There was a deep respect for the rules of society. Laws worked. There were certain norms. Everyone understood that a low voter turnout would threaten the common good.
Representatives of various arts and cultural organizations, curators, artists, and activists from Finland, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Russia, Israel, Egypt, Ukraine and Latvia came together to discuss the benefits and challenges of working outside centres of art and power.
Participants: Josefina Posch, artist and founder of the Snowball Cultural Productions (SE); Åse Løvgren, artist, curator, co-founder and co-director of the platform Rakett (NO); Paula Toppila, curator and executive director of the contemporary art festival IHME (FI); Yulia Bardun, curator, founder and director of the cultural initiative Tranzit (RU); Francisco Camacho, artist (CO / NL); Omer Krieger, artist and artistic director of the festival Under the Mountain New Public Art Festival (IL); Kateryna Radchenko, artist and curator (UA); Dāvis Kaņepe, activist and founder of the “Kaņepes Culture Centre” (LV); Ilya Budraitskis, historian, activist, journalist (RU); Aida Eltorie, curator (EG).