#13 Conscious project

2005

Today, two cultural moods seem to prevail in Europe.
On the one hand there’s a lot of looking back to the past with a sense of yearning for bygone traditions. It’s a feeling that easily leads to a freeze mode in
response to what is perceived as a turbulent and threatening world. Then again, the sweeping social, political and economic changes ushered in by the fall of
the Berlin Wall cannot be overlooked.
Likewise, “9/11” was no less a traumatic event in Europe as in other countries around the world. It peremptorily raised the question of what possible relations there can be with peoples whose convi... Read More

Business and ethics: we discuss the issue with Sebastiano Maffettone, author of Etica Pubblica (Public Ethics) (Il Saggiatore, 2001), chief editor of the journal Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche (Philosophy and Public Issues), lecturer of Political Philosophy and Social Ethics [ http://www.luiss.it ] and visiting professor at Harvard [ http://www.ha...

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Burgeoning China and India are very much in the political and economic limelight lately. This once again means that Africa and its tragic conditions are put to shade, being considered little more than a source of natural riches ready for the pickings. This interview with the anthropologist Marco Aime, who spends long periods in Africa for his studi...

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Formerly professor at Cambridge and currently Full Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Florence, the historian Paul Ginsborg is an important point of reference for the world of socially committed voluntary and charitable organisations. It's a world that includes a vast number of persons who all feel the need to actively ...

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You were involved in the "50th Biennale" in Venice; in your opinion, what relevance and meaning do such events have in developing a new awareness/sensibility in the audience? I think that it is essential that events like this exist; they give some kind of overview on what is happening in art at the moment. We might like one biennale better than t...

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2 questions to the 2 organisers of a unique, 2-yearly event: the Venice Biennale. What's art's role in building up awareness on such major issues as the environment, human rights, social development? Maria de Corral: Today's artists do not share a style, but an attempt to build personal aesthetic worlds, to establish their own formal needs, to ...

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I pass through a corridor and a greenish light hits me, sharp and unbearable. Halfway along I notice a little table and a chair resting on the ceiling. My perceptive certainties, already challenged, fall away and lead me to wonder whether my legs are attached to the ground. This is one of the many works in which Bruce Nauman invites us to ask ou...

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Predrag Matvejevic' 's [http://www.giardini.sm/matvejevic] personal history, his critical spirit, his intellectual career, and his commitment to defending civil rights and liberties have qualified him as one of the most intense and courageous speakers that may currently be listened to, and his words as genuine food for thought. It's a voice that ta...

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Hasan Hujdur has the cool and calm collectedness that behoves a Dervish sage. Like a bridge over troubled waters, he spans the turbulent stream of wild and wily eddies and undercurrents that perturb the lives of lesser mortals. He’s a long-time denizen of Toledo, Oregon. But his own personal America is epitomised by a Buick Riviera of 1963 vintag...

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nKA | ICA Indipendent Centre of Art Beograd Director: Biljana Tomic Art director and workshop manager: Dobrila Denegri In 2001, straight after the arrival of democracy in Serbia, the idea took off for a great meeting of young REAL PRESENCE artists. Biljana Tomic and I asked young emerging artists from all over Europe to come to Belgrade an...

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We attempted to track down the inventor of the note-book, the great designer. He wasn't in his office and no amount of browsing was able to turn him up in the yellow pages, nor were history books any more revealing. We finally turned up Modo & Modo, a small 12-person strong firm, which actually whittled down to two, Francesco Franceschi and ...

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Each second that passes means three more people are living on our planet. The demographic explosion - that has taken the world's population from 1.6 billion people at the beginning of the twentieth century to 6.12 billion at the start of the new millennium - is accelerating at an alarming rate, seriously threatening the planet's survival. The ec...

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  • Malgorzata Bujnicka

    CONSCIOUS PROJECT

  • Katja Majer

    Mankind's unilateral philosophy is about to change into the full awareness and consciousness of the absolute connection and co-responsibility of the entire world.

  • Daniela Cojbuc

    These sellers, who we must thank for the precious help they have given us in the frenetic race towards coitus, are perceived as invasive and annoying. The Cupids, the Rosenkavalieren, are transformed into black angels, demons.

  • Daniela Cojbuc

    These sellers, who we must thank for the precious help they have given us in the frenetic race towards coitus, are perceived as invasive and annoying. The Cupids, the Rosenkavalieren, are transformed into black angels, demons.

  • Malgorzata Bujnicka

  • Raluca Davidel & Irina Maracineanu

    Being a part of the here and now of your own life. Dragged along by the current. A new awareness: the courage to choose your own shape... to rediscover yourself.

  • Mirjana Boba Stojadinoviéc

  • Andrej Čikala

    I tried to touch the heart and I failed. For the future, I propose a reconciliation with the Creator in his eternal love.

  • So:NDA - Metka Golec & Miha Horvat

    Individual. Environment. Society. New values. New cultural paradigms. New technology. New system. New life. New mouse, computer and drawings.

  • Maja Ozvaldicš

  • Nikola Uzunovski

    What do we really want from life? We must realise our dreams... that's the best thing we can do.

  • Iwona Golębiewska

  • Iwona Golębiewska

  • Zorica CŠoliéc

    The overcoming of the stereotypes of female beauty that are forced on us is the idea that pervades my work. In a world full of brutal fundamentalism, faith in ambivalent visions leads us towards freedom.

  • Kamen Stojanov

    FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER: in different environments, the architectural elements lead to a completely new, surprising perception.

  • Tsolak Topchyan

    Why can you only see an orange corner? Perhaps I'm too tired to be concise. Perhaps I'm relaxing before taking action. Or perhaps there are simply other reasons…

  • Luminita Cochinescu

    My work is a dynamic one, a dream where I try to create order from disorder. There are no individual subjects, but glimpses of life, water, sex, hearing, flowers, looks, people, intimacy, love, buildings, skies... all closely related.

  • Magdalena Stanova

    Where does the desire to record everything come from? Because of the need to hold on to a moment, in reality we lose the only chance we have to actually feel THAT moment.

  • Maja Ozvaldic

  • Slavica Tosevska

  • Vladimir Ivaz

    To live the life of a moment. A moment of life contains everything.

  • Slavica Tosevska

  • Nebudu - Borjana Ventzislavova & Niciéc Miroslav

    The unease caused by the ever-changing present and the imminent future is embodied in a distant place, where the birth of something unknown causes a slight feeling of alarm.

  • Kamila Szeinoch

    Red Bow was produced in Oronsko in 2003, after a violent storm that had broken the branches and trunk of the tree.

  • Vesna Zarev

    Without a beginning, without an end and with no changes, I trace an absolute CIRCLE on a base of golden silk. The symbol of the transcendental sky is expressed in the interaction with the square of earthy matter.

  • Heidi Pema

  • Jelena Pantovic & Thanos Zéakopoulos

    Visual dialogues: a single image represents both the question and the answer to the problems we face.

  • "Where I am, makes me what I am"

    Anonymous at Galleria illy London

  • “The time is always right to do the right thing”

    Martin Luther King

  • "Liberty is about our rights to question everything".

    Ai Wei Wei

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