Lectures, Italy, Bari, 12 March 2012
On March 12th, vessel will begin a series of meetings for Giant Step, a project that investigates the current conditions of cultural and artistic production within institutions, as well as the possibilities of critical practice resulting in institutional change. Giant Step aims to articulate a collective reflection on the contemporary role of the art institution in the current economic, cultural and political climate. The project, initiated in collaboration with Van Abbemuseum | The Netherlands, MOSTYN | Wales and Galeria Labyrint | Poland, will culminate in a cycle of nomad symposia set up by each institution involved.
Reading Group #1 is the first of a series of meetings (talks, reading groups, laboratories), which will allow the communities of artists and cultural producers in the cities involved to become active participants in the articulation of a critical knowledge rather than its mere recipients. vessel is coordinating a group made up of artists, curators and art practitioners based in Apulia that will carry out a research process based on the analysis of case studies in addition to “ethnographic” investigation of various local, national and international institutions. The results of the research will be available on the Giant Step website.
Reading Group #1 will focus on Brian Holmes’ article Extradisciplinary Investigations. Towards a New Critique of Institutions”
http://eipcp.net/transversal/0106/holmes/en
The text examines the historical dimensions of specific phases of institutional critique, critically assessing their successes and failures. It contributes to the contemporary reflection on the possibilities of (institutional) criticism by articulating the “extradisciplinary”, a mobile and subversive position of the critical subject which is able to transverse in a back-and-forth movement heterogeneous disciplines (from art to psychiatry, urban geography and biotechnology) without letting herself caught in any of them.
For further information about Giant Step please visit www.giant-step.org
Further information about the place and the time schedule of the Reading Group #1 will be given on vessel website too
Reading Group #1 is the first of a series of meetings (talks, reading groups, laboratories), which will allow the communities of artists and cultural producers in the cities involved to become active participants in the articulation of a critical knowledge rather than its mere recipients. vessel is coordinating a group made up of artists, curators and art practitioners based in Apulia that will carry out a research process based on the analysis of case studies in addition to “ethnographic” investigation of various local, national and international institutions. The results of the research will be available on the Giant Step website.
Reading Group #1 will focus on Brian Holmes’ article Extradisciplinary Investigations. Towards a New Critique of Institutions”
http://eipcp.net/transversal/0106/holmes/en
The text examines the historical dimensions of specific phases of institutional critique, critically assessing their successes and failures. It contributes to the contemporary reflection on the possibilities of (institutional) criticism by articulating the “extradisciplinary”, a mobile and subversive position of the critical subject which is able to transverse in a back-and-forth movement heterogeneous disciplines (from art to psychiatry, urban geography and biotechnology) without letting herself caught in any of them.
For further information about Giant Step please visit www.giant-step.org
Further information about the place and the time schedule of the Reading Group #1 will be given on vessel website too
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