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Artists bursting into a new world
The year 2020, 2021, 2022… brought to us a moment with no parallel in our recent history. In Europe, citizens of all generations never before faced such a collective challenge, resisting to an invisible enemy and deeply questioning the future of our societies and different dimensions of our previously assured realities. All our social and personal conventions were put to proof and we fed our hopes from what we saw and read in the digital sphere. Artists everywhere were bursting with initiatives to support people to build a new – inner and outer - world beyond the fear.
A global challenge calling out for individual responsibility
People’s behaviour and awareness hits the curved line of humanity’s salvation, although the concept of citizenship was dressed under a call for stillness. The sharing of physical spaces had moments of strict limitations and public spaces were to be avoided. Our homes and windows took on a new dimension and we looked at our neighbours with a different attention.
The dangerous irony faced by Europe
Neighbours next door but also neighbouring countries. Europe, and particularly the European Union, faced a dangerous irony on the dilution of its borders. With efforts focused on combating the coronavirus, the dimension and function of what is the largest community of prosperity, peace and development in the world, was challenged.
Will we be able to reset and turn towards each other, holding uncertainty together in a creative and life-affirming way?
The year 2020, 2021, 2022… brought to us a moment with no parallel in our recent history. In Europe, citizens of all generations never before faced such a collective challenge, resisting to an invisible enemy and deeply questioning the future of our societies and different dimensions of our previously assured realities. All our social and personal conventions were put to proof and we fed our hopes from what we saw and read in the digital sphere. Artists everywhere were bursting with initiatives to support people to build a new – inner and outer - world beyond the fear.
A global challenge calling out for individual responsibility
People’s behaviour and awareness hits the curved line of humanity’s salvation, although the concept of citizenship was dressed under a call for stillness. The sharing of physical spaces had moments of strict limitations and public spaces were to be avoided. Our homes and windows took on a new dimension and we looked at our neighbours with a different attention.
The dangerous irony faced by Europe
Neighbours next door but also neighbouring countries. Europe, and particularly the European Union, faced a dangerous irony on the dilution of its borders. With efforts focused on combating the coronavirus, the dimension and function of what is the largest community of prosperity, peace and development in the world, was challenged.
Will we be able to reset and turn towards each other, holding uncertainty together in a creative and life-affirming way?
This project invites different European cities to bring an artistic perspective, that can be seen and read, about this moment in our history that was lived “at home”.
#EuropeAtHome
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The Motto The Project Join us!
Europe at Home
In 2020 the world stopped, and Europe was no exception. A substantial part of the population closed itself at home. Europe tried to answer to this Covid-19 crisis by adopting unprecedented public protection policies, settling social distance with the recommendation/obligation to keep the largest number of people at home. This decision created an unparalleled situation: our sense of home had to be adapted and the public space could only allure a few people.
#EuropeAtHome
In 2020 the world stopped, and Europe was no exception. A substantial part of the population closed itself at home. Europe tried to answer to this Covid-19 crisis by adopting unprecedented public protection policies, settling social distance with the recommendation/obligation to keep the largest number of people at home. This decision created an unparalleled situation: our sense of home had to be adapted and the public space could only allure a few people.
#EuropeAtHome
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Involving cities in this project
Faro, the capital city of the Algarve in the south of Portugal, invited an initial group of cities, that place culture as one of their main development axis, to decode this particular moment in history through the photos of artists and through the texts of literary authors.
Across Europe countless examples of how culture helped to rethink this reality emerged. One of our first inspirations came from the city of Kaunas (Lithuania) and their photoproject “Quarantine Windows”.
Although many of the cities involved are related to the title of European Capital of Culture, as well as the city of Faro, “Europe at Home” is an open movement that seeks to embrace all European cities and its artists.
Faro, the capital city of the Algarve in the south of Portugal, invited an initial group of cities, that place culture as one of their main development axis, to decode this particular moment in history through the photos of artists and through the texts of literary authors.
Across Europe countless examples of how culture helped to rethink this reality emerged. One of our first inspirations came from the city of Kaunas (Lithuania) and their photoproject “Quarantine Windows”.
Although many of the cities involved are related to the title of European Capital of Culture, as well as the city of Faro, “Europe at Home” is an open movement that seeks to embrace all European cities and its artists.
The Motto The Project Join us!
We want to engage more cities and their artists.
We want to preserve a memory collection of how we lived the pandemic.
We want to decode this particular moment of history of a “Europe at Home”.
We want to preserve a memory collection of how we lived the pandemic.
We want to decode this particular moment of history of a “Europe at Home”.
Citizens of Europe share your experience
This is also a project for all citizens.
We want to invite Europeans to share their experience and vision during this time of emergency.
It’s quite simple to do it!
Just share photos and videos on your social media networks public profile using #EuropeAtHome
Visit this website regularly to check your publication.
This is also a project for all citizens.
We want to invite Europeans to share their experience and vision during this time of emergency.
It’s quite simple to do it!
Just share photos and videos on your social media networks public profile using #EuropeAtHome
Visit this website regularly to check your publication.
