Beginning as Well as We Can (How Do We Talk about ..
Beginning as Well as We Can (How Do We Talk about Fascism?)
Start date: Jul 1, 2012,
The project "Beginning As Well As We Can (How Do We Talk About Fascism?)" is collaborative platform of: WHW from Croatia, Tensta Konsthall from Sweden and Grazer Kunstverein from Austria, in collaboration with associate partners from Belgium, Latvia, Hungary and Norway. Through series of highly visible cultural events, research and knowledge exchange, project will deal with social and cultural implications of the rise of far right-wing ideologies throughout Europe. It will explore possibilities for critical and collective resistance to the rising intolerance through the artistic and cultural production, as well as through initiatives in alternative education. The activities of the project will be: • 8 exhibitions: "Intolerance/Normality" in Graz, 2 exhibitions "What is Cultural Heritage?" in Stockholm, 5 exhibitions "Visibility Study no.1-5" in Zagreb.• International seminar "What is Cultural Heritage" in Stockholm.• 8 lectures on cultural impact of the rise of far-right, in Gallery Nova in Zagreb.• Book "Beginning As Well As We Can (How Do We Talk About Fascism?)" with newly commissioned essays, reprints of texts not previously translated into English, and artistic contributions. • 4 public discussions on cultural and political impact of the rise of far-right in Europe, in collaboration with associate partners, in Antwerp, Bergen, Budapest, and Riga.The project is relevant on the European level because in a critical and creative way opens up suppressed issues of the rise of extremism in European political, cultural and social sphere, and calls up to the historical legacies of people throughout Europe in creating strategies of resistance and mutual solidarity. It will build new links between cultural producers of different European backgrounds and examine the cognitive power and potential of art for questioning reality and shaking up the moral complacency and political resignation that permit loss of control over the direction of social transformation.
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