Democracia: 30 años y despues: club désirer 3rd day

Yesterday had been a long day with a lot of visitors at club désirer at Bar 7 Rayos. The first visitors had been the people from Urbano, a cultural centre for homeless people in Montevideo. The centre offers workshops and activities every afternoon like art, theatre, video, literature and more. They were telling us about…

Democracia: 30 años y despues: club désirer 2nd day

Yesterday evening in club désirer: Yamandú, 64, told us: „La democracia es lo principal“ – „Democracy is the essential!“ Leandro, being younger and having not experienced the military dictatorship, tells us about the crisis in 2002 and how it influenced his generation, his life and his family. He quoted us some lines from a song describing…

club désirer in Montevideo Uruguay

When Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre participated in the democratic art weeks in Pfyn in 2011 and 12, we already started to think about a new art project to cooperate between Uruguay and Switzerland. 2015 Uruguay celebrates 30 years of democracy that means as well 30 years since the end of the military dictatorship. Ana Laura Lopez…

Democracia: 30 años y despues: club désirer

Los esperamos de lunes 20 a viernes 24 (4-8pm) en Club Désirer – sede Bar 7 Rayos – para ayudar a los artistas suizos Alex Meszmer y Reto Mueller en su búsqueda de la belleza democrática. Aqui les dejamos los nombres de algunos invitados que vendrán a provocar conversaciones:  Lunes 20, 17.30hs / Ana Laura Lopez…

Some Answers On Twitter

We got some answers for our question whether democracy is beautiful via Twitter (and hope there will be some more): @zeitgarten_ch DIREKTE Demokratie ist wunderschön! Mitbestimmung macht Menschen glücklicher und besser informiert: http://t.co/almBSrWgXv — Lukas Reimann (@lukasreimann) November 17, 2014   @zeitgarten_ch es kommt darauf an wie sie in welchem Rahmen gemalt wird. — Jacqueline…

The First Letter

Today we got our first answer for our request to 111 Swiss politicians, where we can find beauty in democratic processes or whether democracy is beautiful. Unfortunately we can’t read the name – perhaps #followerpower will help us with that!

Please, where can we find democratic beauty?

And is there beauty in democratic processes? are the two questions, we asked 111 Swiss politicians in a letter, waiting for answers now. A bit more than one week after we sent out the first letters, we are still waiting for the first ideas in our mailbox. What will our politicians tell us? or will…