Can art contribute to the cultural memory of a pluralistic society? Can it intervene? Should it? Can it create access to a plural society? Does it have to? What demands are placed on the art and cultural scene, on art and culture and their protagonists? Music and theater scholar and dramaturge Dr. Dr. Daniele Daude, dramaturge Negar Foroughanfar, musicologist Neneh Sowe and writer Karosh Taha will discuss these questions, the social role of literature, theater and music and the responsibility placed on art.

The event is part of the  0+1 | Festivals für Diversität + Komplexität 2024. Together with the workshop Grenzgängerin. Reportage/-literatur als entgrenztes Medium der Öffentlichkeitsgestaltung the panel discussion forms the Intervention Space Art and Academia Dortmund.

Conception and organization by Iuditha Balint (Fritz-Hüser-Institut) and Henning Podulski (SFB 1512). An event organized by the Fritz Hüser Institute for Literature and Culture of the Working World (Dortmund) and the DFG Collaborative Research Centre 1512 “Intervening Arts” at Freie Universität Berlin. In cooperation with the Bildungswerk Vielfalt e. V.