House of World Cultures
  John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
  D-10557 Berlin, Germany
  http://www.hkw.de/

  Between October 9 - 30, Documenta11 and the House of World Culturs,
  Berlin in association with the DAAD, the German Academic Exchange
  Service, will inaugurate an international symposium: Democracy Unrealized
  in Berlin that will bring to conclusion the series which opened in Vienna
  March 15. Democracy Unrealized is the first in a five-part series of public
  debates, symposia, film presentations, lectures, and art exhibition organized
  within the framework of Documenta11 in Kassel, Germany.
 

  About the Platforms

  The present symposium continues Documenta11’s yearlong series of
  public debates and informal presentations in six key cities around the
  world. The intention of these platfroms is to bring the important artistic field
  to which Documenta11 belongs in dialogue with other fields and cities. The
  1st part of Democracy Unrealized in Vienne (March 15 – April 23, 2001)
  presented lectures of about 20 international speakers. The second platform
  Experiments with Truth: Transitional Justice and the Processes of Truth and
  Reconciliation (New Delhi, May 7 – 20) was twofold: for the conference
  about 30 participants: historians, legal scholars, film makers, visual artists,
  psychoanalysts, curators, anthropologists, art historians and theater makers
  presented papers. The conference was accompanied by a video and film
  program of 35 films by 26 directors. All the proceedings of the two
  platforms are fully documented and are available as videos on our website.

  The locus of Documenta11 is one of debate and contestation in which a
  constellation of theoretical ideas cross with praxis. Planned as intellectually
  rigorous and methodologically adventurous, the culmination of the
  platforms as an exhibition unfolds the complex vicissitudes that shape the
  Documenta11 exhibition when it opens on June 8, 2002.

  The platforms can be understood then as constellations that open up a
  critical review of processes of a range of knowledge production. Equally,
  these platforms perform a second operation in that they allow
  Documenta11 the opportunity to render transparent the dimension of its
  intellectual interest and curatorial research. Hence the entire conceptual
  orientation of the exhibition is decidedly interdisciplinary, connecting a wide
  range of scholars, philosophers, artists, and filmmakers, institutions, cities,
  and audiences. 
  The locus of Documenta11 is one of debate and contestation, intellectually
  rigorous; methodologically adventurous more than any exhibition of
  contemporary art.