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27-28 March, Breaking Bad … together. Navigating around disconnectivity and conflict in community art practices

 

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How do artists and practitioners who work in collaborative settings navigate between co-creation and conflict?

In today’s contemporary art practices, many artists take on several parallel roles, such as teachers, organisers, community leaders and facilitators. While terms such as participation, collaboration and co-creation have gained extreme popularity, they are hardly easy roads to take, and they hold great potential for conflict and dis:connectivity among the participating sides.

Unlike the practical or historical knowledge imparted in art education on community art practices, skills in conflict resolution and facilitation are often absent, leaving many practitioners to confront challenges unprepared. Drawing on Chantal Mouffe’s concept of agonistic struggle, which instead of calling for consensus opens a discursive arena, as well as Donna Haraway’s idea staying-with, which recognises our complicity in the current planetary crisis while also working to change it, participants of this workshop will search for a productive and dynamic space in the current socio-political-ethical circumstances.

Through reflecting on personal experiences and broader artistic practices, this symposium poses critical questions. How do artists and cultural workers deal with conflict and dis:connectivity? How can they manage conflict without the need for consensus? What alternative methods of communication can be employed in collaborative settings? By addressing experiences and potential questions as well as knowledge focusing on practice and experience, the participants will seek to reimagine artistic collaboration as a space where tensions become opportunities for recognition and growth.

 

Dates: 27-28 March

Venue: Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, Maria-Theresia-Str. 21, 81675 Munich

Organiser: Işıl Eğrikavuk

You can find the programme here. Please register here by 20 March.