FORMS OF ENGAGEMENT: ART / KNOWLEDGE / POLITICS. For the 7. Berlin Biennale, the curator Artur Żmijewski has created a political space where to explore the effects of art in society and the connections with the current social and political situations. In this scenario, several actors, institutions and political collectives that share this approach have been invited to engage in “solidarity actions” in accordance with the theme of the BB7.
In this frame, the Istituto Svizzero di Roma and the Free Metropolitan University of Rome are organizing a solidarity action to debate on the new forms of interaction between art, knowledge and politics, with the aim of giving visibility to a network of organizations acting in various countries, in solidarity with each other and with the Biennale. On March 23 Igor Stokfiszewski (literary critic, editor and playwright, member of the 7. Berlin Biennale team) and Salvatore Lacagnina (Head of Arts Programming at the ISR), will discuss the forms of responsibility and possible intervention of art in the social and political realities, through the work of Artur Żmijewski. On March 24, The Free Metropolitan University of Rome (LUM) and the political collective Krytyka Polityczna will meet at the Istituto Svizzero of Rome to discuss about a new political constellation for the movements. Starting from the documents “Do the right Thing” by LUM and “Globalize the left” by Krytyka Polityczna, we will discuss about the multiplicity forms of uprising across Europe exploring their constituent capacity, in particular focusing on the co-extensive and recursive relationship between tumults and institutions. While social movement questions life and form of expression, art and knowledge, institutions refer to a “positive model of action” that organizes reality developing multiplicity, linking uprising to federal and transnational dispositive able to spread power instead of concentrating it. full program here: http://www.solidarityaction.istitutosvizzero.it/?p=250&lang=en ----- LUM (Libera Universita` Metropolitana) is a Free Metropolitan University based in the self-managed and autonomous atelier ESC, indipendent from the academy, that since 2005 organizes open seminars which last one year. Students, researchers, precarious workers, PhD students and professors hold free and public discussions leading to the organization of an annual seminar. Every year it is focused on different issues, such as transformation of metropolis and its gentrification; human nature and political theory; figures of the material body in the present; tumults and uprisings; common property in the global crisis. The series of seminars is often followed by the publication of seminar papers such as Lessico Marxiano (ManifestoLibri, 2008) and Le passioni della crisi (ManifestoLibri, 2010) both available on our website under Creative Common License. www.lumprojects.org - www.escatelier.net Krytyka Polityczna (The Political Critique) is a Polish left-wing intellectual journal founded by Sławomir Sierakowski in 2002. It is represented by a group of left-wing Polish intellectuals: Yael Bartana (Arts Editor), Magdalena Błędowska, Kinga Dunin, Maciej Gdula, Dorota Głażewska, Maciej Kropiwnicki, Julian Kultyła (Vice Editor-in-chief), Sławomir Sierakowski (Editor-in-chief), Michał Sutowski (Managing Editor), Agata Szczęśniak (Vice Editor-in-chief), Artur Żmijewski (Arts Editor) amongst others. It deals with social sciences, culture and politics and with how these disciplines produce a visible impact on social reality. The journal is media partner of the BB7. www.krytykapolityczna.pl Igor Stokfiszewski (1979) is a literary critic, editor and playwright. He collaborates regularly with Krytyka Polityczna and is member of the 7. Berlin Biennale team. He studied Polish philology at the University of Lodz and at Jagiellonian University. He was editor of the literary magazine Ha! art from 2001 until 2006 and is author of the volume Political Turn (2009). He has worked as a playwright since 2005 and more recently has contributed to Mass, the reconstruction of the rite of a Roman Catholic mass, directed by Artur Żmijewski that was performed on two consecutive evenings at the Teatr Dramatyczny in Warsaw in October 2011. He is co-editor of the Berlin Biennale blog: www.berlinbiennale.de/blog/ Artur Żmijewski (Warsaw, 1966) started working as an artist in the 90s, when he studied in the sculpture class of Professor Grzegorz Kowalski at the Warsaw Art Accademy with Katarzyna Kozyra and Pawel Althamer. His work became known for An Eye for an Eye (1998-2000): here Żmijewski worked with a group of physically disabled people. In 2005 he represented Poland at the 51st Venice Biennale with the film Repetition (2005). In 2007 he published a series of interviews with artists entitled “Drżące ciała” (Trembling Bodies). He collaborates regularly with the Foksal Gallery Foundation and is Art Director of the left-wing social-political journal Krytyka Polityczna. This collaboration with KP has given him the opportunity to theorize on his artistic position through articles such as “Stosowane Sztuki Społeczne” (The Applied Social Arts). Published for the first time in the journal in 2007, “The Applied Social Arts” provoked a growing debate about the question of the necessity of contemporary art to have a substantial impact on society. Artur Żmijewski lives and works in Berlin and Warsaw. more info: http://www.solidarityaction.istitutosvizzero.it/ http://lumproject.org/ -- Other Info: Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997 Also - Furtherfield Gallery& Social Space: http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery About Furtherfield: http://www.furtherfield.org/content/about Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community. http://www.netbehaviour.org http://identi.ca/furtherfield http://twitter.com/furtherfield _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
