Whose Diplomacy – What is cultural representation?

What happens when artists voluntarily or involuntarily take on diplomatic assignments? What are the pitfalls of cultural representation? And what role do cultural institutions play in this context?

Discussion partners:

Kobena Mercer, London, cultural theoretician , author, among other things, of Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies.

Borut Vogelnik, Ljubljana, artist and co-founder (1983) of the Slovenian art network IRWIN, which later participated in the NSK Embassy project.

Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Leif Elggren, Stockholm, creators of the state of Elgaland Vargaland.

Host: Boris Buden, Berlin, cultural theoretician, journalist and author of Der Schlacht von Babel. Ist Kultur übersetzbar? among other publications.