Social Context Channel gathers and shares the work and thoughts of artists, critical thinkers and socially engaged actors who challenge todays's sociopolitical state of things.
Tone Olaf Nielsen and Morten Goll / Curator & Artist
Posted: Mar / 2014
Lecture on "Trampoline House: Building a Refugee Justice Space with Tools from Socio-Politically Engaged Art, Migrant Activism, and the Asylum Reform Movement" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
The Trampoline House is a user-driven refugee justice community center located in Copenhagen, where refugees and other residents of Denmark can meet, share experiences, and work together for a just and humane refugee and asylum policy. Morten Goll, Tone Olaf Nielsen and Joachim Hamou co-established the house in 2010 in collaboration with more than 100 asylum seekers and migration justice activists in reaction to Denmark’s strict immigration law and asylum system.
The center operates as a non-profit, self-organized platform for social interaction, knowledge exchange, and solidarity building across boundaries of privilege, exclusion, and inequality, and offers a series of services and activities intended partly to inform the Danish population about the conditions for refugees living in the Danish asylum centers or underground, and partly to provide refugees and asylum seekers in Denmark with a platform from which to better their situation.
Morten Goll is a socio-politically engaged artist, working with social platforms for political change, based in Copenhagen. He holds an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and an MFA from Otis College of Art and Design.
Tone Olaf Nielsen is a Copenhagen-based independent curator, whose practice is based on a firm belief in the ability of artistic and curatorial work to contribute to social and political transformation. She holds a Cand.Phil. in Art History from the University of Copenhagen and an MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies from UCLA.
Links:
trampolinehouse.dk | mortengoll.org | arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/irn/ | rethinking-nordic-colonialism.org | troublingireland.com | facebook.com/trampolinhuset | facebook.com/groups
Citizens’ Initiative
Interview with Ljubomir Grgurević and Đuro Capor about the initiative “Srđ Je Naš” (Srdj is ours).
Philosopher & Sociologist
Lecture on “Perversion of power" at the Social Context conference at Art Workshop Lazareti in Dubrovnik, May 10 2014
Artist / Director of Art Workshop Lazareti
Interview with Slaven Tolj about Art Workshop Lazareti in Dubrovnik May 2014
Artist
Performance: “Cruising”, at the Social Context conference in Dubrovnik, May 10 2014
Philosopher
Lecture, "Is Spring the Shortest Season?", at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Philosopher & Sociologist
Lecture on "Ignorance and the denial of the possibility of social change" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Ehnologist
Lecture on "Fishermen and ethnologists in the North – the story about how a fishing community tries to avoid being stripped of access to its resources" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Multimedia artist
Performance: "Personal statement", at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Cultural worker
Đuro Capor, from the local organisation “Srđ Je Naš” (Srdj is ours), presenting the initiative and activities of “Srđ Je Naš” at the Social Context conference at Art Workshop Lazareti in Dubrovnik, May 10 2014
Artist
Performance: "Leisure", at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Visual artist, educator and activist
Talk on "An urban walk through the district of Nørrebro - the presence of past struggles?" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Institute for architectural research
By Architects Dinko Peračić and Miranda Veljačić
Lecture on "Platforms – cultural centres of 21st century" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Cultural worker and activist
Lecture on "Tactical networking and the Right to the City" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
