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Conference: "radius of art" Connecting and catalysing

Conference: "radius of art" Connecting and catalysing

Böll.Mitschnitt

February 23, 20121h 22m

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<p>Connecting and catalysing: Aesthetics, community and ecology toward a culture of sustainability<br><br>Which situations, which challenges is art playing with, at the crossroads of ecologies,<br>communities, and aesthetics? How does art work as a seismograph and<br>catalyst of deeper transformations? How can art contribute to sensitise for and<br>unpack the complexities we have to deal with in our lives? Where are the limits<br>and the challenges for such artistic and cultural practices?<br><br>Speakers:<br>Davide Brocchi (Social Scientist, Journalist, Cultural Activist; Founder of KulturATTAC<br>and of Cultura21; Lecturer at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, the<br>college of Bochum, and the Ecosign Academy for Design in Cologne)<br>Michelangelo Pistoletto (Artist, Painter, and Art Theorist, Italy)<br>Shelley Sacks (Interdisciplinary Artist, Director of the Social Sculpture Research<br>Unit at Oxford Brookes University, UK)<br><br>Moderator:<br>Sacha Kagan (Research Associate at the Institute of Cultural Theory, Research,<br>and the Arts at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany; Vicepresident<br>of Cultura21 and Founding Coordinator of Cultura21‘s international<br>network)</p>