[artinfo] Call for contributions to map artistic/curatorial self-organizations worldwide

[Fruzsina Kigyós]

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 here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MQLozkukDLbZm_KcFLbo27GZh2xW9HnWclruAq12PG4/viewform>
till the 15th of March, 2015

http://offbiennale.hu/
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more information: civil at offbiennale.hu