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WE WILL RISE – REFUGEE MOVEMENT at 2. BERLINER HERBSTSALON IN GORKI THEATRE

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http://www.gorki.de/spielplan/festivals/zweiter-berliner-herbstsalon/we-will-rise/

 

WE WILL RISE – REFUGEE MOVEMENT
Exhibition and Archive in Progress

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2. BERLINER HERBSTSALON IN GORKI
Kunst, Performance, Diskurs
zum Thema Flucht und Migration

Art, Performance, discourse
to the topics flight and igration

// Eröffnung / Opening
13. November 2015, 18 Uhr

// 13. – 29. November 2015

// Ort / Location
Maxim Gorki Theater + Palais am Festungsgraben + Umgebung
Am Festungsgraben 2
10117 Berlin

Wohin fliehen Menschen, wenn sie nach Berlin fliehen? Für zwei Wochen bietet das Gorki über 30 internationalen Künstler*innen und Aktivist*innen eine Plattform, um dieser Frage nachzugehen. Neben künstlerischen Beiträgen werden täglich Inszenierungen, Debatten und Filme die Grenzen thematisieren, die sichtbar und unsichtbar die Bevölkerungen Berlins und Europas zerreißen.
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— english —
WE WILL RISE gives a space for reflection for the people of the refugee movement aswell as an exchange with people who are not (yet) part of the movement. It is a growing exhibition and
archive. It focusses especially on the time since the tent actions and the protest march from
Würzburg to Berlin, the protest camp on Oranienplatz and the squatting of the former school in Ohlauerstr. It has the aim to make history visible and accessible and to use it for the present and the future. The exhibition and archive is just a beginning. It can only grow if you take part in it and add what is important to you.
We want to struggle together with you for a permanent place for this work.

Art and Geopolitical Borders, Contested sovereignty and art practice Friday 20 November, 2015

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Art and Geopolitical Borders

Symposium in Manchester: Art and Geopolitical Borders, MMU, 20/11/2015

In recent years there has been a growth in interest in the ways that art practice can both acknowledge and articulate the issues around geopolitical borders. This has become significantly more pressing in the light of developments during the last few months, whereby borders, and the complex situation of the multitude of people crossing borders, have become increasingly visible as urgent political issues. Borders have long functioned as a vital component of state-formation and nation building, a role that continues within the shifting politics of globalisation. We have seen recently that their significance is thus subject to ongoing redefinition through a dynamic between a repressive politics of containment and attempts to challenge this. Within these zones of contestation, relationships between geographies and power become both clearly visible and subject to dispute. And although this functions on one level in terms of collective experience, the effects on individuals are also destructive and traumatic.