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Medinat Weimar in Vienna, Austria

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OneState Embassy invited me to Vienna for two events as secretary Medinat Weimar!

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091015_PCAP_eidelmanPost Conceptual Art Practices [Class], Prof. Dr. Marina Gržinić, Semperdepot, 1st floor, M1, Lehárgasse 8, 1060 Vienna

Thursday, 15. 10. 2009 – M1, Semperdepot lecture in English – open to general public
18:30 Ronen Eidelman (Tel Aviv-Jaffa): Medinat Weimar

Medinat Weimar is an art project that created a movement to promote the idea of the Jewish state in Thuringia, Germany, with the city of Weimar as its capital. The movements goal is to convince the German people to call the Jews (and anyone else who wants to be one) to gather in Thuringia, a post-industrial area emptying more every year, and found there another Jewish state. One that would not only satisfy the need for  a secure Jewish home, appease the Palestinian  Israeli conflict, help the German with coming to terms with the past, but would also save Thuringia from its own bleak future. In the lecture Eidelman, the Movements’ secretary, will present the Movement, explain the political and artistic context it was born in, as well as show other art projects he has created in the past that are related to the movement.

Ronen Eidelman is an artist, writer and activist engaged with linking art, culture and grassroots politics. Participated in many exhibitions and festivals, as well as creating independent projects in the public sphere. Born in New York City, grew up in Jerusalem and based in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel, Co-founder and editor of “Ma’arav” (www.maarav.org.il) leading online art and culture magazine from Israel. Graduate of the MFA program for “Public Art and New Artistic Strategies’ at Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany, and for more than ten years active in anti-occupation and anti-capitalist activists groups. Ronen likes hats and enjoys wearing many kinds. http://medinatweimar.org/,http://ronen.dvarim.com/

The lecture is organized by Eduard Freudmann and OneState Embassy in Vienna (Ambassadors Tal Adler & Osama Zatar will be present at the lecture – www.onestate-embassy.net).

The lecture is part of the seminar “Platform History Politics” (http://tinyurl.com/ydptw3p)

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Come and have denKarium-breakfast with the Israeli artist Ronen Eidelman in the “OneState Embassy” in Vienna:

“How to use art as a safe place for utopian ideas”? Saturday, 17. Oct. 10.30, at the “OneState Embassy”, Sieveringerstr. 167, 1190 Vienna.

We will offer a nice oriental brunch, children are also wellcome, the embassy has a wide garden and toys! Ronen will present his project “Medinat Weimar” and discuss the possibilities of political art actions.

A rites-event in cooperation with OneState embassy (Tal Adler & Osama Zatar)

Medinat Weimar – Some links

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Medinat Weimar received hundreds of responses and Media outlets worldwide wrote about the project. Press here for a selected list of internet links of many of the articles, Blog posts and discussion that can be found on the internet.

See Pictures from the Rally & conference took place in Weimar on the 22nd of June and Watch Psoy Korolenko and Danik Redlick of the The Unternationale who send their greeting for the establishing events.

PUBLIC PREPARATION SOCIAL CLUB

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I’m will be giving a talk, a workshop and participating at a symposium and artist summer camp in Pärnu, Estonia. If you are in the neighborhood, stop by.

Symptoms of nationalism and critique of nationalism in the practice of
contemporary art

Date: July 11, 2008
Venue: Pärnu Artists’ House, Nikolai 27, Pärnu, Estonia
Info: www.publicpreparation.org

An international seminar in the series of “Public Preparation” events concentrating on the relations of contemporary art and nationalism in different places of the world.

The summer seminar furthers the current agenda of the “Public Preparation” project, continuing the thinking camp “Exercises on Adhocray” that took place in July 2007 and dealt with self-organisation and grassroots democracy in the field of contemporary art; it also follows discussions and debates from the international seminar “Translocal Express. Jubilee Edition” which addressed the growing tendencies of nationalism on Eastern borders of Europe (from Helsinki to Istanbul) and its relation to contemporary art. Let’s not forget, that during this year many European nation states celebrate its 90th anniversary — these celebrations provide a vivid and indicative context to inspect and rethink the idea of nation and nation state but also the role of art in these ideological constructions.

In the upcoming seminar a number of contemporary art professionals –artists, curators and art historians — will give a comprehensive insight into the art scenes and dominant mentalities in the social realities they are active in. The aim of the seminar is to get an overview about diverse cultural and artistic situations from the perspective of national values. The series of inputs could become a ground from which to continue with comparative analyses, mapping and examining of similarities and differences.

Presentations by Kendra Ballingall (Winnipeg), Remco de Blaaij (Eindhoven), Övül Durmusoglu (Istanbul/Vienna), Ronen Eidelman (Tel Aviv/Weimar), Eva Fotiadi (Amsterdam), Erden Kosova (Istanbul), Johannes Paul Rather (Berlin), Sára Stenczer (Budapest/Paris), and Tamara Zlobina (Kiev), moderated by Rael Artel (Pärnu).

Detailed programme is published at www.publicpreparation.org

The seminar language is English.
For better management please register at info(at)publicpreparation.org

Presentation: Visual Foreign Correspondents

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If you are in Amsterdam please come, and tell friends that you think will be interested. The video can been viewed on http://www.visualcorrespondents.com from the 15.04.08. Their will also be a nice small interview with me. check it out!

For those of you who read dutch, the video and texts: volkskrant.nl/oog

Visual Foreign Correspondents hereby invites you to come to the launch of the sixth issue during the Globalised Crystal Ball, the international debating program in de Balie Amsterdam On the 15th April 2008

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In the old town of Weimar, Ronen Eidelman built an armoured jeep, commonly used by the Israeli border police (magav). A closer look betrays that it is a two-dimensional model, a fake, similar to the historic buildings of Weimar, which through historical manipulations try to recreate the town as the romantic Disneyland of the East, devoid of its questionable World War II past. Like the touristy postcard perfection of Weimar, the ubiquity of security and control mechanisms works as a façade. Both function as cover-ups for what is really underneath….

Ronen is an artist, writer and activist. He has participated in many self-organized exhibitions and festivals, founded and edited over five cultural, art and political journals/magazines and produced many events linking art, culture and grassroots politics. For the past ten years Ronen has been active in anti-occupation and anti-capitalist direct action groups.

The Globalised Crystal Ball #6
The Military-Strategic Future Predicted

In 2004 the United Nations published A more secure world: Our shared responsibility, which advised the international community how to tackle common threats. The report suggests that it is time for a new security consensus, one in which “we all share responsibility for each other’s security. And the test of that consensus will be action”.

Speakers are:
Thomas P.M. Barnett is senior Managing Director at Enterra Solutions.
Andrew Small works for the German Marshall Fund in Brussels since 2006 as the co-ordinator of work on China and transatlantic relations.
Awil Mohamoud is a political scientist and the founding director of SAHAN research & advice bureau.

http://www.debalie.nl/

Location
De Balie
Klein Gartmanplantsoen 10
Amsterdam
Tuesday the 15th of April at 20.00

Ukraine – No Border

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The gate to the european union
The gate to the European Union (looking towards Slovakia)

Last week I was in Ukraine attending the No-Border camp. It was held in Transcarpathia the main region of transit and labor migration to the European Union. (You could read more about the camp and its motivations here)

The camp was really interesting and also a lot of fun. I have many stories and observations but until i get around to writing them you could see pictures of my travels in my flicker. There are almost no pictures of the camp itself because people asked not to be filmed but you can get a feeling of west Ukraine. In a few days I will ad more detailed pictures of the actions.
You can also read reports from some British activists who were at the camp here and here, And if you read German here.

You should really check out these pictures of the camp here (text in Russian).