Living Realities

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Creative Europe is kicked off!!!

ArtSocialSpace Brunnenpassage has joined forces with Dschungel Vienna, Studio Alta Prag and Impact Hub Athens for the EU project “LIVING REALITIES - Changing Perceptions”, 2017-2019.

Thanks to all partners for the intensive, productive and inspiring working sessions during the kick-off days in Vienna:

Elisabeth Benroitner (Brunnenpassage)

Zuzana Ernst (Brunnenpassage)

Natalia Hecht (Brunnenpassage)

Karolína Hejnová (Studio Alta Prague)

Alexandra Hutter (Dschungel)

Lucia Kasiarova (Studio Alta Prague) 

Dimitris Kokkinakis (Impact Hub Athens) 

Fariba Mosleh (Dschungel)

Manaf Sinjab (Caritas Vienna)

Susanna Streif (Caritas Vienna)

Julia Tauber-Lewisch (Brunnenpassage / Caritas Vienna)

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In der Brunnenpassage können Menschen unterschiedlicher Herkunft an Kunstprojekten mitwirken und sich dabei kennenlernen.

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During the opening the exhibition will “come alive” by a cooperation between Brunnenpassage and Dschungel Wien, a theatre house for children and young people. Choreographer Sanja Troop-Frühwald and the volunteer organization Flucht nach Vorne, who works with teenage refugees, will create a theatrical & dance performance with children inspired by the topic of the exhibition and taking place within the exhibition rooms. During intense workshops children of diverse backgrounds will work on the topic of sleeping and dreaming, especially under circumstances like an escape. As the war in Syria has continued for almost five years and more than two million children are fleeing the war, within

and outside of the country borders. They´ve been sleeping on the road, in the forest, pavements and refugee camps as they attempt to make their way to Europe. The process starts out by offering theatre workshops with children as well refugees and children coming from Vienna to set a bound of trust and confidence in each other. Sleeping and dreaming and having nightmares is a common issue with children growing up. Therefore the participants will exchange their experience in sleeping and what it means going to bed for each of them. Being afraid of dying is a very normal issue also for children without having fled from war and experiencing death very closely. They exchange their thoughts and feelings as well as their habits of sleeping. Some may need a lot of cuddly toys, cushions or blankets others only have one very close doll. As the group acts very strongly from a physical aspect as well, they will look at the way they move in sleep and through movement and dance, move into another reality where they feel save and warm. The Idea is to work with the children on a story, which is being set in their dreams. In the end everything is brought together to a dancetheatre performance where children will be dancing with professionals. As part of the process Dschungel Wien wants the children to design their own cushion that gives them the feeling of safety and protection. They will be a part of the set design of the performance as well.

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European & Transnational Perspective

Balancing between the local and the global “Living Realities” is a project not only about the realities of diasporas, but about the identity of European citizens and Europe as it is constituted. Complementary to contemporary art practices that address the current socio-

political situation solely from a national point of view, LR relates the individual perspective of refugees travelling throughout Europe in search for a better life to a transnational perspective of how these people are treated and welcomed differently in each of these European countries. The realization of this transnational cooperation by the help of this EU funding aims to relate the individual perspective of refugees travelling throughout Europe in search for a better life to a transnational perspective of how these people are treated and welcomed differently in each of these European countries. On an individual level the crossing of borders play an important role and are landmarks of different stages of peoples flight of their homes. Country borders are relevant stations for these people. The cooperation of the four institutions realizing this project will help to interweave the reflections on the lives and situations of refuges in each country to a general broader cross-country perspective. Austria, Czech Republic and Greece have in common that the traces of these migration flows have an influence on their countries, on their inhabitants political attitude towards refugees and on Europe as it is constituted. The three involved countries are the chosen geopolitical territories in which “Living Realities” will take place, but the issue it deals with, is as much a European and global topic as it is a regional and national one. Living Realities will reflect on the position that the involved countries are holding in a European context, highlight the dynamics between them and focus on a mutual exchange of knowledge. The cooperation of the four institutions realizing this project will help to interweave the reflections on the lives and situations of refugees in each country to a general broader cross-country perspective.

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European & Transnational Perspective

Balancing between the local and the global “Living Realities” is a project not only about the realities of diasporas, but about the identity of European citizens and Europe as it is constituted. Complementary to contemporary art practices that address the current socio-political situation solely from a national point of view, LR relates the individual perspective of refugees travelling throughout Europe in search for a better life to a transnational perspective of how these people are treated and welcomed differently in each of these European countries. The realization of this transnational cooperation by the help of this EU funding aims to relate the individual perspective of refugees travelling throughout Europe in search for a better life to a transnational perspective of how these people are treated and welcomed differently in each of these European countries. On an individual level the crossing of borders play an important role and are landmarks of different stages of peoples flight of their homes. Country borders are relevant stations for these people. The cooperation of the four institutions realizing this project will help to interweave the reflections on the lives and situations of refuges in each country to a general broader cross-country perspective. Austria, Czech Republic and Greece have in common that the traces of these migration flows have an influence on their countries, on their inhabitants political attitude towards refugees and on Europe as it is constituted. The three involved countries are the chosen geopolitical territories in which “Living Realities” will take place, but the issue it deals with, is as much a European and global topic as it is a regional and national one. Living Realities will reflect on the position that the involved countries are holding in a European context, highlight the dynamics between them and focus on a mutual exchange of knowledge. The cooperation of the four institutions realizing this project will help to interweave the reflections on the lives and situations of refugees in each country to a general broader cross-country perspective.

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