ConferenceReshaping the Art World: An Experiment in Collaborative Change-making

Reshaping the Art World: An Experiment in Collaborative Change-making

18:00 to 00:00
Visit to Ateliers Žitnjak @ Ateliers Žitnjak, Žitnjak 53

The artistic organization Ateliers Žitnjak was founded in 2004 by the fellowship of artists, users of the ateliers in the complex of ex-elementary school Žitnjak, a venue under the public ownership of the City of Zagreb, that was re-made into ateliers in 2003.

Artist dinner
10:00 to 13:00
Horizontal Forum Pogon Jedinstvo, Trnjanski nasip bb

4D Catch up session by Reshapers and FARO: Eduardo Bonito, Lala Deheinzelin, Livia Diniz, Isabel Ferreira, Katarina Pavic and Claire Zerhouni.

RESHAPE Prototype
14:30 to 16:30
Trešnjevka Neighborhood, Curatorial Collective BLOK Meeting point @ Student Centre courtyard, Savska cesta 25

Vesna Vuković and Dunja Kučinac will present BLOK's agency and activities in a guided tour through a few chosen locations in the Trešnjevka neighborhood.

Walking Tour
14:30 to 16:30
The Curse of Zagreb’s Central Axis, by Antun Sevšek Meeting point @ King Tomislav statue at King Tomislav square

A mile-long walk from the Zagreb main station towards the river,

Walking Tour
14:30 to 16:00
Governance of the Possible Pogon Jedinstvo, Trnjanski nasip bb

Following the call of the RESHAPE Network to reimagine fairer governance models, the 'autonomous board' (Martin Schick, Helga Baert and Sam Trotman and many other voices) has built a collective proposal for action underpinned by a new paradigm.

RESHAPE Prototype
18:00 to 19:00
RESHAPE - A Workbook to Reimagine the Art World @ Pogon Jedinstvo, Trnjanski nasip bb

The publication "RESHAPE – A Workbook to Reimagine the Art World" documents a series of Prototypes designed by the RESHAPE community of artists and art workers. These prototypes function as proposals reflecting and inciting the transition of the sector towards more equitable and more sustainable ways of working.

Book launch
19:30 to 20:30
Reflections on the Art World, Its Future(s), and Potentialities @ Pogon Jedinstvo, Trnjanski nasip bb

Natalija Majsova in conversation with Davor Mišković. This talk will explore how to reimagine the art world for today and tomorrow as a space of greater solidarity and fairness, and as a sphere intertwined with other realms of human activity.

Conversation
20:30 to 00:00
Dinner
@ Pogon Jedinstvo, Trnjanski nasip bb

14:00 to 16:00
Registration
@ Stara elektrarna, Slomškova 18

14:00 to 16:00
Lunch
@ Stara elektrarna, Slomškova 18

16:00 to 16:30
Welcome drinks
@ Stara elektrarna, Slomškova 18

16:30 to
Conference opening by Tamara Bračič Vidmar and Milica Ilić
@ Stara elektrarna, Slomškova 18

16:30 to 18:30
Alenka Zupančič: The End of Fantasy Versus the Fantasy of the End @ Stara elektrarna, Slomškova 18

This talk will demonstrate how the fantasy of the End as some kind of radical catastrophe serves as a means of not ending anything and of maintaining the status quo.

Lecture
19:00 to 20:30
Dinner
@ Stara elektrarna, Slomškova 18

20:30 to 21:30
FORSALE by Lea Kukovičič @ Stara elektrarna, Slomškova 18

Performance Auction House FORSALE is in its legal nature an auction house, and yet it is a conceptual work of art made by the artist and performance-maker Lea Kukovičič. In "Artist Talk FORSALE", the artistic director of the auction house will reveal the layers of mechanisms and unpack the ideology of the world's first theatre performance auction house.

Artist talk
09:30 to 11:00
Registration
@ Stara elektrarna, Slomškova 18

10:00 to 12:00
A Tarot Deck to Reimagine the Arts @ Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Maistrova 3

This workshop is an opportunity to reflect together on the possible transformations of the practices of our sector. For this, we will use an experimental tool: a set of cards inspired by a tarot deck and created by artists from Europe and the Mediterranean.

RESHAPE Prototype
10:00 to 12:00
4D Evaluation Focus Group @ Sindikalna dvorana, Slomškova 18

by Reshapers and FARO : Eduardo Bonito, Lala Deheinzelin, Livia Diniz, Isabel Ferreira, Katarina Pavic and Claire Zerhouni

RESHAPE Prototype
10:30 to 13:00
Gamified Workshop Toolkit: Values of Solidarity @ Stara elektrarna, Slomškova 18

During this workshop, we will test ‘The Gamified Workshop Toolkit’, a card game specially designed for teams from different cultures, backgrounds, or personal situations, that are just beginning their collaboration.

RESHAPE Prototype
11:00 to 12:30
Governance of the Possible @ Dijaški dom, Kotnikova 4

Following the call of the RESHAPE Network to reimagine fairer governance models, the 'autonomous board' (Martin Schick, Helga Baert and Sam Trotman and many other voices) has built a collective proposal for action underpinned by a new paradigm.

RESHAPE Prototype
11:30 to 13:00
Mobilising Resources for Solidarity: Presenting Art'n'Stay @ Dijaški dom, Kotnikova 4

Art'n'Stay is a platform that allows arts and culture spaces to create a new revenue stream, through the exchange and rental of their unused spaces.

RESHAPE Prototype
13:00 to 14:30
Lunch
@ Stara elektrarna, Slomškova 18

14:30 to 16:30
4D Evaluation Focus Group @ Sindikalna dvorana, Slomškova 18

by Reshapers and FARO : Eduardo Bonito, Lala Deheinzelin, Livia Diniz, Isabel Ferreira, Katarina Pavic and Claire Zerhouni

RESHAPE Prototype
14:30 to 16:30
Reshaping Policies and Arts Support @ Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Maistrova 3

Working session for participants from arts institutions involved in policy-making and arts funding, moderated by Mary Ann DeVlieg and Rarița Zbranca

Workshop
14:30 to 16:30
Three Factories – Three Management Styles / From Electricity, Sugar and Bicycles to Art and Creative Industries? meeting point @ Stara elektrarna, Slomškova 18

Tjaša Pureber, a cultural worker, activist and a researcher of contemporary social and political movements will take you on a tour of three factories – all working factories in former century (or even one before) are now in process of transition or already transformed into spaces for art.

Walking Tour
14:30 to 16:30
Krater meeting point @ Stara elektrarna, Slomškova 18

The walk from Stara elektrarna a bit to North will take us to a fenced constructions site that has been stagnant for year; an emerging production space for transdisciplinary practices, which sprouted from the neglected, crater-resembling construction site near the city center of Ljubljana.

Walking Tour
17:00 to 19:00
The Art of Disobedience @ Stara elektrarna, Slomškova 18

If culture is a set of invisible customs, rules and regulations pertaining to our society, can we view art as a way to question, break and reinvent them? Should artists be a force of disobedience, calling out for changes in the existing order of things? Can an artwork invite its audience to a space of shared concern, and function as an act of disobedience?

Discussion
19:00 to 20:30
Dinner
@ Stara elektrarna, Slomškova 18

20:00 to 21:00
Marko Bulc: First Altruistic Performance @ Stara elektrarna, Slomškova 18

The First Altruistic Performance isbased on the author’s frustration and dissatisfaction with most of the so‑called artivistic projects (including his own), which exploit unfortunate, unjust, illegal, and similar miserable situations of the other and the others for self‑promotion and to strengthen their artistic ego, while being for the most part self‑sufficiently confined within the boundaries of the art system.

Performance
22:00 to 23:00
Marko Bulc: First Altruistic Performance @ Stara elektrarna, Slomškova 18

The First Altruistic Performance isbased on the author’s frustration and dissatisfaction with most of the so‑called artivistic projects (including his own), which exploit unfortunate, unjust, illegal, and similar miserable situations of the other and the others for self‑promotion and to strengthen their artistic ego, while being for the most part self‑sufficiently confined within the boundaries of the art system.

Performance
09:30 to 11:00
Registration
@ Stara elektrarna, Slomškova 18

10:00 to 13:00
4D Evaluation Focus Group @ Sindikalna dvorana, Slomškova 18

by the Reshapers and FARO: Eduardo Bonito, Lala Deheinzelin, Livia Diniz, Isabel Ferreira, Katarina Pavic and Claire Zerhouni

RESHAPE Prototype
10:00 to 12:00
On the Complexities of a Journey: A Conversation on the Virtual Exhibition on Transnational/Postnational Practices @ Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Maistrova 3

In this informal session, you can discuss transnational and postnational artistic practices and discover the virtual exhibition of knowledge(s) curated collaboratively on this topic.

RESHAPE Prototype
10:00 to 13:00
Pop-up Office of the Department of Civil Imagination @ Bunker’s office, Slomškova 7

The DCI agents invite you to join individual conversations where dreaming and imagining are grounds for prefiguring new ways of working in the arts. The DCI is a fictional department that utilises civil imagination as a radical act to reshape realities in poetic, practical and political ways.

RESHAPE Prototype
11:00 to 13:00
The Home and the Suitcase: A Discussion on the Value of Art in the Social Fabric @ Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Maistrova 3

In this session, a group of artists and art workers they will guide us through the challenging journey that they underwent: questioning and mapping the areas of crisis that affect the independent cultural workers and artists, and planting seeds for possible positive futures to grow.

RESHAPE Prototype
11:00 to 13:00
Gamified Workshop Toolkit: Values of Solidarity @ Stara elektrarna, Slomškova 18

During this workshop, we will test ‘The Gamified Workshop Toolkit’, a card game specially designed for teams from different cultures, backgrounds, or personal situations, that are just beginning their collaboration.

RESHAPE Prototype
11:30 to 13:00
Mobilising Resources for Solidarity: Presenting Art'n'Stay @ Dijaški dom, Kotnikova 4

Art'n'Stay is a platform that allows arts and culture spaces to create a new revenue stream, through the exchange and rental of their unused spaces.

RESHAPE Prototype
13:00 to 15:00
Lunch
@ Stara elektrarna, Slomškova 18

14:30 to 16:30
4D Evaluation focus group @ Sindikalna dvorana, Slomškova 18

by the Reshapers and FARO: Eduardo Bonito, Lala Deheinzelin, Livia Diniz, Isabel Ferreira, Katarina Pavic and Claire Zerhouni

RESHAPE Prototype
14:30 to 16:30
Reshaping Policies and Arts Support @ Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Maistrova 3

Working session for participants from arts institutions involved in policy-making and arts funding, moderated by Mary Ann DeVlieg and Rarița Zbranca

Workshop
14:30 to 16:30
Three Factories – Three Management Styles / From Electricity, Sugar and Bicycles to Art and Creative Industries? meeting point @ Stara elektrarna, Slomškova 18

Tjaša Pureber, a cultural worker, activist and a researcher of contemporary social and political movements will take you on a tour of three factories – all working factories in former century (or even one before) are now in process of transition or already transformed into spaces for art.

Walking Tour
14:30 to 16:30
Krater meeting point @ Stara elektrarna, Slomškova 18

The walk from Stara elektrarna a bit to North will take us to a fenced constructions site that has been stagnant for year; an emerging production space for transdisciplinary practices, which sprouted from the neglected, crater-resembling construction site near the city center of Ljubljana.

Walking Tour
17:00 to 19:00
Certain Things Need to Be Said if One is to Avoid Falsifying the Problem. – Decolonisation, Degrowth and Art @ Stara elektrarna, Slomškova 18

During the round table session, we will try to think about the following with our intersectional glasses on: How are decolonisation and degrowth mutually intertwined, and how are they intertwined with the art world, both together and separately? How does the concept and practice of degrowth differ from aspirations for sustainable practices? Where do decolonisation and degrowth intersect in relation to art?

Discussion
20:00 to 22:00
Artist Dinners Information on the locations available at the registration desk

Various artists from Ljubljana will host Reshape crew in their homes.

Artist dinner
10:00 to 19:00
RESHAPE farewell picnic
@ Vipava Valley

Vipava valley is located in the west of Slovenia. Shaped by the sun and the bora wind, has always been known as a wine-growing region. In Vipava valley we will visit The Wine Museum and stroll around Vipava, a picturesque little town. And then we will have a lunch/picnic in a local restaurant Theodosius, surrounded with beautiful nature of Vipava valley.

19:00 to
Beton Ltd.: Hoppla, Wir Leben. The Lost Art of Self‑Resignation @ Stara elektrarna, Slomškova 18

The collective defines the difference between a performance and a per-formation as a deliberate decision to reduce, as a leap into unambiguity, one could even say into gesture.

Performance
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