On February 8 at 19.00 the presentation of the book ‘Tracings Out of Thin Air. Establishing Oppositional Practices and Collaborative Communities in Art and Culture’ will take place at the Youth Educational Centre of the State Hermitage Museum.
The central point of the book ‘Tracings Out of Thin Air’ is to reflect on practices involving collaborative communities in art and culture. For this publication the contributors from Austria, Finland, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, and Switzerland were asked to take into consideration the different histories and experiences of Europe, while reflecting and contesting art-educational participative projects with re- and dis- integrative aims.
The book brings together artists, educators, philosophers, activists and researchers whose work addresses the following issues:
– How communities are built in contemporary art and culture?
– What is the role of institutions, such as contemporary museums and galleries, in opening or suppressing oppositional practices that question normativized art and cultural settings?
– Can participatory community practices generate an ethical relationship with the ‘Other’? Do the conditions of possibility of these practices allow the formation of a space to know/make/collaborate differently?
– To what extent can or should art-educational projects disrupt expected forms of participation and communication of culture?
– How can one subvert a steady normativization and open a transformative perspective for undoing the binary of normality/ abnormality?
Editors:
Marina Gržinić
Alexander Ivanov
Joana Monbaron
Aneta Stojnić
Andreja Rihter
Texts by:
Doris Arztmann/ Eva Egermann (Austria)
Ayman Eckford (Russian Federation)
Marina Gržinić (Slovenia)
Alexander Ivanov/ Joana Monbaron (Russian Federation/ Switzerland)
Mira Kallio-Tavin (Finland)
microsillons (Switzerland)
Aneta Stojnić (Serbia)
Darja Zaviršek (Slovenia)
Drawings by
Alevtina
Kakhidze (Ukraine)
Published by
International Foundation
Forum of Slavic Cultures
Lectures are held within the framework of the educational program of CYFEST-11 INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ART FESTIVAL
Entry is free for those who register online in advance.
