Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War
2017—2018
After the Second World War, the battle of the systems also embroiled the arts and culture in a symbolic arms race. One example of this was the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), an organization founded in West Berlin in June 1950 by a group of writers driven to consolidate an “anti-totalitarian” intellectual community.
Angela Harutyunyan: Socialist Realism and the Concept of the Ideal
Lecture, Dec 15, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition Original version
Paz Guevara: The exhibition as medium
Lecture, Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition Original version
Discussion with Clare Davies, Nataša Ilić, Alexander Keefe & Museum of American Art
Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition Original version
Clare Davies: One World through Art: Abby Weed Grey and the Parapolitics of Non-Western Art in the 1960s and 70s (German)
Lecture, Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition German translation
Kodwo Eshun: ‘The Colony is a Prison’: Richard Wright’s Political Diagnostics on the ‘Redemption of Africa’ in the Gold Coast (German)
Lecture, Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition German translation
Anselm Franke: Introduction
Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition Original version
Nida Ghouse: Introduction (German)
Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition German translation
Nida Ghouse: Introduction
Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition Original version
Nida Ghouse: Ghosts in the Bush of Freedom (German)
Lecture, Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition German translation
Discussion with Clare Davies, Nataša Ilić, Alexander Keefe & Museum of American Art (German)
Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition German translation
Clare Davies: One World through Art: Abby Weed Grey and the Parapolitics of Non-Western Art in the 1960s and 70s
Lecture, Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition Original version
Anselm Franke: Introduction (German)
Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition German translation
Paz Guevara: Exhibition as Medium (German)
Lecture, Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition German translation
Nida Ghouse: Ghosts in the Bush of Freedom
Lecture, Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition Original version
Discussion with Nataša Ilić (German)
Following the lecture "Episodes from Socialist Modernism in Yugoslavia" Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition German translation
Discussion with Nataša Ilić
Following the lecture "Episodes from Socialist Modernism in Yugoslavia" Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition Original version
Nataša Ilić: Episodes from Socialist Modernism in Yugoslavia (German)
Lecture, Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition German translation
Paz Guevara: Exhibition as Medium
Lecture, Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition Original version
Discussion with Alexander Keefe
Following the lecture "The Living Arts of Ancient TV: Indian Culture and US Television, 1955" Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition Original version
Discussion with Alexander Keefe (German)
Following the lecture "The Living Arts of Ancient TV: Indian Culture and US Television, 1955" Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition German translation