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Within the framework of the Federal Cultural Foundation's “Eastern and Central Europe program,” “relations” develops art and cultural projects in collaboration with curators, social researchers and artists from eastern European countries and Germany.
In terms of content, our aim is to formulate overarching transnational questions and lines of enquiry out of the respective local contexts which connect art, everyday life, social research, politics and history with one another. Questions and lines of enquiry which counter nationalist attitudes and stances with a differentiated view, enable and generate dialog, and focus on the processes of social transition. These conceptual and working approaches transcend national boundaries and address an international audience.
Together with the cooperation partners, in 2003 “relations” initiated and launched the projects “ALTE ARTE” in the Republic of Moldova, “De/construction of Monument” in Bosnia-Herzegovina, “East Art Map” in Ljubljana, “Missing Identity” in Kosovo, “Re:form” in Poland, “Visual Seminar” in Sofia and “Zagreb - Cultural Kapital of Europe 3000” in Croatia. The film “Lost and Found,” which emerged from the film project “Generation,” opened the International Forum of New Cinema at last year's Berlin International Film Festival. Furthermore, “relations” works on the international publication project “Leap into the City”, which will be published in March 2006.
In 2005 and 2006, further cooperation projects are initiated in Dresden (WILD CAPITAL / WILDES KAPITAL), in Leipzig (Mind the Map! – History Is Not Given), in Berlin (displaced), in Frankfurt/Main (ACADEMY REMIX. Städelschule, Frankfurt meets Missing Identity, Kosovo), and in Dortmund (Peripherie 3000).
