Methods - research projets
on art - society relations
international workshop inserted in the research
project Geographies of Change by Filippo Fabbrica and Juan
E. Sandoval
METHODS SECOND EDITION
a project by Cittadellarte-Fondazione
Pistoletto in collaboration with Artfactories
curated by Filippo Fabbrica, Juan
Esteban Sandoval
ArteFiera, Bologna 27th - 29th January
2006
INTRODUCTION
:: Art
becomes science and projects social transformation by
Massimo Bullo, independent curator
(downlaod
the PDF)
PARTECIPANTI:
:: Africa
e Mediterraneo (Italy) www.africaemediterraneo.it
Common Values. The encounter between
religions and secular thinking systems through comics for the integration
of immigrants.(download
the PDF)
Africa e Mediterraneo is a no profit association for international co-operation
and education to development. The project Common Values promotes
peace-culture through the implementation of dialogue among different religions
and cultures now present in Europe. The actions of the project involved
students, teachers and civil society of four European countries in a reflection
on the common values shared by different systems of thought using comics
as a means of communication and development.
:: Asiles NGO (Lebanon)
www.asiles.org
Transmissions - Towards the constitution of a self-managed cultural
centre in refugee zone (download
the PDF)
Non governamental organization (NGO), Asiles field
are refugee areas through mixed artistic and educative actions. The project
Transmissions involves artists in sharing their experiences and
teaching their practices to a Palestinian refugee team (MAFPA) in Baddawi
Camp (Lebanon). Learning by doing and social evolution of communities are
the key words highlighting the questions of cooperation North and South
between artists and non professionals mixing efficient pedagogy and living
art during volunteer actions targeting self evolution of communities.
:: D Media Association
(Romania) www.dmedia.ro
Real Fictions: Reflections on Future Worlds in Four Parts
(download
the PDF)
D Media, an NGO from Cluj promoting participatory
technologies and the fusion between art and social activism, presents their
project Real Fictions. The project was a series of 4 experimental
documentaries, realized in collaboration with local teenagers, that analyzed
Romania's tradition of nationalist authoritarianism and the present deficiency
of bureaucratic institutions, as well as the potential of open source practices
for transforming the way culture is produced.
:: La source du Lion (Morocco)
www.lasourcedulion.org
Artistic project in the Hermitage Park in Casablanca
(download
the PDF)
The moroccan artists group uses the word bricolage
to define its projects and proposes it as a work methodology. A prototype
of this is the Hermitage Park experience. The project focusing on the park
rescue to contrast the neglect and the public areas disappearance. The approach
adopted does not come into the plastic art category but borders with social
problems.
:: Malopolski Instytut
Kultury (Poland) www.mik.krakow.pl
Nowa_Huta.rtf. Heritage. Memory. Local Community
(download
the PDF)
Malopolski Instytut Kultury invites the local community
of Nowa Huta, to re-establish the relation with their industrial, but monumental
district.
nowa_huta.rtf (relations, texts, form) project is aiming at creating
a forum of utterances and quests for those who were building the city, for
those who have been growing up with it, for those who have inherited it.
The purpose is not only to search for a new formula for district, but first
of all to enrich the consciousness of the place and an emotional relation
to it.
:: Performing Arts Center
Multimedia (Macedonia) www.multimedia.org.mk
Art for Social Change - Play against violence
(download
the PDF)
These last 5 years PAC Multimedia is focused on creating
a need-oriented art programs that concern socially marginalized groups of
young people. The specific working process included children from the Institute
for protection, care and upbringing of children and youth of Ranka Milanovic,
Skopje. This safe creative space gives the opportunity to present their
own values by modeling their nonverbal and physical capabilities with the
programme that suits their interest - joggling and acrobatic skills.
SPECIAL AUDIENCE:
- K@2
- Inter Project
- Autre(s)pARTs
METHODS FIRST AND SECOND
EDITION
:: Selected
artists and groups(download
the PDF)
::
Selection process(download
the PDF)
::
Collaborators(download
the PDF)
::
Biographies(download
the PDF)