[spectre] FORMS OF ENGAGEMENT: ART / KNOWLEDGE / POLITICS

[paolo do]

For the 7. Berlin Biennale, the curator Artur Żmijewski has created a  
political space where to explore the effects of art in society and the  
connections with the current social and political situations. In this  
scenario, several actors, institutions and political collectives that  
share this approach have been invited to engage in “solidarity  
actions” in accordance with the theme of the BB7.

In this frame, the Istituto Svizzero di Roma and the Free Metropolitan  
University of Rome are organizing a solidarity action to debate on the  
new forms of interaction between art, knowledge and politics, with the  
aim of giving visibility to a network of organizations acting in  
various countries, in solidarity with each other and with the Biennale.

On March 23 Igor Stokfiszewski (literary critic, editor and  
playwright, member of the 7. Berlin Biennale team) and Salvatore  
Lacagnina (Head of Arts Programming at the ISR), will discuss the  
forms of responsibility and possible intervention of art in the social  
and political realities, through the work of Artur Żmijewski.

On March 24,  The Free Metropolitan University of Rome (LUM) and the  
political collective Krytyka Polityczna will meet at the Istituto  
Svizzero of Rome to discuss about a new political constellation for  
the movements. Starting from the documents “Do the right Thing” by  
LUM and “Globalize the left” by Krytyka Polityczna, we will discuss  
about the multiplicity forms of uprising across Europe exploring their  
constituent capacity, in particular focusing on the co-extensive and  
recursive relationship between tumults and institutions. While social  
movement questions life and form of expression, art and knowledge,  
institutions refer to a “positive model of action” that organizes  
reality developing multiplicity, linking uprising to federal and  
transnational dispositive able to spread power instead of  
concentrating it.

full program here:
http://www.solidarityaction.istitutosvizzero.it/?p=250&lang=en
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LUM (Libera Universita` Metropolitana) is a Free Metropolitan  
University based in the self-managed and autonomous atelier ESC,  
indipendent from the academy, that since 2005 organizes open seminars  
which last one year. Students, researchers, precarious workers, PhD  
students and professors hold free and public discussions leading to  
the organization of an annual seminar. Every year it is focused on  
different issues, such as  transformation of metropolis and its  
gentrification; human nature and political theory; figures of the  
material body in the present; tumults and uprisings; common property  
in the global crisis. The series of seminars is often followed by the  
publication of seminar papers such as Lessico Marxiano  
(ManifestoLibri, 2008) and Le passioni della crisi (ManifestoLibri,  
2010) both available on our website under Creative Common License. www.lumprojects.org 
  - www.escatelier.net

Krytyka Polityczna (The Political Critique) is a Polish left-wing  
intellectual journal founded by Sławomir Sierakowski in 2002. It is  
represented by a group of left-wing Polish intellectuals: Yael Bartana  
(Arts Editor), Magdalena Błędowska, Kinga Dunin, Maciej Gdula, Dorota  
Głażewska, Maciej Kropiwnicki, Julian Kultyła (Vice Editor-in- 
chief), Sławomir Sierakowski (Editor-in-chief), Michał Sutowski  
(Managing Editor), Agata Szczęśniak (Vice Editor-in-chief), Artur  
Żmijewski (Arts Editor) amongst others. It deals with social sciences,  
culture and politics and with how these disciplines produce a visible  
impact on social reality. The journal is media partner of the BB7. www.krytykapolityczna.pl

Igor Stokfiszewski (1979) is a literary critic, editor and playwright.  
He collaborates regularly with Krytyka Polityczna and is member of the  
7. Berlin Biennale team. He studied Polish philology at the University  
of Lodz and at Jagiellonian University. He was editor of the literary  
magazine Ha! art from 2001 until 2006 and is author of the volume  
Political Turn (2009). He has worked as a playwright since 2005 and  
more recently has contributed to Mass, the reconstruction of the rite  
of a Roman Catholic mass, directed by Artur Żmijewski that was  
performed on two consecutive evenings at the Teatr Dramatyczny in  
Warsaw in October 2011. He is co-editor of the Berlin Biennale blog: www.berlinbiennale.de/blog/

Artur Żmijewski (Warsaw, 1966) started working as an artist in the  
90s, when he studied in the sculpture class of Professor Grzegorz  
Kowalski at the Warsaw Art Accademy with Katarzyna Kozyra and Pawel  
Althamer.  His work became known for An Eye for an Eye (1998-2000):  
here Żmijewski worked with a group of physically disabled people. In  
2005 he represented Poland at the 51st Venice Biennale with the film  
Repetition (2005). In 2007 he published a series of interviews with  
artists entitled “Drżące ciała” (Trembling Bodies). He  
collaborates regularly with the Foksal Gallery Foundation and is Art  
Director of the left-wing social-political journal Krytyka Polityczna.  
This collaboration with KP has given him the opportunity to theorize  
on his artistic position through articles such as “Stosowane Sztuki  
Społeczne” (The Applied Social Arts). Published for the first time  
in the journal in 2007, “The Applied Social Arts” provoked a  
growing debate about the question of the necessity of contemporary art  
to have a substantial impact on society. Artur Żmijewski lives and  
works in Berlin and Warsaw.


more info:

http://www.solidarityaction.istitutosvizzero.it/
http://lumproject.org/

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