Lecture/research in the frame of APT (Performing Arts Training programm) 2008

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"Concerning Peace: Utopia or Pantopia? - International Peace Workshop 2008" held from 2 October to 4 October 2008, will take place in the very beginning  of the project and is a cooperation with the International Research Group Transcendental Philosophy/German Idealism of the institute for philosophy, Technische Universität Berlin. The workshop will combine philosophical aswell as artistic statements.

A PROTEST FOR PEACE by Nicky Miller


The work will be a lecture and presentation with a showing of images about ?State Britain? from Mark Wallinger and a short movie.


The art work of Mark Wallinger: "State Britain" is a reconstitution of the display of tireless anti-war activist Brian Haw. For five years, Haw placed placards, flags, messages, quotations, pictures, and newspaper clippings across from the British Parliament, initially to protest the economic sanctions against Iraq, then to denounce the UK's involvement in the Iraq war.
Legislation was adopted in 2005 to restrict such protests within proximity of Parliament, and police dismantled the display. Mark Wallinger, as a witness to the controversy, recreated the display in its entirety for Tate Britain.

How to protest « Peace » (video of Brian Haw)
A video where Brian Haw is protesting clearly about Peace .
His dialogue and his protest where containing some performativ aspects.
Open discussion about the presentation:

• The performativ aspects of the protest
• The reconstitution of an action into Contemporary Art
• Peace and punishment (laws against peace protestation)

Lecture performance, followed by discussion, addressing the video of Brian Haw








Mark Wallinger "State Britain" (Tate Gallery Museum)