selected & exhibition curated by Petra Reichensperger
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Opening: Thursday 15. October, 7pm
Exhibition: 16.–31. October 2009
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A Netzwerk Migration in Europa e.V. project
by Tanja Lenuweit, Anne von Oswald and Andrea Schmelz
HYPERLINK: "http://www.memory-culture-art.org"
With support from Allianz Kulturstiftung, Stiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, and the European Union
Partners of the project:
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Goethe-Institute Belgrade
KARTA Centre, Warsaw
Leipziger Kreis. Forum für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Leipzig
The Documentation Centre Wars 1991-1999, Belgrade
Centre for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade
Youth Initiative for Human Rights, branches in Belgrade, Sarajevo and Prishtina
Antikomplex, Prague