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Politics, Peace, and Sports
In his new article “Die neue Regel ist der Regelbruch” (The new rule is breaking the rules) for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Jörg Scheller argues that the decline in global peacefulness and the increasingly violent policies of the Trump administration, the Kremlin, or the Chinese Communist Party can be analyzed as a departure from the principles
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Alienation-building. Counterintuitive Art Initiatives Against Culture Wars in Contemporary Poland
Jörg Scheller was invited by the University of Groningen (NL) to present and discuss art projects from present-day Poland that oppose the rampant polarization between internationally oriented left-wing liberals and nationally oriented right-wing conservatives. His lecture “Alienation-building. Counterintuitive Art Initiatives Against Culture Wars in Contemporary Poland” focused on artists (a.o. Daniel Rycharski and Jana Shostak)
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Art, Activism, Absence?
How can an absence be transformed into something productive? Following two previous conversations on the topics of antagonism and autonomy, we looked at the topic of absence. The field of independent and socially engaged art in Moldova is shaped by absences: a lack of cultural strategies, of local funding, of spaces and other types of infrastructures. Additionally, the massive
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Common Ground: Discussion with Shoghakat Mlké-Galstyan and Anna Provozin
For the first of three discussions in the series Common Ground, Shoghakat Mlké-Galstyan and Anna Provozin introduced us to their practice and spoke about their approaches to art in the context of war. Art as a space for dialogue and healing: reflections from Armenia’s post-war realityStarting from the question of what role art can embody
The research project Contemporary Art, Popular Culture and Peacebuilding in Eastern Europe is financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation and based at Zurich University of the Arts. The project examines the potential and limitations of contemporary art and popular culture for peacebuilding in three (Central) Eastern European countries: Poland, Moldova, and Armenia. Recognising a gap in peace studies, which often overlook Eastern Europe, the project aims to connect the arts with peacebuilding by exploring three different types of conflict.
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