debate - Heinrich Böll Stiftung Brandenburg

SPACE Residency Lab | Lado Darakvelidze /Georgia

Presentation of the artist-resident at the SPACE Residency Lab in the framework of the international project HEICO.

Lado Darakhvelidze is a Georgian multimedia artist living in the Netherlands. In his work he deals primarily with the topic of the media and their social and political impact on the public. His residency stay at SPACE Residency Lab is entitled Citizen Journal: Ideal Newspaper. It is apart of an open series realized in many other European countries in which the artist in co-operation with local volunteers conducts a probe into the Slovak internet in terms of the information media and their self-reflection.

Residency – Exchange for curators between Armenia and Bulgaria

- The goals of the Residency Exchange Program for artists and curators between Armenia (ACSL) and Bulgaria (Art Today Association) is to counteract the imbalance of artistic exchange through residencies between Eastern and Western European countries but also between the regions of Black Sea, ergo Bulgaria, Moldavia, Georgia and Armenia. more»

Immigrants and Citizens in the Global City: Denationalizing Europe.

by Saskia Sassen

Citizenship and alienage, the two foundational institutions for membership in the modern state, are being partly destabilized through major current transformations. As citizens lose rights due to the new types of policies that reduce social rights and immigrants gain rights through the human rights regime, we see a blurring of the distinctions. more»

The Mediterranean in the Age of Globalization

- by Natalia Ribas-Mateos

Economic globalization simultaneously leads to a reshaping of cross-national economic integration at different scales, such as transnational economic development areas or new forms of regionalisation that challenge the classical divisions of the Mediterranean. Here I concentrate on the borderland sites of Southern European migration.

Environmental crises and the ambiguous postneoliberalising of nature

- by Ulrich Brand

During the last few decades of the neoliberal-imperial globalisation process, social relations have been fundamentally transformed. Neoliberalism was never a purely market-driven process but also a shaping of other social relations and institutions, especially of the state. The state, private corporations, public discourses but also many aspects of everyday life were reoriented towards economic efficiency and international competitiveness. Aspects such as (re-) distribution or social and/or international solidarity played scarcely any role.

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?

Europe has seen better days (so far)

- By Robert Misik
Concerning the development of Europe, even hard-line optimists, as well as any other civilian, were highly distracted a few times in the past 20 years. The present Europe achieved some noteworthy goals: the Euro, the institutional organisations, the dozens of new members; however, there’s a hangover ruling the continent for some time now. more»

1989 – Europe on the go

- by Werner Schulz

What happened in 1989? This year almost every day and everywhere there are memorials for the historical events 20 years ago. Communist polit bureaus and central committees collapsed back upon themselves like card houses, governments where dispossessed, political systems vanished and lastly whole states disappeared. “A centenary is to be deselected” as British historian Timothy Garton Ash titled his report out of the centres of Europe.

Statements on Democracy

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by Kostis Stafylakis (artist, art theoretician, Athens)
by Luchezar Boyadjiev (artist, Sofia)
by Nikos Xydakis (chief editor of newspaper “Kathimerini”, Athens)
by Dr. Natalia Ribas-Mateos (Universidad de A Coruña ESOMI, Equipo de Sociología de las migracionesinternacionales), visiting Professor at the University of Meknes in Morocco)