Almost Real - International Working Conference
Utrecht (Netherlands), 12th-14th March 2004

From March 11th to 14th 2004, Love Difference presented its activities, once again opening its borders beyond the Mediterranean, to participate in the international working conference Almost Real, organized by the European Cultural Foundation, held in the Centraal Museum of Utrecht. Almost Real is an "operative international conference to explore new and innovative ideas in the sphere of artistic strategies - in a rapidly changing Europe".
The scheduled events involved artists, researchers, politicians, cultural theoreticians, activists and students; international guests like Okwui Enwezor, artistic director of Documenta 11, Dragan Klaic, president of the European Forum for the Arts and Heritage and Remi Parmentier, political director of Greenpeace, discussed the role of art in social transformation from different points of view, focusing on two main topics: "Participatory Media" and "Rural Interventions" (Cultural interventions in European rural areas).