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Artists, Art Communities and Creative Initiatives in the Urban Spaces of Russia and Europe

May 19, 2013Cultura21Art Communities, Artists Art, Berlin Germany, Communication Practices, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Creative Cities, Creative Communities, Creative Initiatives, Creative Transformation, Germany Website, Interdisciplinary Seminar Series, Knowledge Generation, Koefoed, Netwo, Room 229, Spring Session, State University Faculty, University Of Bielefeld, Urban Initiatives, Urban Spaces

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Open Interdisciplinary Seminar series â€œScientific Environmentâ€, 6th meeting of the 2013 spring session

Â May 14th 2013, Faculty of Sociology, St. Petersburg State University (Russia),Â ul. Smolnogo 1/3, entrance 9, room 229, 18:00

Speakers:

Â Sacha Kagan (Leuphana University Lueneburg, and Cultura21): â€œCreative cities and the challenge of sustainabilityâ€

Nikita Basov and Anisya Khokhlova (St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of sociology): â€œCommunication Practices of Knowledge Generation: Comparing Creative Communities in St. Petersburgâ€
Anna Zhelnina (Higher School of Economics at St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences) and Alexandra Nenko (Higher School of Economics at St. Petersburg): â€œSelf-Organizing Urban Initiatives: Actors and Practices of Creative Transformation of the Cityâ€

This event is organized by the Center for German and European Studies (a collaboration between the St. Petersburg State University in Russia and the University of Bielefeld in Germany).

WebsiteÂ (with abstracts):Â click here

Cultura21 is a transversal, translocal network, constituted of an international level grounded in several Cultura21 organizations around the world.

Cultura21â€²s international network, launched in April 2007, offers the online and offline platform for exchanges and mutual learning among its members.

The activities of Cultura21 at the international level are coordinated by a team representing the different Cultura21 organizations worldwide, and currently constituted of:

– Sacha Kagan (based in LÃ¼neburg, Germany) and Rana Ã–ztÃ¼rk (based in Berlin, Germany)
– Oleg Koefoed and Kajsa Paludan (both based in Copenhagen, Denmark)
– Hans Dieleman (based in Mexico-City, Mexico)
– Francesca Cozzolino and David Knaute (both based in Paris, France)

Cultura21 is not only an informal network. Its strength and vitality relies upon the activities of several organizations around the world which are sharing the vision and mission of Cultura21

Go to Cultura21

Arts & Democracy audio transcript on the role of Culture in Revolutionary Times

April 19, 2011Cultura21Alwan For The Arts, Art Spaces, Artists Art, Audio Transcript, Berlin Germany, Conference Call, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Democracy Movements, Democracy Project, Francesca, Kagan, Kajsa, Khaled Mattawa, Koefoed, Mexico City, North Africa, Oleg, Paris France, Rana, Revolutionary Times, Sacha, Theatre Artist

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Arts & Democracy Projectâ€™s most recent nation-wide conference call was focused on recent events in Egypt and the extraordinary pro-democracy movements sweeping across North Africa and the Middle East. Â The call highlighted how artists, art spaces and cultural organizers in the region and in the U.S. are participating or responding, and how more cultural workers can engage in positive ways. With Dalia Basiouny, writer & theatre artist (Egypt);Â Ahmed Issawi, Alwan for the Arts (Egypt/NYC); andÂ Khaled Mattawa, poet & professor (Libya/Michigan), among others.

A recorded transcript is available.

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Cultura21 is a transversal, translocal network, constituted of an international level grounded in several Cultura21 organizations around the world.

Cultura21â€²s international network, launched in April 2007, offers the online and offline platform for exchanges and mutual learning among its members.

The activities of Cultura21 at the international level are coordinated by a team representing the different Cultura21 organizations worldwide, and currently constituted of:

– Sacha Kagan (based in LÃ¼neburg, Germany) and Rana Ã–ztÃ¼rk (based in Berlin, Germany)

– Oleg Koefoed and Kajsa Paludan (both based in Copenhagen, Denmark)

– Hans Dieleman (based in Mexico-City, Mexico)

– Francesca Cozzolino and David Knaute (both based in Paris, France)

Cultura21 is not only an informal network. Its strength and vitality relies upon the activities of several organizations around the world which are sharing the vision and mission of Cultura21

Go to Cultura21

AREA #9: Peripheral Vision + ART WORK: â€“ A Discussion with Nicolas Lampert & Dan S. Wang on â€œActivist Art in the Era of Economic Crisisâ€

March 17, 2010Announcements, CSPA Convergence, newsActivist Art, Art Group, Art Practice, Artists Art, Creative Exchange, Lampert, Madison Area, Massmoca, Modern Art New York, Museum Of Modern Art, Museum Of Modern Art New York, National Conversation, Peripheral Vision, Precarious Economy, Self Definition, Temporary Services, Uw Milwaukee, Uw Oshkosh, Vision Art, Wisconsin Artist

Date: March 30, 2010 â€“ 19:00

Artist/writersÂ Nicolas Lampert & Dan S. Wang, collaborators on the indie publicationsÂ AREA #9: Peripheral Vision andÂ Art Work, invite you to a presentation and discussion on the state of activist art practice in this era of economic crisis and how to enlarge the collaboration between activists and artists.

Art Work is a free, nationally distributed paper produced by the art group Temporary Services. The group had hoped to spark a national conversation about the state of labor, creative exchange, and strategies for survival, from the perspective of artists and cultural workers struggling in the precarious economy. It has taken off, with events in Pittsburgh, Grand Rapids, Iowa City, Chicago, Houston, Bloomington-Normal, New York, and now Madison.

AREA is a semi-annual publication by and for activist artists, researchers, and educators produced in Chicago. InÂ AREA #9: Peripheral Vision focuses on those spaces and regions, populations and ideas frequently considered marginal in relation to the major urban centers, but which those centers depend upon for sustenance, self-definition and â€œsense of placeâ€ whether it be Madison, Milwaukee, or Chicago.

Nioclas Lampert is an artist, writer, activist, and a member of theÂ Just Seeds graphic arts collective. The collective was awarded the Grand Prize at the 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana in 2009. His individual work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), MassMoCA (North Adams, Mass.), and the Priebe Gallery of UW-Oshkosh. He teaches printmaking and socially-engaged art strategies at UW-Milwaukee. Nicolas interviewed the Wisconsin artist Susan Simensky Bietila forÂ AREA #9. He contributed an article titled â€œOrganize! What the Artistsâ€™ Union of the 1930s Can Teach Us Todayâ€ forÂ Art Work.

Agitprop by Nicolas Lampert

Dan S. Wang is a printer, writer, and activist. He was a co-founder of the experimental cultural space Mess Hall. His cultural criticism and writings on political art have been widely published and heâ€™s lectured at the Contemporary Museum (Baltimore), the Kansas City Art Institute, and the Depot (Vienna). He lives in Madison and teaches printmaking at Columbia College Chicago. He was the co-editor ofÂ AREA #9 and wrote an analytical article about Just Seeds forÂ Art Work.

So stop in for some creative talk, collaborative schemes, and a free paper!

Rainbow Cooperative

Reposted fromÂ Art Work : Archive : Event: Rainbow Cooperative, Madison, WI, March 30.