[ecrea] CFParticipation @ exhibition Are the kids ok?

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Engagierte Wissenschaft e.V. / Scholarship with Commitment, Leipzig, Germany
AG Kids Control
Web: www.engagiertewissenschaft.de
Contact: (kids-control /at/ engagiertewissenschaft.de)
ARE THE KIDS ALRIGHT?

»Everyone can change
 if people who need help will not take it, we will make them.«
(Tony Blair, Respect Action Plan, 2006)

Introduction
Regulating and transforming behaviour has been at 
the centre of New Labours mission for a
better social order. Troublesome youths have 
been identified as the main obstacle to creating
a cohesive and responsible society: Yobs, 
hoodies, kids from hell are common attributions in
the mainstream media to kids who just hang 
around and appear as a nuisance to their
community. According to this perception, 
anti-social behaviour, harassment and disorder are all
around us and make a normal life impossible. A 
moral panic has been created in a society
afraid of its own offspring. Interventions at 
national and municipal levels target the issue,
asserting that the kids can only be alright if 
they are kept under permanent control.
Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) appear to be 
one of the most popular and convenient
tools of regulation in the UK. ASBOs aim at 
streamlining conduct into acceptable behaviour
by banning people from doing certain things or 
from entering defined places. This has not only
resulted in bizarre discussions about what kinds 
of behaviour are perceived as anti-social but also
in a revival of the time-honoured and 
ever-popular practices of anonymous denunciation, public
shaming and banning of youths from entering 
designated areas of their towns. The massive use
of ASBOs by British authorities in order to get 
rid of the problem has been complemented by
diverse techniques of correction, surveillance and dispersal.

The exhibition
Our exhibitions aims are to document 
rationalities and practices of regulating youth behaviour in
urban spaces as well as to explore creative forms 
of appropriation of and resistance to
surveillance and control. Experiences from the UK 
and Germany will be displayed and discussed.
The British Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) 
serves as an example for the transforming
practices of disciplining and punishing (Michel 
Foucault). The exhibition documents positions
and practices, effects of power and struggles 
over meaning of anti-social behaviour. In doing so,
the ASBO is not exclusively conceptualised as an 
instrument of regulation and punishment but
also as a cultural symbol which is appropriated, 
devalued or reinforced by a variety of people.
The ASBO phenomenon has inspired artists, 
targeted youths, entrepreneurs and dedicated
people to deal with everyday surveillance, 
control and the permanent production of fear in a
creative, political or profit-oriented way.

We would like to invite both artists and 
non-artists  any people who feel provoked and inspired
by these new forms of control of urban youth and 
the nuisance of everyday surveillance  to participate
in this exhibition with your contribution in the form of
· documentaries,
· music,
· illustrations,
· collages,
· videos,
· performances,
· installations,
· poems, etc.
The exhibition expressly looks for alternatives 
to the necessities of intervention.
The exhibition is proposed to take place in 
autumn 2008 in Leipzig, Germany, and will be
complemented by a workshop/seminar, exploring 
critical approaches towards regulation of
behaviour in a comparative perspective.
Please send your contribution proposal by 15 March 2008 (extended deadline) to:
(Kids-control /at/ engagiertewissenschaft.de)

The exhibition will be supported by:
BILDUNGSWERK WEITERDENKEN IN DER HEINRICH-BÖLL-STIFTUNG e.V.
(Heinrich Boell Foundation)
Schützengasse 18
01067 Dresden
Germany
Fon ++49-351 / 4943-311
Contact : (info /at/ weiterdenken.de)
web : www.weiterdenken.de

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