School of Common Knowledge
School of Common Knowledge draws on the network, knowledge and experience of the L’Internationale museum confederation. Built on the basis laid by the Glossary of Common Knowledge, a project initiated by Zdenka Badovinac and Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana, it continues its co-learning methodology. Its ambition is to be both nomadic and situated, looking at specific cultural and geopolitical situations while exploring their relations and interdependencies with the rest of the world.
The pilot programme taking place in Zagreb and Ljubljana 24–29 May, 2024, speaks from central Europe and the western Balkans seeking to co-learn how to resist and transform the alliance of neo-liberal and neo-fascist forces in today’s world. The region has created and sustained specific ways of responding to and against globalisation and political hegemonies, as well as alternative ways of engaging with other parts of the world. Unique social models and imaginaries developed here, together with the region’s particular relations to coloniality and imperiality, are useful to reconsider in the light of present conflicts. Having access to the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb and Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana, which largely contain works by artists from the Balkans and the wider Eastern European region, as well as addressing the social and political histories of the socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement, the programme offers ways to explore decolonisation, anti-fascist struggles and anti-war narratives through the voices and experiences of artists and cultural workers grounded in decolonial practices. Situated organisations and individuals from the Balkan region will narrate their practices of cultural production and the possibilities that emerge from them. Insisting on collaborative learning, the SCK will build a small temporary community that can learn to trust and antagonise each other through exchange and shared experiences.
Participants
Marta Agičić
Ana Martina Bakić
Christophe Barbeau
Bengisu Çağlayan
Marisa Cortright
Jose Mari B. Cuartero
Nevena Delić
Bianca Dentellato
Alessandra Franetovich
Oksana Karpovets
Masa Nazzal & Leandro Navarro-Cabanas
Jolanta Nowaczyk
Esra Oskay
Agnese Politi
Denise Pollini
Lucas Pretti
Ares Shporta
Antonela Solenički
Antonina Stebur
Krisztián Gábor Török
Marianna Tsionki
Takuya Tsutsumi
Annosh Urbanke
Maria Veits
Sofia Victorino
Erin Wilkerson
Anna Zsoldos
L’Internationale members:
Nick Aikens, L’Internationale
Zdenka Badovinac, SCK curator
Marco Baravalle, IRI, Venezia
Manuel Borja Villel, L’Internationale Association
Sara Buraya Bonet, Reina Sofia, Madrid
Charles Esche, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Sabel Gavaldon, MACBA, Barcelona
Jasna Jakšić, MSU, Zagreb
Magda Lipska, MSN, Warszawa
Bojana Piškur, MG+MSUM, Ljubljana
Martin Pogačar, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana
Ana Škegro, MSU, Zagreb
Mabel Tapia, L’Internationale Association
Adela Železnik, MG+MSUM, Ljubljana
Guests:
Deja Bečaj, Božidar Jakac Art Museum
Miha Colner, Božidar Jakac Art Museum
Urška Jurman, Igor Zabel Society
Mia Lerm-Hayes, University of Amsterdam
Goran Milovanović, Director, Božidar Jakac Art Museum
Situated Organisations:
Sezgin Boynik, Pykë-Presje, Prizren
BLOK, Zagreb (Ana Kutleša)
Irfan Hošić, University of Bihać / KRAK Center
Krater, Ljubljana (Danica Sretenović & Gaja Mežnarić Osole)
Goran Milovanovič, Galerija Božidar Jakac, Kostanjevica na Krki
Natalija Vujošević, Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro, Podgorica
Lala Raščić, Crvena, Sarajevo
What, How and for Whom / WHW (Sabina Sabolović)
Živi atelje DK, Zagreb (Cyrille Cartier, Saša Kralj)
Keynotes:
Leonida Kovač
Tomaž Mastnak
Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu
Special tour:
Beti Žerovc
Dimitirije Bašičević Mangelos, Notes, 1970s. Courtesy of Mario Bruketa and Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb
Related activities
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–Van Abbemuseum
The Soils Project
‘The Soils Project’ is part of an eponymous, long-term research initiative involving TarraWarra Museum of Art (Wurundjeri Country, Australia), the Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Struggles for Sovereignty, a collective based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It works through specific and situated practices that consider soil, as both metaphor and matter.
Seeking and facilitating opportunities to listen to diverse voices and perspectives around notions of caring for land, soil and sovereign territories, the project has been in development since 2018. An international collaboration between three organisations, and several artists, curators, writers and activists, it has manifested in various iterations over several years. The group exhibition ‘Soils’ at the Van Abbemuseum is part of Museum of the Commons. -
–Van Abbemuseum
Maria Lugones Decolonial Summer School
Recalling Earth: Decoloniality and Demodernity
Course Directors: Prof. Walter Mignolo & Dr. Rolando VázquezRecalling Earth and learning worlds and worlds-making will be the topic of chapter 14th of the María Lugones Summer School that will take place at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.
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Institute of Radical ImaginationMSU Zagreb
Red, Green, Black and White
A performative inquiry by Institute of Radical Imagination and MSU Zagreb
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–Moderna galerijaZRC SAZU
Summer School: Our Many Easts
Our Many Easts summer school is organised by Moderna galerija in Ljubljana in partnership with ZRC SAZU (the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts) as part of the L’Internationale project Museum of the Commons.
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–Moderna galerijaZRC SAZU
Open Call – Summer School: Our Many Easts
Our Many Easts summer school takes place in Ljubljana 24–30 August and the application deadline is 15 March. Courses will be held in English and cover topics such as the legacy of the Eastern European avant-gardes, archives as tools of emancipation, the new “non-aligned” networks, art in times of conflict and war, ecology and the environment.
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–MSU ZagrebVan AbbemuseumModerna galerijaZRC SAZU
Open Call – School of Common Knowledge
MSU (Zagreb), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), MG+MSUM (Ljubljana), ZRC SAZU (Ljubljana) and L'Internationale invite applications for the new School of Common Knowledge (SCK) to be held in Zagreb and Ljubljana 24–29 May 2024. The School of Common Knowledge draws on the network, knowledge and experience of the L’Internationale museum confederation. Its ambition is to be both nomadic and situated, looking at specific cultural and geopolitical situations while exploring their relations and interdependencies with the rest of the world. The SCK is built on the basis laid by the Glossary of Common Knowledge project initiated by Zdenka Badovinac and Moderna galerija (Ljubljana) and continues its co-learning methodology.
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–MSU ZagrebVan AbbemuseumModerna galerijaZRC SAZU
School of Common Knowledge
School of Common Knowledge draws on the network, knowledge and experience of the L’Internationale museum confederation. Built on the basis laid by the Glossary of Common Knowledge, a project initiated by Zdenka Badovinac and Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana, it continues its co-learning methodology. Its ambition is to be both nomadic and situated, looking at specific cultural and geopolitical situations while exploring their relations and interdependencies with the rest of the world.
Related contributions
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Reading list: School of Common Knowledge 2024
School of Common KnowledgeSchool of Common KnowledgeSituated OrganizationsMSU ZagrebModerna galerijaZRC SAZU -
Decolonial aesthesis: weaving each other
Charles Esche, Rolando Vázquez, Teresa Cos RebolloThe Soils ProjectClimateVan Abbemuseum -
The Kitchen, an Introduction to Subversive Film with Nick Aikens, Reem Shilleh and Mohanad Yaqubi
Nick Aikens, Subversive FilmlumbungPast in the PresentVan Abbemuseum -
A dialogical tour through the exhibition The Making of Modern Art
Steven ten Thije, Quinsy GarioDialoguesVan Abbemuseum -
Performances from the opening of The Heritage of 1989. Case Study: The Second Yugoslav Documents Exhibition
Jusuf Hadžifejzović, Azra Akšamija, Ilija ŠoškićDialoguesModerna galerija -
Epistemologies of the South
Zdenka Badovinac, Jesús Carrillo, Patrick FloresDialoguesModerna galerija -
Art Museums and Democracy
Charles Esche, Manuel Borja-Villel, Bart de BaereDialoguesM HKAVan AbbemuseumMuseo Reina Sofia -
»We should never abandon the possibility of our active presence«
Zdenka Badovinac, Ieva Astahovska, Bermet Borubaeva, Darja Filippova, Nika Ham, Dorota Michalska, Radek Przedpełski, Ekaterina VorontsovaModerna galerija -
Our Movements Are Loud
Bridge RadioModerna galerijaHDK-Valand -
Tuning, Bias, and the Wild Beyond
Nora Akawi, Khyam AllamiModerna galerijaHDK-Valand -
How to prepare for a hurricane, pt. 2
Quinsy GarioVan Abbemuseum -
Museums under Political Control
Workers from Moderna galerijaModerna galerija -
Indra's Web
Vandana Singh... and the Earth alongPast in the PresentClimateZRC SAZU -
The Silence Has Been Unfolding For Too Long
The Free Palestine Initiative CroatiaTowards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyPast in the PresentSituated OrganizationsInstitute of Radical ImaginationMSU Zagreb -
War, Peace and Image Politics: Part 1, Who Has a Right to These Images?
Jelena VesićPast in the PresentZRC SAZU -
Dispatch: In between the lessons. Staying together in uncertain times, laughing in the face of trouble, and disobeying; the future belongs to us
Antonela SoleničkiSchool of Common KnowledgeSituated OrganizationsMSU ZagrebModerna galerijaZRC SAZU -
Dispatch: The Commonsverse and Situated Organisations – or why the era of big institutions will come to an end
Denise PolliniSchool of Common KnowledgeSituated OrganizationsMSU ZagrebModerna galerijaZRC SAZU -
Dispatch: To whom it may concern – the voice of the censor and re-calibrating words as an act of survival
AnonymousSchool of Common KnowledgeSituated OrganizationsMSU ZagrebModerna galerijaZRC SAZU