Item Archive: activism
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Documentation: MOBILE TALK by Erkan Özgen

at the Helsinki Art Museum on the 30th of August Chaired by Perpetuum Mobilε (Marita Muukkonen and Ivor Stodolsky). For information about the artist and the talk see: http://www.perpetualmobile.org/mobile-talk-erkan-ozgen/ Photos courtesy of Kalle Kuisma and Eleni … 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 (AR) nominated for EUROPEAN CITIZEN’S PRIZE!
Perpetuum Mobilε is delighted to announce that PM’s Artists at Risk (AR) platform has been nominated for the European Parliament’s EUROPEAN CITIZEN’S PRIZE! Here an excerpt from the commendatory text to the Prize Chancellery of the “Civi Europaeo Praemium” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Citizens’_Prize): … 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
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
Hospitality, creativity, solidarity: Mobile Talk by Helge Lunde director of ICORN
PM MOBILE TALK at the School of the Displaced The School of Kyiv – Kyiv Biennale 2015 Lecture by Helge Lunde director of ICORN, the International Cities of Refuge Network at October 10, 19:00, Visual Culture Research Center, 44 Hlybochytska … 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
Between revolution and war: art and society in contemporary Ukraine

Last year Ukraine saw protests, revolution, and a counter-revolution from abroad. This presentation focuses on the European essence of the people’s uprising called Maidan, the functioning of public institutions in the revolutionary situation, under conditions of war and occupation, as … Continue reading