Public access
Closed
Venue
Dublin, Ireland
Date
11 – 13 June, 2024
(SYMPOSIA: ARTS & SOCIETY 309 Questions and Answers)
Will You Answer? 309 Questions from Europe
The arts cannot change the world but they can change the way we see the world.
In its dramaturgical approach to ULYSSES European Odyssey, ARTS OVER BORDERS created in 2020 a project blueprint with its own schema (directly inspired by Joyce’s two schemas, in which he revealed his sources from Homer’s Odyssey and the human emotions that lie within each of his novel’s 18 episodes). Out of Joyce’s themes, AOB with Brave New World Producties developed a new and potent list of 18 urgent contemporary European issues (see below), one for each episode and city.
Led by these 18 urgent contemporary European issues, each of the UEO city partners coordinate a symposium with their communities to discuss their specific European issue, in which they seek to ‘harvest’ 20-30 (or more) questions and answers of truths in each city across Europe. Representatives from all walks of life are invited to the symposia; questions don’t arise from the cultural industry or academia alone. Will You Answer? 309 Questions from Europe questions and answers are then gathered at three stages across the project’s two year journey for debate and final selection at the UEO Partners’ Gatherings in Paris (February 1-3 2023), Zurich (July 19-21 2023) and Dublin (June 12-14 2024).
Will You Answer? 309 Questions from Europe effectively plays out as a two year elongated conference between the arts and wider society across the length and breadth of Europe – from Oulu to Lisbon, from Istanbul to Derry~Donegal. In its final rendering, a creative writer will be invited to edit the collected 309 questions, inspired by Joyce’s style technique for episode 17, with their multiple creative answers for a published pamphlet to be disseminated across Europe in the autumn of 2024.
As James Joyce said of his own motivation in writing Ulysses, Will You Answer? 309 Questions from Europe is about doing something for the more distant future.
