A Discourse Programme In Seven Parts

A Discourse Programme In Seven Parts

The experience of the internet challenges our concept of community. It is necessary to find out how networks are organizing themselves today – in arts, politics, economy and living spaces. A series of talks, presentations and experimental set-ups. Artists, activists and scientists from various fields of society meet up with the private expertise of the international festival community to produce common knowledge.
Knowledge Sharing

Knowledge Sharing

The organization and sharing of knowledge is one of the most basic cultural and social actions. By preserving valuable knowledge, it creates bonds between the generations. The fight against oblivion provided the starting point for our discourse programme.
Designing Urban Spaces

Designing Urban Spaces

Traditionally cities are perceived as places of separation and anonymity: Their inhabitants seek for individuality and independence. Good neighborly relations lose their importance and make room for temporary networks. In contrast we go on a quest for fostering moments of communities in urban environments.
Commemoration for the European Union

Commemoration for the European Union

Europe is a federation of states without citizens and with a ruined image. Democracy deficit, beaurocracy monster, debt crisis – the European idea became a concept rather than conviction. Between politicians and citizens a gap has established.
Bankquet for Festival Research

Bankquet for Festival Research

In modern cities festivals create temporary meeting places that reflect the urban co-existance. We turn transeuropa2012 into an object of investigation and explore community-creating formats within festivals. How do festivals stage communities? Where are social spaces established through the architecture of a festival? How do festivals relate to local contexts?
Global Economic Change

Global Economic Change

While the markets fall from one crisis into the next, we discuss a change in the system: Could the mechanisms behind Wikipedia and Firefox serve as a blueprint for a new economic system in the material world aswell? Regionally producing and consuming communities are to play a crucial role and shall bestow a happier world without greed of gain upon us.
The Neverending Story of Mashup

The Neverending Story of Mashup

The virus remix has messed up artistic implicitnesses. Aside from the desperate attempts of the cultural industry to rescue their yields, we go out in search of models far beyond the concept of genius that encourage processes of collective authorship but guarantee existence nevertheless.
Promises of Community

Promises of Community

On the last day, transeuropa2012 was waiting to dissolve again. In these last hours we invited Sebastian Vehlken (University of Lüneburg) and Carolin Wiedemann (University of Hamburg) to persevere with us.
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Young Germans are still welcome to Nida*

 

In effect, we are living in an increasingly post-idea world – a world in which big, thought-provoking ideas that can´t instantly be monetized are of so little intrinsic value that fewer people are generating them and fewer outlets are disseminating them, the Internet notwithstanding. Bold ideas are almost passé. Neal Gabler

According to its title the exhibition “Postidea” in the Vilnius Art Academy does not offer a new utopia or a new great idea. The show, arranged in collaboration with the European Institute for … read more

>>swarming in the depths of the cities

>>we swarm is everywhere. We are happening. We keep on reminding everybody to join our network, to share their stories with us, to think about “community”. So we had to become visible in the city where the most of the core group live – Hildesheim, Germany.

Sunday was the day when some of us got in old clothes, packed their cans, paint rollers and a music box and went to the most frequented bicycle tunnel in here where street-art is allowed and everybody could spray … read more

Backyard art

A few days ago the Art Basel Miami Beach, one of the most important and expensive art fairs opened in Florida. Being in Germany, you might glance out of the window into the cold and gloomy day thinking about Miami as a place of white beaches, ice cream and a very selected circle of gallery owners, artists and collectors and you try to imagine the huge amounts of money which changed hands these days.

Somehow we got used to people who are ready to pay … read more