*There’s something very European indeed about this. \u00a0Out in an official pavilion, podcasting about culture, with your 70-year-old cultural foundation, “creating spaces for negotiation and imagination.”<\/p>\n
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June 16, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n European Cultural Foundation (ECF)<\/strong><\/p>\n The European Pavilion Podcast<\/strong><\/p>\n European Cultural Foundation (ECF) <\/strong> culturalfoundation.eu <\/strong> The European Cultural Foundation is pleased to present the European Pavilion Podcast: an audio documentary series from the European Pavilion programme. The Podcast was launched in 2020 as a contribution to the debate on the future of Europe.<\/strong><\/p>\n You can listen to the Podcast on the European Cultural Foundation\u2019s website or via the following channels: Spotify, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, Soundcloud.<\/strong><\/p>\n Contributors:<\/strong> Conceived by Lore Gablier in collaboration with Alejandro Ram\u00edrez<\/strong> To imagine the Europe of tomorrow is not an easy task. It is neither a question of beginning from a blank page nor following a preconceived narrative. Rather, it is about adding footnotes and creating spaces for negotiation and imagination. <\/strong><\/p>\n The European Cultural Foundation is launching a new programme, the European Pavilion, in order to confront some of the urgent challenges currently facing us, and to begin to imagine, debate and build new models of being together. With this programme, we aim to bring together a European network of arts and cultural organisations that, through artistic and educational projects, offers the opportunity to explore ideas for a future Europe.<\/strong><\/p>\n In this context, the European Pavilion Podcast has been a research tool to explore some key issues\u2014not only in relation to the European territory and its borders, but also looking at the multiple identities that inhabit its spaces of connectivity.<\/strong><\/p>\n The audio documentary series is set in different spaces: in an airport terminal to discuss post-national imaginaries and citizenship; in a park to address the tension between being present and being represented; in the European forest to explore the relationship between public space and nature; in the often invisible world of infrastructure to reflect on Europe\u2019s image. Throughout the series, montages of news snippets weave in the political tensions and phenomena shaping these topics. In the final episode of the podcast, media excerpts accompany a discussion on the history of the European project 71 years after the Schuman Declaration, which cemented the European Coal and Steel Community\u2014the origin of today\u2019s European Union.<\/strong><\/p>\n Reflecting the diverse artistic and cultural fields that we would like to contribute to the European Pavilion, guests include essayists, historians, researchers, philosophers, activists, artists, curators and architects. The arts run through the Podcast as a red thread holding these multiple strands together. From the poetry of writer and civil rights activist Zs\u00f3fi Kem\u00e9ny to an excerpt from novelist Rana Dasgupta\u2019s best-selling Tokyo Cancelled, the series brings together current topics of European debate with a taste for critique and re-imagination.<\/strong><\/p>\n As one of the guests, climate activist Zamzam Ibrahim, argues: \u201cYou can\u2019t reimagine Europe without calling out some ugly truths.\u201d Zamzam\u2019s statement reminds us that the European Pavilion should be a meeting place, both physical and aural, in which we can present and challenge our perceptions of the world and of each other.<\/strong><\/p>\n The European Pavilion programme will be launched in the autumn of 2021, with the announcement of the first network of Pavilions, involving arts and cultural organisations from across the continent.<\/strong><\/p>\n At the European Cultural Foundation, we believe that a decentralised platform that allows us to reflect on, and continuously question, what Europe means today\u2014and what it can become tomorrow\u2014can strengthen European culture(s). And what better place than a Pavilion for such a venture? The Pavilion, which has taken on many functions and forms throughout history, has the capacity to remain open to new definitions and meanings\u2014much like Europe itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n The European Cultural Foundation was established in 1954 to promote a European sentiment through culture and education.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" *There’s something very European indeed about this. \u00a0Out in an official pavilion, podcasting about culture, with your 70-year-old cultural foundation, “creating spaces for negotiation and imagination.” June 16, 2021 European Cultural Foundation (ECF) The European Pavilion Podcast European Cultural Foundation (ECF) Amsterdam Netherlands culturalfoundation.eu Facebook \/ Twitter \/ Instagram The European Cultural Foundation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"\n
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\nSilvia Bencivelli, Rodrigo Bueno Lacy, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Rana Dasgupta, Lena Dobrowolska & Teo Ormond-Skeaping, Tim Flannery, Tristan Garcia, Lara Garc\u00eda D\u00edaz, Tobias Holle, Zamzam Ibrahim, J\u00f3ci Marton, Egl\u0117 Rindzevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117, Timothy Snyder and Benedikt Stoll.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nSound design: Alejandro Ram\u00edrez<\/strong>
\nOriginal music: Gagi Petrovic<\/strong><\/p>\n