Category: Museum of the Commons

Gathering into the Maelstrom, Museum of the Commons

GATHERING INTO THE MAELSTROM | Platform, Action, Exhibition

Curated by Institute of Radical Imagination & Sale Docks

in the framework of L’internationale EU project Museum of the Commons

location Sale Docks, (Magazzini del Sale), Dorsoduro 265, 30123, Venice. All events are free entrance.

PROGRAM

Gathering into the Maelstrom in Venice at Sale Docks is a four-days program curated by Institute of Radical Imagination (IRI) and Sale Docks in the framework of Museum of the Commons, a cooperation project by L’Internationale a European confederation of museums, arts organizations and universities.

Our world is warming up causing immense turbulence: the historical moment we are living in is a frightening vortex. War is at the center of the vortex, a black hole from which we can no longer escape. Gaza represents a point of no return in history, claiming for the end of colonial processes that have been going on for centuries. Capitalist extractivism has brought the planet to the brink of collapse, causing energy crisis, massive migratory processes, and a fascist and xenophobic crisis in those communities on the belief they have some form of privilege.

It is within this maelstrom that Institute of Radical Imagination and Sale Docks launched back in 2021 the Art For Radical Ecologies Platform, an international community of artists, academics, and art workers who came together and wrote a manifesto by engaging in discussions with eco-activists from around the world and participating in struggles.

Since the moment of its foundation the Institute of Radical Imagination has tried to offer itself as a platform for those forms of resistance, and to think about their possible intersections with art. The same goes for Sale Docks, a space that was occupied in Venice in 2007 and that has, since then, become a reference for international art workers’ struggles and local activist groups, having developed an institutional model alternative to the typical neoliberal art institution and its links to mass tourism and toxic philanthropy. 

The Gathering into the Maelstrom –  from 17th to 20th of April in Venice at Sale Docks Dorsoduro 265 – is an invitation to learn to inhabit this vortex, rooting artistic production in ecological struggles, and transforming the field of contemporary art into a political territory. To generate a Museum of the Commons we can not avoid questioning the toxicity that permeates institutions and, at the same time, building non-capitalistic, non-colonial, non-patriarchal, and non-anthropocentric alliances.
Opening on Wednesday 17th, the first three days of the program present talks by representatives of decolonial thought like François Vergès and Yazan Khalili, screenings of  films by Oliver Ressler, the launching of Art for Radical Ecologies Manifesto book, Museum of the Commons Climate Assembly, and an exhibition of props realized in a workshop with Taring Padi, IRI and Powernotte. The fourth day features an action on the water in collaboration with Comitato No Grandi Navi (the local Committee Against Big Cruise Ships). The goal of the action is to temporarily occupy an island in an area where Cruise Ships transit and dock, posing a serious threat to the fragile ecosystem of the Lagoon and to a city like Venice already overwhelmed by mass tourism.

Gathering Into The Maelstrom is part of EU project Museum of The Commons internationaleonline.org

Co-Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

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RED GREEN, BLACK AND WHITE | Performance

English | Croatian | Italian

RED GREEN, BLACK AND WHITE

a performative inquiry by Institut of Radical Imagination and MSU Zagreb in the framework of L’internationale EU project Museum of the Commons

MZU Zagreb, Sunday January 21st 2024 at 4pm

idea, dramaturgy, direction : Emanuele Braga, Gabriella Riccio  (Institute of Radical Imagination) & Anna Rispoli

based on an concept by Anna Rispoli

interviews, text : Emanuele Braga, Gabriella Riccio, Marco Baravalle (Institute of Radical Imagination) & Anna Rispoli + 13 inhabitants of Zagreb 

with the participation of : Hrvoje Laurenta, Farzaneh Sourighiasvand, Marko Pogačar, Leonarda Šmigmator, Matko Radić, Luka Tomac, Hana Matović, Azra Svedružić, Mirjana Vidaković, Hana Sirovica, Jelena Androić, Ana Škegro, Petra Matić, Emanuele Braga, Gabriella Riccio, Anna Rispoli and Inicijativa za slobodnu Palestinu / Free Palestine Initiative Croatia

Production Institute of Radical Imagination

Co-production MSU Zagreb

Duration: ca. 60’

Language: Croatian

Date: Sunday 21tst Jan at 4pm

Koncept, dramaturgija, režija: Emanuele Braga, Gabriella Riccio (Institut za radikalnu imaginaciju) i Anna Rispoli

Bazirano na ideji Anne Rispoli

Intervjui i tekst: Emanuele Braga, Gabriella Riccio, Marco Baravalle (Institut za radikalnu imaginaciju) i Anna Rispoli uz 13 građana Zagreba

Sudjeluju: Hrvoje Laurenta, Farzaneh Sourighiasvand, Marko Pogačar, Leonarda Šmigmator, Matko Radić, Luka Tomac, Hana Matović, Azra Svedružić, Mirjana Vidaković, Hana Sirovica, Jelena Androić, Ana Škegro, Petra Matić, Emanuele Braga, Gabriella Riccio, Anna Rispoli i Inicijativa za slobodnu Palestinu

Produkcija: Institut za radikalnu imaginaciju (Institute of Radical Imagination)

Koprodukcija: MSU Zagreb

Trajanje izvedbe: 60’

Tekst: hrvatski

based in Art for Radical Ecologies Manifesto

RED GREEN, BLACK & WHITE. Fifth of a series of performed militant inquiries Red Green, Black and White is based on the interviews of 13 citizens and activists for social and climate justice. Zooming dizzily between the urban dimension of Zagreb and the global geo-political one, the work finds the words to touch on the hot spots of ethical, ecological and political responsibility today. Because it is no longer possible to remain silent without becoming complicit.

temelji se na Manifest Umjetnosti za radikalne ekologije

CVRENO ZELENO, CRNO I BIJELO. Peto u nizu provedenih aktivističkih istraživanja Instituta za radikalnu imaginaciju, „Crveno, zeleno, crno i bijelo“ temelji se na intervjuima trinaest građana i aktivista za društvenu i klimatsku pravdu. Intenzivno se fokusirajući kako na urbani Zagreb, tako i na širi kontekst globalne geopolitike, rad pronalazi riječi kojima dotiče žarišta etičke, ekološke i političke odgovornosti danas. Jer svaka daljnja šutnja postaje suučesništvo. Ovaj program dio je projekta Museum of the Commons, u sklopu Internacionale, saveza 14 europskih muzeja i drugih kulturnih institucija za suvremenu umjetnost, a održat će se u nedjelju, 21. siječnja s početkom u 16 sati u predvorju MSU-a.

basato su Art for Radical Ecologies Manifesto

ROSSO VERDE, BIANCO & NERO. Quinto di una serie di inchieste militanti Red Green, Black and White si basa sulle interviste di 13 cittadini e attivisti per la giustizia sociale e climatica. Zoomando vertiginosamente tra la dimensione urbana di Zagabria e quella geopolitica globale, il lavoro trova le parole per toccare i punti caldi della responsabilità etica, ecologica e politica oggi. Perché non è più possibile tacere senza diventare complici.

Photos courtesy of Gabriella Riccio, Emanuele Braga, Marija Tereza Murina 

Museum of the Commons

MUSEUM OF THE COMMONS

Italiano | English

Institute of Radical Imagination (IRI) joins L’Internationale confederation and presents the new project “Museum of the Commons”. The fourth European cooperative project led by L’Internationale, will be focusing on the themes of climate, translocal cooperation, and artistic strategies of healing and repair.

As the confederation’s latest project, “Museum of the Commons” responds to current social and cultural emergencies, Russia’s war against Ukraine and the earthquake along Turkish border, both countries in which we have partners.

L’Internationale, the confederation of major European museums, art institutions, research centres and think-tanks, takes its name from the workers’ anthem calling for an equitable democratic society, and references the historical labour movement. In learning from local and shared histories, L’Internationale focuses on what is to come, in imagining, developing and implementing new visions for a future that will be just, democratic and sustainable for everyone, planetwide.

Over the coming four years, L’Internationale will implement Museum of the Commons (2023–2026), a project granted €2,000,000 by the EU Creative Europe programme. During this period, the confederation will comprise 14 institutions: Museo Reina Sofía (Spain), MACBA (Spain), M HKA (Belgium), MSN (Poland), Salt (Turkey), Van Abbemuseum (the Netherlands), MSU (Croatia), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Germany), HDK-Valand (Sweden), NCAD (Ireland), ZRC SAZU (Slovenia), Institute for Radical Imagination (Italy), Tranzit.ro (Romania), the Visual Culture Research Center (Ukraine), and two associate partners, IMMA (Ireland) and WIELS (Belgium), along with the L’Internationale Association.


Museum of the Commons weaves together three transversal thematic threads corresponding to key challenges contemporary societies are facing: 1) Climate; 2) Situated Organisations; and 3) Past in the Present. The Climate thread tackles issues of the current planetary climate crisis, the sustainability of institutional, artistic and cultural practices and processes, and the urgency of transforming more ecologically our politics, societies, cultures and ways of life. The Situated Organisations thread queries the role of museums and art organisations as actors in complex social networks and ecosystems, to seek new ways of democratising institutions and to render them more open, inclusive and useful. The final thread, Past in the Present, focuses on the crucial roles our local and shared histories hold in constituting contemporary identities, politics, societies and cultures, investigating the persistence and long-lasting impact of historical and current environmental and colonial violence, including Russia’s war against Ukraine and the crisis along the Turkish-Syrian border. In doing so, the confederation seeks to mobilise art and culture as strategic tools in processes of healing, reconstruction and repair of damage that has been inflicted.

These thematic threads will guide the content of L’Internationale activities, from exhibitions to nomadic schools, artist residencies and community workshops. They explore contemporary models of sustainable cultural production and propose frameworks for new forms of cultural co-creation, contributing to environmental, social and artistic transformation. The confederation undertakes multiple actions in directly supporting artists, culture workers and refugees living with the impact of global conflicts, while supporting international solidarity among European institutions and contributing to the future recovery of the cultural sector and of society at large.

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L’Internationale partners: Museo Reina Sofía (Spain), MACBA (Spain), M HKA (Belgium), MSN (Poland), Salt (Istanbul, Turkey), Van Abbemuseum (the Netherlands), MSU (Croatia), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Germany), HDK-Valand (Sweden), NCAD (Ireland), ZRC SAZU (Slovenia), Institute for Radical Imagination (Italy), Tranzit.ro (Romania), Visual Culture Research Center (Ukraine).

Asocciated partners: IMMA (Ireland), WIELS (Belgium)

Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.   

L’INTERNATIONALE PARTNERS

MSN (Poland)
Museo Reina Sofía (Spain)
MACBA (Spain)
M HKA (Belgium)
Salt (Turkey)
Van Abbemuseum (the Netherlands)
MSU (Croatia)
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Germany)
HDK-Valand (Sweden)
NCAD (Ireland)
ZRC SAZU (Slovenia)
Institute for Radical Imagination (Italy)
Tranzit.ro (Romania)
Visual Culture Research Center (Ukraine)

ASSOCIATE PARTNERS

IMMA (Ireland)
WIELS (Belgium)
L’Internationale Association

WWW

www.internationaleonline.org

CO-FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION

Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

European Union - co-funded