deschooling.classroom(o^o)

The second day of the regional meeting of the independent scene’s participants, in the period between 1pm-3pm, was dedicated to presentations of the final works of the working groups that functioned during the first two years of the project.

Terms group presented two works: “Ant-jargon – An Emerging Edition”, through “Open Pressroom” installation, and a DVD edition “Video Glossary of the XX c. Art and Theory”, made by Miško Šuvaković.

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The regional meeting of the participants of cultural and artistic scenes, organized as the closing segment of the Deschooling Classroom project, began after Jelena Knežević, the project manager and the producer, had addressed the guests and the participants. She welcomed everybody and presented all the members of the Deschooling Classroom working team.

She also announced the first programme: the presentation of the book “Deschooling Classroom Toolbook”, which was then introduced by the co-authors and editors: Iskra Gešoska, Ana Vujanović and Marta Popivoda. At this point, the audience had already taken the “Deschooling Classroom Toolbook”, and expressed their admiration for its conceptual design, made by Katarina Popović.  

Iskra Gešoska was the first to address the audience, saying that she had mixed feeling at the end of the three year project: „Deschooling Classroom closes, leaving many questions open. We were aware, from the very beginning, that we entered a laboratory project which explored the very bodies that assume the role of taking a critical stand towards context. However, the most complicated, the most exciting and the most excruciating point of the project, was the work distribution between the organizing team and the participants. The project was essentially based on non-hierarchical models and collaboration, but our memory is framed by hierarchical models. During the work, we kept facing the questions: what are the borders within the non-hierarchical, what are the limits of mentorship, who expects what from whom? There was discrepancy between the editorial team and the participants. We seemed to be expected to take a hierarchical position, which, in a way, was interesting. That gave birth to our most valuable lesson. For me, that was the conclusion of how much our consciousness is predetermined by hierarchical structures.”
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Video pojmovnik umetnosti i teorije XX veka je serija od 22 autorske emisije teoretičara umetnosti Miška Šuvakovića u produkciji ART televizije iz Beograda, realizovana i premijerno emitovana 2000/01. godine. Definisanjem, povezivanjem i ukrštanjem termina kroz narativne strukture, vizuelne, video i zvučne primere, i smele teze, ovaj pojmovnik je prvi korak i stimulans u upoznavanju sa burnom istorijom ideja i društvenih promena dvadesetog veka iz perspektve umetnosti i teorije.

Ideja o izdavanju Video pojmovnika umetnosti i teorije XX veka, je nastala u okviru radne grupe ANTIJARGON koja se iz perspektive aktera nezavisne kulturno umetničke scene kroz kritičko kolektivno samoobrazovanja bavi proučavanjem pojmova/termina iz sveta savremene umetničke, teorijske, kulturne i obrazovne prakse. Preispitivanje njihovog porekla, epistemologije i politike sprovodi se u cilju stvaranja ne-podrazumevajuće i ne-kolokvijalne – antižargonske pojmovne platforme kao alatke za dalju praksu. Grupa je pod imenom Termini nastala u okviru projekta Raškolovano znanje (o^o) TkH (Teorije koja Hoda) iz Beograda i Kontrapunka iz Skoplja.

[Radna grupa Antijargon: Anđela Ćirović, Bojan Đorđev, Siniša Ilić, Dragana Jovović, Jelena Knežević, Katarina Popović i Ljiljana Tasić]

Deschooling Video Classroom is a research-based video installation initiated by Marta Popivoda and collectively developed and realized by a group of artists and cultural workers participating in the project Deschooling Classroom by TkH [Walking Theory] – theoretical-artistic platform.

Here you can find documentation of the installation that was commissioned and realized within parallel program of 51st October Salon exhibition.

http://videoclassroom.tkh-generator.net

The work comprises a series of video-interviews that we conducted in the course of the exhibition October Salon with the artists and guests of the exhibition, as well as with the actors of the local cultural-artistic scene. However, the interviewees are here not asked to talk about their artistic work; instead, as prominent actors of the international cultural-artistic scene, they are invited to speak about this scene, and their positions and stakes in it. According to this concern, the thematic framework of the interviews includes the issues of cultural policies and independent scenes and the artivist practices, which tie art and activism, open up the questions of social critique, intellectual property, accessibility of video art, etc. Deschooling Video Classroom is at the same time a part of our research on the independent cultural-artistic scene and on collective self-education procedures, and an artwork that tries to attract public attention to the key issues of today’s art scene structuration.

So far, you can watch the following interviews:
Rosa Barba, visual artist
Tim Etchells, theatre and visual artist, artistic director of the group Forced Entertainment
Julieta Aranda, visual artist and founder of the international platform e-flux
Jelena Vesić, freelance curator, editor of the journal Prelom
Mia David, director of the KCB, editor of the magazine Kvart
Vladimir Palibrk, curator of Elektrika gallery, Pačevo

Coming soon:
Zoran Todorović, visual artist, assistant professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts
Kontekst collective (Vida Knežević & Marko Miletić), curators and cultural workers

Concept: Marta Popivoda
Co-authors: Katarina Petrović, Dragana Zarevska, Marijana Cvetković, Maja Marković, Doplgenger (Boško Prostran, Isidora Ilić), Aneta Stojnić, Nevena Janković, Dragana Jovović, & Marta Popivoda
Collaborators: Marina Lauš, Marija Bejkova, Jasmina Mitkovska, Vladimir Palibrk, Biljana Dimitrova, Ksenija Čočkova, Tamara Bušterska, Vladimir Vidić
Production: Cultural Centre of Belgrade (KCB) & TkH [Walking Theory] platform, 2010

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Serbia License. To view a copy of the license, visit: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/rs/.

Common terms do not always imply common meanings: this cultural reality has become obvious after one year of discussions between members of TkH/Walking Theory and the team of Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, which crystallized during two exchanges between Belgrade and Ile-de-France in January and February 2011. Participants in the De-Schooling Classroom project from Serbia (Belgrade and Novi Sad) and Macedonia (Skopje) and participants in the Re-Hallucinating Contexts in Ile-de-France, both initiated by TkH in order to address “cultural policies” in the “independent performing arts scene”, thus produced a map of comparative denitions of frequently used terms.

The terms were selected and dened by participants in the Re-Hallucinating Contexts workshops from Paris (Virginie Bobin, Sabine Macher, Vanessa Theodoropoulou) and in the De-Schooling Classroom project from Belgrade (Marijana Cvetkovic), Novi Sad (Marina Laus) and Skopje (Tamara Bushtreska, Ksenija Cockova).

Download PDF, you will find the map on the pages 46/47.

http://www.howtodothingsbytheory.info

THE CITY FOR BELGRADE

CULTURAL POLICY GUIDELINES FOR

BELGRADE EUROPEAN

CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2020

This text is the collaborative result of a one‐week program of workshops, talks and discussions organized by Marta Popivoda and Ana Vujanovic from TkH in Belgrade from January 24 to 31, 2011 investigating cultural policies of the independent scene. It gathered participants in the Re‐Hallucinating Contexts workshops from Paris (Virginie Bobin, Delphine Jonas, Sabine Macher, Nathalie Rias, Vanessa Theodoropoulou) and in the De‐Schooling Classroom project from Belgrade (Marijana Cvetkovic, Nevena Jankovic, Dragana Jovovic), Novi Sad (Marina Laus) and Skopje (Tamara Bushtreska, Ksenija Cockova, Biljana Dimitrova, Wiebke Stadler, Jasmina Mitkovska).

Download PDF, you will find the text on the page 43.

http://www.howtodothingsbytheory.info

Publication in process / Izdanje u nastajanju / Издание во создавање

Terms is a group that trough the process of self-education studies terms in the field of contemporary artistic, theoretical, cultural and educational practice from the perspective of practitioners active on the independent cultural scenes of Skopje and Belgrade. The aim of the group work was not to create yet another glossary, vocabulary or lexicon, but rather to establish a relational web of concepts in most frequent use. We either comprehend them differently or are, simply, unaware of the different readings according to one’s assumed theoretical (or ideological) position. Investigating the origin, epistemology and the politics of a term, we come to a non-implied, non-colloquial – anti-jargon term platform. By jargon we imply fast, specialized communication, with implied meaning but is actually completely empty. There is no implied meaning behind used terms, instead they only represent an affiliation to the moment, profession, ideology… This position is not a result of some kind of idealistic search for ‘authentic’, ‘original’ meaning of the word. On the contrary, it is a search to establish the term and the politicality of its use in the contextual, historically-materialistic sense. In addition, our intention is not only to detect and demonstrate the mechanism of jargon or to claim that we are excluded from it. The work on de-jargonisation we also view as affirmation of new terms. The new terms can be subjected to de-jargnisation as a prevention. In this publication we offer the registry as a format for de-jargonisation – it is a simple table that is also one of the algorithms for using this publication. Origin, history, utilization, references and ‘description’ are determined for terms used in this table. ‘Description’ can be a note, artistic statement, a list of other terms, or something close to a lexicon entry. The entries in the table link to texts in the publication and outside of it – and thus create relational network of terms and definitions, virtually unlimited hypertextual structure. Publication is open in content and structure, and its real purpose is achieved if the users – editors/authors/readers – continue to work on it: filling in, adding, reediting and using it. That’s why we leave the registry unfinished, demonstrating the possible ways and formats of its use, and invite you to cooperate with is on making it grow.

Open Printing House

Publication in Process is hardcopy version of a web site designated as an open online registry of terms and notions from the field of contemporary arts. This website is the result of 10 month process of self-education of our working group within Deschooling Classroom Project (o^o). Everyone interested can print their own copy of this publication from the www.antijargon.tkh-generator.net and re-organise it according to their own needs – re-edit it, shorten it or supplement it in a DIY manner, that in this case draws the sign of equal between the traditionally separate roles: user/reader= editor= publisher= author= printer. The print-run of this publication is indeterminate and unknown. It can be printed in an infinite number of copies, and every self-published copy can differ from the other. Through abolished pagination, there is no right order for reading this publication. The texts can be printed on their own or in combination with other texts, and they can also be read as single texts or in combination with other texts in any order. Therefore each text and the notion featured in it are separate units that can be placed within the issue arbitrarily. For easier assembly, within each text the numeration of its folio is kept. The layout is adapted to the printing on regular home or office printers on regular A4 paper. For easier printing and binding all the standard printers’ marks are kept. The easiest way to bind the publication is by perforating on the marked places and binding it in a A5 binder. Texts can also be bound with cord and covers of choice. All readers/editors/printers can design their own covers, and add other tects, empty pages for notes or illustrations of choice to the publication. The first issues will be printed and bound by members of the group terms, within the Open Printing House event, where all the others can see the process of printing and binding and make their own copies of publication on the spot.

http://www.antijargon.tkh-generator.net