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Call for application per il II Research Pavillion alla Biennale di Venezia 2017. Tema: l’Open Access.


La University of the Arts di Helsinki aveva organizzato alla Biennale di Venezia del 2015 il Research Pavilion, un momento di riflessione sui temi caldi della nostra contemporaneità e del fare artistico (e quale momento migliore della Biennale veneziana?).

Allora il tema fu la sperimentazione nell'arte contemporanea. Per la prossima edizione si discuterà di accesso: "The ‘Berlin Declaration’ as drawn up by the European Union, states that from 2025 research funded from public means should be accessible for everyone through Open Access. What are the consequences of this measure for a relatively young and as yet not fully disciplined field such as Artistic Research? Will there be a further demise of originality and authenticity and an increasing focus on metadata? Are we at risk of encroaching bureaucracy that will achieve the opposite of the legislation/regulation’s aim: Open Access as a pricy proces for the happy few who know the rules and possibilities of the game? Can the Access-rhetorics be reduced to the now dominant, but also questionable, neo-liberal interpretation of the concept of democracy as a globalized export product? And finally: How accessible will artistic research itself remain – where will research within the arts and about the arts, that traditionally has a crucial impact on theorizing and informing on art within education and criticism, stand in the artistic turn of research?"

Come cambierà l'arte contemporanea questo nuovo 'valore culturale' dettatoci dall'Europa? Attività e mostre cercheranno di rispondere a questa domanda.

Ecco la domanda guida intorno a cui costruire le proposte (e qui la pagina dell'Università delle Arti di Helsinki da cui proviene la notizia, la parte in inglese scorrendo in basso):

"How and in what way can we prevent that the current Access-ideology results in the decline of human imagination and radical thinking. If we recognize that nowadays Access-thought touches the very roots of political awareness, how can we set about dismantling these contemporary configurations of power? And what are the consequences of such critical reflections for the further development of curatorial models and display-systems?"

Foto: Università delle Arti di Helsinki