(IM)POSSIBLE COMPLICITIES

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(IM)POSSIBLE COMPLICITIES

CO-PRODUCTION / CO-CREATION / COOPTATION

23. - 24. Mai 2019

KONFERENZ UND FILMPROGRAMM

(Die Konferenz wird in englischer Sprache stattfinden)

Deadline Call for papers & films: 15. März 2019

Der Call for Papers und Call for Films für die Konferenz vom 23.-24. Mai 2019 in Berlin ist veröffentlicht. "(Im)possible Complicities" will eine Plattform für Ideen aus der kreativen Praxis und dem Engagement in sozial benachteiligten Milieus bieten. Wir möchten mit AktivistInnen, KünstlerInnen und AkademikerInnen konstruktiv und kritisch über die Potentiale und Risiken von co-kreativer Projektarbeit diskutieren. Die Konferenz ist Teil des CoCreation - EU Marie Curie Rise Projekts, das in Zusammenarbeit mit akademischen und nicht-akademischen PartnerInnen aus Europa und Lateinamerika entstanden ist. Die Konferenz verfolgt einen praxisorienterten und multidisziplinären Ansatz und will Raum für innovative Präsentationsformate bieten.

Einreichungen sollten im RTF-Format sein und folgende Richtlinien erfüllen (in englischer Sprache):

Title / Five keywords / Affiliation / Max 300 words abstract / Max 100 words biography
Film submissions should be sent in the same format including a link and password to access the film.

↘ THE DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS IS 15 MARCH 2019
↘ THE SELECTION WILL BE COMMUNICATED BY25TH MARCH 2019
↘ PLEASE SEND ABSTRACTS TO

INFO@TESSERAE.EU

 

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(IM)POSSIBLE COMPLICITIES

CO-PRODUCTION / CO-CREATION / COOPTATION

BERLIN, MAY 23-24, 2019

A CONFERENCE AND A SCREENING PROGRAMME
(the conference will be held in english)

Deadline Call for papers & films: March 15th, 2019

Participatory approaches in local policy are evergreen prescriptions, undisputed receipts for any intervention aimed at spatial development, social cohesion and cultural empowerment. Creativity is the natural seasoning of initiatives aimed at social and spatial development in distressed territories. Artists and designers seek the complicity of citizens and local communities to legitimate their production. In return, their language and skills may empower communication and organisation capacity of local communities.

They can support reflexive capacity and give voice to local struggles, or engender in the most successful cases solidarity. There is a rich body of literature addressing innovation at the micro-level, but the local scale alone cannot be where all problems are created, understood and solved. While the localist discourse is often used to veil receding public support and let local communities compete alone for survival and resilience, creativity that fosters social innovation finds itself distorted into palliatives, if not mere cosmetic practices. The purpose to produce benefits for local communities and dispossessed subjects may easily turn into producing visibility for the creative players themselves. Artists and social workers who mediate co-productive processes end up, consciously or not, serving vested interests. Green-washing, art-washing and gentrification are some of the words employed to spell out the cooptation of creative forces by dominant players and economic forces.

This conference is an exercise to look at practices and reflections which may shed light on this context, helping to discern, understand and critically study community-based co-production and co-creation. It looks at a number of fields related to activism in housing, public space development, employment, migration, energy efficiency, climate change, food and waste management, urban poverty etc.

We welcome papers and artworks which address questions regarding:

↘ The meaning of co-creation, co-production, co-optation.
↘ Co-creation and community engagement for what and for whom.
↘ The role of art in addressing political agency at different scales.
↘ The issues of ownership/authorship in co-creation processes.
↘ Time and engagement, the limits and advantages of short-terms vs long-terms.

(Im)possible Complicities conference looks for ideas that come from practice and concrete engagement in distressed territorial contexts. We want to discuss the potential and pitfalls of co-creative projects with activists, artists and academics who share a constructive as much as critical view on the topic.

The conference is part of the CoCreation- EU Marie Curie Rise ( www.tesserae.eu/project/co-creation) project involving academic and non-academic partners from Europe and Latin America.

The conference will have a practice-oriented multidisciplinary approach. We encourage non strictly academic formats and interactive presentations. One session will be dedicated to film screening or presentations based on audio-visual works (max 20 min.).

Paper submissions should be prepared in a RTF document and include the following:

Title / Five keywords / Affiliation / Max 300 words abstract / Max 100 words biography
Film submissions should be sent in the same format including a link and password to access the film.

↘ THE DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS IS 15TH MARCH 2019
↘ THE SELECTION WILL BE COMMUNICATED BY 25TH MARCH 2019
↘ PLEASE SEND ABSTRACTS TO

INFO@TESSERAE.EU

WWW.TESSERAE.EU

WWW.TESSERAE.EU/PROJECT/IMPOSSIBLE-COMPLICITIES