Kultura

KURS

KURS was founded in 2010 and is an organization that examines wider social problems by means of artistic production. KURS acts through various visual forms, primarily through producing murals, illustrations, wall newspapers and video reports. The main aim of KURS is to produce educational and informative content framed by artistic language and presented...
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03.12.2015
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Sofia, Bulgaria
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Sofia Queer Forum

On December 3rd, at 6:00 p.m., the third edition of Sofia Queer Forum opens at the Academy Gallery, the National Academy of Art. This year it goes under the motto “Sweet Union” and is dedicated to the topic of the family. Curator of the current edition of the Forum is Vladiya Mihaylova. Sofia Queer Forum is an initiative of the artist Boryana Rossa...

Centre for the Promotion of Interactive Education and Social Action

Centre for the Promotion of Interactive Education and Social Action (CODA) was established in 2014 as citizens’ association after the successful organisation of the first Open University in Sarajevo in December 2013. CODA aims at gathering local, regional and world well known experts, thinkers and authors, who will contribute towards development of...
07.06.2015
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Sofia, Bulgaria
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Feminism and the Politics of Unpaid Artistic Labor

Silvia Federici and Kathi Weeks
In this workshop the group will discuss two different approaches to the issue of work by feminist scholars, Silvia Federici and Kathi Weeks. Specifically the workshop will explore Federici’s Wages Against Housework (1975) and the third chapter of Kathi Weeks’ book The Problem With Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries (2011...
07.06.2015
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Sofija, Bulgaria
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Wages for Art Workers

Strategies Confronting Unpaid Artistic Labor in Slovenia and USA
Unpaid/low paid artistic labor appears to be a universal trend in the neoliberal political economy, along with an overabundance of art school graduates constituting a ‘reserve army’ for the labor market of the non-profit/non-governmental arts sector. Conventional scholarly research on artistic work as well as cultural policy measures developed by...

BLOK - Local Base for Cultural Refreshment

BLOK - Local Base for Cultural Refreshment is a curatorial collective based in Zagreb, Croatia. BLOK is an organization which engages in interdisciplinary work in art, urbanism, and activism. With continuous activity since 2001, BLOK has conceived and produced projects in public spaces, lectures, exhibitions, long-term research initiatives, and publications...
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Context Collective

Context Collective established in 2007 in Belgrade, Serbia as an autonomous artistic-media organization whose work presents the process of linking critical theory and practice and the fields of art, culture, and media with wider social operations. Context Collective organizes journalism seminars and maintains the web portal MAŠINA which regularly...