AStA der HFBK Hamburg

General Student Assembly

Date: 22.11.2024
Time: 4-8pm
Place:Aula Lerchenfeld

All students from all departments are warmly invited to the General Student Assembly to discuss urgent matters regarding the school and the student body.

HFBK is an institution that presents professionalization and an individualized orientation towards the art market as a normal set of standards, but this also means that a sense of community is often lacking and a competitive, hostile and sometimes unsafe environment has become the norm.

There are hardly any common spaces at hfbk, which are needed in order to organize ourselves as students. For example, in order to address recent issues such as: the timely payment of student workers; ending cooperation with the arms industry; the schools relation to current wars and political events; creating structures against all forms of racial, gender or any other form of discrimination, making the school accessible not only to those who are privileged, but to everyone; and to engage in artistic practices and political projects that counter hegemonic capitalist and neoliberal logics. For these reasons, we believe it is necessary to create spaces to get together and discuss these urgent political issues. AStA therefore invites you to the general student assembly. The assembly will be held mostly in English, but can be translated into other languages if required.

Snacks and drinks will be provided.

All students have the right to vote on motions or can submit agenda items themselves. If you want to do that please get in touch with us until 14.11.

You can also join the assembly part-time if you don’t have time the entire four hours.

Please don’t hesitate to inform us about any needs you might have to be able to access the assembly, we will try to make it work.

AStA will moderate, and we’ll use a list of speakers.

We suggest the following agenda:

[4pm]
-welcome and introduction,
- short recap of AStA’s work last year

[4:30pm]
Current events at the university:
- Airbus sponsorship of the Finkenwerder Art Prize
5pm
- precarity, competitiveness and community at hfbk,
- working conditions for student workers

[~20 minutes break]

[6pm]
Urgent topics:
- the school’s position and student activities on Palestine/Israel,
- antidiscrimminatory structures at hfbk

If you have any questions, please write to asta@hfbk.de.
More info on www.hfbk.de.

We look forward to seeing you,
your AStA

22/11/2024

AStA der
HFBK
Hamburg

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