as artists, as citizens
we can do something
to draw public attention
to create awareness and understanding
to act together.

At the beginning of the year, a climate team was constituted inside of the European Alliance of academies and has been working since then about this urgent and main issue.

How can the Alliance as a whole and each art academy or cultural institution in its respective country can come up with new formats to understand, communicate and improve the mitigation of and adaptation to changes required by the climate emergency?

*We are currently working on an Atlas of Change, collecting records of the changes wherever it is happening, gathering narrative data on adaptation strategies. Creating an interactive European map where as many places as possible will be documented.

*We are initiating a Café Climate to discuss – around small tables and with a cup of coffee – upon issues and solutions such as :

1. Responsibility, generations’ engagement and global heating.
2. Democracy and global heating. As individuals and members of a global community we are all implied.
3. Culture and global heating. How do the Climate emergency affects art and culture.

*We wish to approach global heating and ecological issues not as usually done, from an economical point of view, but from a cultural and political (in broader sense) point of view. Culture being not only an heritage as UNO puts it but an overgoing process.

If you feel as we feel and think we can do something  – then join us! Send an e-mail to allianceofacademies(at)adk.de with your contact data.

Presentation and discussion Ignorance is Strength? Artistic Expression and Biopower in the Post/Pandemic Age
Friday – Saturday, 7 – 8 October 2022
Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (Coratia)

Pop-up exhibition Truth is a Forgotten Memory (Željko Beljan and Rebecca Merlić)
Saturday, 8 October 2022
Ethnographic Museum, Zagreb (Croatia)

The European Alliance of Academies is awarding ten virtual residencies to artists for participation in the project “Ignorance is Strength? Artistic Expression and Biopower in the Post/Pandemic Age”. The selection was preceded by a call of projects on the topic of biopolitics, exploring the relation between governments and their citizens, especially in the context of the (post)pandemic crisis.

The virtual residencies will take place from December 2021 until May 2022 and are endowed with EUR 5,000 each. During this period, the artists will create new works that will be shown online on the digital platform LOOM – Interweaving the Arts in Europe. Within the next weeks we will do portraits of the artists on our website to introduce them in more detail.

The selected artists and their projects (working titles) are:

Željko Beljan & Rebecca Merlić
Zidnjaci

Iulian Bisericaru
I PREFER THE OLD GREEN

María José Crespo
A disturbing comfort

Larisa Crunțeanu 
Numb-Number

Luïza Luz 
The Privilege of Dreaming

Jovana Popić 
Controlling Future: Technologies of Resistance

Dimitrina Popova
The 5 Houses

Anahita Razmi
ILL/LOGISTICS

Cássio Deniz Santiago
Syntax of Care

Karina Pino & Ricardo Sarmiento
Mund auf. On the lives of migrant sex workers in Berlin

The call for projects was directed to artists from all artistic disciplines who are associated by the institutions and academies of the European Alliance of Academies. This jury was composed up of Liesbeth Bik (artist, chair of the Akademie van Kunsten KNAW), Arnold Dreyblatt (artist, composer, musician, member of Akademie der Künste), Kristoffer Gansing (director of the International Center for Knowledge in the Arts – The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts), Anca Poterasu (director of the Romanian Association for contemporary Art), Cristina Stonescu (curator of the Romanian Association for Contemporary Art), Josip Zanki (artist, member of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists) and Siegfried Zielinski (media theorist, member of the Akademie der Künste).

The European Alliance of Academies launches this call for projects on the topic of biopolitics, exploring the relation between governments and their citizens, especially in the context of the (post)pandemic crisis. The call aims to challenge contemporary artists to reflect on their own practices in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, and in the wake of ongoing societal and political shifts.

The call for proposals is open to all artists associated with members of the European Alliance of Academies. In case of any questions do not hesitate to contact us.

Please read the full proposal outline here: Call for Projects – Ignorance is strength