FACK MSUV
/ performing the museum as a common
FACK MSUV event is
taking place at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina (MSUV) in Novi Sad
(Serbia), from June 30 to July 06, 2014 (and maybe longer).
The event is launched
by the mobile art platform F.A.C.K. from Cesena (Italy) in collaboration with
“liberated spaces” MACAO (Milan), Teatro Valle (Rome), SALE.Docks (Venice) and
Embros Theatre (Athens) and is realized with the contribution and participation
of numerous artists, curators, researchers, activist and citizens from the
ex-Yu region and the rest of Europe.
What the
FACK MSUV is...
liberated space/time / FACK MSUV is an operation of temporary “liberation” of
the museum (it can be conceived too as a sui
generis occupation or re-appropriation) with the aim of making it open and
freely accessible for use for both local and international (art) community without
classical institutional filtering and control “from the top down”. The MSUV management
is a party to the plan insofar as they put at participants’ disposal the museum
infrastructure, and even the small portion of it’s (rather modest) program
budget, without however being given in return any written project, list of
participants or programme of the event. Without precise insight of what-who-how
is going actually to happen – and without having in hand any written contract
with the participants - the management had de
facto renounced, even if only temporarily, to it’s centralised functions of
planning, organising, staffing, controlling and directing.
museum as a common / besides being critical of the way the public
cultural institutions are conceived, organised and managed – reflecting the
dominant social model which is representative, selective, exclusive and mostly exploitative
– the FACK MSUV operation is an experiment in alternative “bottom-up”
institutional model based on participation, self-organization, self-management,
inclusivity and cooperation between artists, curators, scholars and attentive
publics/citizens.
the coming art(ist) / in addition to being an occasion to perform
collectively the museum as a common FACK
MSUV opens up the space for more specific, and more critical, reflection on what
kind of art(ist) – and therefore on what kind of art education and art
institution - do we need in today’s globalised and ever more liqufied and
precarious society regulated by the economical and financial interests of the very
few.
art and revolution / another important focus of the operation is to
question the non-relation of the new post-Yugoslav societies and their cultural
institutions with the heritage/values of the socialist revolution and the
antifascist struggle in the WWII. In particular the MSUV’s non-relation with
the (hi)story of the very building in which it is “temporarily” situated since
2001 (and with the building’s sole remaining original exposition room which was
recently revised in nationalistic light by the historical Museum of Vojvodina)
- the building was actually constructed for the Museum of revolution (funded in
1956), which fell in oblivion and decay during the Yugoslav conflicts of the 1990s.
social and cultural
laboratory / during the FACK MSUV
operation will take place, in and out of the museum building, different all-day
activities and events open to public: round tables, presentations, workshops,
classes, work meetings, performances, projections, site-specific interventions,
installations, concerts, expositions, chess and football matches, common meals,
etc. The activities will be deployed within the tripartire scheme: the
“workshop” dimension - the “strike” dimension – the “fête” dimension. The
intention is to transform the museum from the solely representational/exhibition
space into an open laboratory for social and cultural experimentation in which
ideas and practices can be horizontaly exchanged, developed and shared in the
atmosphere of mutuality and solidarity. Therefore it is warmly recommended that
the participants plan their permanence during the whole week of the event.
thematic clusters/(in)disciplinary
workgroups / following thematic
clusters will be confronted during the event, day by day, in open format
seminars: re-designing the museum/museum as laboratory; un-making publics;
practicing multitude/new institutions of common, right to the city/culture; art
and migrations/transbordering practices; European web of liberated time-spaces;
de-schooling practicies/alternative (to) art education; new (art)
economies/alternative currencies; art workers social status/new class
(precariat) conscience; the coming art(ist)/artivism for the XXI century;
contemporary art: a concept, a system, a market/exit from the contemporary;
cultural boycott/ArtLeaks;(these can be rearranged, changed, others can be
added).
All activities will be
coordinated by different workgroups, some of which are already active while
others are to be formed in place: architecture/urbanisam;
theatre/dance/performance; film/video; sound/music; visual arts; cooking (for)
art; theory/philosophy; communication/programming;
unclassified stuff, etc. One can ether
join one (or more) of the workgroups, or create one’s own, or do the both.
Different workgroups can collaborate, merge, transform in new ones,
collapse...
equality of
intelligences / FACK MSUV is a collaborative
event co-created, co-curated, co-organised, co-produced, co-directed, co-performed
and co-signed (with the credits in alphabetical order) by ALL participants and
partnering organisations. Each one contributes to the event in different ways –
investing her/his work, time, knowledge, skills, services, materials,
equipment, etc - according to his/her own wishes and possibilities. Every
participant makes equal use of the available infrastructure and resources in
cooperation and in agreement with the others. The call for participation is
open to ALL interested individuals/groups – no one is doing centralised
selection of the participants, each one is rather selecting oneself for the
event taking in consideration its terms and scopes and taking full responsibility
for one’s own doings. Everyone is free to involve other persons into the
operation, thus extending the chain of mutual trust and confidence based on the
postulate of equality of intelligences.
practicalities / the rather modest budget on disposition will be
partly used to organise the accommodation, for those coming from abroad (and
out of Novi Sad), and partly for the common meals in the museum. All of the participants
have to provide for the respective travel expenses. The museum, besides the
building, put at the disposal large part of it’s technical equipment and some
services (some equipment/services will be provided by other local partners). However
it is warmly recommended that the participants bring, as much as possible,
their own equipment/materials (sleeping bags included).
For further information
and to join the operation send an e-mail to: fackmsuv@gmail.com. Every participant will be provided with username/password
for access to the organisational platform: http://fackmsuv.blogspot.com/
What the F.A.C.K. is...
F.A.C.K. is an open mobile indisciplinary
collaborative transient (con)temporary platform/event, launched in 2012 in Cesena
(Italy), for experimentation and research in alternative bottom-up
organizational and production models for arts and culture. Self-menaged by
indipendent artists, curators, researchers and technicians FACK questions, in
practice and in theory, the dominant (art) system and its institutions, as well
as the function of art and the role of artist within our liquid society striked
by a profound structural crisis.
F.A.C.K. stands for: Frakcija, Faktum,
Forum, Festival, Fabrique / Akcija, Agora, Akademia, Arte, Act / Culture, (Con)temporary,
Cantiere, Container, Comunità / Kultura, Komuna, Kazbah, and similar...
For more
on F.A.C.K:
For more
on MSUV:
* Please note that the
present call is an open document-in-progress, continuously collectively
reworked and developed (in Italian, Serbo-Croatian and English). It is an invitation
to participate both in the conceptualization and realization of the FACK MSUV operation.
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