Event
Espace Apollonia – March 4th 2017
Within the framework of E.CITY – BERLIN
The Lunch-Debate was organized at the Apollonia venue around Stephen Wilks’ Table-City, on March 4, 2017. Artists, critics, associations… looked into the question “Migration: What challenge(s) for our European cities?“
Creators are increasingly involved in social and societal issues. That of refugees and migrants is at the heart of our exhibition-event under the title Philoxenia, a modest response to xenophobia, bringing together artists from Berlin, hosted in the Apollonia space from 3 March 2017 to 31 May 2017.
Stephen Wilks presented his Table-Ville, a work made of porcelain, conceived as a place of exchange in the literal and figurative sense. During a meeting, while sharing a meal, the guests will be invited to debate on the question of the Other in our society: welcoming migrants, inclusion/exclusion, xenophobia and its opposite will be at the heart of the discussion.
In the project, we wish to give an important place to associative actors.
Participants :
– Stephen Wilks, artist
– Stefanie Bürkle, artist
– Daniel Seiple, artist
– David Geiss, photographer and journalist
– Anny Kaiser, president of Cimade Alsace-Lorraine
– Nazih Kussaibi, president of the Alsace-Syria association
– Mickael Kuhn, activities coordinator at Alsace Terre d’Accueil (Alsace Shelter Land Association)
– Jacques Gratecos, president of the ADIR (Association for the Defence of the Interests of the Robertsau)
– Stéphanie Alves, social worker
– Murat Bozkurt, clinical psychologist at Parole sans Frontière
– Léa Fournier, artist intervening at Parole sans Frontière
– Hassan Aji, participant in the Making Waves project
– Anke Vrijs, artist
– Hanna Jarada, participant in the Making Waves project
– Anne Bulliot, teacher at the European Ceramic Arts Institute
– Camille Schpilberg, teacher at the European Ceramic Arts Institute
– François Barthelmé, inhabitant of the Robertsau district
– Table et Culture Association
– Hervé Levy, moderator
– Dimitri Konstantinidis, director of Apollonia