Making Differences

Venues
The cinema Zita, Elverket/Dramaten, Filmhuset, Göteborgs Internationella Filmfestival, Historiska museet, Judiska Museet, Kulturhuset, Tensta Konsthall.


Program
Art exhibitions /Photography / Installations
Film festival
Theatre / Performances
Talking Differences: seminars, lectures and debates

Making Differences is a series of events, exhibitions, seminars etc. where the focus is to illustrate, artistically, the subjects of the four conferences held in Stockholm International Forum (www.motfolkmord.com).
The title attempts to pose the question: Does it make a difference? Do we make a difference?, and Can art, photography etc make any difference?, in order to engage people in a dialoque about these matters. Many of the shows also illustrate individual people´s work who we believe do make a difference when it comes to open people´s eyes toward a larger understandning, and a broader view of the issues. Art, journalism and documentary has a saying in forming opinions amongst people. Done in a responsible way, art can actually have a value and a meaning beyond being just art itself - it can make people reflect on, and better be prepared, for a discussion and understandning of the events of the world.  

Projects

Documentary Photography
Three of the exhibitions, one by Roland Neveu: "Dawn of a Genocide", and Philip Blenkinsop´s: "The Hmong - The Secret Wars continue", and "Portraits of Resistance", are focusing on documentary photography.

Anti-terrorism Variety
Chen Shaoxiongs' artwork, "Anti-terrorism Variety" revieced a lot of attention for it's humoristic take on the events of September 11. A big screen projection

Contemporary Arab Representations
by curator Catherine David Video installations, photography and documentation projects by the artists Elias Khoury, Yemen/Lebanon Rabih Mroué ,Lebanon Walid Raad, Lebanon Walid Sadek, Lebanon Paola Yacoub, Syria

MAP and THREE
by Amit Goren
MAP, a six channel video installation with individual soundtracks, shown for the first time in a monumental, architectonic format, and the world premiere of THREE, a three- video channel installation, a poetic reflection linked to MAP.

projekt: GOD MADE ME DO IT
by CM von Hausswolff
God Made Me Do It, curated by Carl Michael von Hausswolff with works by Robert Mapplethorpe, Mathias Johansson, William S Burroughs, Annika von Hausswolff, Jan Håfström, Joe Coleman och Max Fredrikson

Faces of Resistance
17/01 - 14/02 - Elverket / Dramaten
Exhibition of photographs by Philip Blenkinsop, England/Australia, from Papua New Guinea, Irian Jaya, East Timor, Ambon, Aceh, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand, Nepal, Borneo, Philippines
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