An initiative of the
30.05.2008
6 pm - 1 am | Academy of the Arts, Berlin, Pariser Platz 4CROSSING 68/89
Protest, Reform and New Cultural Directions between Prague and Berlin
Theme night
Held at the Academy of the Arts located on Berlin’s Pariser Platz, the theme night “CROSSING 68/89 – Protest, Reform and New Cultural Directions between Prague and Berlin” raised the curtain on the project “68/89 – Art.Contemporary.History”. Different events, experiences and life-shaping influences are associated with the label of “1968” in East and West. Forty years later, contemporary witnesses, historians and artists from East and West revisited the Prague Spring and the European student protests in a long theme night made up of discussion rounds, performances, concerts, films and readings. The focal points of attention were the encounters between those involved in East and West and how they perceived one another, as well as the transference of their ideas in a pop and protest culture that transgressed national boundaries.
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