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  Leap into the City
Leap into the City
Chişinău, Sofia, Pristina, Sarajevo, Warsaw, Zagreb, Ljubljana
Cultural Positions, Political Conditions. Seven Scenes from Europe

The book by "relations:" In essays and reportages, in literary texts and artistic contributions, 52 authors take positions on current issues, pose new questions, and so portray a subjective tableau of their cities, the cultural scenes, and the public realms.
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Zagreb – Cultural Kapital of Europe 3000, Croatia
Zagreb – Cultural Kapital of Europe 3000, Croatia
What is the culture of civil society?
"Zagreb - Cultural Kapital of Europe 3000" is seeking to strengthen collaboration between independent initiatives who understand cultural engagement as social action and social activities as critical culture.
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De/construction of Monument, Bosnia-Herzegovina
De/construction of Monument, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Public space is being disputed.
Monuments are cleared away, monuments are erected. "De/construction of Monument" counters this manipulation with deconstruction.
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East Art Map, IRWIN, Ljubljana
East Art Map, IRWIN, Ljubljana
The art project "East Art Map" is seeking to plot and make accessible previously unknown areas of postwar art in eastern Europe. The goal is to create an orientation aid that plots connections extending beyond national borders and enables comparative analysis.
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Visual Seminar, Sofia
Visual Seminar, Sofia
What happens when capitalism enters the city.
The "Visual Seminar" devotes its attention to the culture of the visual in the so-called transformation societies. Art actions in public space and discussion forums offer the broad public strategies for dealing with and deciphering the images.
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Re:form, Poland
Re:form, Poland
Poland is opening up to globalization, Poland is modernizing. Re:form is undertaking the attempt to re-read Polish (art) history from the perspective of the present.
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Lost and Found - a film project
Lost and Found - a film project
Six filmmakers from six countries tell six stories on common features, differences, and new forms of self-understanding. The opening film of the 35th Internatioanl Forum of New Cinema at the Berlin International Film Festival, 2005.
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Since 2003, the association relations e.V. carries out exchange projects between Germany and eastern European countries: "relations" (2003-2006), "Büro Kopernikus" (2004-2006), "Bipolar" (2005-2007) and, since 2007, "Zipp, German-Czech cultural projects."
 

relations - a project initiated by the German Federal Cultural Foundation (2003-2006)
Within the framework of the German Federal Cultural Foundation's "Eastern and Central Europe program," "relations" developed art and cultural projects in collaboration with curators, social researchers and artists from eastern European countries and Germany. In terms of content, the aim was 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.
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Ostsee oder Westmeer? (To the East or the West?)
From Tallinn through the Ruhr Region to Mostar – ten portraits
Artists and curators present their projects and tell their personal relations stories.
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All information on relations, the publications and the projects for download.
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Every present has its own background and antecedent history: listen to those from the relations partner countries.
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The newspaper accompanying the project. Reading starts here!
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