Schedule of the 3rd ArtLeaks Working Assembly in Belgrade

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3rd ArtLeaks Working Assembly – Belgrade

Friday, 31st of August, 7pm, 2012
Cultural Center REX, Jevrejska 16, Belgrade, Serbia

Facebook event page here. 

Building on our previous experience organizing an ArtLeaks Working Assemblies in Berlin in June 2012 and Moscow in July 2012, we invite you to a similar working-group format that allows direct engagement with the public at the Cultural Center REX  in Belgrade.

For our Belgrade assembly, our goals for further developments are :

(1) To reach new constituencies from the cultural, social, and political milieu of Belgrade, and  invite them to join our struggles

(2)To research the local socio-political context in which cultural workers are exploited in Belgrade, Serbia in particular and the Balkans generally; to find out about local cases of abuse, corruption and exploitation

(3)To receive critique regarding the manner in which ArtLeaks is currently functioning and may be improved further

(4) To collectively formulate concrete working methodologies and actions that our cultural workers’ alliances may incorporate into their development

Schedule

30th of August 2012

Arrival of the participants

31st of August 2012

– 13:00-17:00h ArtLeaks internal meeting at REX (all participants are invited to join)

– 19:00-22:30 ArtLeaks Assembly at the Cultural Center REX, Jevrejska 16 (open to the public)

Program:

– 19:00-19:45 Presentation of the ArtLeaks platform

Introducing ArtLeaks: on the urgency of the project, its goals, methodologies, values; although ArtLeaks has core members, we wish to expand the project and invite other people to join us
Presentation of 3-4 case-studies, ArtLeaks initiatives (no fee statement, workshops, assemblies, forthcoming journal), facilitators: Corina L. Apostol,  Vladan Jeremić, Ștefan Tiron and The Bureau of Melodramatic Research

– 19:45-20:15 Discussion among the participants : Corina L. Apostol, Ștefan Tiron, The Bureau of Melodramatic Research, Vladan Jeremić, Rena Raedle, Selman Trtovac, Vesna Milosavljević /SEEcult.org, Maja Ćirić, Nikola Radić Lucati, Noa Treister and Pavle Ćosić /KORNET 
Summarizing some important points of debate from previous assemblies, and opening up discussion points: formulating narratives of exposure, drafting ethical guidelines, developing terminology to address abuse and exploitation, strategies of constituting alliances.
Comments, criticism, suggestions about further improvement of ArtLeaks.

– 20:15-20:45 Break: Drinks and refreshments

– 20:45-21:55 Presentation of the local context and local case studies, every participant has 10 mins to contribute. Participants: Selman Trtovac, Vesna Milosavljević, Maja Ćirić, Nikola Radić Lucati, Noa Treister and Pavle Ćosić

– 21:55-22:30 Discussion among the participants, local context and similar activities/projects

1st of September 2012

Free time for guests to explore the city of Belgrade, museums, galleries, etc.

2nd of September 2012

– 13-17h ArtLeaks internal meeting at BLOK 70

Dinner party

3rd of September 2012

Departure of the participants

This event is not sponsored by any foundation and it is realized with  individual resources of the members and participants of the ArtLeaks. Special thanks to Cultural Center REX for the generous opportunity to have our assembly event in their space on  the 31st of August 2012.

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Treći ArtLeaks radni skup – Beograd
Kulturni centar REX, Jevrejska 16
31. avgust 2012. u 19h

Učestvuju: Corina L. Apostol, Maja Ćirić, Pavle Ćosić / KORNET, Nikola Radić Lucati, Vladan Jeremić, Selman Trtovac, Vesna Milosavljević / SEEcult.org,  Ștefan Tiron, Noa Treister, The Bureau of Melodramatic Research i Rena Rädle

Međunarodna platforma ArtLeaks, posvećena otkrivanju zloupotreba, korupcije i izrabljivanja u oblasti kulture i umetnosti, kao i promeni stanja u tim sektorima, održaće 31. avgusta radnu skupštinu u Beogradu, posle nedavnih sličnih okupljanja u Berlinu i Moskvi.

Skup ArtLeaksa u Kulturnom centru Rex trebalo bi da inspiriše predstavnike lokalnog kulturnog, društvenog i političkog miljea da se pridruže toj međunarodnoj platformi, a poslužiće i za sagledavanje opšteg konteksta rada i eksploatacije kulturnih radnika u Beogradu, Srbiji i na Balkanu generalno.

Takođe, ArtLeaks očekuje da dobije kritičke ocene u vezi sa načinom sopstvenog funkcionisanja kako bi mogao da ga unapredi.
Predviđeno je i zajedničko formulisanje konkretnih radnih metodologija i akcija koje bi različite forme udruživanja radnika u kulturi mogle da primene u svom daljem razvoju.

Prethodne dve radne skupštine ArtLeaksa iznedrile su osnivanje saveza sa internacionalnim grupama kao što su W.A.G.E.(Njujork), Occupy Museums (Njujork), Arts & Labor (Njujork), Haben und Brauchen (Berlin), the Precarious Workers Brigade (London), The May Congress of Creative Workers (Moskva). Njihova misija je formulisanje direktnih akcija i podizanje svesti o uslovima rada i problemima radnika u kulturi i umetnosti.

Osnivači ArtLeaksa veruju da jedino međunarodno koordinisani savezi mogu da razotkriju izrabljivanje i cenzuru u današnjoj umetnosti i kulturi, ali isto tako i da zajednički osmisle nove organizacione modele koji bi odgovorili na potrebe i želje političkih subjekata nastalih na dodirnim tačkama aktuelnih ekonomskih, političkih i kulturnih preokreta.

ArtLeaks je 15. jula održao i skup u Moskvi, a prva radna skupština i radionica održani su početkom juna u Berlinu.

Platforma ArtLeaks počela je da radi 2011. godine, otkrivajući i istražujući slučajeve problematične finansijske politike u savremenoj kulturi, intenzivnu eksploataciju rada u kulturi, preuzimanje javnog prostora posvećeno tzv. nezavisnim inicijativama, aproprijacije kulture pod okriljem zloglasanih korporacija. Više možete naći na linku: http://art-leaks.org

Događaj ne finansiraju fondacije, nego se realizuje od sredstava članova i učesnika ArtLeaks. Posebna zahvala Kulturnom centru REX za velikodušnu mogućnost organizacije ovog događaja u njihovom prostoru 31. avgusta 2012.