Four boats on four rivers on a journey to make new stories and help redefine culture across the continent. The European Pavilion 2024 will be produced by a young artistic collective that includes creatives from Austria, Serbia, Poland and Portugal.
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00:20 It's really exciting.
00:22 We are a young, artist-led movement
00:25 going for less than three years.
00:27 And above all, we are trying to find new ways
00:32 to give artists opportunities, make their work,
00:35 and share it with communities and citizens.
00:39 And this is now our third big public initiative
00:42 that will go live this year.
00:44 And it's fantastic for the whole community
00:46 and for Especial Agora as a whole.
00:49 I think for us, the success lies in the exchange.
00:52 So what we are building right now
00:54 is a framework, almost the infrastructure,
00:57 for dialogue, imagination, and co-creation across Europe.
01:03 These rivers cross 13 countries.
01:05 There will be so many exchanges.
01:07 So what success looks for us is a meaningful constellations
01:11 of imagining what Europe could be,
01:14 something that feels grounded in the different territories,
01:17 where you can start and see the differences and the overlaps
01:20 that different parts of Europe, different communities,
01:23 different centers of power, and different narratives
01:26 all share.
01:27 I think we were really struck by the quality rivers.
01:31 So also thinking not necessarily about--
01:33 We wanted there to be a sense of openness,
01:37 that it was a pavilion that would allow us to ask questions,
01:40 and for something for us to kind of move in and out of.
01:45 And we felt that Especial Agora now
01:50 had brought together the right ingredients to create
01:53 a really great proposal.
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02:03 We hope that there is a certain element of optimism coming out
02:08 of this project, not only looking at the here and now,
02:12 but also looking at imagining what
02:14 could be the future of Europe.
02:16 Beyond all the crisis we are going through,
02:19 what are we actually aspiring to?
02:21 And I often look back at the 1950s.
02:24 There was a lot of hope and optimism.
02:26 And I think we kind of lost it in the last few years.
02:30 And so I'm looking at this project
02:32 also to provide hope and optimism and creativity.
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