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8/1/2015

Artist Organisations International

Hebbel am Ufer - HAU 1, Berlin

Artist Organisations International (AOI) brings together over 20 organizations, founded by artists, confronting the current crises in politics, economy, education, immigration and ecology. Artist Organisations International explores the current shift from temporary, precarious art projects to long-term structures of engagement built by artists. Which specific artistic values and political potential do such organizations have? How do they perform? And what could their concrete impact be in various political and social agendas?

The economic crises, the global erosion of civil rights and the massive rise of social movements have demanded new models of structural participation from politically engaged artists. The shift from the working model of the project to that of the organisation no longer reduces artistic engagement to the singular figure of the author and expands its scope and influence—for example by seeking larger alliances with or creating new forms of educational and community structures, non-parliamentary groups, liberation movements, unions or even political parties.

While some artists primarily use the concept of an organisation or institution as an artistic form (or perhaps as a metaphor) which serves their artistic vision most properly, for others organisational structures are the necessary means to realize specific political objectives. The invited artist organisations operate as actual organizations—and at the same time they are often works of art themselves or use the possibilities of an artwork by stressing categories such as visual literacy of re-presentation and transformation. They all connect—with different emphasis—symbolic practice and structural effect.

Working collectively has become the paradigm of artistic practice in the last decade. Choosing the form of an organisation is an expression of the longing for more sustainability and resilience, while on the other hand it maintains the performative notion of change and subversion: artist organizations are living organisms that permanently challenge power. Artist Organisations International introduces an array of those strategies as modes of resistance, emancipation and (self-)governance. By seeking new alliances Artist Organisations International aims to contribute to the strengthening of ties and collaboration between different artist organisations worldwide.

Friday 09/01

19.00 – 22.30
Propaganda & Counter-Propaganda
Chaired by Matteo Lucchetti
With Concerned Artists of the Philippines (CAP), Immigrant Movement International (IM), Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland (JRMiP), Zentrum für Politische Schönheit (ZPS)
Respondents: Libia Castro et al

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Saturday 10/01

11.00 – 13.45
Learning & Unlearning
Chaired by Maria Hlavajova
With Artist Association of Azawad, Chto Delat – School of Engaged Art, Büro für Antipropaganda, Performing Arts Forum (PAF)

14.45 – 17.00
State & Statelessness
Chaired by Ekaterina Degot
With Artists of Rojava, Forensic Architecture, The Silent University
Respondents: Alex Karschnia & Urok Shirhan

17.30 – 20.00
Violence & Non-Violence
Chaired by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei
With Gulf Labor, HudRada, International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM), The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination (labofii)
Respondents: Véronique Dudouet & Ulf Aminde

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Sunday 11/01

12.00 – 16.00
Solidarity & Unionising
Chaired by Margarita Tsomou
Grupo Etcétera, Haben und Brauchen, Institute for Human Activities (IHA), Schoon Genoeg!, WochenKlausur
Respondents: Christoph Gurk & Galit Eilat

17.00 – 20.00
Final Debate
Chaired by Charles Esche

HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1)
Stresemannstr. 29
10963 Berlin
Germany

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