Esthetics & Politics - Heinrich Böll Foundation

Iraqi Refugees: Navigating the Space Between Home and Exile

January 27, 2009 - A publication by offline:events in collaboration with independent Iraqi artists, filmmakers, and authors documenting the lives of Iraqis navigating the space between home and exile and lending Iraqi refugees and those living in exile a voice to express their realities and reflections inter alia on notions such as Homeland and Exile, East and West, and Identity. more»

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radius of art: Creative politicisation of the public sphere - Cultural potentials for social transformation

- February 8, 2012 - This conference is part of the radius project “art-based research /research-based art”, which is the result of a cooperation with a number of partners. Our mission is to promote cultural policy and funding designs that support art for social transformation processes towards cultures of sustainability; we also wish to explore the potentials of art for the public sphere and the new dimensions of knowledge production that research-based art and art-based research can offer. Barbara Unmüßig more»

Publication Series Education and Culture, Volume 10

Conceptual Thoughts on Establishing a Fund for Aesthetics and Sustainability

- February 1, 2012 - We live in an era of comprehensive social transition, in an era of the “not anymore and not yet.” This diagnosis of not anymore/not yet is the point of departure for bringing aesthetics into the debate on sustainability. It is based on the claim that artistic strategies are the best approach in radically open contents and for dealing with gaps. more»

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SurVivArt – Art For the Right to a "Good Life"

- January 9, 2012 - For the SurVivArt project the Heinrich Böll Foundation has invited artists from around the world to reflect by means of works of art and related communications on what the “good life“ means to them and those around them. In February 2012, the works will be presented at an exhibition in Berlin. more»

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Terrorism in Kenya: Remembering the 1998 United States embassy bombing

- October 6, 2011 - During the 1998 United States embassy bombings, the ambassy in Nairobi Kenya was attacked on August 7, killing approximately 212 people. The Kenyan drama film "From a Whisper" portrays the aftermath, capturing the lives of the victims and families who had to pick up the pieces of their lives shredded by the blast. An interview with the films director Wanuri Kahiu. Samuel Dansette more»

From A Whisper

Art project SurVivArt: Creativity and the Right to a Good Life

- July 14, 2011 - The concept of a “good life” touches many layers of everyday life. Our art project SurVivArt creates an international bridge between sustainability, climate change, gender equity, art and culture. With the support of our international offices, SurVivArt shows perspectives and views from artists from different regions of the world, mainly from the global South. more»

SurVivArt: Arts for the Right to a Good Life

Climate Change in Africa: Artists Speak and Connect

- December 2, 2010 - The Cancún Climate Summit is accompanied by a cross continental interactive exhibition. African artists, climate experts and Cop 16 delegates form a larger creative dialogue. The exhibition was put together by the Heinrich Böll Foundation Southern Africa, with support from the COPART movement and the Arterial Network. more»

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