Conference: "radius of art" Connecting and catalysing

Connecting and catalysing: Aesthetics, community and ecology toward a culture of sustainability

Which situations, which challenges is art playing with, at the crossroads of ecologies,
communities, and aesthetics? How does art work as a seismograph and
catalyst of deeper transformations? How can art contribute to sensitise for and
unpack the complexities we have to deal with in our lives? Where are the limits
and the challenges for such artistic and cultural practices?

Speakers:
Davide Brocchi (Social Scientist, Journalist, Cultural Activist; Founder of KulturATTAC
and of Cultura21; Lecturer at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, the
college of Bochum, and the Ecosign Academy for Design in Cologne)
Michelangelo Pistoletto (Artist, Painter, and Art Theorist, Italy)
Shelley Sacks (Interdisciplinary Artist, Director of the Social Sculpture Research
Unit at Oxford Brookes University, UK)

Moderator:
Sacha Kagan (Research Associate at the Institute of Cultural Theory, Research,
and the Arts at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany; Vicepresident
of Cultura21 and Founding Coordinator of Cultura21‘s international
network)