impressions of the conference
These pictures illustrate the atmosphere at the conference Atlantis – Hidden Histories – New Identities. European Art 20 Years after the Iron Curtain at the castle Marquardt near Potsdam at 9th of july 2009. Many of you came and thank to you the conference has been a great success.
 
 
 
Fotos: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Brandenburg

conference papers

invitation letter

20 years ago the borders of the different systems in Europe disappeared and two worlds got together. The differences between both worlds are visible until today and their mentalities are still living. The artistic debate about these realities, its possibilities and its changes, its challenges, are the central point of the event. more»

Atlantis - Hidden Histories - New Identities

 - by Mark Gisbourne

It is surely no coincidence that the word Atlantis first appears in the context of a dialogue namely that of  Plato's Timeaus and Critias – and nearly two and half thousand years later we are still talking in and of the same literary form of dialogue. Perhaps, the only but greatest mystery then is that the notion of why Atlantis "continues to float across the human imagination and the far horizon of the modern world". For what is a dialogue?

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