Time to Listen, Space to Experiment highlights the legacy and the outcomes of Re-Imagine Europe, a four-year project involving ten cultural organisations from across Europe. With a programme of residencies, commissions, symposia, and workshops, Re-Imagine Europe engaged audiences through art with the social and political challenges that are decisive for Europe’s future, such as climate change, rising nationalism, and migration. The project partners—Sonic Acts and Paradiso from Amsterdam, Elevate from Graz, Lighthouse from Brighton, INA GRM from Paris, Bergen Kunsthall from Bergen, A4 from Bratislava, KONTEIJNER from Zagreb, Disruption Network Lab from Berlin, and Radio Web MACBA from Barcelona—commissioned new interdisciplinary and experimental works to address these issues, contributing to a more democratic and resilient European society.
Time to Listen, Space to Experiment contains in-depth interviews with artists such as Jennifer Walshe, AM Kanngieser, Nikima Jagudajev, Barby Asante, BJ Nilsen, Maja Ahti, and Kali Malone, and essays on works and projects such as WIWMAVGAIWLDSAATCWA, The Informals, Persuasion Lab, Steal This Poster, and MOHTA. The book opens with a conversation between Anna Ramos, Lucas van der Velden, and François Bonnet about the importance of experimentation in the arts, and how such experiments can be relevant for society.
The book celebrates a diversity of art practices and approaches, ranging from experimental electronic music to political activism, from audiovisual installations to interventions, and from conferences to workshops for children, providing insight into the interdisciplinary experimental arts in Europe. In different ways all of these practices and approaches testify to a critical attitude regarding the current social and political challenges.
With contributions from Arie Altena; Marja Ahti; Barby Asante and Maria Rusinovskaya; Davorka Begović and Nenad Sinkauz; Manuel Beltrán and Nayantara Ranganathan; bod, Marta & Tea Stražičić; François Bonnet; Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, Lucrecia Dalt, Matías Rossi and Tiago Pina; Aliyah Hussain and Anna Bunting-Branch; Nikima Jagudajev; AM Kanngieser; Kali Malone; Polina Medvedeva and Andreas Kühne; BJ Nilsen; Anna Ramos; Karolina Rugle; Steal This Poster; Rian Treanor, Jiří Suchánek, Slávo Krekovič and Ľudovít Nápoký; Chris E. Vargas; Lucas van der Velden; Jennifer Walshe; and Annette Wolfsberger.
Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Printed book, 320 pages, English text, illustrated / Designed by Andro Giunio / Edited by Arie Altena, Lilli Elias & Annette Wolfsberger / Published by Paradiso Press, Amsterdam, 2021
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