http://www.europe.culturebase.net Europe Now | Europe Next RSS feed - up-to-date information for your News Reader RSS is an XML standard to provide information in a special format. RSS files can - other then normal web pages - be read and processed by other programmes, especially by RSS News Readers. In order to use the Europe Now | Europe Next RSS feed, drag the orange RSS symbol into your News Reader or use the following address with it: http://www.europe.culturebase.net/media/rss.xml The Europe Now | Europe Next RSS feed lists the recently published initial/public contributions, Encounters and their Opening Statements. Below is the latest conent for this feed: en-en culturebase.net Europe Now | Europe Next is a project of the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre, the Danish Center for Culture and Development, the House of World Cultures, Intercult and Visiting Arts. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. http://europe.culturebase.net/images/logo_klein.jpg http://www.europe.culturebase.net Denis, Clinical Psychologist – St. Etienne du Mont, July 2007 A Husband in Paris (2007) This series of photographs is a playful comment on the idea of marrying for papers, due to political isolation in economically underdeveloped countries – a starting point, which, during the course of its progress, acquired many private meanings. The scenario is the following: I myself took up the role of a young woman from Eastern Europe in the search of a husband in Paris, her “city of dreams“. Walking across the city ... http://europe.culturebase.net/usercontribution.php?media=183 The blending of colours, movements, passions and people - harmony This one of my abstract psintings which can be seen on my personal art site www.victoragius.com For me abstract art can evolve and have deep personal meanings such as the dialogue, acceptance and celebration of multicultural backgrounds and identities. Victor Agius - Malta... http://europe.culturebase.net/usercontribution.php?media=195 ... http://europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=197 ... http://europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=198 ... http://europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=199 ... http://europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=200 ... http://europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=201 ... http://europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=202 ... http://europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=203 A comment on Europe's xenophobic luggage Pandora’s Box: Europe 2007 While the world is getting increasingly mobile, racist and xenophobic ideas are becoming increasingly apparent and even accepted in public debates. To investigate the mechanisms of the media based strategy to familiarize the European public with xenophobic ideas, I collected newspaper clippings relating to foreigners in randomly selected Danish free newspapers. Pasted on to an antique suitcase, per se symbolic of ... http://europe.culturebase.net/usercontribution.php?media=174 A comment on Europe's new xenophobism Pandora’s Box: Europe 2007 While the world is getting increasingly mobile, racist and xenophobic ideas are becoming increasingly apparent and even accepted in public debates. To investigate the mechanisms of the media based strategy to familiarize the European public with xenophobic ideas, I collected newspaper clippings relating to foreigners in randomly selected Danish free newspapers. Pasted on to an antique suitcase, per se symbolic of ... http://europe.culturebase.net/usercontribution.php?media=175 A film made on location in Marseilles with Tiyatro Oyunevi (from Turkey) and presented to the Arts and Science Encounter in Odessa as their imagined response to the harbour city Centaur-Actors in a port landscape - an enigmatic story of departures Part One: http://www.europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=288 Part Two http://www.europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=289... http://europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=288 A film made on location in Marseilles with Tiyatro Oyunevi (from Turkey) and presented to the Arts and Science Encounter in Odessa as their imagined response to the harbour city ... http://europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=289 Video Diary of Cosmin Manolescu and Anne Lise Stenseth's trip to Varna in Bulgaria Part One http://www.europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=290 Part Two http://www.europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=291 An exploration of Varna, Communist buildings and kissing...presented at the Arts and Science Encounter... http://europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=290 Video Diary of Cosmin Manolescu and Anne Lise Stenseth's trip to Varna in Bulgaria Part One http://www.europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=290 Part Two http://www.europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=291 ... http://europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=291 Lola Lafon revisted Romania, her country of birth, for the first time since the revolution against Nicolae Ceauamp;#351;escu in 1989. She and her band Leva contribute musical impressions of the experience, presented at the Encounter in Odessa. 1.Marelle http://europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=278 2.En Resistence http://europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=279 3.Thomas http://europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=350 Lola Lafon and Leva... http://europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=278 Lola Lafon revisted Romania, her country of birth, for the first time since the revolution against Nicolae Ceauamp;#351;escu in 1989. She and her band Leva contribute musical impressions of the experience, presented at the Encounter in Odessa. 1.Marelle http://europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=278 2.En Resistence http://europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=279 3.Thomas http://europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=350 ... http://europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=279 Ukr.Tele.Kom, based in Odessa, contributed to the Encounter with found street recordings... http://europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=284 Lola Lafon revisted Romania, her country of birth, for the first time since the revolution against Nicolae Ceauamp;#351;escu in 1989. She and her band Leva contribute musical impressions of the experience, presented at the Encounter in Odessa. 1.Marelle http://europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=278 2.En Resistence http://europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=279 3.Thomas http://europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=350 A collage of Dylan Thomas and Romanian accordion.... http://europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=350 A presentation by Ralf Steeg of Spree2011 made to the Odessa Arts and Science Encounter Before I start talking about my project, I’d like to say something in general about art. I don’t think artists have to be involved in every project, or be present at every meeting. What I think is very important is the knowledge that we can receive from artists and the goals which artists set. I would like to introduce two artists project to you as examples of what I mean. I would like to focus on transformational processes – how artists take the ... http://europe.culturebase.net/contribution.php?media=325 encounter Europe today is a meeting place of many cultures. In ‘Intercultural Dialogue’ we take the point of view of the artists and cultural practitioners who are engaged in those meetings, working in collaboration with artists from outside their country. Some are European artists who share their experiences of playing host to artists from other countries, or of visiting those countries to collaborate with artists. Artists from outside Europe also share ... http://europe.culturebase.net/encounter.php?encounter=6 opening statement (October - November 2006) “I’ve never seen myself as cultural ambassador. I do not represent the Indian poetry scene – and don’t believe anyone can.” That was the line with which I habitually prefaced my presentations in the course of my fortnight’s visit to the UK. ... http://europe.culturebase.net/opening_statement.php?encounter=6 encounter A live Encounter in Odessa, Ukraine An Encounter between the worlds of Science and Art in Europe - an examination of the role culture and arts can contribute to the work of scientists and of the scientific approaches artists use in their creative lives. Legendary theatre maker Eugenio Barba speaks about his experience of anthropology. Viktor Karamushka and Ralf Steeg reveal the role cultural activity plays in their environmental work in the Danube Delta and the River Spree, Berlin. ... http://europe.culturebase.net/encounter.php?encounter=13 opening statement Adrienne Goehler's Opening Statement to the Arts and Science Encounter April 27 in Odessa, Ukraine We are living in times of inbetween, in times of nolonger and notyet. The old systemic views are no longer adequate. The centralized, industrialized, self-contained old world built on institutions, nation states and rigid hierarchies no longer functions and together with them aspirations to full employment in the northern hemisphere have been abandoned. ... http://europe.culturebase.net/opening_statement.php?encounter=13