Exploring Openness 1: Struggle to Maintain the Infrastructure
The speakers of the first part presented very different types of venues and spaces. Most of them were squatted by civil society initiatives and later became legally recognized by inventing specific...
View ArticleNew hybrid institution: Pogon
Tomislav Medak and Zvonimir Dobrović gave an indepth presentation of the history of Pogon all the way from the Declaration for Independent Culture in 2005. up to the opening of Pogon in 2009. and the...
View ArticleŠuvaković: Art is institutional practice
How do we recognize art? Who could be an artist? What is art practice in society? What is an institution? A building. Infrastructure. No. It is human relations that produce power. Art is not a...
View ArticleExploring Openness 2: Need for Structural Change
The public institutions and NGOs should work together in a more solidary way for initiating a structural change. However, public institutions and and NGO cannot really be partners since they have...
View ArticlePost-Yugoslav Cultural Institutions
In this report, we give a short overview of some of the main ideas expressed at the panel A Comparative View: Cultural Institutions In Post-Yugoslav Transformations. For more details, please listen to...
View ArticleIveković & Milevska: Art and Invisible Labour, Political Critique, Activism…
Departing from the concept of artist as an institution the conversation of Suzana Milevska and Sanja Iveković analyses the role of the artist in the society through the recollection of Sanja’s work....
View ArticleSheikh: Our instituent practices should escape the established modes of...
When thinking about institutions we should not be focusing on set, already instituted ways of sociality, political relations, linguistic codes and imaginaries of possibility, but rather on changing the...
View ArticleExploring Openness 3: Citizens Have the Right to Change Their Own Institutions
The session started and closed with the question on ownership of the institutions. In the case of Riksteatren, the new organizational form started when a theatre director realized the importance of...
View ArticleOpen Institutions: In Search for New Models of Collaboration Between NGOs and...
Workshop and Public Discussion, Ljubljana, 14-15/2/2011 We are happy to announce the workshop and public discussion “Open Institutions: In Search for New Models of Collaboration Between NGOs and Public...
View ArticleFinal Discussion Report
The last session of the conference was structured as an open debate, where the present participants were invited to propose any of the issues they considered most relevant. It opened up more concrete...
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