The Freiraum Online Summit is part of the Freiraum Festival 2020, a collaborative, decentralized, democratized festival taking place simultaneously in the physical and the digital worlds. Freiraum is a project of the Goethe Instituts in Europe.
The festival has been developed jointly by more than 40 organizations spread around Europe, and includes more than 20 Local Events, dealing with issues that have been accelerated by the recent pandemic crisis: the “State of Freedom in Europe today: the ongoing biopolitical crisis and emerging social movements", and the “State of the Arts: new formats and audiences”. During the three days at the end of October (30/10-1/11), established thinkers and audiences around Europe gather to discuss these issues, online and offline, in specially conceived events that transform the local into a subjective center.
The Online Summit was organized by ArtBOX. It combines a studio and teleconferencing platform (zoom). It includes talks, discussions, artistic interventions especially made for the online format, and live connection with the local events held by the Freiraum partners. The “State of the Arts: new formats and audiences” was organised in partnership with the Common Lab project by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki & ArtBOX, in the framework of Goethe-Institut's Excellency Initiatives 2020-21, in collaboration with TIF-Helexpo (GR).
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