Giant Step – Reading Group II – London

Where: Flat Time House / online 210 Bellenden Road, London SE15 4BW When: Saturday, the 19th of May, 2012, 2 p.m. http://www.giant-step.org http://www.flattimeho.org.uk   Hosts: Corina L. Apostol, Viviana Checchia, Vlad Morariu, Anna Santomauro, Francesco Scasciamacchia, Claire Louise Staunton   Reading Group II belongs to a series of meetings (talks, reading groups, laboratories) unfolding within Giant Step, a project that investigates the current conditions of cultural and artistic production within institutions, as well as the possibilities of critical practice resulting in institutional change. Giant Step aims to articulate a collective reflection on the contemporary role of the art institution in the current economic, cultural and political climate. The project, initiated in collaboration with Van Abbemuseum | The Netherlands, MOSTYN | Wales and Galeria Labyrint | Poland, will culminate in a cycle of nomadic symposia set up by each institution involved. The first symposium “GS1: Enter the Artworld? Marginal Establishments, Cooptation...

Giant Step 1: Enter the Artworld? Marginal Establishments, Cooptation and Resistance

vessel is pleased to announce the first Giant Step Symposium will be held Tuesday through Thursday, June 12-14 in Bari. Confirmed speakers: ArtLeaks, The Bureau of Melodramatic Research, Charles Esche, Viktor Misiano, Dan Perjovschi, Francesco Scasciamacchia, Dave Beech Giant Step is a project organized for the purpose of discovering the place of the institution within contemporary culture. It involves two internationally established institutions, Van Abbemuseum | The Netherlands and MOSTYN | Wales, and two that are less connected to a rigid institutional structure, vessel | Italy and Galeria Labirynt | Poland. The main goal of this project is to establish possible roles that institutions could play in the cultural production of a specific area, in order to respond to the needs of the area itself. Taking into account the current political, economic, and social conditions, Giant Step aims to articulate institutional (ideal) types, which are put into a critical dialogue...
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