Međunarodni umetnički projekat „Oni žive“
Počeo je međunarodni umetnički projekat pod nazivom „Oni žive“ - studentski životi otkriveni kroz kontekstualne umetničke prakse
Međunarodni projekat „Oni žive“ - studentski životi otkriveni kroz kontekstualne umetničke prakse”, čiji je nosilac Dom kulture Studentski grad, započet je onlajn sastankom partnera iz pet evropskih zemalja. Projekat se realizuje od septembra 2020. do kraja februara 2023. godine, u okviru programa za kulturu i medije Evropske Unije „Kreativna Evropa“. Pored Doma kulture Studentski grad iz Beograda koji je lider projekta, kao partneri na projektu učestvuju i Međunarodni centar za arhivska istraživanja „Ikarus Hrvatska” iz Zagreba, Institut za savremenu umjetnost iz Cetinja, Akademija primjenjenih umetnosti iz Rijeke, Fakultet za audiovizuelne komunikacije na Univerzitetu kralj Huan Karlos iz Madrida. Pridruženi partneri na projektu su Institut za umetnost u kontekstu na Univerzitetu umetnosti iz Berlina i Centar za primenjenu istoriju iz Beograda.
Projekat „Oni žive“ bavi se studentskim životom od kraja Drugog svetskog rata do danas u kontekstu svakodnevnog života u studentskim domovima, kulturnih navika i slobodnog vremena studenata, međuljudskih odnosa i odnosa među polovima, kao i društvenog i političkog angažovanja studenata.
Cilj projekta je podsticanje studentske populacije da učestvuje u razumevanju i zajedničkom kreiranju savremene umetnosti, koristeći arhivske materijale i učestvujući u praticipativnim umetničkim aktivnostima tokom rezidencijalnih boravaka umetnika u studentskim domovima. Rezultati projekta će poslužiti kao smernice za menadžere kulturnih institucija i umetničkih galerija, kustose i umetnike, za dalje unapređivanje inovativnih pristupa razvoju mlade publike.
Maida Gruden, koordinatorka projekta istakla je:
- Projekat „Oni žive“ nastao je iz prethodnih iskustava koje je Dom kulture Studentski grad stekao kroz realizaciju dva projekta: „Portret Studenjaka“, participativni fotografski poduhvat o nematerijalnom kulturnom nasleđu studenata (2016) i Umetničku rezidenciju „Cimer“ organizovanu u Studentskom gradu (2014). Prethodna iskustva i odziv studentske populacije i bivših stanovnika Studentskog grada su nas uverila da je bitno da nastavimo proučavanje života studenata i osvetlimo ovo nedovoljno ispitano polje života velikog broja generacija. U saradnji sa sadašnjim i bivšim studentima, nameravamo da dođemo do spektra odgovora šta znači biti student kroz istoriju, ali sada kroz projekat koji se odvija na širem geografskom području i u evropskom kontekstu. Savremene umetničke prakse imaju veliki kolaborativni i participativni potencijal u otkrivanju specifičnog pogleda na istoriju i život zajednica, kao i potrebe njenih pripadnika, tako da se održivost ovog projekta odnosi na uspostavljanje mreže umetničkih rezidencija koje će biti organizovane u studentskim domovima u različitim zemljama.
U okviru projekta planirano je nekoliko različitih aktivnosti, koje započinju internim treninzima o koncepciji i metodologiji prakse usmene istorije i digitalnom arhiviranju. Arhiviranje će podrazumevati proces prikupljanja i digitalizacije fotografskog materijala o studentskom životu i snimanje intervjua usmene istorije u svakoj zemlji članici projekta. Urednici digitalnih arhiva će biti studenti iz domova i to po jedan urednik iz svake zemlje. Usmene istorije će biti snimljene i arhivirane u formi razgovora sa bivšim i sadašnjim stanovnicima studentskih domova. Planirano je arhiviranje fotografija i intervjua u sve četiri zemlje članice projekta, na kolaborativnoj digitalnoj platformi Topotheque (topothek.at/en/) i zvaničnom sajtu projekta, koji će biti pokrenut krajem novembra ove godine.
Program umetničkih rezidencija biće realizovan u studentskim domovima u Podgorici, Beogradu, Rijeci i Madridu. U rezidencijama će učestvovati po jedan umetnik iz svake zemlje partnera, nakon čega će biti organizovane izložbe i tribinski programi. Projekat „Oni žive“ će na taj način pružiti priliku mladim umetnicima bez prethodnog međunarodnog iskustva, koji su zainteresovani za različite aspekte studentskog života u svojim zemljama, da učestvuju u umetničkim rezidencijama u studentskim domovima. U programu će učestvovati i mladi kustosi iz domena vizuelnih umetnosti, koji će zajedno sa umetnicima biti odabrani na otvorenom konkursu, a zatim će pohađati letnju školu o kontekstualnim i participativnim umetničkim praksama na Institutu za umetnost u kontekstu u Berlinu. Tokom rezidencijalih boravaka u studentskim domovima, umetnici će zajedno sa kustosima razvijati umetničke projekte direktno sa studentima kao i na osnovu foto i audio-materijala o studentskom životu od 1945. do danas, koja će biti prikupljena i pothranjena na kolaborativnoj digitalnoj platformi Topotheque i zvaničnom sajtu projekta. Nakon završetka rezidencija u studentskim domovima, biće održane izložbe sa umetničkim radovima, nastalim tokom rezidencija, u galerijskim prostorima u blizini studentskih zajednica, koje će pratiti katalog sa tekstualnim doprinosima mladih kustosa.
Mala „putujuća“ izložba biće kreirana od arhiviranog digitalizovanog foto-materijala, koji će za izložbu odabrati petočlana grupa studenata sastavljena od po jednog studenta iz svake od zemalja članica projekta. Fokus izložbe biće usmeren na teme vezane za svakodnevni život u studentskim domovima, kulturne navike i društveno-politički angažman studenata. Ova izložba biće održana istovremeno u studentskim domovima u Beogradu, Madridu, Podgorici, Rijeci i Zagrebu.
Knjiga proizašla iz projekta „Oni žive“ sastojaće se iz tri dela: naučnih tekstova iz oblasti različitih disciplina na temu studentskog života prikupljenih putem otvorenog konkursa, tekstova umetnika i kustosa o realizaciji rezidencija i priručnika o metodologiji organizacije rezidencija ove vrste u studentskim domovima.
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‘They: Live’ - student lives revealed through context-based art practices
The international project ‘They: Live’ - student lives revealed through context-based art practices, led by the Students’ City Cultural Centre, has begun its activities with an online meeting of partners from five European countries. The project takes place from September 2020 to February 2023 and it is realised within the framework of the European Union’s ‘Creative Europe’ Programme for Culture and Media. Besides the project leader - Students’ City Cultural Centre from Belgrade, the partners on the project are the International Centre for Archival Research ICARUS Croatia from Zagreb, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) from Cetinje, the Academy of Applied Arts from Rijeka (APURI) and the Faculty of Audiovisual Communication at the King Juan Carlos University (URJC) from Madrid. The associate partners on the project are the Institute of Art in Context from the Berlin Art University and the Centre for Public History from Belgrade.
‘They: Live’ project explores the student life from the end of World War 2 to present day in the context of everyday life in student campuses, students’ cultural habits and their free time, interpersonal and gender relations, as well as their social and political engagement. The aim of the project is to encourage student population to take part in understanding and co-creation of contemporary art, by means of using archive materials and taking part in participatory art activities during residential stays of artists in student campuses. The project results will be used as guidelines for managers of cultural institutions and art galleries, curators and artists, for the purpose of further improvement of innovative approaches to development of young audience.
Maida Gruden, a project co-ordinator, stated:
-‘They: Live’ project has emerged from previous experiences the Students’ City Cultural Centre, gained through realisation of two projects: ‘A Portrait of the Students’ City Cultural Centre’, a participatory photography project focusing on intangible cultural heritage of students (2016) and Art Residence ‘A Roommate’, organised at the Students’ City campus (2014). The previous experiences and response from student population and former Students‘ City residents served as an assurance that it is important to continue exploring student lives and reveal this insufficiently explored field of life experienced by a large number of generations. In collaboration with present and former students, we intend to find a spectrum of answers to the question what it meant to be a student throughout history, but this time through a project taking place in a broader geographic area and in the European context. Contemporary art practices have a large collaborative and participatory potential in revealing a specific view of history and life of communities, as well as of the needs of their members, thus the sustainability of this project involves establishing a network of art residencies, which will be organised in student campuses in different countries.
Several activities have been planned in the framework of the project, starting with internal trainings on conception and methodology of oral history practice and digital archiving.
Archiving will include the process of collecting and digitalisation of photographic material on student life and recording oral history interviews in every country participating in the project.
The editors of digital archives will be student campus residents, with one editor from each country. Oral histories will be recorded and archived in form of conversation with former and present residents of student campuses. Archiving of photographs and recording interviews on the collaborative digital platform Topotheque (topothek.at/en/) and on the official project web-site, which will be launched by the end of October 2020, has been planned in all four countries participating in the project
Art residence programme will take place in student campuses in Podgorica, Belgrade, Rijeka and Madrid. One artist from each partner country will take part in art residences, which will be followed by exhibitions and public debate programmes. ‘They: Live‘ project will in that manner provide young artists having no previous international experience, interested in various aspects of student life in their respective countries, with an opportunity to take part in art residencies in student campuses. Young curators involved in visual art, along with artists selected through an open call, will also take part in the project and attend the summer school on contextual and participatory art practices at the Institute of Art in Context in Berlin. During residential stays in student campuses, artists, together with curators, will develop art projects directly with students, as well as from photo and audio materials on student life from 1945 to present day, collected and stored on the collaborative digital platform Topotheque and the project’s official web-site. Following the end of residences at student campuses, exhibitions displaying art works created during residential stays will be held in gallery spaces in the proximity of student communities, accompanied by a catalogue with textual contributions of young curators.
A small ‘travelling‘ exhibition will be created from the archived digitalised photo-material, selected for the exhibition by a five-member group of students consisting of one student from each country participating in the project. The exhibition will focus on topics related to daily life in student campuses, cultural habits and social-political engagement of students. This exhibition will be held at the same time in student campuses in Belgrade, Madrid, Podgorica, Rijeka and Zagreb.
The book emerging from ‘They: Live‘ project will consist of three parts: scientific texts from various scientific disciplines on the topic of student life, collected through an open call, texts written by artists and curators on organisation of residencies and a guide on methodology of organisation of this type of residential stay in student campuses.