Series: Nahe genug

Closeness or distance is not a static state but rather a movement, a constant adjustment of distances: Everyday social meshes of family, friendship, community and networks have changed drastically. What, for example, do we define as a professional and what as a work relationship? How do such relationships shape our everyday life? Just as work structures, sense of time or the relationship of sedentariness or mobility change, so too does the relationship of people often shift towards a paradox between pragmatic purposefulness and devoted unselfishness. So what contemporary models, what places, what possibilities or even utopias of closeness and distance are there?

Divided into various themed walks, the “Walking Conference” strolls around the city and art, asking abstract and concrete questions revolving around the topic of “close enough” in talks, lectures and discussions: As a theoretical event that itself reduces and increases distances. Starting with a joint panel discussion to lead into the subject, the event then divides up into six walks with different focal issues, intersecting at audiences with international theorists, and converging again at the end with a final lecture.