Auszeichnung
künstlerischer Projekträume
und -initiativen

diffrakt

zentrum für theoretische peripherie

2015
Crellestraße
22
Berlin
10827

Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, Film screening, 2019

Storytellings (after Haraway), 2019

Foto: Gansen Moritz

For many decades Berlin has developed a lively, diverse, and independent way of producing culture and counteracting government decisions, based on, local, generous, and enthusiastic, but also worried, social communities that exchanged resources and ideas ­within a larger political debate. The city became a “natural” shelter and ­fertile environment for dissidents, artists, political refugees, and immigrants with any background also due to the need to overcome a traumatic past full of human generated atrocities that are still present in people memories and behaviour.It just makes my heart sing. Despite all that, I believe in art, but I guess it is about time to find new ways (again).Ich wünsche mir mehr Selbstverwaltung der Förderungen und weniger Verwaltungshürden oder Barrikaden. Städtischer Leerstand sollte schnell und unbürokratisch zur Zwischennutzung für Projekträume nutzbar gemacht werden, selbstverwaltete künstlerische Freiräume, Projekte oder Haus­gemeinschaften müssen unbedingt erhalten bleiben.