© Robin Junicke

Junge Triennale

“We have no fear. We want it all.” Your muscles tense. Your heart beats faster. Stress hormones are released. Fear! Fear is a basic human instinct. It can save our lives, it can help us recognize dangers and to react: we act decisively, take protective measures, accept challenges and mobilize our strength. But what if fear makes us freeze? If it prevents us from approaching other people? What if we have been infected with fear? Fear can divide societies, push people apart or even prevent them from ever meeting. We live in a time when fear is exploited by both politics and business. In the next three years, from 2018 – 2020, the Junge Triennale will ask: how can we manage to overcome fear of strangers, of diversity and of the future? The Junge Triennale would like to create spaces for encounters that are free from fear in order to discuss issues that concern young people. By doing this the festival will open up and enter the urban space. And young people from the Ruhr region are at the centre of this: they are the ones who will initiate the forums for conversation and discussion, establish networks and discover what it means to bring very different people together using art and culture. In the process they will exchange ideas with artists from Germany and abroad and learn how to put their ideas into practice artistically through workshops.

#nofear is a three years project that maintains regular and lasting contact with school students, teachers and educators as well as with refugee hostels, civic centres and voluntary organizations. Here the Junge Triennale co-operates with the Essen-Katernberg art and social working group that has built up an extensive network of organizations and institutions since 2013. It is planned to set up a network office that will continue to be run beyond 2018 – though not by adults, but by young people from Essen-Katernberg. Workshops, discussions on specific themes and performances enable school students from Essen to take an active part in the project. The project places particular value on co-operation with schools in the area as passing on methods represents a significant part of the project.

Contact

Anne Britting, Janina Diergarten, Timo Kemp, Olivia Marschalek
T + 49 (0) 234 97 48 34-18
jungetriennale@ruhrtriennale.de

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