Creative Strategies: Toolkit for a Joint Action
   
Educational & artistic multimedia installation of collective authorship
Third module of Creative Strategies project by Andreja Kulunčić

Filodrammatica Gallery, Korzo 28/I, Rijeka
29 October – 20. November 2015

    
Exhibition / Workshop / Discussions

Between 29 October and 20 November 2015, Drugo more will host an educational and artistic multimedia installation named Toolkit for a Joint Action, which is the third module of Creative Strategies project by contemporary visual artist Andreja Kulunčić. Ongoing exhibition of toolkit – transferable modular space unit created by all project participants – will be accompanied by the series of other activities, which includes workshops, lectures, round tables and projections, connected to the main topics of the project.
   
Entrance to all activities is free.

  

PROGRAM

>>>> EXHIBITION
 
29 October – 20 November 2015.
“Toolkit for a Joint Action” exhibition
Exhibition opening: 29 October 2015, 8 PM
Gallery working hours: Mon-Fri 10-13, 17-21; Sat 10-13

   
    
>>>> WORKSHOPS & DISCUSSIONS
 
Thursday, 29 October 2015., 7 PM
Round table: Challenges of Educational System
Speakers: Nikola Baketa, Zdravko Popović, Snježana Prijić-Samaržija

Friday, 30 October 2015.
Direct democracy in school Workshop
Moderators:  Zdravko Popović and Bruna Nedoklan

Wednesday, 4 November 2015, 6 PM
(Dis)continuities of worker’s organization and fighting methods between 1900 and 2014
Speakers: Marina Ivandić, Nikola Ptić

 

In search for the best beginnings of our mutual activity

   
The context of the third module of Creative Strategies project is determined by the erosion of social security, massive unemployment and the unstable labour market in Croatia, which brings crucial themes to the fore: the new poor, workers’ self-organizing, direct democracy, social solidarity, self-organized citizens’ activities, and contextual theology. In addition to activities that include workshops, lectures, discussions and screenings related to the main themes of the project, the central element that was presented in Gallery Nova has taken the form of a portable modular spatial unit – a toolkit – that was created by all the participants in the project.

Andreja Kulunčić proposed a collaboration with the group Direct democracy in school, as well as with the New Union and a series of formal and informal groups that mostly stem from the Zagreb Student Plenum of 2009 – groups such as BRID, Women’s Front, Fem Front or Right to the City, and also with a string of other organizations and individuals who took part in the making of the toolkit for joint action.

Initiated in the Gallery Nova, the toolkit travels around towns and cities in Croatia and the region with the purpose of educating, informing, opening a dialogue, networking and archiving of previous material.

Using art’s resources to establish wider infrastructural support for different forms of social activity, this project does not reject art as its starting point, but, beginning as well as one can, uses the exhibition as a possible place of critical pedagogy, in which art is not the exclusive means of representation but a cohesive force, able to mobilize ideas, encourage discussion and initiate action.

Web site: www.pocetnica.org

 

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Andreja Kulunčić is a visual artist, born in 1968.
She studied sculpture, graduating in 1992 from the Faculty of Applied Arts and Design in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. From 1992 to 1994 she studied at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest.

Her work has been featured in exhibitions such as:
documenta11, Manifesta4, 8.Istanbul Biennial, PS1 in New York,Whitney Museum of American Art in NY, 10th Tiennale-India,Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis, Liverpool Biennial among others.

She has participated in artist’s residencies at the:
MUAC&SOMA in Mexico City, Art in General in New York, atWalker Art Center in Minneapolis, at Artspace in Sydney, Australia, in 10th Tiennale-India others.
 

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Organization: Drugo more

Supported by: Nacionalna zaklada za razvoj civilnog društva, Zaklada Kultura Nova, Ministarstvo kulture Republike Hrvatske, Grad Rijeka – Odjel za kulturu.

Program is realized as part of projects Galerija DM and Refleks.