Transeuropa Festival

“Transeuropa Festival” is the first transnational festival, taking place simultaneously in London, Paris, Bologna, and Cluj-Napoca.
With a cutting-edge programme featuring leading international thinkers, curators, and artists, Transeuropa engages with crucial issues of our times, including activism and transnational politics, environment and urbanism, the Bologna process, migration, feminism and equal opportunities, and much more.

Oliver Ressler will be the featured artist of this edition of Transeuropa Festival with his video-installation “What Is Democracy?”. The work will be present in all festival cities and accompanied by discussions on the themes of the video.

Please check www.transeuropafestival.eu for details and http://www.ressler.at/what_is_democracy_film for “What Is Democracy?”.

CLUJ: Fabrica de Pensule, April 29, 2010, 6:00 pm
Screening of the film “What is Democracy?”, followed by a discussion with Attila Tordoi.

PARIS: “What Is Democracy?”, Au Centquatre, May 2, 2010, 17:30 – 19:30
Presented by Cathy Larqué & Estelle Nabeyrat

BOLOGNA: “What Is Democracy?”, MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Via Don Minzoni 14, May 4, 2010, 15:00 – 18:00
Screening of the film “What is Democracy?”, presented by Elvira Vannini

LONDON:
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, May 6, 2010, 6:00 pm
“What Is Democracy?” debate
Oliver Ressler will discuss with art critic and philosopher Stephen Wright. The conversation will address the relation between artistic production and political engagement, discussing different artistic strategies to tackle the complex idea of democracy.

Tate Britain, room 28, May 7, 2010
06:30 – 08:15 pm: Salon discussion “Resistance and Spatial Reformers: Refusing To Accept One’s Place”.
08:30-29:30 pm: Ele Carpenter discusses the film “What Is Democracy?”
http://thisisnotagateway.squarespace.com/salons-upcoming

After these intense days in London, the three films Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler carried out on the political processes in Venezuela will be exhibited in “Uneven Geographies: Art and Globalization” at Nottingham Contemporary. http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/art/uneven-geographies

Conference exploring the themes of the exhibition:
Saturday 8 May, 10am – 6pm
http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/geopolitical-turn

And the 8-channel video installation “What Is Democracy?” (http://www.ressler.at/what_is_democracy), will be presented in a solo-exhibition at Galerie KUB, Leipzig, Germany
www.galeriekub.de
opening: May 11, 2010, 20:00
May 11 – June 06, 2010

and in the group-show “Danmark 2010 – en vejledning til nationen for ‘verdens lykkeligste folk’”, Overgaden, Copenhagen
http://www.overgaden.org
June 26 – August 15, 2010