Since two years, Walbrodt is in conversation with Zeev Engelmayer, known as Shoshke. Zeev lives in Israel, Walbrodt in Germany. 2023 they met, first in Israel, then in Germany. They were invited by the German-Israeli Future Network as cocreative artists to work on the program G17 FOR PLURALISM:
Engelmayer and Walbrodt call their cocreation: The Artists Refugee Camp
What art can do? Being creative together! Art is diverse and every artist is unique by definition, because he/she searches for her/his very own creation. Over the history there were always artists, who worked together and cocreated artefacts. In contemporary art this cocreational capacity of artists (and unique positions) has become more explored and experienced. It is the ground for living diversity, together in pluralism. In our work within this program, we want to bring artists together to elaborate more of this ability to cocreate and share our findings to the public. Therefor we want to initiate the Artistic Refugee Camp (ARC) which gives the frame for the cocreational work. We plan to build up ARC in Israel and in Germany. The ARC stands on the one hand for bridging controverse positions and on the other hand for the urgency to create a living together in an artistic way – for the freedom of mankind and the beauty of this planet.
In July 2023 Walbrodt visited Israel, dived into demonstrations und set up the first Artists Refugee Camp together with Zeev, in Tel Aviv. A short report you find here.
On the 2nd of September 2023 the second Artists Refugee Camp took place in Bonn.
June 30th 2024 an Artists Refugee Camp was built at the TONALI Festival in Hamburg.
In September 2024 the ARC ist planed to occur in Oxford.
