New Life Berlin May 31, 2008

ew Life Berlin Contemporary Art Festival (1.5.)*

NEW LIFE BERLIN is a contemporary art festival dedicated to new modes of moving and existing. The festival is curated from the participatory art community WOOLOO.ORG , and will take place in Berlin between 1st and 15th June 2008.

The NEW LIFE BERLIN festival program is structured along three themes:

Transnational Communities. What do 'community' and 'identity' mean today? Presenting projects from both artistic and sociological starting points, NEW LIFE BERLIN will use group participation to explore real-life cultural mobility. Artistic Social Responsibility. What is the relationship between cultural practitioners and corporate entities in the new millennium? How does contemporary cultural production relate to the concept of "Corporate Social Responsibility"? Participation and Intervention. How do participatory arts practices affect the socio-cultural environments in which they take place? How and why can local audiences become involved in artists' projects, and what does their involvement mean in terms of civic engagement and social empowerment?

___Festival Program: The festival program is open to participation from interested artists. By keeping participation open - while still curated - it is the intent of the curatorial team to test the critical value of the much discussed online community, while simultaneously serving as an investigative platform for a fluid cultural landscape that can no longer be controlled by any centralized apparatus.

___For projects and submitting your own proposal see: http://www.wooloo.org/festival/

___Deadline: 1st of May, 2008

___Website: http://www.wooloo.org

Official Website: http://www.wooloo.org