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face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang=""><b>PUBLIC
ONLINE CONVERSATION: </b></span></font></font></font><strong><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal">COLLECTIVITY
BEYOND ART COLLECTIVES</span></span></font></font></font></strong><font
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><b>WEDNESDAY
08.07.2020. at 7PM CET </b></font></font></font> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><b>Collectivity
beyond Art Collectives </b></font></font></font> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><b>Cassie
Thornton</b> (USA/CA) and <b>Tomislav Medak</b> (HR/UK)</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Moderator: <b>Ana
Vilenica</b></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang=""><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
normal">The conversation series </span></span></span><span
lang=""><i><b>Vectors of Collective Imagination in Arts</b></i></span><span
lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal"> will be conducted
through the </span></span></span><span lang=""><i><span
style="font-weight: normal">Zoom platform</span></i></span><span
lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal">, within which the
audience will have the opportunity to actively
participate through a chat discussion.</span></span></span></font></font></font></p>
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size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal">Join Zoom Webinar: </span></span></span></font></font></font><font
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<div class="moz-forward-container"> <font color="#000000"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">The conversation
series <a
href="https://www.kuda.org/en/kudaorg-announces-vectors-collective-imagination-art-conversation-series-july-2020"
moz-do-not-send="true"><i><b>Vectors of Collective
Imagination in Art</b></i> </a>is a space for
discussion about self-organised art groups, ad-hoc and
mythical-real collectives, as well as artistic
infrastructures for the collective production of knowledge
and the struggle for commons. The series consists of three
conversations that will deal with the political economy of
art collectives, socio-political engagement of art groups,
as well as imagining the anti-systemic collective practices
in the period before World War II, during the socialist
experiment in Yugoslavia, the anti-Yugoslav period of the
1990s. and the present situation.</font></font></font>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span
style="font-weight: normal">In the first discussion, </span><i><b>Collectivity
outside Art Collectives</b></i><span
style="font-weight: normal">, we will discuss the
(newly) established links between social movements and
the arts, which are being articulated in the struggle
against the financialisaton and privatisation of
everyday life. Cassie Thornton, an activist and artist
based in Canada, will talk about her artistic practice
derived from experience </span><span
style="font-weight: normal">with the </span><i><span
style="font-weight: normal">Strike Debt </span></i><span
style="font-weight: normal">(USA) and from </span><i><span
style="font-weight: normal">Wiindo Debwe Mosewin</span></i><span
style="font-weight: normal"> - a feminist indigenous
patrol in Thunder Bay</span><span style="font-weight:
normal">, as well as about her new project </span><i><span
style="font-weight: normal">Hologra</span></i><span
style="font-weight: normal">m which tries to organise
sick (artists) into a healthcare support network.
Tomislav Medak, a researcher and artist from Zagreb,
will propose a different genealogy of the free culture
movement, with references to the </span><i><span
style="font-weight: normal">Pirate Care Syllabus
project</span></i><span style="font-weight: normal"> -
a space for collective production, exchange and
distribution of knowledge about (re)organising social
reproduction.</span></font></font></font> </p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><b>Cassie Thornton</b> is an artist and activist
from the US, currently living in Canada. She refers to
herself as a feminist economist, a title that frames her
work as that of a social scientist actively preparing for
the economics of a future society that produces health and
life without the tools that reproduce oppression— like
money, police or prisons. She is currently the co-director
of the Re-Imagining Value Action Lab in Thunder Bay, an art
and social centre at Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada.
Her forthcoming book, <i>The Hologram: Feminist,
Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future</i>, will
be available this summer from Pluto Press.</font></font></font>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0.07in"><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><b><br>
</b></span></span></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0.07in"><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><b>Tomislav
Medak</b></span></span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal"> is a doctoral student
at the Coventry University’s</span></span></span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal"> </span></span></span></font></font></font><a
href="http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures/"
moz-do-not-send="true"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times
New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang=""><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
normal">Centre for Postdigital Cultures</span></span></span></font></font></font></a><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal">. His PhD is on
political economy of technology and the planetary
ecological crisis. He is also a member of the theory
and publishing team of the</span></span></span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><i><span style="font-weight:
normal"> </span></i></span></font></font></font><a
href="http://www.mi2.hr/en/" moz-do-not-send="true"><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><i><span style="font-weight:
normal">Multimedia Institute/MAMA</span></i></span></font></font></font></a><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal"> </span></span></span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal">in Zagreb, a
co-initiator of the</span></span></span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal"> </span></span></span></font></font></font><a
href="https://pirate.care/" moz-do-not-send="true"><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><i><span style="font-weight:
normal">Pirate Care</span></i></span></font></font></font></a><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><i><span style="font-weight:
normal"> </span></i></span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><i><span style="font-weight:
normal">project,</span></i></span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal"> and an artist in the
performing arts collective</span></span></span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal"> </span></span></span></font></font></font><a
href="http://badco.hr/" moz-do-not-send="true"><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><i><span style="font-weight:
normal">BADco</span></i></span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal">.</span></span></span></font></font></font></a><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal"> With his colleagues at
the Multimedia Institute/MAMA, since 2000 he has
organised talks, conferences and exhibitions, and
edited publications in the fields of political
economy, tactical media and the commons. His own
research interests are in technology, capitalist
development and post-capitalist transition, with a
particular focus on environmental crisis, political
economy of intellectual property and unevenness of
techno-science. At times, he also writes on theatre,
dance and politics. You can find more about his
writing and work at:</span></span></span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal"> </span></span></span></font></font></font><a
href="https://tomislav.medak.click/" moz-do-not-send="true"><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal">https://tomislav.medak.click</span></span></span></font></font></font></a><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal">.</span></span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><b>Concept and
moderation: </b><b>Ana Vilenica</b> is a housing
activist, a researcher and theoretician of social
movements, urban changes, housing and art. </font></font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><b>Chat
moderation and technical support</b></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3">:</font></font></font><em><font color="#000000"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"> </font></font></font></em><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><b>Darija Medić</b></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"> is a digital practitioner and educator,
researching the field of identity correction//building and
labyrinths of contemporary technical practices through the
poetics of language, technology and art.</font></font></font>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal">Conversations </span></span></span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><i><b>Vectors of collective
imagination in art</b></i></span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal"> are part of the project </span></span></span></font></font></font><a
href="https://kuda.org/sr/search/umetnička%20organizacija"
moz-do-not-send="true"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times
New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang=""><i><b>Art
Organisation</b></i></span></font></font></font></a><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal"> </span></span></span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><b>-</b></span></span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal"> a long-term international
research project that deals with the analysis of
artistic (self)organisation in the (post)Yugoslav
region. The focus of this project is on self-organised
art initiatives outside the mainstream. The project
covers a wide historical field from Surrealism in the
1930s to the present day. During 2017, our work on the
project began with interviewing participants and
protagonists of the contemporary art scene in
Yugoslavia. This work continues in 2018 and 2019, when
interviewees were theoreticians and art historians, as
well as artists who had realised their practice
through group art work. The result of this research is
an archive consisting of interviews, documentation of
works of art and critical texts written during the
project trough the program </span></span></span></font></font></font><strong><a
href="https://kuda.org/en/kudaorg-announces-fragments-studies-art-organisations-july-2020"
moz-do-not-send="true"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times
New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang=""><i>Fragments
for studies on art organisations</i></span></font></font></font></a></strong><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal">. In July, simultaneously
with the series of talks, a collaborative research
working group will meet online to analyse and review
the materials created during the project. This working
group will create a space for collective critical
rewriting of the art history of the (post)Yugoslav
cultural space and critical work with the generated
archive. The online format of the upcoming events and
sessions was selected due to the changed circumstances
that arose during the COVID-19 pandemic and represents
a kind of a challenge for all those involved in this
process.</span></span></span></font></font></font>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong><font color="#111111"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang=""><span
style="font-style: normal"><b>Art Organisation</b></span></span></font></font></font></strong><font
color="#111111"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal"> is part of a wider
project </span></span></span></font></font></font><strong><font
color="#111111"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><b>Vectors
of Collective Imagination</b></span></span></font></font></font></strong><font
color="#111111"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal"> where kuda.org
cooperates with partners: </span></span></span></font></font></font><a
href="https://www.mi2.hr/" moz-do-not-send="true"><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><u><span
style="font-weight: normal">Multimedia Institute
mi2</span></u></span></span></font></font></font></a><font
color="#111111"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal"> and </span></span></span></font></font></font><a
href="http://www.booksa.hr/" moz-do-not-send="true"><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><u><span
style="font-weight: normal">Kulturtreger-Books</span></u></span></span></font></font></font></a><font
color="#111111"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal">, Zagreb (HR); </span></span></span></font></font></font><a
href="http://glanta.org/about/" moz-do-not-send="true"><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><u><span
style="font-weight: normal">Glänta Gothenburg</span></u></span></span></font></font></font></a><font
color="#111111"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal"> (SE); </span></span></span></font></font></font><a
href="http://www.kontrapunkt-mk.org/" moz-do-not-send="true"><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><u><span
style="font-weight: normal">Kontrapunkt</span></u></span></span></font></font></font></a><font
color="#111111"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal">, Skopje (MK) and </span></span></span></font></font></font><a
href="https://berlinergazette.de/" moz-do-not-send="true"><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><u><span
style="font-weight: normal">Berliner Gazette</span></u></span></span></font></font></font></a><font
color="#111111"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal">, Berlin (DE).</span></span></span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal"> </span></span></span></font></font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span lang=""><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
normal">The project is supported by the European
Commission through the Creative Europe program from
September 2018 till September 2020, with the support
of the FFAIART Foundation for Art Initiatives and
local program support of the Ministry of Culture and
Information of the Republic of Serbia and the City
of Novi Sad.</span></span></span></font></font></font></p>
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