Medinat Weimar guest appearance in OneState’s Embassy
OneState Embassy in Vienna is pleased to announce the next two events with our special guest Ronen Eidelman from Medinat Weimar!
http://medinatweimar.org/
http://ronen.dvarim.com/
when, where & what:
1. Thursday, 15.10.2009, 18:30 at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (in M1, Grzynic class, Semperdepot)
“Medinat Weimar” – lecture and discussion, free entry.
The lecture is organized by Eduard Freudmann and OneState Embassy in Vienna and is part of the seminar “Platform History Politics” (http://tinyurl.com/ydptw3p).
2. Saturday, 17.10.2009, 10:30 at the OneState’s Embassy, Sieveringerstr. 167, 1190 Vienna
denKarium-breakfast: “How to use art as a safe place for utopian ideas”?
We will offer a nice oriental brunch, children are also wellcome, the embassy has a wide garden and toys!
organized by ritesinstitute – Karin Schneider & Friedemann Derschmidt (www.ritesinstitute.org) and OneState Embassy in Vienna.
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Medinat Weimar is an art project that created a movement to promote the idea of the Jewish state in Thuringia, Germany, with the city of Weimar as its capital. The movements goal is to convince the German people to call the Jews (and anyone else who wants to be one) to gather in Thuringia, a post-industrial area emptying more every year, and found there another Jewish state. One that would not only satisfy the need for a secure Jewish home, appease the Palestinian Israeli conflict, help the German with coming to terms with the past, but would also save Thuringia from its own bleak future. In the lecture Eidelman, the Movements’ secretary, will present the Movement, explain the political and artistic context it was born in, as well as show other art projects he has created in the past that are related to the movement.
Ronen Eidelman is an artist, writer and activist engaged with linking art, culture and grassroots politics. Participated in many exhibitions and festivals, as well as creating independent projects in the public sphere. Born in New York City, grew up in Jerusalem and based in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel, Co-founder and editor of “Ma’arav”
(www.maarav.org.il) leading online art and culture magazine from Israel.
Graduate of the MFA program for “Public Art and New Artistic Strategies’
at Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany, and for more than ten years active in anti-occupation and anti-capitalist activists groups. Ronen likes hats and enjoys wearing many kinds.
Why the project Medinat Weimar to promote the idea of the Jewish state in Thuringia, Germany, when you already have the 36,000 km2 Jewish Autonomous Oblast of Birobidzhan*: The autonomous oblast was established in 1934. It was the result of Joseph Stalin\’s nationality policy, which allowed for the Jewish population of the Soviet Union to receive a territory in which to pursue Yiddish cultural heritage within a socialist framework.According to the 1939 population census, 17,695 Jews lived in the region (16% of the total population). The census of 1959, taken 6 years after Stalin\’s death, revealed that the Jewish population of the JAO declined to 14,269 persons.As of 2002, 2,327 Jews were living in the JAO, while ethnic Russians made up 90% of the population. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast/ *Birobidjan: is a town and the administrative center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia, located on the Trans-Siberian railway and close to the Chinese border and is home of the Birobidzhan Synagogue and the Jewish religious community of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/