Monday, 11 September 2006 | Levent OZLER
Views of Peace: Create Images!
Is peace the absence of war - or is it the other way around? Today, war and peace both wear helmets - but in different colors. Even peace researchers mainly broach the issues of war and conflict. At the same time, all over the world, military and police missions, executive rather than legislative measures become a matter of course - special commissions, states of emergency, wars.
War, in this logic, belongs to the realm of pragmatism, the sense of reality and the knowledge of human nature, while peace seems utopian, naive, something for children and others who do not understand the real world. This differentiation has it's highly unpeaceful reasons and interests; it is by no means self-evident. To keep it up in our conceptions and representations is to take part in the war-disposed peacelessness.
How do images, representations, pictures, or signs look that can bestow views of peace with the power to overcome these fixations and reductions? How can producers of images from different fields like design, art, science, and the media, use their expressive powers to develop the political and social impact of views of peace? There are many, too many reasons for this appeal. The question of peace can not be pacified with the absence of war or peace be exploited as a reason for war. The power of images creates realities - our aim is to promote the public discourse with the means of visual representations.
We call for your visual positions on this topic, your views of peace. (Deadline 15.11.2006) This call aims at a public platform for all contributions. We will be in touch with you as to the publication of your contribution.
Ruedi Baur, Clemens Bellut, Vera Kockot, Karin Prätorius, Chris Steurer
Design2context
institute for design research, School of Art and Design Zurich
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