Launched by the Federal
Culture Foundation [Kulturstiftung des Bundes] in 2002, the
Migration Project was designed to depict the societal changes that
migration movements have brought about.
The Migration Project was designed as a multiple-stage process
spanning several years. Rather than set out on new research approaches
or artistic projects, the Migration Project serves as a clearinghouse,
among other things, working to promote broader, deeper ways of perceiving
the issues migration involves. To date, more than 120 events have
taken place under the project’s auspices, events such as in-house
and public workshops, film and lecture series, theatre performances
and cooperative arrangements with media, scholarly research with
film and art projects, and an international symposium for scholars.
Illustrating and underscoring the causes and implications of migration
in a variety of ways, these activities have taken place at the Kölnischer
Kunstverein in Cologne, as well as in Frankfurt am Main, Berlin,
Belgrade and Istanbul, on Crete and in other locations throughout
Europe.
In autumn 2005 the results of two and one-half years’ work
in research, development and networking will be brought together
in a major, transdisciplinary exhibition. The exhibition will be
on display at the Kölnischer Kunstverein and at other locations
in the Cologne city center.
Partners for the Migration Project have taken it upon themselves
to develop a new kind of format, one that is neither an art exhibition
devoted to a particular theme nor an exclusively socio- and cultural-historical
documentary exhibit.
Rather, the object is to establish a linkage between the social-scientific,
documentary and artistic findings and their various forms of presentation.
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Kölnischer Kunstverein
Projekt Migration
Die Brücke
Hahnenstraße 6
D-50667 Köln
info@projektmigration.de
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