[spectre] Fwd: Call for contributions to map artistic/curatorial self-organizations

[Janos Sugar]

>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 
><https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MQLozkukDLbZm_KcFLbo27GZh2xW9HnWclruAq12PG4/viewform>here 
>till the 15th of March, 2015
>
>
>Thank you!
>
>The Curatorial team of the OFF-Biennale Budapest:
>Nikolett Er‘ss, Anna Juhász, Hajnalka Somogyi, 
>Tijana Stepanovic, Borbála Szalai, Katalin 
>Székely, János Szoboszlai
>
><http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Foffbiennale.hu%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNG0mqzBFazF0BgkAqL3H5frYqA8aA>http://offbiennale.hu/
>more information: <mailto:civil at offbiennale.hu>civil at offbiennale.hu