Cultura21 - Germany : examples of projects (continued)
Photo Exhibition “Fish in time”
Cologne, 26.09-01.10.2006
On the occasion of the 18. International Photokina in Cologne a project
of Cultura21 took place from 26.09. till 01.10.2006 in the
supplement-programme of the fair: the exhibition „Pescare nel tempo -
fish in time “. The location of the event was the Ex-Refectory of the
school of the Istituto Italo Svevo, Cologne , that is attended by
German and Italian children.
Content of the project
- a reportage with 15 b/w-pictures by the Italian photograph
Davide Dutto about the traditional culture of fishing at the Sicilian
coast. This kind of fishing is the same since centuries and very
ecological. The traditional fishermen-culture is in danger, because of
the expansion of industrial fishing;
- an exhibition of 15 pictures by the German photographer
Claus Dieter Geissler about the sea as garbage. Each object that floats
on the seawater tells a story about a special age of development;
- the two works created a tension between reportage and art.
This tension underlined the ambivalent relationship between human
beings and nature: on the one hand we could eat what the sea produced
for many centuries; on the other hand the nature is an environment ‘out
there', out of the human system and its perceived controlled order,
that we use for dumping what we don't need anymore.
- The opening-event was accompanied by lectures about the
different contents of the exhibition: the traditional and local
cultures; the ecological relationship between humans and sea; art in
context (problems and potentials).
- School-classes visited the exhibition. Pupils could discuss
with the artists about their works and experiences.
The objectives of the project were
- to mediate cultural and ecological contents through the
„arts“. Rationality and emotions should be equally addressed;
- to promote communication primarily through visual language
and less through verbal language;
- to bring the school in contact with other social groups
(artists) and cultures (the traditional culture of fishermen in
Sicily). To promote different creative learning processes in the school;
- Laboratory-project for social-ecological Event management;
- Public Relations for the artists and Cultura21.
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