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New Publication:
pöpp68 - private public personal political
- participation objections anyhow

Ed.: Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V.| Oranienstr. 25 | D - 10999 Berlin
Orders at: office@ngbk.de

Berlin 2009. german/english
296 p., numerous coloured images
Price: 20.-
ISBN 978-3-938515-24-2

With six collaborative projects, a conference and an exhibition "pöpp68 - private, public, personal, political" targeted and probed possible modes for participation in art. In 2008 pöpp68 brought together artists born in the 1960s (Seraphina Lenz, Nanna Lüth, Ulrike Solbrig, Rebekka Uhlig, Giuliano Vece, Jole Wilcke) with artists and theorists that were already active in 1968 (Claudia von Alemann, Kirsten Dufour, Rainer W. Ernst, Sanja Ivekovic & Bojana Pejic, Barbara Kleinitz, Christophe Kotanyi). Together, they revisited some of the issues, that became prominent features of the political and social discourse in ´68, like antifascism, body and power, gender politics, the questioning of authority and consumption critique. The collaboration of these partners lead to participatory projects, which were open to others for exploration and intervention. As an intergenerational forum pöpp68 looked at the chances and forms of participation and resistance from 1968 to the present.

The Publication "pöpp68 - participation objections anyhow" documents and contextualizes the entire project with contributions by Espace Masolo, Stephan Geene, Sabine Hark, Barbara Loreck, Suzana Milevska, Rahel Puffert, Veronica Sekules, Raimar Stange, Eva Sturm, Wiebke Trunk, Ultra-red and the project partners.
 Website: www.ngbk.de/poepp68

Curated by: Seraphina Lenz, Nanna Lüth, Ulrike Solbrig, Rebekka Uhlig, Jole Wilcke

Children making Art with Media, A work BDoVoDk
(Ed. Nanna Lüth, Carmen Mörsch)
available at kopaed, Munich.

Munich 2005. german/englisch
382 pages, b/w, incl. illustrations.
incl. DVD
Price: 18,80 euro
ISBN 3-938028-47-5

Content: This publication is a contribution to the debate regarding the current attempts of schools in Germany to open themselves up to collaborations with community partners. With the context of the KuBiM pilot programme Children making Art with Media, projects were conducted in a number of Berlin elementary, special needs and integrated schools. Through an intensive team research process these were then reflected upon by those participating. Both the question concerning the potential of digital media for students with special needs as well as the critically questioning of this labelling were central topics in the projects. These were broken down into particular situations an school specific questions and answered from a practical perspective. Here the artists, elementary school students, teachers and accompanying researchers publicize not only the results, but also want to provide inspiration, recommendations and individual “recipes” for pedagogic in-school media projects. Throughout this process, light is also shed upon the advantages and problems related to working with external and internal school partners.
The book and the DVD are published both in German and English, in order to facilitate a connection to the international debates e.g., about the much further established practice of artists in schools in England.
Both data carriers are intertwined with each other and reveal their information through the reading and cross-referencing of materials. This interdependence of digital and analogue media mirrors the production methods which proved themselves particularly successfully in the activities of Children making Art with Media.