News, Italy, Bari, 12 June 2012
Giant Step 1: Enter the Artworld? Marginal Establishments, Cooptation and Resistance
Confirmed speakers: artleaks, Bureau of Melodramatic Studies, Charles Esche, Viktor Misiano, Dan Perjovschi, Francesco Scasciamacchia
Bari, Italy, 12th – 14th of June 2012
Organizer of the conference: vessel
Partners: European Cultural Foundation, Van Abbemuseum, Galeria Labirynt, MOSTYN | Wales, vessel, Politicized Practice Research Group (Loughborough University), The Romanian Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research of Venice
Giant Step is a project organized for the purpose of discovering the place of the institution within contemporary culture. It involves two internationally established institutions, Van Abbemuseum | The Netherlands and MOSTYN | Wales, and two that are less connected to a rigid institutional structure, vessel | Italy and Galeria Labirynt | Poland. The main goal of this project is to establish possible roles that institutions could play in the cultural production of a specific area, in order to respond to the needs of the area itself. Taking into account the current political, economic, and social conditions, Giant Step aims to articulate institutional (ideal) types, which are put into a critical dialogue with existing institutions within the framework of four “nomad symposia”.
The context in which Giant Step 1: Enter the Artworld? Marginal Establishments, Cooptation and Resistance takes place is shaped by the city of Bari and the region of Apulia, Italy. Both have a very strong and well-defined identity connected with their history, traditions and geographic position...
Keep reading at: http://www.vesselartproject.org/2012/04/16/open-call-for-contributions-at-the-first-giant-step-symposium/
Confirmed speakers: artleaks, Bureau of Melodramatic Studies, Charles Esche, Viktor Misiano, Dan Perjovschi, Francesco Scasciamacchia
Bari, Italy, 12th – 14th of June 2012
Organizer of the conference: vessel
Partners: European Cultural Foundation, Van Abbemuseum, Galeria Labirynt, MOSTYN | Wales, vessel, Politicized Practice Research Group (Loughborough University), The Romanian Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research of Venice
Giant Step is a project organized for the purpose of discovering the place of the institution within contemporary culture. It involves two internationally established institutions, Van Abbemuseum | The Netherlands and MOSTYN | Wales, and two that are less connected to a rigid institutional structure, vessel | Italy and Galeria Labirynt | Poland. The main goal of this project is to establish possible roles that institutions could play in the cultural production of a specific area, in order to respond to the needs of the area itself. Taking into account the current political, economic, and social conditions, Giant Step aims to articulate institutional (ideal) types, which are put into a critical dialogue with existing institutions within the framework of four “nomad symposia”.
The context in which Giant Step 1: Enter the Artworld? Marginal Establishments, Cooptation and Resistance takes place is shaped by the city of Bari and the region of Apulia, Italy. Both have a very strong and well-defined identity connected with their history, traditions and geographic position...
Keep reading at: http://www.vesselartproject.org/2012/04/16/open-call-for-contributions-at-the-first-giant-step-symposium/
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