All a Matter of Trust? Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is a cooperation partner of the Kultursymposium Weimar 2023
The fourth international Kultursymposium will once again be held in Weimar under the title "A Matter of Trust". From 10 to 12 May 2023, the Goethe-Institut will bring together exciting personalities from the fields of culture, science, business, media and politics, who will spend three days exchanging views on the multi-layered topic of trust in discussions, lectures, interactive workshops and artistic works. Students from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar are also involved, enriching this year's festival programme with short films, radio contributions and a photographic postcard exhibition.
Trust plays a central role in many areas of life and cultures. Communities are based on trust: in political systems and cultural codes, in personal and business relationships, in international agreements and reliable information. Trust in one's own person, one's own abilities and power of judgement is also of elementary importance for social interaction.
The Kultursymposium Weimar 2023 looks at the concept of trust in an interdisciplinary way and from a global perspective. Three focal points will illuminate selected aspects: Trust and the individual, Trust in society, politics and the media, and Trust in business and technology. Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is involved in the international festival with three projects.
Wednesday, 10 May 2023, 7 p.m. to 8.30 p.m., Lichthaus Cinema 1, admission free
The theme of trust – emphatic closeness or its absence – plays a fundamental role in cinematic storytelling, as a film always involves encounters between people in some form. Students of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar will show a selection of short films that were made during the past winter semester at the Professorship of Cross-Media Moving Image as part of several project modules supervised by Prof. Jakob Hüfner and Prof. Jörn Hintzer. All short films by students of Visual communication tell of encounters that deal with the theme of trust.
With works by: Enni Arden, Janina Heinrich, Sarah Horn, Clara Irmer, Anneliese John, Paula Kiermaier, Aaron Kilian, Alex Kaiser, Klaus Merbach, Lukas Naujoks, Olga Ringleb, Julia Schöffel, Alina Virjasov
Wednesday, 10 May 2023, 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Thursday, 11 May 2023, 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Frequency: 106.6 MHz in Weimar and Apolda + Livestream: www.bauhaus.fm
Listeners to the special radio programme of the Kultursymposium Weimar can look forward to a mixture of radio artistic contributions, discussion formats and performative interventions for five hours each on 10 and 11 May. From 3 p.m. to 8 p.m., the team of artists, experts and students from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar will broadcast live from the festival site on the frequency 106.6 MHz as well as in the internet stream at www.bauhaus.fm. The special programme is a cooperation between the Goethe-Institut and bauhaus.fm, the experimental radio of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, with the participation of students from the international master's programme " Public Art and New Artistic Strategies".
Contributions and conversations by and with: Konrad Behr, Heiko Hilker, Dr. Konstantin Hondros, Jasmina Al-Qaisi, Tommy Neuwirth, Mara May, Antje Meichsner, Polina Khatsenka, Carina Pesch, Luka Prinčič, Rundfunkorchestra, Hanne Römer / .aufzeichnensysteme, Frank Christian Stoffel, Tom Wills
As well as by students of the degree programme »Public Art and New Artistic Strategies«: Belén Arellano Cañizares, Lucía González Gaitán, Rand Ibrahim, Nadja Kracunovic, Eunji Lee, Hala Masri, John Patterson, Natalia Castillo Rincón, Yang Shen & RITA Art Collective (Hala Masri, Natalia Castillo Rincón, Lucía González Gaitán, John Patterson, Camilo Londoño Hernández, Rachael Thorleifson)
10 to 12 May 2023, 7 p.m., E-Werk outdoor area, admission free
How does cooperative, collaborative photographic work function? Over the past winter semester, students studying visual communication explored possibilities of cooperation in photography as part of the project The cooperative portrait supervised by Prof. Birgit Wudtke, Professorship Photography. The students had to develop exercises to divide the copyright of a portrait photo between the two parties. They chose their cooperation partners and worked in small groups or in pairs. Various methods for joint image processing were discovered and tested, the medium of collage was used in particular. An important aspect was the equal, solidarity-based interaction with the cooperation partners. Selected results will be presented on postcards. The format enables visitors to collect parts of the exhibition and rearrange them in their homes.
With works by: Daša Geiger, Jacob Heine, Franca Dümon, Marlene Rosa Flath, Marlen Lisbeth Hüllstrunk, Liza Antonia Lippert, Luisa Ngoc Linh Pham, Vanessa Mejía Cuevas, Soum Eveline Bonkoungou, Camilo Londoño Hernández, Sarah Amar, Anneliese John, Elias Knochenhauer, Thyra Kolde, Mathias Lorenz, Antonia Mang, Jülide Nur Alemdar, Richard Schött
In addition, on Thursday, 11 May, 4.15 p.m. to 5.45 p.m., the discussion event "Voices of Change" will take place in the Audimax of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, which is all about activism, protest and faith in a brighter tomorrow. The sociologist Nicole Doerr, who researches the dynamics between trust and conflict, the activist and ex-politician Nathan Law, who is one of the leading minds behind the Hong Kong democracy movement, and the philosopher and environmental activist Saras Dewi, who works in Indonesia to maintain the ecological and spiritual balance on Bali and supports women who are resisting the expansion of the cement industry, will be discussing. Human rights activist Sara Mardini also gives insights into the resistance she faces in her fight for humanitarian refugee aid.
Kultursymposium Weimar 2023 of the Goethe-Institut
»A Matter of Trust«
10 to 12 May 2023
For all information on content, programme and tickets, please visit: https://www.goethe.de/prj/ksw/en/index.html
About the Kultursymposium Weimar
The Kultursymposium Weimar is a festival for new networks and ideas. Every two years, the Goethe-Institut brings together several hundred people from all over the world. Interdisciplinary and diverse, the Kultursymposium reflects global social issues and thus provides impulses for international cultural and social exchange.