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Baltrum 2021 – Future Lab Young Europe
Because of Corona a whole year later than planned, the second Future Lab Young Europe started on November 1, 2021. 35 young artists from 6 countries lived and worked together for two weeks on the North Sea island of Baltrum. Here, a laboratory space was created for exchange, experimentation and innovation around the theme of “future”.
Photo © Francesca Pignanelli
An artificial intelligence gives a lecture on the (ultimately failed) “human” project. Algorithmically generated music meets human movement. Nature is reborn from the ashes of humanity. – These stories and more tell the results of the second “Future Lab Young Europe” (#FLYE21).
With the Future Lab Young Europe, RRCGN has created an international artistic reflection and experimentation space for young people. The first Future Lab took place in November 2019; it was supposed to go into the second round in 2020, but Covid-19 threw a spanner in the works. So it was all the nicer when on November 1, 2021, we were then able to start an international encounter in Presence again for the first time after two pandemic years!
For two weeks, participants from Cologne, France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain lived and worked together in the BK-Heim, a self-catering house on the edge of a nature reserve on the car-free North Sea island of Baltrum. With the support of the RRCGN team and professional artistic coaches such as Susannah Iheme (Florence), Benjamin Mathieu and Max Aldebert (Lille), Conny Beißler and Jimi Renfro (Cologne), different cinematic and performative works were created in internationally mixed creation groups, which were then screened or performed live in the iJuLa room on November 16, 2021.
Following the international meeting, the results were published online on the RRCGN Instagram page in December 2021 in the form of an Advent calendar; a playlist with all video results is available here.
Baltrum 2021 – Future Lab Young Europe
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Other Baltrum Projects
Statements from Participants
Funding
#FLYE21 is funded by the EU program Erasmus+ Youth and by the City of Cologne. #FLYE21 was awarded a prize in the competition “Europe at home” of the Ministry for Federal and European Affairs and International Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia; the prize money will be used to co-finance the project.
FLYE21 is an RRCGN project with international partners SMouTh Larissa/Greece, Empreinte Lille/France, CCC Florence/Italy, RiO Barcelona/Spain and HoK Rotterdam/Netherlands.
Thanks for the kind support to ESR – Evangelische Schüler*innenarbeit im Rheinland e. V., Weltempfänger Backpacker Hostel & Café Köln, Heavy, Ulrike Stark, Inge Hilbig, Horst Hadler, Daniel Agulla Gonzales and Svenja Fischer.
