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PRESENTATION
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The
project is conceived as a long-term initiative, the goal of which is to
empower contemporary performing arts scene towards critical
(self-)reflection, self-organization and alternative ways of knowledge
production and sharing. It will operate by connecting a local (Paris)
and international scene, communities which are testing their openness,
curiosity and ability to transform themselves on the basis of common
goals and objectives. The following conditions frame the program:
1) it will take place in Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers;
2) involve members and associates of TkH, whose departure will be to
mediate their experience of theoretical activism specific to the
context of ex-Yugoslavia;
3) include collaborators from France, Paris and performance local community and international scene.
The project has a strong background in our previous activities, and can
be considered as an extension of TkH’s theoretical activism, by which
we helped the transformation of the independent scene of performing and
other arts in Belgrade from a “theory-phobic” into a pro-theoretical
one. In terms of activities, HOW TO DO THINGS BY THEORY
will be realized as a research and public program on regular basis,
i.e. involving visibility and participation of the actors from the
local community and of a visiting audience as well. This regularity is
meant to secure a vivid, reliable, albeit not imposing, praxis of
thought-action – the actors may vary but the imperative is that the
practices consistently develop. The program will comprise various
formats of which the most recognizable are: theoretical lectures,
cultural policy discussions, a practice of mobilizing community through
self-organized film screenings, reading groups, publications, research
in documentation mediums, etc. The plan is to include local artists and
theorists as active participants of the platform as much as possible,
so that over the time the role of TkH in the platform would “fade out”,
while the local agency would gradually take over the program. All the
programs should be kept small-scale and low-budget. In that way, they
can have a follow-up in various contexts and under various production
circumstances. The mission of this theoretically activist platform is
not to resolve social problems but to animate the local contemporary
art scene to become more aware of its social context and production
conditions, to re-think its own position, place, practice and discourse
and, above all, to be more active in transforming a feeling of “cannot”
– within the limits or horizons of possibility are – into its own,
self-organized “can”. We are looking for staging scenes of dissensus
(mésentente) in the sense of Jacques Rancière, that will performatively
reconfigure debates and orders of the possible.
Team of the project: Ana Vujanović, Bojana Cvejić, Marta Popivoda, Bojan Djordjev, and Siniša Ilić (TkH collaborators).
Timetable: The project will be realized
over three years (2010-2012), in a few intensive blocks each year.
Between the blocks, we will keep the continuity of the project and help
in maintaining activities by occasional visits to Les Laboratoires, via
internet, etc.
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