<div dir="ltr"><div><strong>deadline: Monday, 21 December 2015</strong><br>
Call for entries<br><br></div>"REFUGEE!"<br><div><p><strong>artvideoKoeln</strong> is looking for artvideos dealing with
the topic of “refugees” to take part in an exhibition project to be
realised 2016 and later.</p>
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<p>There are currently more than 60 millions of refugees on the globe,
people who left their home country in order to escape war, persecution
and murder, but also poverty and the lack of any perspectives.</p>
<p>People in Europe speak currently of the “refugee crisis”, as if the
streams of refugees would come by coincidence. In fact, Europe and the
old European colonial superpowers , eg Great Britain and France, and on a
smaller scale Spain and Portgal prepared the fertile soil for all
current conflicts, wars and civil wars in Middle East, Asia and Africa.
When the colonial powers left the stage, after World War II other
imperial powers – like USA and Russia – were replacing them and
continued again the powergames at the expenses of the local people
anywhere. They were feeding the current local Islam dominated powers in
Middle East and their main tool to expand power, the terrorism. In the
current “crisis”, Europe – meanwhile shrinked to an irrelevant local
power – is taking the position of a silent observer with fatal effects. </p>
<p>It is said, the refugee crises would be the biggest since World War
II, but the transmigration of people does not represent a new phenomenon
in the history of human civilization, it is even like that, that the
phenomenon of transmigration was always initiating a new era, a renewal
and an important step forward to a next level of human civilization. </p>
<p>But the open call would like to get down to the human dimensions,
since the refugees are human individuals who are forced to leave their
home countries in order to get shelter, protection and perspectives for
survival elsewhere. Do or did they find the “promissed land” –
temporarily or for sure?</p>
<p>Artists and video makers are invited to submit and spotlight this
human dimension and the diversity of reasons and motivations to become a
refugee.</p><p>More details, regulations and entry form can be found on</p><p>netEX - calls & deadlines - <a href="http://netex.nmartproject.net/?p=6772" target="_blank">http://netex.nmartproject.net/?p=6772</a><br clear="all"></p>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div><div>artvideoKOELN international<br></div><div><a href="http://artvideo.koeln">http://artvideo.koeln</a><br></div><div>artvideokoeln (at) <a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a><br><br></div><div>://self~imaging - a show for Peace - a show for Humanity<br></div><div>artists show face against Intolerance, Racism, Xenophobia and Antisemitism<br></div><div><a href="http://self.enagd.org/2016/">http://self.enagd.org/2016/</a><br><br></div></div>