Especially in times of crisis, the arts gain importance, casting a prismatic gaze on a fragile present or providing the tools for activism and change. The arts connect people in isolation and times of anxiety and open shared space for reflection.
The arts endure.
The past few months have been rich with crises; radical upheavals took place at breakneck speed on a global scale. These changes are still ongoing; their outcome is impossible to measure.
Instability remains.
Our demonstration was to enable artistic encounters for all under these conditions - that's why we demonstrated.
In the city. With the citizens.
A circle with a diameter of 2020 meters around the UdK Berlin location at Hardenbergstraße 33 marked an urban territory for this purpose, in which a multitude of artistic encounters between members of the Berlin University of the Arts and the citizens of Berlin took place for 24 hours on 7/16/2020, 4 pm-2 pm and 7/17/2020, 10 am-4 pm. It was a dialogue between artists and viewers, between young authors and civil society, which we challenged in the demonstration KUNST RAUM STADT.
The demonstration for the arts set artistic and political acupuncture points in the everyday urban space, which thus became a temporary stage. The urban territory was background, abutment, and frame of performative, visual, and acoustic experiments, vis-à-vis and WWW.
In Berlin and beyond.
Here you will find an overview of all activities.
Here you get an overview of all places where activities take place.
Protect yourself and your fellow humans during the demonstration!
The demonstration of the Berlin University of the Arts also takes place on the Internet.
Here you get to know more about the design for KUNST RAUM STADT.
Here you can find impression of the two demonstration days.
RadioEins Interview Prof. Dr. Norbert Palz
"Eine Demonstration der Universität der Künste Berlin Kunst Raum Stadt".
Gespräch mit UdK-Präsident Prof. Dr. Norbert Palz
www.radioeins.de/programm/sendungen/mofr1921/_/kunst-raum-stadt-udk-berlin.html