LOOM – Interweaving the Arts in Europe

The Freedom of Art in Times of War and Crisis

Public Conference
Thursday – Friday, 15 – 16 December 2022, 7pm
Two public debates will explore the questions of artistic freedom between repression and resistance and the freedom of art in times of war and crisis. With amongst others, Olena Balun, Hanna Bilobrova, Ferenc Czinki, Wolfgang Kaleck, A.L. Kennedy, Sergei Loznitsa, Leszek Koczanowicz, Jeanine Meerapfel, Robert Menasse, Andres Veiel, Iris ter Shiphorst, Cécile Wajsbrot as well as Minister of State for Culture and Media Claudia Roth (online) and UN Special Rapporteur for Culture Alexandra Xanthaki (online) and Thomas Krüger, President of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb). Music by Floros Floridis and AoA Impro Group.

Privilege of Dreaming

Luïza Luz

Translocal/Borderless/Plural ecosystem. Sharing privilege, dreams, and care.

Syntax of Care

Cássio Diniz Santiago

The most diverse people are driven into dangerous situations through “enclosures” of language in which hatred of any kind of difference smouldered; the tendency to withdraw, to isolation, sabotages our ability to coexist with others and their different perspectives.

Controlling Future: Technologies of Resistance

Jovana Popić

The Project “Controlling Future: Technologies of Resistance” is questioning the politics representations of future and political and economic control of those future narratives. Through artistic enquiry, exchange of knowledge and imagination it produces creative actions that challenge and deconstruct those narratives. Working together with activists, experts, citizens and researchers in different European capitals, it employs art as a technology for generation of ideas and potential solutions for the two strategic challenges: the future of human life and human labor. The broader mission of the project is to create a blueprint of the new collaborative interdisciplinary working processes between different activists, experts, citizens and researchers  on the topic of future defining strategies.

I prefer the old green

Iulian Bisericaru

The call for projects was directed to artists from all artistic disciplines who are associated by the institutions and academies of the European Alliance of Academies.

GENERICS

Anahita Razmi

GENERICS links to the project "Darookhaneh Apotheke Pharmacy", an Iranian pharmacy in Berlin, Germany. Run by Anahita Razmi and Sohrab Kashani in spring 2022, its display consisted of a large selection of boxes of Iranian generic drugs.

Mund Auf

Karina Pino Gallardo, Ricardo Sarmiento Ramírez

Mund Auf (work in progress) is transdisciplinary and collaborative project with sex workers in Berlin that seeks to explore legal context, life stories and stigmatization of this sector.

12 Years

Larisa Crunțeanu

Numbers, graphs and statistics as standards for better reporting data, quantifiable and cross-matched within recognizable patterns, stereotypes, and even collective emotional states. Nothing can be alien to us again. We are all success stories, otherwise we would remain untold. In the uncanny valley of crypto bliss and covid charts, no next pandemic will catch us unprepared, unready to speculate economically from the self-confinement of our netflix screens.

Govern yourself accordingly

María José Crespo

Departing from my hometown Tijuana, this work investigates unclear zones as spaces of possibilities.

The Five Houses

Dimitrina Popova

In my project I reconstruct digitally houses from 19th century which once existed in different towns in Bulgaria. Before their demolition they were measured and represented into architectural drawings by professional architects in the 1950’s and in the early 1960’s.

Truth Is a Forgotten Memory

Rebecca Merlic, Željko Beljan

„Zidnjaci“ in our project retain relatively standard traditional form of text and image, but the text was generated using Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3), an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text.