Culture as an act of resistance
Three weeks after decisive elections for the political future of the continent, European Lab opens a space for multidisciplinary debate in Cluj-Napoca and gives the floor to cultural actors, activists, artists, journalists and thinkers who commit themselves to draw a common horizon , creative and supportive.
Surrounded by a false liberal and authoritarian alternative, Europe is facing its destiny. The May deadline will certainly reflect this tension that is already apparent in the cultural sector. Instrumentalized by the liberals who abandon it to the vicissitudes of the market and by the identities that shape it according to their nationalistic designs, cultural independence is in danger.
Yet today, more than ever, it is necessary to imagine a common continent-wide destiny, to intellectually and politically arm citizens and to enable us to act and think of alternatives to our political models at the end of the breath. An act of democratic resistance, it is also the kintsugi, the link that unites a Europe today in wandering.
Faced with this alarming double vision, European Lab calls to local and European creative communities as well as to the general public to come to exchange, debate, share, get tools and initiate a citizen remobilization.