"It is worthwhile to intermesh educational work with art education." - Interview with Ayse Gülec
The documenta 12 was captivating the public long before the opening: for the first time in documenta history, the advisory board was made up of citizens of Kassel.
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Children and Youth Network: Final Presentation netzWERKstatt
22 September, 3 pm, netzWERKstatt
Public presentation and exhibition of workshop results, performances, theatre, music, graffiti and lots more. All children and teenagers who were active in
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“All people will be sisters” workshop with Allan Sekula
20 September, 3 pm, former police station
Since the 1970s, the artist Allan Sekula has been engaging with the structure and the changes of working conditions in modern society. To do so, he follows
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Theme night: Unconditional basic income/Solidarity-based economy (Salon des Refusès)
17/18 September, 6 pm, former police station
The documenta 12 advisory board initiative Salon des Refusés sets out to examine changes in the wage labour society.
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Education is no commodity
13 September, 5 pm, Kulturzentrum Schlachthof
A group of experts closely scrutinizes the consequences of privatisation attempts in education and thinks about the question of how globalisation enhances this process.
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How much newspaper does the city need?
11 September, 5 pm, Kulturzentrum Schlachthof
Media producers and media experts plan to scrutinize, with a keen and sceptical eye, the media and the press offered on a local level together with an interested public
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Intercultural parental education – in order to prevent migration leading to exclusion…!
6 September, 2 pm to 6 pm, Kulturzentrum Schlachthof
The connection between migration background and the educational deficit of children and young people is
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ARTlyrics Rap-Workshop
31 August to 2 September, netzWERKstatt
At the weekend we will be rhyming and rapping in the netzWERKstatt. The Heckenkabinett, a visit to the documenta, as well as the central question “What is bare life?” will provide
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Speak your mind - panel discussion on migration and school (Education Tent, Education and Migration) 28 August, 5 pm, Kulturzentrum Schlachthof
Migration and school – moderated panel discussion. The day to day experience of pedagogical work in numerous schools has
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Seidenhaar (Silk hair) - German-turkish reading with Aygen-Sebil Celik
23 August, 5 pm, Kulturzentrum Schlachthof
The book tells the story of two Turkish women friends who have clearly different views on the wearing of headscarves. In the story, as well as
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 Archiv Lunch Lecture
The artist Dierk Schmidt on his current documenta 12 work
21 August, 5 pm, Kulturzentrum Schlachthof
The series Die Teilung der Erde (“The division of the world”) deals with the role of the German Empire in colonial history.
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Exhibition: “What People Live From: Work, Engagement and Leisure Beyond the Market”
15 to 22 August, 2 pm to 6 pm, Ehemaliges Polizeipräsidium
The researchers, authors and exhibition organisers set out, with the publication of their findings
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“A terribly pretty life”: Girls-only Art Workshop
08 to 10 August, 10 am to 7 pm, netzWERKstatt
The art workshop provides a space in which to develop one’s own fantasies, longings and desires through the use of paints and a range of different collage
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Reading: Translating the Earth
2 August, 5 pm, Kulturzentrum Schlachthof
The author and philosopher Johannes Ernst Seiffert and friends read from four decades of collected insights, predictions and suggestions from his creative praxis as earth citizen and
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Opening Salon des Refusés
The Salon des Refusés is officially opened: Every Wednesday, the documenta 12 advisory board will host a forum for people to share their experiences of unemployment, in the monumental architecture of the former police headquarters. The
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documenta - Something to Do with Art
26 July, 5 pm, Kulturzentrum Schlachthof
Mediation and aesthetic education are important components of documenta 12. What do residents of Kassel think about the documenta? What form does access to documenta 12 and to art
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Salon des Refusés
24 July, 5 pm, building of the former police headquarters
The documenta 12 advisory board initiative Salon des Refusés sets out to examine changes in the wage-labour society. Unemployed people and individuals in precarious working
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The Bergpark as an antique model for the modern-day Disneyland

The „prehistory“ of the theme park illustrates, in paradigmatic form, a central question of documenta 12: whether modernity is our antiquity. Many contemporary critics consider the
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permanent discussion - Space for talking about art and language
20 July, 2 pm, Treppenpodium
The project “Kunst – Sprache – Öffentlichkeit. Kommunikationsraum documenta 12“ (“Art, language, and the public. Communication space documenta 12“;
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documenta - here with us!
15 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Since 2002 there has been a youth and children’s group network in Kassel. On the occasion of documenta 12, the participating groups and initiatives set out to develop activities and actions
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Review: Cooperation in art and culture: When migrants lay down their own conditions
documenta 12 art education and documenta 12 advisory board, 29 June, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
maiz is an autonomous centre for migrants in Linz. Founded in 1994 with the
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The documenta 12 advisory council presents the netzWERKstatt (netWORKshop)
On Wednesday, the initiative documenta – hier mit uns! (documenta – here with us!), a project organised by the netzWERKstatt in cooperation with the documenta 12 advisory council,
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1 + 1
Donate a free ticket...
...and documenta 12 will pass it on to a social welfare organisation in Kassel.
The documenta 12 advisory board would like to encourage visitors to documenta 12 to purchase an extra ticket in addition to their own, to
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