In a time of great political challenges, the dissolution of international social contracts and increasing nationalisms, art can be a field of experimentation for new forms of dialogue. In the Visual Arts Lab, you will have the opportunity to conduct an artistic research project on the topic of “new forms of communication” and to question existing forms in an open artistic discourse. The results of the lab will be presented in an exhibition in the hase29 art room!

Kunsthalle Osnabrück and Theater Osnabrück, together with artist and art mediator Simon Niemann, invite you to a Europe-wide artistic research. It is about (cultural) practices that are lost or newly emerge in the course of mechanization, global pandemics or repressive power structures, become dominant and inscribe themselves into our everyday life. The gathering of concrete practical examples from all participants will be the starting point for the development of a public performance.

The Digital Media and Games Lab will be dedicated to the topic of “Communication Difficulties”. Participants will have the opportunity to implement their own media projects on the distortion of discourses and the construction of realities. On fake news, filter bubbles or troll armies – in short, on the current (im)possibility of talking to each other in and through media. Media experts from the European Media Art Festival, LAG Jugend und Film Niedersachsen e.V. and the Medienwerkstatt werk.statt will support you in your work.

How will we remember Europe in the future? Will Europe ever achieve lasting peace? The Museumsquartier Osnabrück, the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Center and the memorials Gestapokeller and Augustaschacht cordially invite you to look at the communication about past and present wars in Europe. Because the communication about conflictual pasts founded wars or promoted peace.