A "European Conversation on Cultural Difference".

As part of a long-term research project, we have been able to establish a ‘think tank’ within the specific context of Britain that is both similar and different from that of many other European cultures. Through the ‘European Conversation’ we have been able to expand this thinking into other contexts and practices and to establish a ‘laboratory’ situation in which colleagues can bring their problematics and discuss them at length in the context of an already existing body of knowledge, theoretical analysis, multiple artistic and curatorial practices. Within this ‘laboratory’ we are seeking to establish both continuity and the ability to respond to members’ proposed issues.

The inaugural meeting of the ‘European Conversation’ was held in May 2002, at Goldsmiths, College, London. The next meeting of the European Conversation is scheduled for Spring 2005.

European Conversation – Permanent Participants:

• John Akomfrah- Filmmaker, London
• Ursula Biemann – Artist and Curator, Researcher, Institute for Theory of Arts and Design, HGK, Zurich
• Carlos Capelan – Artist, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• Catherine David – Director of Documenta X, 1997; currently Director of Witte de With, Rotterdam
• Bart De Baere – Director, MuHKA, Antwerp
• Jean Fisher - Writer and Theorist, London
• Marina Grzinic – Critic and Curator; researcher at Institute of Philosophy, Ljubljana
• Mike Hannula – Director of Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
• Maaretta Jaukkuri – Senior Curator, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
• Hans Georg Knopp – Director, House of World Cultures, Berlin
• Vasif Kortun – Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul
• Christian Kravagna – Art Historian and critic, Vienna
• Jan-Erik Lundström – Director, BildMuseet, Uema, Sweden
• Gitta Luiten – Director, Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam
• Milica Tomic – Artist Belgrade

Please note that attendance at the European Conversation is by invitation only

Forthcoming Publications: Cross-Cultural Arts Three Volume Set, Walther Koenig.

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