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Peace out of poetry
By Marie Sophie Beckmann
Operating on the threshold between noise music, poetry reading and art performance: Lucinda Dayhew and Hanne Lippard alias Luci Lippard playing live...
HOW DOES PEACE AKTUALLY WORK?
Essays, discussions and all events on WWW.SCHIRN-PEACE.ORG
In a discursive group exhibition, the Schirn pursues a different approach and addresses the question of how peace actually works?
The works included in the exhibition show how artists of our time approach the issue – providing answers and being thought-provoking at the same time
The works included in the exhibition show how artists of our time approach the issue – providing answers and being thought-provoking at the same time
The exhibition wants to trigger reflection on what peace can be and to adopt a new contemporary perspective on the topic of peace
The exhibition wants to trigger reflection on what peace can be and to adopt a new contemporary perspective on the topic of peace
PEACE
from 30 June 2017
How is peace achieved? Using doves again, rainbows and flower-decked rifles? In a discursive group exhibition the SCHIRN abandons well-trodden paths. The starting point taken is the theory that peace is determined by interaction and communication between all actors existing in an ecosystem. The focus is on aspects that have since time immemorial enabled human life and coexistence, such as water, animals, plants, language, silence or gifts. International artists, among them Jan de Cock, Minerva Cuevas, Ed Fornieles, Surasi Kusolwong, Isabel Lewis, Lee Mingwei, Katja Novitskova, Agnieszka Polska and Timur Si-Qin all adopt a new contemporary perspective on this topic. Here, a fundamental role will be played by the current reinterpretation of the humanist view of life and its influences on the relationship between humans and natur. Special live events such as poetry performances, concerts, lectures, or cooking sessions will form an integral part of the exhibition. The program will be developed together with the participating artists
SCHIRN INTERVIEWS
All artists of the PEACE exhibition were interviewed – see all interviews on our YouTube channel
HIGHLIGHTS
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The conceptualities no longer apply
By Marie Sophie Beckmann
At the end of the 1990s the French critic Nicolas Bourriaud coined the term “relational aesthetic” for a new art trend that put interpersonal...
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INTERVIEW. MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ
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Six years of Perpetual Peace
By Marthe Lisson
How exactly does freedom work? A selection of important peace agreements from history and their inevitable breaches on SCHIRN MAGAZINE.
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The economy of giving
By Marie Sophie Beckmann
Our community is based on constant giving and taking. But where does art fit into this social framework?
