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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Helsinki – the first Safe Haven city in Finland? Symposium in Ateneum-Hall, 3 November

The Safe Haven Helsinki? Symposium is a forum to address the growing importance of Safe Havens, that is, residencies for art professionals at high risk. In the context of an increasing number of serious conflicts and crises afflicting the world, … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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Memories of Dead Cities / Syria: exhibition by Issa Touma

The exhibition Memories of Dead Cities / Syria takes us to the streets of Aleppo both before the war and in the midst of a war zone. Opening on Friday, 21 November, 6–8 pm at TR1 Kunsthalle, Tampere. Issa Touma from … Continue reading

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