Wim Wenders and Mary Zournazi at the ICA - Inventing Peace

Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Wim Wenders comes to the Institute of Contemporary Arts in February to discuss his new book Inventing Peace - written in collaboration with Australian philosopher Mary Zournazi. A joint meditation on how human beings see the world, the book asks whether peace can be achieved in a society trained to look through violence, war and suffering, rather than at it.

Wenders and Zournazi are an unlikely pair whose firm friendship began with a chance meeting after Zournazi heard Wenders giving a radio interview on his interest in the challenges of propagating peace. In this talk they’ll be discussing the ten years’ work which went into making the book, its numerous studies of how war is represented in art from Picasso to Akira Kurosawa, and its passionate arguments for the need to ‘make peace visible in a new way’.

Wenders will also be discussing the two short documentaries films that accompany the book – Invisible Crimes and War in Peace – both shot by Wenders in 2006 in the Democratic Republic of Congo and exclusively available to those who buy the book by means of codes printed inside.