31. 8. – 3. 9. 2017
Jaroměř – Josefov
Czech Republic
POLITICS AND AESTHETICS OF THE COMMON:
CULTURAL PERFORMANCES
AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE
International interdisciplinary workshop
POLITICS AND AESTHETICS OF THE COMMON:
CULTURAL PERFORMANCES AND PUBLIC SPHERE
International interdisciplinary workshop
Srdečně zveme studentky a studenty Katedry divadelních a filmových
studií UP k účasti v mezinárodním workshopu POLITICS AND AESTHETICS OF THE
COMMON: CULTURAL PERFORMANCES AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE, který je
spolupořádaný ve spolupráci s Katedrou divadelních studií Masarykovy
univerzity a Ústavem polské kultury Varšavské univerzity, a který se uskuteční 31.
srpna až 3. září v Jaroměři – Josefově.
Účastníci a účastnice si mohou vybrat jeden ze tří tematicky zaměřených
seminářů, které povedou zkušení praktici a teoretici z oblasti umělecké a sociální
akce z Čech a Polska. Podrobný program a přihlašovací formulář naleznete níže.
Práce bude probíhat společně ve třech česko-polských skupinách. Ve
formuláři proto můžete označit preference a ne jedinou volbu. O rozdělení do
skupin rozhodnou organizátoři právě na základě jednotlivých preferencí.
Doprovodné přednášky jsou otevřeny všem.
● Prosíme zájemkyně a zájemce o účast o vyplnění tohoto formuláře do 21.
července.
● Účast je omezená, v případě velkého zájmu organizátoři vyberou na
základě údajů v registračním formuláři.
● Pracovním jazykem je angličtina a požadovaná je jeho znalost na úrovni,
která umožní aktivní účast na seminářích.
● Studující mohou za účast získat 2 kredity v zimním semestru 2017
prostřednictvím předmětu Exkurze.
● Poplatek za účast je 1500 Kč, přičemž katedra část nákladů refunduje
prostřednictvím stipendia.
Veškeré dotazy zodpoví Martin Bernátek (martin.bernatek@upol.cz), 739 989
706.
POLITICS AND AESTHETICS OF THE COMMON:
CULTURAL PERFORMANCES AND PUBLIC SPHERE
International interdisciplinary workshop
Proposed International interdisciplinary workshop is organized by the
Department of Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno in
partnership with the Department of Theatre and Film Studies, Faculty of Arts,
Palacký University Olomouc and Institute of Polish Culture, Faculty of Polish Studies,
University of Warsaw. It is going to take place in Jaroměř - Josefov, East Bohemia,
from the 31st of August to the 3rd of September 2017.
The Workshop will focus on relations between cultural performative actions
and rituals and the public sphere. It brings together students and scholars to inquire
collectively and collaboratively into relations between current cultural, and
political processes in Central Europe, while methods from theatre and
performance studies, cultural studies and anthropology are taken as a starting
point for interdisciplinary exploration of the topic.
More specifically, three mixed Czech and Polish working groups will spend
three days of intensive collaboration to share knowledge of a) “Folk politics,” and
participatory and activist art, b) culture of protest and c) community arts and
alternative social history. All three themes will be introduced by a keynote by an
expert, and reflected upon in final general debate. Besides its educational aspect,
the ambition of the workshop is to strengthen bonds between university students
as well as scholars in Central Europe, to establish a broader platform for
exchanging ideas across the field of cultural studies, social anthropology, and
theatre and performance studies, and to develop innovative concepts to address
their common research challenges.
For further information’s concerning
applications’ submission and deadlines,
or any other details please contact your
Department coordinator:
More information’s about where the
summer school will take place you can
find in the following links:
University of Warsaw
Weronika Parfianowicz-Vertun
(weronika.parfianowicz@gmail.com)
Palacký University Olomouc
Martin Bernátek
(martin.bernatek@upol.cz)
Masaryk University
Lukáš Kubina
(lukas.kubina@mail.muni.cz)
Jaroměř-Josefov
http://www.bastion4josefov.com/
http://www.pevnostjosefov.cz/
The official website of Jaroměř-
Josefov
http://www.jaromer-josefov.cz/en/
WORKING GROUP 1
WHAT WAS THE AESTHETICS OF FOLK-POLITICS?
Seminar: Mgr. Václav Magid, Academic Research Centre of the Academy
of Fine Arts, Prague
The term “folk politics” has been recently introduced by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams to
describe a prevailing leftist tactic at the beginning of the 21st century, with its dominant focus
on direct action, horizontalism and local solutions. While the hegemony of folk politics begun
with the rise of alter-globalism in the nineties, its decline has been represented by the failures
of the Occupy Movement after 2011. The seminar will be based on a hypothesis that most of
participatory and politically engaged art of the last two decades can be placed in the
framework of “folk politics”, which will consequently allow us to apply aspects of its political
criticism to the domains of aesthetics and art. Nevertheless, the large part of the seminar will
be devoted to exploration of competing theories which have been used to conceptualize
participatory and activist art of this era – from Nicolas Bourriaud’s “relational aesthetics”
through Grant Kester’s idea of “dialogical art” up to Claire Bishop’s accentuation of
“dissensus” and antagonism, rooted in philosophy of Jacques Rancière. The ultimate failure
of the promises of the “folk political” participatory art and the consequent turn to the art of
“platforms” will be approached through the analysis of differences between the 7th and the
9th Berlin Biennials.
Literature:
Nick SRNICEK, Alex WILLIAMS, Inventing the Future, 2015
Nicolas BOURRIAUD, Relational Aesthetics, 1998
Grant KESTER, Conversation Pieces, 2004
Claire BISHOP, Artificial Hells, 2012
Jacques RANCIÈRE, The Politics of Aesthetics, 2004
Jacques RANCIÈRE, Dissensus, 2010
A review of 7th Berlin Biennial, TBA
A review of 9th Berlin Biennial, TBA
Lecture: Smells Like Teen Spirit
Mgr. Jan Zálešák, Ph.D, Department of Theoretic Studies and History of Art, Faculty
of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology
The aim of the lecture is to offer a background for Václav Magid’s seminar
entitled What was the Aesthetics of Folk-Politics? It will introduce several “case
studies” – examples of artistic projects that declare the intention to achieve a change
in the social fabric, in the way how politics is done, or how wealth and power are
distributed, ranging from the early 1990s ‘new genre public art’ (Suzanne Lacy) or
‘relational aesthetics’ (Jens Haaning) to recent efforts to re-invent political art (Jonas
Staal).
WORKING GROUP 2
CULTURE OF PROTEST/PROTEST CULTURE
Seminar:
PhDr. Marta Kolářová, Ph.D., Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of
Sciences,
Mgr. et Mgr. Arnošt Novák, Department of Social and Cultural Ecology,
Faculty of Humanities, Charles University
The seminar will focus on study of culture of protest from a sociological,
anthropological and media studies perspectives.
1. One part will present theoretical approaches to protest. What is a protest?
The different kinds of protests. From pressure politics to prefigurative
politics.
2. Second part will deal with methodological approach to study protests. The
students will learn and practically apply qualitative research methods
(participant observation, interviews, media analysis etc.). We will analyze
particular forms of theatricality and media representations of protests, e.g.
counterculture of the 1960s and the alter-globalization movement around
the turn of millennium.
We will discuss following (and other) questions:
Can theater and theatrical forms be significant tactics for the mobilization and
organization of protests?
Is theatrical performance successful? (Analyze under what conditions and compare
with other protest tactics)
Students can bring their own projects and we can discuss them collectively.
Literature:
Dorothea KRAUS. „Theatrical Protest“. In Protest Cultures: A Companion. Edited by Kathrin
Fahlenbrach, Martin Klimke, and Joachim Scharloth. New York: Berghahn, 2016
Marianne MAECKELBERGH. „Doing is believing: Prefiguration as strategic practice in the
alterglobalization movement. “ Social Movement Studies 10(01): 1-20, 2011
WORKING GROUP 3
PUBLIC SPACE AND ALTERNATIVE SOCIAL HISTORY
Seminar: Dr Joanna Kubicka, Institute of Polish Culture, Faculty of
Polish Studies, University of Warsaw
The seminar will focus on participatory practice in public space and it will be
discussed in the context of historical concept of cultural democracy. We will look
through different community-based projects and will practically explore how
community arts and cultural animation define the idea of cultural democracy and
creative collaboration. Participants will get know more about the history of
community arts and about the role of participation in social and cultural
development.
This workshop will also give critical review of methods and tools being used by
community and participatory art for engaging and empowering people. Last part of
the seminar will be devoted to practical exercises - participants will work on their own
ideas of participatory projects for Josefov surroundings.
Tags: culture, democracy, community and participatory arts, empowerment,
creative communities, public space.
Literature:
www.restlessart.com
Art and Social Change. A Critical Reader, ed. Will Bradley, Charles Esche, London 2007
Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts, ed. Keith Knight et al, 2006
Critical Community Practice, ed. Hugh Buthcher et al, 2007
Glenn BUGLASS, Marc WEBSTER, Finding Voices, Making Choices, 2004
Great Art and Culture For Everyone, England City Council, 2013
Francois MATARASSO, Use or Ornament. The Social Impact of Participation in the Art
Lecture: Towards an Alternative Social History: Ethnography, Art, and
Experimentation in Postsocialist Poland
Dr Tomasz Rakowski, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of
History, University of Warsaw
In my presentation I will show how the unnoticed traditions of social selforganization
born in rural Poland may reveal deep conflicts embedded in Polish
society during the last decades. I draw on something that could be called “the
culture of shaming” – a perspective that appears where modernizing discourses on
Polish society are confronted with the cultural experiences of Polish farmers and
villagers. I subsequently explore several possible ways of going beyond this
perspective: turning to the world of rural social subjectivity as it emerges from artistic
and ethnographic projects, investigating the conditions of belonging and the
possibilities of performing an ‘inward turn’, and exploring the potential to construct
an alternative understanding of society – a proto-sociology. In my argument, artistic
projects are linked with ethnography, and above all with the possibility of revealing
an alternative social history, capable of reversing the fixed assumptions about the
contemporary Polish society. The presentation will include a display of film materials.