In association with other art and music universities, the HGB publicly positions itself on contemporary emancipatory discourses such as #MeToo and #notsurprised and poses the question towards the "freedom of art" and who it actually applies to.
Students, staff and teachers of the HGB enter into an open exchange, discuss the situation at the university and present various contributions and artistic approaches. The aim is to make institutional power structures and their effects visible in general and at the HGB in particular. The aspiration is to create space for criticism of structural inequalities such as sexism, racism, classism, transphobia, anti-semitism and other forms of marginalisation and mechanisms of discrimination and to work together on emancipatory strategies that are aimed to be firmly anchored in everyday university life beyond this day.
A documentation of the Action Days 2018 and 2019 can be found at
www.hgb-leipzig.de/hochschule/gleichstellung and in the HGB library.
Since the HGB is currently closed to guests due to the measures of containing the corona pandemic and is unable to offer any presence-bound events, a website with artistic contributions, forum and blog, which functions as a digital platform, is set up for the Action Day 2020 and will continue to carry the online discussion further.
Link:
https://www.hgb-leipzig.de/wessenfreiheit/ The artistic contributions found their way into the website via an Open Call, which was open until 03 June.
Furthermore there are posters avaliable for download and self-printing. Inspired by the poster campaign "Visual Resistance" of the Muthesius School of Art on Action Day 2019
http://wessenfreiheit.de/visueller-widerstand-plakatwerkstatt-muthesius-kunsthochschule-kiel/ we take the format, expand the statements and carry them further with you into digital and analog realities. You can download the
posters here.
ANALOG: Print them out in DinA4 format and hang them up in places that seem appropriate to you. (as e.g. on your windows, doors, ….)
DIGITAL: Share them in your social networks to link, network, position and show solidarity with the content of #wessenfreiheit
Program:
Videoconference from 12 noon on Webex (*)
12:00 - 13:00
Welcome, reading of the statements from the wessenfreiheit box(**), intro for the newly developed wessenfreiheit website, presentation of the artistic contributions
13:00 - 15:00
[Workshop 1 - emergency kit]
[Workshop 2 - becoming precarious]
[Workshop 3 - Slide your fingers to begin to draw]
