Dialogical arts through sustainable communities












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            * Dialogical arts through sustainable communities: Acting on the margins, redefining empow
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            Entanglements of social realities may expose or hide the margins of society. One of the ke

            arts is to elicit dialogue and generate discussion around important societal challenges th
            entangled with, and located at, margins.


            In his well cited interview of 1976, Joseph Beuys maintained that ‘social sculpture’ is ba
            practices, that he described as ‘thinking, speaking and listening with others’ (Harlan, 20
            et al., 1993; Sacks, 2004, p. ix; Thistlewood, 1995). Beuys sought to transform the ways a

            interact with both the wider public and their own audiences.


            Through these ideas of social sculpture, he would set the trend for a more deliberate stra
            socially-engaged practices as artists began to interact with institutions by way of their 
            and approaches (Harlan, 2004). Social sculpture (also re-sculpting or de-sculpting) can be

            consist of an array or collection of multidimensional actions that shape the arts as a veh
            change through dialogue and activism.



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            * Chairs

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            • Conference Chair: Satu Miettinen
            • Academic Chair: Teresa Torres de Eça

            • Program Chairs: Maria Huhmarniemi (artist talks), Paul Wilson (academic presentations), 
              (workshops) and Ângela Saldanha (artistic posters)
            • Exhibition Chair: Raphael Vella

            • Student Volunteer Chair: Amna Qureshi
            • Pre-event Chair: Melanie Sarantou



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            * International Scientific and Art Committee

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            • Satu Miettinen
            • Melanie Sarantou

            • Mirja Hiltunen 
            • Maria Huhmarniemi 
            • Raphael Vella 

            • Valentina Vezzani 
            • Marie Fulkova 
            • Paul Wilson 

            • Teresa Torres de Eça 
            • Roger Blomgren