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PEOPLE WHO MADE Members of Nic Greaves Alexander Mirchev TRANSEUROPA FESTIVAL TRANSEUROPA Adrien Gros Adam Mizeracki POSSIBLE Network Noel Hatch Grégory Moricet Michal Havran Alina Muller European Alternatives Staff Angela Anton Katarzyna Holda Pablo Navazo Luigi Cascone Ramya Arnold Joanna Holda Eleonora Nestola Claudia Cassano Margaux Baleriaux Anna Ignasiak Hana Novotna Elena Dalibot Nishi Begum Mariya Ivancheva Stanimir Panayotov Federico Guerrieri Jakub Biernat Paulina Kempisty Simona Patrizi Emanuele Guidi Mélanie Boulland Tomek Kitlinski Annamaria Pazsint Tilman Hartley Friedrich Brandi Diana Kolczewska Diletta Pignedoli Lia Hernández Pérez Eva Brugnettini Sofia Kostyuchenko Szymon Pietrasiewicz Maeva Kokodoko Silvia Bruzzi Magdalena Kowalczyk Zdravka Primova Séverine Lenglet Daphne Buellesbach Stefan Krastev Wojcieh Pytkowski Giulio Marseglia Georgiana But Francesca Lacaita Eugenio Quintieri Lorenzo Marsili Sanziana Craciun Marcin Lachowski Kamil Raczynski Niccolo Milanese Rafal Czekaj Radoslaw Lasisz Carsten Radke Daniel Peslari Rachel Danna Sophie Lavigne Sonia Rolley Diana Prisacariu Sonila Dardha Mattieu Le Charpentier Marta Ryczkowska Ségolène Pruvot Andrei Deac Pavel Leszkowicz Hrishabh Sandilya Damiano Razzoli Guilhem Delteil Magda Linkowska Luisa Maria Schweizer Sara Saleri Adrian Dohotaru Mauro Longo Lucy Shackleton Alexandra Solom Louisa Douma Michaela Lukovicova Bianca Stern Monica Tinelli Lubomir Draganov Magdalena Luczyn Cristian Suciu Alessandro Valera Florina Iulia Dudas Lulu Luzynski Silvana Summa Olga Vukovic Linda Erades Anca Magyar Waldemir Tatarczuk Gian Paolo Faella Lenka Mareckova Lea Vajsova Oriane Favier Petra Netryova Jonmar Van Vlijmen Eli Filipova Simona Bohunska Emma Walker Matteo Fornaciari Gabriela Virostkova Catherine Wurth Alayna Garvin Monika Martiskova Thamar Zijlstra Rado Geist Louise Metrich Lijn de Goede Alice Militello TABLE OF CONTENTS 6 ABOUT THE FESTIVAL 88 TRANSNATIONAL ART PROGRAMME 9 Festival themes 90 A Festival as platform as tool as 12 Interview with Festival coordinators space for futures encounters... 16 Interview with Micheal Thoss 92 The ground was divided, we jumped... 94 Conversation between Can Altay 18 CITY REPORTS and Stephen Wright 20 Paris 96 Bologna 24 Bologna 98 Cluj-Napoca 28 London, Cardiff, Edinburgh 100 London 34 Cluj-Napoca 102 Paris 38 Lublin 106 Visualizing Transnationalism 42 Amsterdam 108 Imagining Commoniversity 46 Bratislava 112 Cluj-Napoca 50 Berlin 114 N. U. T. 54 Prague 116 Love is love: LGBTQ rights in Lublin 58 Sofia and Cluj-Napoca 118 Lublin 120 Cluj-Napoca 62 DOSSIER: EUROPE BEYOND THE CRISIS 122 On-board programme for the modern 64 Uncouple the welfare of Europe from traveller the totem of national sovereignty 124 Trans-political narratives 68 Economics alternatives for solidarity 126 Kino Beleske after the crisis 128 Clashing Tales. The local aspect 72 The general intellect is looking of the struggle for a body 130 The body as grammar in the language of Transnationality 132 Ceux de Primo Levi 78 KEYNOTE LECTURES 134 Wilkommen zuhause 80 An adieu to Europe: the impossible necessity of Balkans politics 4 TRANSEUROPA FESTIVAL 2011 Edinburgh Cardiff London Amsterdam Berlin Paris Lublin Prague Bratislava Cluj-Napoca Sofia Bologna ABOUT THE FESTIVAL TRANSEUROPA FESTIVAL 2011 6 TRANSEUROPA FESTIVAL 2011 ABOUT THE FESTIVAL Jonmar van Vlijmen EU flag 1,00 x 1,50 m 2011 TRANSEUROPA Festival is at once a cultural festival and a political event. It is the first transnational Festival happening in 12 cities simultaneously: not twelve different festivals at the same time, but one festival throughout Europe promoting democracy, equality and culture beyond the nation state. Transeuropa creates a common political and cultural space for exchange, debate and action. Using a plurality of mediums - from debates, lectures and congresses to art installations, projections, and music, - the festival promotes innovation, experimentation both in its politics and in its cultural production, and sees the visualising of a new community through the arts as an inalienable component of building a new society. TRANSEUROPA Festival does not shy away from the most pressing and difficult topics confronting European society and the rest of the world. In 2011 the main themes of the Festival were migration, Roma and traveller rights, media freedom, and a more just economy for after the crisis. ABOUT THE FESTIVAL These main themes were chosen by TRANSEUROPA Network for their importance and were discussed and explored in all twelve Festival cities, conclusions and experiences passed from city to city until the closing weekend, when transnational forums took place on each theme. The Festival’s Art Programme is the result of a series of collaborations among practitioners from all over Europe. The Festival has been offered as potential platform to experiment new formats and tools as well as to launch new calls. The collaborative and participatory approach that such a scenario demanded lead to the involvement of more than twenty-five cultural operators, including artists, curators, and filmmakers, who engaged in a productive dialogue to deliver shared outcomes. The result of it is an articulated art programme that echoes throughout the Festival cities. The Festival is coordinated by European Alternatives and is organised by TRANSEUROPA Network: a transnational team of activists, writers, thinkers, artists and curators from throughout the continent. TRANSEUROPA FESTIVAL 2011 FESTIVAL TRANSEUROPA 8 FESTIVAL themes The Festival touched on a plurality of themes and its implications for the way ‘Europe’ is ranging from sustainability to gender understood was artistically and conceptually equality. Four key themes, however, where explored, both in ‘capital’ and ‘peripheric’ selected and discussed in all festival cities, cities of the EU. with closing forums bringing representatives of all the cities to exchange their view and The question of going beyond experiences. These were: multiculturalism was posed by the Festival: after the failure of national multicultural and national integrationist policies, can a trans- Migration and human rights: european perspective open new possibilities the new borders inside and outside for thinking of a cosmopolitan form of the EU political belonging? This thematic was dealt As Europe becomes ever more afraid of with in all festival cities and the conclusions a large influx of migrants approaching brought to the closing forum in Paris. from foreign shores, as ‘multiculturalism’ is declared ‘dead’ by some of our most influential politicians, and as the boundaries Roma and Traveller Rights of free movement change within the The rights and welfare of Roma and European Union, the condition of the Traveller communities has become a pan- migrant in and on the borders of Europe European issue. Ongoing expulsions of must be challenged and investigated. Roma communities from Italy and France Detention camps in bordering countries since 2008, attacks against Roma in many of the European Union as well as within European countries, and widespread Europe have been condemned by many discrimination throughout the continent international organisations for their have made the Roma a symbol of Europe’s conditions. Throughout the festival intolerance and often of its hypocrisy. the way in which migrants are treated Through this theme of the Festival we aim to at, behind and beyond the borders of present a different image of Roma culture the EU, was discussed and exposed in than the stereotypes allow for, underline several ways, including through film, the unacceptability of discrimination, and lectures and workshops. Moreover, the investigate alternative policies for improving ‘deterritorialisation’ of Europe’s borders the situation and rights of Roma and Traveller communities. The Roma question has become tied up with the question of the meaning of European citizenship. Activities on this theme included debates and discussions in Berlin, London, Prague, Sofia and a simultaneous and connected event in Bologna and Paris, a travelling reading with the Roma in Bologna, and urban walks with the Roma in Cluj-Napoca. In addition a Festival film made on the theme by TRANSEUROPA Network which was shown in all Festival cities. Conclusions and experiences from all Festival cities were brought to Cluj-Napoca for a Transnational Forum the closing weekend. Europe After the Crisis: a new economy for a more just world The economic crisis has seen European leaders take unprecedented steps of coordination ABOUT THE FESTIVAL between national budgets. This has been accompanied by huge protests throughout Europe at the austerity measures they have adopted, and the lack of action regulating the banks. In this thematic, the Festival looked for a more just future for the European economy, taking into account the interlinking