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Safe Haven Helsinki wins Annual Art Act award!
We are honoured to have received the Annual Art Act award, chosen by rap-star Paperi T from a shortlist prepared by a jury of leading figures from the Finnish institutional art world. The jury was chaired by Raija Koli, the Director … Continue reading
Perpetuum Mobile / Artists at Risk wins EUROPEAN CITIZEN’S PRIZE
Perpetuum Mobilε is delighted to reveal that PM’s Artists at Risk (AR) platform has been awarded the EUROPEAN CITIZEN’S PRIZE of the European Parliament! A Finnish press event will take place on 1 July at 9.30 am at the European … Continue reading
Artists at Risk at Synapse 2 | Athens Biennale 2015-2017 OMONOIA
Athens, 15-17 April, 2016 Perpetuum Mobile at Athens Biennale 2015-2017 OMONOIA: “Synapse 2: Rethinking Institutional Critique – A View From the South” Sunday, 17 April Summary 16:00 Perpetuum Mobile presents AR – Artists at Risk 17:30-18:00 “Risk” Series: Films by … Continue reading
SAFE HAVEN panel at EU Parliament: conference on asylum and migration
UPDATE. DOCUMENTATION OF THE CONFERENCE and photos at the bottom, here: http://www.europarl.de/de/aktuell_presse/veranstaltungen/epdebatte/fluchtlingskonferenz.html As the next phase in its SAFE HAVENS for ARTISTS AT RISK platform (www.ArtistsatRisk.org), PM-Perpetuum Mobile is taking the first steps towards establishing a SAFE HAVEN – BERLIN. … Continue reading
Nadezhda Tolikonnikova (Pussy Riot) and Artists at Risk (AR)
Nadezhda Tolikonnikova, one of the leading figures of the (in)famous group, Pussy Riot, has been a part of several Perpetuum Mobile (PM) projects. Related: AR-Safe Haven Panel at EU Parliamentary Conference, Berlin The Square Newspaper of TSQ2 of the RE-ALIGNED … Continue reading
Jowan Safadi, Palestinian musician extraordinaire, AR-Resident at Safe Haven Helsinki
Check out Jowan Safadi’s explosive material http://mondoweiss.net/2015/08/radical-talent-safadis/ BIO / BACKGROUND Jowan Safadi started his career as a singer, songwriter and frontman of “Lenses”, a project that he collaborated on with Israeli musicians, and which was active until late 2007 producing three … Continue reading
Erkan Özgen, AR-Resident at Safe Haven Helsinki
Erkan Özgen is an artist, teacher and ecological activist from Diyarbakir (Amed), Eastern Turkey. Related: AR PAVILION, Athens MOBILE TALK by Erkan Özgen/ Documentation The PLURIversity (faculty of PLURIecology) Erkan Özgen: Artist talk on the 19th July 2016 Erkan Özgen … Continue reading
The School of the Displaced at the Kyiv Biennial
As a tragic site of conflict in Europe today, one of the main emphases of The School of the Displaced at the School of Kyiv – Kyiv Biennial 2015 will be the current situation in Ukraine. Kiev in particular faces … Continue reading
El Haqed, AR-Resident at Safe Haven Helsinki (Nordic Fresh Air)
Mouad Belrhouate (b. 1987) is a Moroccan rapper and human rights activist who goes by the name El Haqed (Arabic: الحاقد, “The Enraged”). Related DEBT: IOU or They-O-Us? El Haqed rose to prominence when he was imprisoned for criticizing the king of … Continue reading
Vasyl Cherepanyn: AR-Resident at Safe Haven Helsinki (Nordic Fresh Air)
Vasyl Cherepanyn (b.1988) is head of the Visual Culture Research Center and an editor of the Political Critique magazine (Ukrainian edition). He works as a senior lecturer at the Cultural Studies Department of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and holds a … Continue reading