Change - an international Art Project - Edinburgh Festival Guide

“Change” seems to be the word for 2009, first thrown into public awareness by the clever advertisers working for president Obamas’ campaign, promising a new, not really graspable but certainly very different future. And difference is better than the same old thing.

Change is different. The difference between things that were, and the things yet to come. It is a word provoking hope and the prospect of ‘something better’, at least in Obamas’ context.
2009 our world is in turmoil. The economical crisis has reached even those countries that always seemed to be immune to an economic collapse like Japan and the United States. Our systems will have to change as states are going bankrupt bailing out their banks and companies. Will we abort capitalism after all? What is the alternative?

Change always means letting go of something old and opening up for the new, 
the unknown. It presupposes a spirit of adventurism and daring.
Change can be painful for it’s unexpectedness and the loss that usually comes prior to the change – the loss of the old, the current.

Artists are generally masters of change. Always reinventing themselves and their work is essential in the development of an artist.
We want to let the artists reinvent the world for us. Change is all it takes.