The OMNIBUS for Direct Democracy

The OMNİBUS will be in Istanbul from 21 to 25 October 2009. On 24 October it will stop off at the S.U. Sakıp Sabancı Museum and participate at the exhibition “Joseph Beuys and His Students – Works from the Deutsche Bank Collection”. The organizers, amongst them Johannes Stüttgens, the master student of Joseph Beuys, will be at the exhibition to discuss with the visitors and answer their questions.

“Democracy in Motion” is the leitmotif for an unconventional two-month art project launched at the initiative of the Goethe Institute in Athens, and involving twelve Goethe Institutes from south-eastern Europe, which are now participating in various ways. This fall, the OMNIBUS will embark on a ten-week journey spanning twelve countries in south-eastern Europe (Zagreb, Sarajevo, Skopje, Sofia, Thessalonica, Athens, Istanbul, Bucharest, Belgrade...). In accordance with its concept, the OMNIBUS will provide a venue and a platform for conversations, discussions and various cultural activities. With the support of the European Union, the entire tour is to be recorded by a film team; the journey can be followed virtually on the Internet.

Program
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Sakıp Sabancı Museum
Emirgan
As part of the exhibition “Joseph Beuys and His Students”
Conversation and discussion with museum visitors at the OMNIBUS (10 a.m. to 6 p.m.)
Johannes Stüttgen: Joseph Beuys’s ‘Expanded Concept of Art’, the ‘Social Plastic’ and the Issue of Democracy (4 p.m.)