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During a thirty-day period surrounding the NEW LIFE BERLIN FESTIVAL (May 15 – June 15), two anonymous American cartographers, traveled to Berlin to map the artistic/cultural landscape.
The map, accessed through the links on the left, is comprised of investigations, observations, definitions and information gathered through direct physical interaction and physical/virtual surveillance.
The map will be permanently accessible here at WOOLOO.ORG.
WHY BERLIN ?
Thousands of artists from around the world are currently living and meeting in Berlin. On the "map" of the internationalized art system, Berlin has in the last years become an atypical German city - incorporating a multitude of different artistic streams and serving as a budding stage for the development of a truly global art community.
The growing group of cultural practitioners living in Berlin are constantly exchanging experiences, ideas and knowledge with other likeminded individuals within (and far from) the urban confines of the city. Through these processes, the different groups are forming and fortifying new human networks independent of specific citizenships and traditional nationalistic expectations.
Looking at contemporary Berlin can help us analyse the ongoing (re-)production of cultural signs that constitutes the power structures of the Western nation state. In this important way, the artistic communities of the city are becoming essential for understanding how new collective networks are constructed globally today.
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