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Open Dialogues: New Life Berlin 2008
Berlin, Berlin
31 May - 16 June 2008
OPEN DIALOGUES: NEW LIFE BERLIN 31/05/08-16/06/08 Laptop in bag, pushing it tight under my arm, I travelled to Luton airport and onto the plane where I sat next to a middle aged Geordie man with an intense phobia of flying. Feeling the adrenaline pumping in the air through my veins as the plane took off, soared and landed, I was presented with a whole state of 'new'. New land, new people and new experience. With no concrete ideas of what this festival would have in store for me, I felt completely liberated as I stepped out into Berlin's hot sun beating on my back, yet uncertain of the possibilities of the next two weeks. The directors of the recently launched Open Dialogues collaboration, Mary Paterson and Rachel Lois Clapham, set up Open Dialogues: New Life Berlin to develop a community of critical writers within the New Life Berlin festival. The main themes of the festival itself are participation and intervention, transnational communities and artistic responsibility, and its aims are to deal with significant issues relating to contemporary art and life through socially engaged and participatory art projects. Open Dialogues were...
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