Debatte - 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?

Kunst und Demokratie

- von Cornelia Schleime

Die Kunst musste sich immer wieder vor Karren spannen lassen: religiös motiviert, idealistisch verklärt, wirtschaftlich notwendig, oder, wie man heute neudeutsch sagt: Image-Pflege. Frei will sie sein, wird aber in Fesseln gelegt. Wer dem Staat nicht dient, fällt tief. Sind es nicht aber jene Abgründe, die genau der Künstler für sein Schaffen braucht? mehr»

1989 – Europa im Aufbruch

- von Werner Schulz

Was ist 1989 eigentlich passiert? Fast jeden Tag und aller Orten wird in diesem Jahr an die historischen Ereignisse vor 20 Jahren erinnert. Politbüros und Zentralkomitees kommunistischer Parteien brachen wie Kartenhäuser zusammen, Regierungen wurden gestürzt, politische Systeme verschwanden und letztlich sogar ganze Staaten. „Ein Jahrhundert wird abgewählt“ überschrieb der britische Historiker Timothy Garton Ash damals seinen Bericht aus den Zentren Mitteleuropas.

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Europa hat schon bessere Tage gesehen

- von Robert Misik

Auch Optimisten, die schwer zu deprimieren sind, warf die Entwicklung Europas in den vergangenen zwanzig Jahren oft ordentlich aus der Bahn. Dieses Europa hat realpolitisch Bemerkenswertes geleistet: den Euro eingeführt, sich in gemessener Geschwindigkeit institutionell organisiert, hat mehr als ein Dutzend weitere Mitglieder in die Europäische Union aufgenommen. Und doch herrscht schon seit einiger Zeit Katzenjammer. Die großen Hoffnungen des Jahres 1989 sind schnell verflogen.

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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)

What does globalization look like? by Luchezar Boyadjiev

The ATLANTIS project thanks Luchezar Boyadjiev for his consent to illustrate atlantisprojects.eu with pictures from his presentation "What does globalization look like?".

The Bulgarian artist Luchezar Boyadjiev, born in Sofia in 1957, is a visual analyst of social change who lays bare social and cultural processes. He explores the notion of urban visuality in the era of globalization. Though in fact some analysts claim that a process of deglobalization has actually started in recent months, the urban interface of cities all over the world displays similar features of how global processes in economy and ways of life are being configured for local consumption – visual and otherwise. Based on some of Boyadjiev´s works from the last 3-5 years, such as “Billboard Heaven” (2006-2009), “Don’t mess with my Tutu!” (2008-2009), “Double Take(s) – interfacing cities” (2006-2009), and “At night all squares are Red: Moscow – a brave new world”, (2007) among others, the presentation makes a notional case for the visual melt-down of borders on the level of urban environments.

photos: Luchezar Boyadjiev