Digital debate “Freepost”
Arts and politics – a debate

Art may not know any boundaries, but the art world certainly does. So how can curators become better networked – and make a stand for their shared values? Discussing this with you will be the artists and curators Simona Da Pozzo, Gottfried Hattinger and Hajnalka Somogyi. Join the debate – here on goethe.de and on Facebook and Twitter!

Contemporary art in Europe is socially relevant. But how does it shield itself from political appropriation? Joseph Young, sound artist, belit sağ, video artist, and Via Lewandowsky, visual artist, discuss this question with you. Join the debate – here on goethe.de and on Facebook and Twitter!

Unless we actively commit to an open and tolerant society, it will be virtually impossible to contain populist and nationalist tendencies. What each of us can do in everyday life was debated by the journalist Kübra Gümüşay and the political scientist Luis Felipe Miguel.

Liberal democracies are based on values and civil accomplishments. What do these values mean to us today? How can they be translated into societal action, both now and in the future? The publicist Katja Kullmann and the philosopher Srećko Horvat expressed their thoughts on these issues.

Once upon a time there were hopes that the Internet would bring democratization, but today the talk is mainly about fake news and filter bubbles. Has the Internet now squandered away all of its trustworthiness? This will be discussed by the journalists Robert Misik and Antony Loewenstein in the second series of Freepost – together with you! So join in!

Is your place of origin synonymous with your homeland and with your sense of identity? Or is globalization truncating all of our roots? In the first episode of the “Freepost” digital correspondence, the writer Nora Bossong engaged in a debate with the pianist Igor Levit.