Tag Archives: Germany

Ecology and cybernetics towards network society capitalism

June 21-22nd,2013, The World Earth – Conference, in Berlin The exhibition and the conference The Whole Earth are dedicated to the story of the image of the “blue planet”. The project takes its starting point in historical developments in California since the 1960s : using materials from cultural history and artistic works. Curated by Diedrich [...]

ZOO 3000: OCCUPY SPECIES

Fifth Live Art Festival at Kampnagel 07th – 15th of June 2013, Hamburg (Germany) For its new edition, the  fifth  Live Art Festival proposes transversal performances on the theme of human-animal relationships. Artists and scientists explore the concept of “animal turn” in cultural studies, and the field of ‘Animal Studies, through the artistic languages of performance/dance [...]

Enlivenment. Towards a fundamental shift in the concepts of nature, culture and politics

A new publication in the Ecology Series at Heinrich Boell Foundation, by Andreas Weber “People often call for “changing the system” and seek to reform the “free market” approach that turns everything, including life itself, into a commodity. But it is impossible to alter our prevailing “operating system” for economics, politics and culture if the [...]

ufaFabrik’s 2nd Forum: Creative strategies of sustainability

9th – 14th of September 2013, ufaFabrik, Berlin (Germany) Building on the experience of their first event in 2012 (on which we reported on Cultura21′s webmagazine: click here to read our article in German language) this one-week seminar organized by ufaFabrik in Berlin for cultural operators proposes a common reflection and “a time of intense [...]

Td Summer School 2013: Transdisciplinary Research at the Science | Society Interface

“Td Summer School 2013: Transdisciplinary Research at the Science | Society Interface”  will be held at Leuphana University Lueneburg, Germany, from September 1 – 10, 2013. The Td Summer School 2013 offers a “Td Training Module” (Sep., 1-6) and a Special Training Module in “Constellation Analysis” (Sep., 9-10) in cooperation with the Center for Technology [...]

Exhibition: Burnt Stars by Jenny Brown

Australian Artist Jenny Brown, currently residing in Berlin, Germany on a DAAD scholarship, is inviting to her exhibition Burnt Stars  – Meditations on resistance, resilience and systems, curated by Adam Nankervis at stattberlin, an art space (in Berlin) dedicated to new forms of artistic expressions. The opening event is on Thursday 17 January 2013 at [...]

Art and Awareness – Uranium Film Festival in Berlin

After taking place twice in Brazil, the International Uranium Film Festival came to Berlin in October 2012. The highlight of the festival was the screening of four movies about the nuclear disaster of Goiânia, 1987, one of them Cesium 137: The Nightmare of Goiânia (1990), a movie by already deceased Roberto Pires which had already [...]

Grounded – Soil Film Festival

Celebrate Soil Awareness! As part of the first Global Soil Week, the film festival Grounded will take place at Kino Arsenal in Berlin on the 18th and the 21st November. On two days, a selection of international films on the topic of soil and soil protection will be shown. Ten directors present the diversity and [...]

Exhibition at Kunstverein Springhornhof

The Simple Life 28 October–16 December, 2012 – Opening: Saturday, 27 October, 5pm; artist talk with Angela Bulloch 6pm Kunstverein & Stiftung Springhornhof – Tiefe Straße 4, D-29643 Neuenkirchen (Germany) With: Angela Bulloch, Josephine Meckseper, Shana Moulton, Simon Starling and winners of the Daniel Frese Prize 2012 Fabian Reimann and Niko Wolf The exhibition The [...]

Call for Papers: Sustainability and Empowerment

The organizing committee of the International Graduate Conference in Hamburg, Germany, taking place from 22nd till 25th of November, are inviting graduate and PhD students to send in papers on the relationship between sustainability and empowerment, till the 15th of October. The theme of the conference is A survey on Latin-American perspectives after Rio+20, focusing [...]

Oikos Winter School 2012

Local innovation for global Impact is the slogan of the oikos Winter School 2012. From the 3rd to the 11th of November they are inviting “young change maker from all around the world” to join them in the Ruhr area: “Germany’s post-industrial area where transition is happening”. “In order to answer the question “How to [...]

Arts and Politics: Bridging the Progress of Cultural Sustainability

Wednesday 12 September, 6-8 p.m. – a panel discussion organized by “ArtPolitics” at Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin ArtsPolitics is a new platform for artists, and political and scientific experts to discuss and collaborate. Their purpose is “to inspire cultural & intellectual progress by building greater understanding between the arts & politics.”

film/book launch

The “Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination” (LABOFII) is spending the summer in Germany, launching the film/book: Pfade durch Utopia  (published by Nautilus) : Aug 24th – Hamburg, Kampnagel, 19.00 Aug 25th – Leipzig, Schaubühne Lindenfels, 20.00 Aug 26th – Belzig, Kino hofgarten, 20.00 Aug 29th – Hamburg, Abaton Kino, 20.00 Aug 31st – Berlin, Sputnik Kino, [...]

Recycling Games – TerraCycle

TerraCycle creates national recycling systems for previously non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle waste. Anyone can sign up for these programs, called the Brigades, and send them waste. Then, the collected waste is turned into different products and materials available at major retailers. Terracycle encourages teams from the 21 countries where their Brigades operate in to beat their [...]

Video Vortex #9 – Re:assemblies of Video

  Video Vortex #9, Re:assemblies of Video, is conceived and hosted by the Moving Image Lab and Post-Media Lab of the Innovation Incubator at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. The conference will be held from February 28 until March 2, 2013. The call for contribution is open until 31 August 2012. Online video vortices such as [...]