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DOcumenTA11 WORLD exhiBiTiOns

contemporary Art, the house
of World cultures and the
German Academic exchange
service DAAD, Berlin, the
prince claus Fund for culture
and Development, the hague,
the india habitat center, new
Delhi, cODesRiA (council for the
Development of social science
Research in Africa), Dakar,
and the Goethe institute inter
nationes, munich and Lagos.

The first platform, Democracy
unrealized took place in Vienna,
Austria, from march 15 to
April 20, 2001. it continued
from October 9 to October
30, 2001, in Berlin, Germany.
platform2, experiments with
Truth: Transitional justice and
The processes of Truth and
documenta11 Reconciliation, took place in new
ravi agarWal, new delhi, india Delhi, india, from may 7 to may
slum Dwellers in front of skyscraper, Gujarat,
21, 2001, and consisted of five
india, 1999
days of public panel discussions,
color print on archival paper
40 x 60 cm lectures, and debates and a video
program that included over 30
documentaries and fiction films.
The third platform, créolité
and creolization, was held on
the West indian island of st.
Lucia in the caribbean between
january 12 and january 16,
2002. platform4, held in Lagos
from march 15 to march 21,
2002, under siege: Four African
cities, Freetown, johannesburg,
kinshasa, Lagos, engaged the
current state of affairs of fast-
growing African urban centers
in a public symposium, along
with a workshop, “urban
processes in Africa,” organized
in collaboration with cODesRiA.
Over the course of one year,
more than 80 international
participants across many
disciplines-philosophers, writers,
artists, architects, political
documenta11
nari Ward, neW York, usA activists, lawyers, scholars,
strange Roots, 1999 and other cultural practitioners
installation view – project Row houses, contributed to the evolving,
houston Tx, 2000
photos, roofing membrane, carts, advertising dynamic public sphere that
circulars, tree branches spelled out Documenta11’s
Work destroyed by artist
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