Photomeetings luxembourg 2007
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Photomeetings luxembourg 2007
Centre Culturel de Rencontre Abbaye de Neumunster, Luxembourg
3rd edition. Internationally renowned photographers, photo-artists and lecturers highlight and discuss in workshops, lectures and exhibitions, the significance of the peripheries of urban centres. All events are aimed equally at professional photographers, photography specialists, students, as well as at interested amateurs and photography lovers.
Workshops lectures exhibitions
Within the scope of Luxembourg, capital of culture 2007 with the theme
"Luxembourg and la Grande Région" and under the patronage of Ms Viviane
Reding, EU Commissioner for information society and media, the Galerie
Clairefontaine presents the 3rd edition of the Luxembourg Photo Festival.
The 3rd edition of the festival concentrates entirely on Focus Periphery -
A European Cross-Country Project.
Internationally renowned photographers, photo-artists and lecturers
highlight and discuss, from 18 to 23 June 2007, in workshops, lectures and
exhibitions, the significance of the peripheries of urban centres. This
year, for the first time, European colleges will take part in the
Photomeetings Luxembourg. All events are aimed equally at professional
photographers, photography specialists, students, as well as at interested
amateurs and photography lovers.
Focus: Periphery - A European Cross-Country Project
The new Europe is being decided in the peripheries. The peripheries of the
cities are not any longer the mere appendages of the centres, on the
contrary. Already with the punk of the late 1970s (Sound of the Suburbs),
the transformation of London's East End in the 1990s from the NoGo area to
the hippest place in the urban space of the metropolis, but also with the
unrest in the Parisian satellite towns became obvious, what the art
theoretician Prof. Dr. Michael Glasmeier already wrote in the early
nineties: "Although the 'dormitory town' with its sad block of flats
really looks tired, the denomination is not suitable any longer. The
periphery is awake. It is the centre of the unsolved social problems and
postponed political decisions."
Migrants from all over the world arrive in the peripheries, here the
cultures clash together. There is no doubt: the suitability of the modern
multi-cultural and multi-media society is tested in the peripheries of the
cities. As a cultural melting-pot and social groupings, the periphery also
provides an invisible impetus.
A country like Luxembourg, in particular, is largely dependent on its
peripheries. For its role as a "leader" of la Grande Région, the country
has obtained from its clever and far-sighted "niche politics" of the
financial centre, Luxembourg the country has won over a great part of the
educated "workforce" from the periphery.
In the framework of Photomeetings Luxembourg 2007, highly renowned
international photographers, photo-artists and topic specialists, will
work on the periphery as a social and political focus and as an impetus.
The following colleges participate to the project: the London College of
Communication/England, the Hochschule für Künste Bremen/Germany, the
Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg II, the Akademie Minerva, Groningen/The
Netherlands, and students from Luxembourg.
Followings teachers and lecturer will be available: Peter Bialobrzeski,
Hubertus von Amelunxen, Franco Fontana, Wiebke Leister, Paul Lowe, Andrea
Stultiens, Stéphane Couturier, Klaus Honnef, Christian Caujolle, Denis
Darzacq, Simon Welch...
Opening june 18, 2007
Centre Culturel de Rencontre Abbaye de Neumunster
Luxembourg