Testing Ground: Reparative Practices for New Cultural Ecosystem
Repair is a project developed by cultural organisations Kurziv (Croatia), Krytyka Polityzna (Poland) and Maska (Slovenia), supported by the European Union. Through the project, we are developing ‘reparative methods‘ – creative research modalities that examine and build the potential of culture and art for social repair.
Within Repair, we are devising and testing reparative responses to different zones of uncertainty: gender inequality, ecological crisis in the urban environment, and structural issues within the cultural sector.
Booklet of Reparative Practices
Our final publication builds on the research processes of the ‘Repair’ project. We hope it can serve as an encouragement, an invitation to and for reparative practice.
Visual reflections: Exposium
The final public gathering of the Repair project captured through the illustrations of Ena Jurov, Ivona Cvitković and Petra Divković.
Exposium
Final public event of the Testing Ground project features various interactions with the audience, the immediate environment, non-human and more-than-human beings, phenomena, and anomalies.
Wet Archive
A zine by Zakole collective emerges from a context of an urban wetland, bringing together proposals of group’s methods and excercises that can be used anywhere.
Visual reflection: Molat Colony
An illustrated reportage from a creative island retreat, or: about the importance of rest and Dalmatian “spiza”, and the inevitable negotiations with mosquitoes.
Repair Shack Molat
Bringing together members of the teams of the Testing Ground project, Repair Shack Molat unfolds as a collective exploration of the potential of culture to generate practices of rest/leisure that can serve as an alternative to ecologically destructive hyper-productivity.
Ana Kuzmanić: Space without a name
In the form of a lecture-performance, artist and researcher shared her experience of living with dislexia, focusing on dealing with various pressures dictated by educational and cultural systems.
Happy Hour of Rennouncing Ambition
Team Anomaly’s happy hour of pondering, talking, list-making and pizza-eating immersed the audience in a collective rethinking of ambitions and failures.
Future 14B
In this living laboratory co-created by a transdisciplinary group, possible futures are being conceived, debated, researched and implemented.
Public presentation of YUFU team
Members of the Yugofuturism experimental team gave a presentation of their research work as part of the YUFU cycle in Ljubljana.
Maska journal: Methodologies, Tactics, Strategies
How to act if we wish to have an inclusive, caring, emphatic, fair, non-hierarchical, forgiving, brave, and [insert a value] art or society? Maska’s new issue brings several potential answers.
Visual reflection: On procedures and urgency of change
Illustrator Antonela Šurbek reported from Una Bauer’s lecture, dedicated to the search for ways of reparative action towards institutional frameworks.
Una Bauer: Relationality, situatedness, and sensibility
Lecture on the relationship between relational ethics, relational epistemology and institutional mechanics.
Visual reflection: On consent and pleasure
Illustrated response to motives of ‘Sex Education II’, director Tjaša Črnigoj’s lecture-performance series.
Tjaša Črnigoj: Sex Education II
Series of lectures-performances about women’s sexual pleasure is a process that explores sexual pleasure as a basic sexual right within the framework of human rights.
Translation of ‘Deleted pleasure. The clitoris and thought’
The September brought a publishing of a Slovenian translation of Catherine Malabou’s book.
Visual reflection: Repair Shack Zakole
Zakole group shares a few exercises that can help to get a bit deeper in the wetland’s ecology, soundscape, meanings, emotions, speculations, embodiments and whatever one might find there for themselves.
Repair Shack Zakole
Event that explored interdisciplinary remedial strategies against the advancing climate disaster presented through the case of wetland Zakole Wawerskie.
Zakole experimental walks launch
Educational and experimental walks through Zakole Wawerskie in Warsaw are co-created with artists and scientists in various fields, such as urban planning, ecology of wetlands, urban botany, mycology, anthropology, philosophy or hydrology, as well as social activists, journalists, writers and city dwellers.
Belgrade micro-residency of the YUFU group
From September 11 to 13, the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory (IFDT) in Belgrade hosted an international workshop led by the Jugofuturism research group, organized by the Maska Institute.
Open call for Anomaly team
Creative Research into Anomalies,
Failure and Resistance: Kurziv is announcing an open call for participation in a five-person interdisciplinary international team for the exploration of anomalies through experiments.
Visual reflection: Reparative Explorations seminar
Illustrator and designer Maja Maar shaped the focuses of the ‘Reparative explorations’ seminar into a series of illustrations.
Reparative Explorations: Feminist Pathways
The last seminar session focused on modalities of work in our artistic, research, design and other practices, and whether feminism can offer us a toolbox for repairing the damaged social tissue.
Reparative Explorations: More-than-human potentials
The second seminar session explored how looking beyond human subjectivity and delving into more-than-human collaborations can offer reparative potential to the crises of today.
Reparative Explorations: The Pursuit of Joy
The first session in a three-part online seminar explored the potentials of seeking pleasure as the base of research processes.
The Power of Pleasure, feminist reading club
Feminist reading club coordinated by Klara Otorepec and Pia Brezavšček focuses on implementation of the topics »pleasure in feminism as a reparatory practice«.
Repair launch
Testing Ground: Reparative Practices for New Cultural Ecosystem