Call for contributions to map artistic/curatorial self-organizations worldwide
OFF-Biennale Budapest, organized for the first
time in 2015, initiates a research on artistic
and curatorial self-organizations currently
active internationally.
The aim of this research is to map best
practices of grassroots contemporary art
initiatives engaged with a democratic and
sustainable mode of operation.
About the OFF-Biennale
Envisioned as a series of exhibitions and events
in and beyond the city of Budapest, the
OFF-Biennale is planned for the period between
April 24 and the end of May 2015. It will be an
occasion for a wide range of actors of the
contemporary art field to consider and test the
potential inherent in self-organization and
network-based collaboration. Besides, it aims to
offer an alternative both to the usual know-how
of contemporary art biennials, as well as to the
dominance of local state-run art infrastructures.
This Biennale endeavors to establish a base for
a sustainable, well-connected independent and
interdependent art scene in Hungary. For the
sake of this cause, OFF-Biennale Budapest
implements a structural model that is based on a
commonality of interest, on voluntary work, on
networking, collaboration, and solidarity. One
of the main objectives of the project is to
produce and present a wide spectrum of
collaborative, DIY, network-based, and
risk-taking art projects that critically address
the emergent possibilities and the set of
problems that result from the recent
conservative/nationalist/populist/anti-democratic
turn in Hungary and beyond.
Call for contributions
OFF-Biennale Budapest in this research aims to
investigate artistic projects, initiatives,
communities, institutions which are organized
from the bottom up, are not exclusively
dependent on state funding, and have an engaged
and reflected relationship with the given social
and political reality.
We endeavor to set the basis for a platform of
knowledge sharing and networking, where various
contemporary art initiatives can meet.
Artistic and curatorial collectives, projects,
initiatives, and organizations are invited to
send information about their activities and
modes of operation which will be collected and
presented in the course of the OFF-Biennale in
the frame of an on-line publication on various
forms of artistic and curatorial
self-organizations.
We are looking for contributors whose working
methodologies correspond to at least some of the
following criteria:
-their activity is engaged with the transforming
the potentials of art/culture and have a strong
mission they represent consistently,
-represent critical approaches towards the
dominant, oppressing political environment and
intend to sustain a critical and engaged
contemporary art scene despite the unwelcoming
atmosphere,
- represent the interest of local communities
with a special emphasis on communities in need,
-their mode of operation is based on
self-organization, and are not exclusively
dependent on state funding and infrastructure,
-have a strong interest in community and network building,
-follow inventive economical models to ensure financial stability.
Please upload information in English about your
activity at the link
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MQLozkukDLbZm_KcFLbo27GZh2xW9HnWclruAq12PG4/viewform>here
till the 15th of March, 2015
Thank you!
The Curatorial team of the OFF-Biennale Budapest:
Nikolett Erss, Anna Juhász, Hajnalka Somogyi,
Tijana Stepanovic, Borbála Szalai, Katalin
Székely, János Szoboszlai
<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Foffbiennale.hu%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNG0mqzBFazF0BgkAqL3H5frYqA8aA>http://offbiennale.hu/
more information: <mailto:ci...@offbiennale.hu>ci...@offbiennale.hu
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