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Kick Off Meeting in Berlin

Meeting of organizers and project experts
Revision and adaptation of formats and project activities in response to the war

"Media Storm"
 

The kick-off event in Hamburg was attended by ten representatives of independent Russian media in exile and experts from Germany. It involved a brainstorming session to generate ideas and strategic approaches for collaboration between various media outlets in the current context of the war. Topics included how larger and more experienced media actors can support smaller and regional media projects and initiatives in terms of information and infrastructure, and how they can exchange knowledge with one another in the interest of contributing collectively to the promotion of a more diverse media and opinion landscape.

"Citizens Art Lab"
 

The introductory meeting gathered twenty-five creatives, artists, and activists from Georgia, Armenia, and Germany. It provided a platform for networking, joint analysis, and reflection on the conditions that have fostered nationalist, imperialist, and colonialist attitudes, which have contributed to wars in recent decades. The meeting also facilitated the exchange of personal protest experiences from the last six months of war and the development of joint project ideas and collaborations in the field of protest art, which will continue to be implemented until 2022.

Application process for mentoring and microfunding for joint projects

Mentoring and implementation of project ideas by participants of the Art and Media Labs

Study visit for ten multipliers from the Art and Media Labs to Germany
 

It included participation and presentation of their project results at the "WARning the Cities" conference: November 25-26, organised by CISR e.V. in Berlin.

Exhibition "Feed of War" with public Discussion in Warsaw
 

The exhibition was organised in collaboration with the project "Feed of War" of CISR e.V.'s Polish partner, the association "Ethnographic Laboratory."
The project "Feed of War" was created in the early days of the war in Ukraine, initially with an archival purpose – to preserve these immediate images and attempt to organize them; to search for recurring motifs and narrative patterns.

This quickly proved to be an impossible task, one that was fundamentally less valuable than subjecting these vast collections to various analysis strategies by the project participants. The result was a series of works that critically engage with the phenomenon of the collective mediation of the ongoing war.
With the support of CISR, the works of fifth-year photography students from the Łódź Film School (as part of the activities of the studio led by Witek Orski and Krzysztof Pijarski) were presented to the public and accompanied by a public discussion.