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Conferences/Symposiums, Projects
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  Symposium: Friday, 2. November, 2018, 4 - 8pm Satruday, 3. November, 2018, 4 - 8pm Venue: University of Applied Arts Vienna (Lichthof B) Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2 1010 Vienna The turbulent political and social situation of Europe today gives rise to the question on how do we assume the future of the European Union and its humanistic postulates. Some points in history had crucial importance in the development of our societies, but are those times just a forgotten dream of once  traversed  lands,  or  an  embedded  potential  inherited  by  each  succeeding  generation?  The year of 1968 truly rocked the planet,

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Literary program, Projects, Readings
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“READ ACTIVELY” Friday, 3. August 2018, 9pm Summer cinema Korčula, Croatia   In a pleasant ambiance of the Korčula Summer Cinema on Friday, 3rd of August, starting at 9 pm, ŠUŠUR! Literature Festival in its seventh edition, entitled "READ ACTIVELY!", will remind the audience about the legacy of 1968 and the values we enjoy today, which are a result of a self-sacrifice and activistic actions of our predecessors. Half a century after this significant year, the invited guests of the Festival will talk about whether it is possible to influence contemporary society by writing, what are the implications

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Literary program, Readings
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ŠUŠUR! FESTIVAL OF WORDS 2017  6. - 7. August 2017, 21h Square in front of the St Mark’s Cathedral Korčula, Croatia   This years’ 6th edition of the ŠUŠUR! Festival of Words presented some of the most prominent authors coming from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia to the local and international audiences during the two festival evenings. Titled “Among Us”, this years’ Festival was dedicated to female authors and their position in the contemporary literary canon as well as the position of female characters in the contemporary narratives. The public program took place on the central

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Curators' Agenda: VIENNA 2018, Residencies
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Residency program for international, emerging curators   Duration: 17. September – 29. October 2018 Location: Vienna, Austria The fourth edition of the program Curators’ Agenda: VIENNA 2018 (C’A) is taking place for six weeks in Vienna in September and October 2018. C’A is an annual, unique, know-how program for international, emerging curators who are interested in exploring Vienna’s contemporary art scene and deepening their practical knowledge on the production and realization of exhibitions. The participants are selected on the basis of an open call, that is published worldwide five months before the program starts. The selection is based on the motivation letter and

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Critics’ Agenda: VIENNA 2017, Projects, Residencies
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Residency  program for international art critics Duration: 13. – 22. November 2017 Location: Vienna, Austria Critics’ Agenda: VIENNA 2017 is a pilot project of a residency program created for six international art critics who are invited to explore the contemporary Viennese art scene in more depth. The program takes place from 13. - 22. November. During a dense 10-day program, six invited art critics will be given comprehensive and profound insights into the contemporary Viennese art scene. Diverse program will include artists’ studio visits, meeting with art critics and curators, visiting ongoing exhibitions and

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Projects, Workshops
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Conversations - Sewing Workshops for Asylum Seekers Opening of the exhibition: 25. October 2017, 8.30pm Weltmuseum Wien Heldenplatz 1010 Vienna   The project Conversations – Sewing Workshops for Asylum Seekers is an accompanying project to the solo exhibition Conversations of the artist Dejan Kaludjerović, which will be held in Vienna in October 2017 on the occasion of the reopening of the Weltmuseum Wien. Kaludjerović's work series Conversations: Hula Hoops, Elastics, Marbles and Sand (2013 – ongoing) is based on interviews with children (6 – 10 years old) from different cultural, social and ethnic backgrounds. It deals with issues like friendship, dreams, games, social and political

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Curators' Agenda: VIENNA 2017, Projects, Residencies
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Residency program for international, emerging curators   Duration: 18. September – 29. October 2017 Location: Vienna, Austria The third edition of the program Curators’ Agenda: VIENNA 2017 (C’A) is taking place for six weeks in Vienna in September and October 2017. C’A is an annual, unique, know-how program for international, emerging curators who are interested in exploring Vienna’s contemporary art scene and deepening their practical knowledge on production and realization of exhibitions. The participants are selected on the basis of an open call, that is published worldwide five months before the program starts. The selection is based on the motivation

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Conferences/Symposiums, Migrations, Projects
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Past, Present and Future of Migrations from the Balkans to the Countries of Central and Western Europe EUROPOLY is a multidisciplinary project that tackles the important issue of migrations from the Balkan region to the countries of Central and Western Europe, starting from the huge influx of economic migrants (so-called Gastarbeiters) in the 1960's, over to refugees and brain drain caused by Yugoslav conflicts of the 1990's, to the most recent refugee crisis. The mission of the series of regional conferences EUROPOLY is to explore and map the rich social, cultural and artistic

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Curators' Agenda: VIENNA 2016, Projects, Residencies
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Residency program for international, emerging curators Duration: 22. September – 06. November 2016 Location: Vienna, Austria The second edition of the program, Curators’ Agenda: VIENNA 2016 (C’A), is taking place for six weeks in Vienna in September and October 2016. C’A presents an annual, unique, know-how program for international, emerging curators who are interested in exploring Vienna’s contemporary art scene and deepening their practical knowledge on production and realization of exhibitions. The participants are selected on the basis of an open call, that is published worldwide five months before the program starts. The selection

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Migrations, Projects
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Langer Weg der Gastarbajt /Long journey of guestworkers is a project initiated and produced by several Vienna based organisations, associations and individuals connected through the Platform for Temporary Creation, BLOCKFREI being one of them. The project itself is dedicated to the phenomena of working migration (Gastarbeit), marking the 50th anniversary of signing the contract regulating the administrative conditions of guest working force originating from Yugoslavia and coming to work in Austria. This agreement, signed between these two countries on March the 4th 1966, represents the official beginning of this specific

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BLOCKFREI is an independent cultural organization based in Vienna. It was established in 2013 as a platform for innovative cultural praxis, with the goal to support the cooperation between cultural groups from Austria and South-Eastern Europe. BLOCKFREI embodies the concept of mobility of artists and cultural professionals, strongly believing that multicultural projects are of the highest importance and inevitability part of the global cultural and geopolitical sphere.
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BLOCKFREI – Verein für Kultur und Kommunikation
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