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Structural Violence – When Art meets Politics at Art Laboratory Berlin

by Letizia Binda-Partensky (ICD News Program Director)

During the June Academy Session, the ICD gathered with artist Christian de Lutz at Arts Laboratory Berlin to speak with visual artist, curator and co-founder Christian de Lutz. Artists in Dialog: My Dreams Have Destroyed My Life. Some Thoughts on Pain, held from April 29^th to June 26^th, brings together the neon sculptures, photographs, texts and videos of Al Fadhil and Aissa Deebi. Looking beyond the boundaries of image, language and description, the Palestinian-American and Iraqi-Swiss artists connect arts and politics by sharing the grief surrounding the loss of a brother to national unrest.  Christian de Lutz brings us more insight on the interaction between these two fields.

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