How is the freedom of art threatened by cancel culture? What can literature tell us about the current crises? And how can artists and cultural practitioners set an example for freedom of art and expression in their works? These and other questions are addressed in the new issue of our humanist magazine diesseits.
From a humanist perspective, we also look at digital art, dance, graffiti and cartoons. What artistic approaches can be found to the topics of climate change, abortion or grassroots democracy? In features and interviews, we present positions and give actors a chance to speak. We focus on the Uwe Johnson Prize and its current winner Jenny Erpenbeck and portray the important artists Heinrich Vogeler and Bertha von Suttner.
“When we think of art, let’s not just think of things whose qualities we attribute artistic relevance to,” writes Ralf Schöppner, Director of the Humanist Academies Germany and Berlin-Brandenburg, in the editorial of the new issue of diesseits: “Let’s think of our relationships and exchanges with ourselves, the world, nature and others, art in the sense of aesthetics, aisthesis, movement of the senses, a simultaneity of moving and being moved, directing sensual attention to something and at the same time already being taken in by it. A specific way of experiencing vitality: aesthetic experience, often obscured by the preoccupations, distractions and worries of everyday life.”
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