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.

Banquet for Festival Research

by David Amthor, Sabrina Bläss, Amelie Buchinger, Kristina Dreit, Jonas Feller, Charlotte Grief and Hannah Pfurtscheller

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?

To discuss these questions we organized a banquet for festival research on the 16th of May 2012. The banquet with several courses and different conversations served a platform to get in touch with each other, to exchange and to talk about exceptional festival dramaturgies and attempts to stage communities.

Some of our guests were: Franziska Werner and Mark Thomann (Sophiensæle, Berlin del Mar Festival), Dorothee Halbrock and Laura Raber (Art Camp MS Dockville Hamburg), Haiko Pfost (brut wien), Hélder Sousa (program coordinator performing arts Cultural Capital Guimarães 2012, Portugal), Alexander Roberts (head of Public Space programs artFart festival in Reykjavik, Iceland), Ásgerður Gunnarsdóttir (co-founder artFart festival in Reykjavik, Iceland), Gabriele Labanauskaite (conduct line Tarp Festival Vilnius, Lithuania) and Gunda Zeeb.

Read some interesting thoughts on festival and community on our blog.


Pictures taken by Henning Schlüter

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