Hafez and Goethe


This artistic web project will be publicly launched in Bozar, Brussels on Saturday 29th of September 2012, at 18h.
diwans.org is a living web project that immerses the web user in audio-visual poetry inspired by the poems of Persian poet Hafez and German writer Goethe. The universe of the site reflects an intercultural artistic dialogue and invites you to answer with own sound- and image creations. diwans.org will grow and change as we grow and change, reflecting in a poetic mode how we perceive the relation between different cultures.

Polymorfilms has the pleasure to invite you to the international launch of the participative web project diwans.org.
The project will be launched with a unique live performance taking place on September 29th  at 18h, during the Sufi Night at BOZAR, Brussels.
 
diwans.org is a living web project that immerses the web user in audio-visual poetry inspired by the ‘Diwan’ poems of Persian poet Hafez and German writer Goethe. The universe of the site reflects an intercultural artistic dialogue and invites anyone to answer with own sound- and image creations.
 
This web project is an initiative of filmmaker Laurent Van Lancker and cultural philosopher Marc Colpaert, and is produced by Polymorfilms.
 
diwans.org already features new curated work by Olivier Smolders, Sarah Vanagt, Sepideh Farsi, Kader Abdolah, Brody Neuenschwander, Amir Sahraie, Aline Moens, Anne Penders, Elias Grootaers, Shahidul Alam, Anja Kowalski, Fatoum, Kiosk, Doppel U, Piqu? d?un Faune, Cymin Samawatie, Christian Coppin, Horst Damm, Dalia Neis, Ellen Meiresonne, Marjan Vehdat, Arjang Omrani, Katharina Mommsen, Martin Bidney, Rana Nadji, Walid ben Chickha & Karim Kalonji, Diederick Nuyttens, Susanne Weck, Marc Colpaert and Laurent Van Lancker, ?
and from September 29th at 18h onwards diwans.org is open for all artistic participation !
 
The launch of diwans.org at BOZAR is free. To participate in the full programme of  BOZAR Sufi Night you need a ticket.

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Author: Shahidul Alam

Time Magazine Person of the Year 2018. A photographer, writer, curator and activist, Shahidul Alam obtained a PhD in chemistry before switching to photography. His seminal work “The Struggle for Democracy” contributed to the removal of General Ershad. Former president of the Bangladesh Photographic Society, Alam set up the Drik agency, Chobi Mela festival and Pathshala, South Asian Media Institute, considered one of the finest schools of photography in the world. Shown in MOMA New York, Centre Georges Pompidou, Royal Albert Hall and Tate Modern, Alam has been guest curator of Whitechapel Gallery, Winterthur Gallery and Musee de Quai Branly. His awards include Mother Jones, Shilpakala Award and Lifetime Achievement Award at the Dali International Festival of Photography. Speaker at Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, Oxford and Cambridge universities, TEDx, POPTech and National Geographic, Alam chaired the international jury of the prestigious World Press Photo contest. Honorary Fellow of Royal Photographic Society, Alam is visiting professor of Sunderland University in UK and advisory board member of National Geographic Society. John Morris, the former picture editor of Life Magazine describes his book “My journey as a witness”, (listed in “Best Photo Books of 2011” by American Photo), as “The most important book ever written by a photographer.”

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