ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS AT THE FREIRAUM FESTIVAL
The Freiraum Festivals in 2020 and 2021 included a selection of art works, specially conceived for the online format, live or pre-recorded.
The works are commissioned or selected through an open call to young, emerging and established artists from around the world. The selected short, standalone works contribute to the discussion on the exploration of new formats. They are integrated into the programme of the online summit as "interruptors". Artistic contributions also include works presented by the Freiraum Platform members as best-practice examples.
The works are commissioned or selected through an open call to young, emerging and established artists from around the world. The selected short, standalone works contribute to the discussion on the exploration of new formats. They are integrated into the programme of the online summit as "interruptors". Artistic contributions also include works presented by the Freiraum Platform members as best-practice examples.
FREIRAUM FESTIVAL 2021 - ONLINE EXHIBITION
Adam Engler
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Emir Uysal
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Ryan S Jeffery
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Una Walker
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Catalina Gonzalez
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Angelos Papadopoulos
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Menelaos Lomis
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Petros Tatsiopoulos
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Tingwei/ Li
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Ewa Doroszenko and Jacek Doroszenko
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Nefeli Kentoni
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Bojan Stojčić
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Ryan S Jeffery
An Unsatisfying Metaphor, 2020, colour HD video, stereo sound, 40'
This film begins with the contention that an economy is fundamentally a set of institutions constructed by humans in the face of a radically uncertain world. What then can be understood about the story of modern or “hyper” globalisation if we look to the World Trade Organisation’s private art collection in Geneva, Switzerland? The subjects and objects depicted inside this intergovernmental institution’s walls reveal a story, or stories, told by those who have sought to shape and command the heights of a world economy. Who gets to be in the picture and who is left out? And who gets to draw the picture in the first place?
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FREIRAUM FESTIVAL 2021 - FREIRAUM MEMBER CONTRIBUTIONS
Milos Tomic & Skograd, Belgrade
Playscapes of Freedom, 2021, artistic documentary
Globe Aroma team and participants
ESPACE FXMME: TALK WITH THE WALLS
Presentation of the workshop and spatial intervention
Žiga Divjak
The Game, devised theatre play, 2020
People who have walked across half the world to escape wars, persecution, violence and crushing poverty, call the last stretch of their route, the stretch that takes them from Bosnia and Herzegovina to a safe destination in the European Union, "the game". The game has no rules, laws don’t apply, the powers of the police is limitless, the violence increasingly brutal, the dangers increasingly more dangerous, the possibilities smaller and smaller, and the destination further and further… Many try several times, even twenty or thirty times; it’s a numbers game. For many, the game is fatal. Available records show that around twenty people have thus far lost their lives on our borders. The Game, a devised theatre project, studies the role and responsibility of Slovenia and its border policy for lives and fates of the people on the run.
FREIRAUM FESTIVAL 2020 - ONLINE EXHIBITION
Elias Adam
It’s Ophelia, Bitch, 2020, desktop performance
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In this short performance, Ophelia, a Gen-Z heroin, browses her desktop. Her grief, rage and despair are interpreted through the lens of the ongoing demo-crisis and social injustice. Internet spurrs - like a virus! - a bottom-up evolution: pop culture, memes, youtube videos, articles, messenger texts reconfigure Ophelia’s political stance. In Hamlet, Ophelia is portrayed as a minor character who lacks the will of her own and seeks refuge in madness and eventually in suicide. This performance follows Ophelia’s struggle to find her own voice and interprets her madness as a means to express her Weltschmerz, her anger and her being without the patriarchal domination.
It's Ophelia, Bitch is commissioned by Common Lab - Goethe-Institut Excellency Initiative by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki & ArtBOX in collaboration with TIF-HELEXPO, Freiraum and Institute Hypewerk for Postindustrial Design, in the context of the State of the Arts. |
Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu
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Azahara Cerezo
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Elli Chrysidou
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Jane Dudman and Freiraum Partners
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Bastian Hoffmann
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KangarooCourt
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Giorgos Klountzos-Chrysidis
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Matteo Locci & Basak Tuna
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Katie Lock, with the contribution of Jane Dudman
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Lina Mantikou
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Edit Pula & Fatos Qerimaj
Freiraum Rhapsody, 2019
Conductor: Floris Lammens
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The Freiraum Rhapsody has been envisioned by Edit Pula(j) as the soundtrack of the Freiraum project and as a creative response to fundamental European values through music. Composed especially by Professor Fatos Qerimaj for a 13-piece orchestra, the rhapsody will be performed live on October 23 at Tirana's Skanderbeg Square by the Contemporary Orchestra conducted by Prof. Qerimaj; and a few days later as part of the opening of the Freiraum Online Summit on October 30, conducted by Floris Lammens at BOZAR (Center for Fine Arts) in Brussels. The Freiraum Rhapsody is inspired by the landscape of northern Albania and characteristic music motives like Maje Krahu (the mountain call), harmonised with classical European musical style. Through its minimalistic technique emerges a whole new contemporary and poetic piece, carrying global sounds and fresh emotions that evoke simultaneously national authenticity and European pride.
Concept by Edit Pula(j) / Composed by Professor Fatos Qerimaj / Comissioned by Goethe Zentrum Tirana
Carol Rollo
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Christoph Rummel & Jochen Merker
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Danae Theodoridou & Dimitri Papageorgiou
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Maciej Toporowicz
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ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS BY FREIRAUM MEMBERS 2020
Throughout 2020, Freiraum members -organisations and individuals- reflected on the common global crisis -the COVID-19 pandemic- and produced content that directly or indirectly discusses the challenges of the situation, from the point of view of intellectuals and the public.
Five Stories About Freedom, 2020
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Freiraum Festival 2020 Skopje from ArtBOX on Vimeo. |
WASTE/D live, 2020, performance
Temporary Academy of Arts (PAT)
Coordinated by Goethe-Institut Athen
Three people from different disciplines, Elena Tzelepi (philosopher), Sofia Mavragani (dancer/choreographer), Martha Mavroidi (musician), Aristeidis Antonas (architect/writer/artist) are invited to a "Wasted Live", a reading of Waste/d publication, published by Temporary Academy of Arts (Elpida Karaba, Despina Zefkili, Yota Ioannidou, Vangelis Vlahos) by Omblos Editions, with the support of Goethe-Institut, Athens, last July. "WASTE/d" is trying to define new aspects of waste/d subjects and matter (from the precarious art workers bodies to the new wasted subjects produced by the hygiene norms of covid19), as well as new sophisticated methods of ‘cleaning’ (from global environmental politics in the era of climate change to state and police methods to clean the city of Athens from refugee squats and anarchists and ensure public order).
Slow Motion, 2020, short film
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Freiruam of Hope
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Freiraum Festival 2020 Belgrade from ArtBOX on Vimeo. |
Freedom Beyond the Mask
Sunugal, Mascherenere, CIQ in collaboration with Africa Day, Milan
Coordinated by Goethe-Institut Milan
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The main characters of this performance are: The storyteller: an old musician, who makes a living playing music, maintaining a higher social level, the storyteller can be called a successful man, whose life changes with the Covid-19 Pandemic and its subsequent restrictions. Dave Samba, the adopted son of the storyteller, who tries to break free from his parents. From his own perspective or that of the storyteller, viewers will find out whether he will succeed in his plan or not. Dave and the storyteller are accompanied by different relatives, portrayed by actors, who are playing, dancing, or plainly shouting from the crowd.
Top: Freedom Beyond the Mask, full performance Bottolm left: Interview with the musician Paul Pele Bottom right: Interview of actress Mary Megdelawit Martins with director Olivier Elouti |
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Speakeasy meets Freiraum Online
Hosted by Jane Dudman, Carlisle
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Linda Fitzgerald and Sherin Hameh share poetry as part of
the Freiraum Festival 2020 in Carlisle, UK. |
Carlisle Speakeasy is a literary arts project initiated by the late Nick Pemberton and is a free space of expression, experimentation and bonhomie. The group meet monthly, previously in a local cafe bar but now exist online where they carry on the tradition of welcoming all and sharing their poetry. A special pre-recorded SpeakEasy premieres as part of Freiraum Festival. It's jam packed with words, pictures, music and real life stuff. It runs for 1 hour 55 minutes!
Phil Hewitson a Carlisle film maker and writer reads a short extract from John Charlesworth’s reflections on Art in the time of COVID in Carlisle Central Methodist Hall.
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FREIRAUM MANIFESTO READING
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Freiraum Festival 2020 Brussels from ArtBOX on Vimeo. |
JESUS IS ARRIVING... TAKE CARE OF YOUR WALLETS
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SKOPJE: A CITY INTERRUPTED
Copenhagen Architecture Festival
Film direction: Signe Sophie Bøggild & Josephine Michau
How are democracy and identity renegotiated in the design and use of public space and cultural heritage in Skopje? Arriving from the very different context of Denmark’s capital Copenhagen and from the field of architecture, the 45-minute, Danish produced, Macedonian and English language film "Skopje: A city interrupted" examines Skopje and the issue of freedom and agency from a spatial perspective. From the Greek agora to Lefebvre’s question of the right to the city, it is known that the design, planning and use of public space as well as cultural heritage are always embedded in various discourses of politics, democracy, identity, culture and -indeed- freedom and agency. In Skopje, this seems particularly apparent and poignant. First, with the demolitions and modernist rebuilding after the tragic 1963 earthquake and subsequently during the historicist-nationalist makeover of Skopje 2014. Skopje: A city interrupted is, among other things, an investigation into ongoing renegotiations of what to do about the new cultural layer of Skopje 2014 and the city’s ambivalent relationship with the rest of Europe and the World, but also the everyday life experience in Skopje. Together with the Danish-Macedonian architect Daniel Serafimovski, who is familiar with both Skopje and Copenhagen, the film revisits different cases of public spaces and cultural heritage through interviews with local experts, archival footage, on-site registrations and voxpops with residents of Skopje, a city aspiring to become European Capital of Culture in 2028.
THE FILM IS AVAILABLE ON VIMEO VIA THIS LINK: https://vimeo.com/357794153 WITH THE PASSWORD: CAFx2019
THE FILM IS AVAILABLE ON VIMEO VIA THIS LINK: https://vimeo.com/357794153 WITH THE PASSWORD: CAFx2019
