Can Creativity Save the World?

The collection is a multiverse of creativity beyond all boundaries. Included are directors such as Steven Spielberg, David Lynch, Christoph Schlingensief, Terry Gilliam, Abel Ferrara and Wim Wenders, musicians such as David Bowie, Björk, Iggy Pop, Blixa Bargeld, Dieter Meier, Nick Cave and Bono, writers such as Günter Grass, Umberto Eco and Michel Houellebecq, artists such as Sputniko! Marina Abramovic, Ai Weiwei, David Hockney, Lu Yang, Jonathan Meese, Georg Baselitz, Julian Schnabel, Tobias Rehberger, Neo Rauch and Rosemarie Trockel, fashion designers such as Vivienne Westwood and Yohji Yamamoto, actresses such as Cate Blanchette, Angelina Jolie, Isabella Rossellini, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Tilda Swinton, actors such as Willem Dafoe, Dennis Hopper, Harvey Keitel and Sean Penn, scientists such as Stephen Hawking and Wolf Singer, architects such as Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Oscar Niemeyer and Frank Gehry, activist such as Luisa Neubauer and Pussy Piot, philosophers such as Slavoj Zizek, Nobel Prize laureate such as Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama.

All contributors have created an artifact for the project, some very personal, others bizarre. Like Giorgio Gosetti, the director of Giornate degli Autori of the Venice Film Festival said: „Why Are We Creative“ is more than a movie.