SUNDAY, APRIL 19

[DEBATE, FORUM]
> Salon de Actos


AFTER VIOLENCE
During 3 days, Claudio Zulian (Spain) conducts various interviews for his project "After Violence." This project began in Barcelona and later developed throughout previous editions of the Rencontres Internationales in Paris, 2008. The project will meet new developments during the event in Berlin, July 2009.

• Project Presentation by Claudio Zulian
• Discussion Projection
• Round table with the presence of:
Santiago B. Olmo, art critic, curator, and artist
Basilio Martín Patino - Director (with reservation)

"After Violence" is a work in progress which begun in 2008 from the collaboration of the ADSIS Foundation, the Catalunya Segle XXI Foundation, and Acteon Production Company. It was first screened on October 2008 at the H2O Gallery in Barcelona as a multi screen video installation. It has, since then, been growing through the aid of the Rencontres Internationales in the cities of Paris, Madrid and Berlin. In Barcelona, the three collaborating institutions have also decided to continue with the project.
"After Violence" sprung from a workshop for teenagers funded by ADSIS Foundation dealing with violence and fear. What teenagers clearly showed us is how alienation, abandonment and the impossibility of personal fulfillment, generally ignored by a society that considers itself conciliating, fair and compassionate, make space for a vengeful phantom of destruction and self destruction.
All these subjects seemed important enough to expand the reflexion to different plains, inviting philosophers, sociologists and politicians amongst others to participate.
"After Violence" is an attempt towards a new articulation of reflexive and poetic languages, both on the image as well as on the discourse. Given the assumption that we are all in possession of a complex audiovisual experience, "After Violence" is an artistic proposal, post media-phenomenon, which aims to explore new forms of citizenship