Reading list: School of Common Knowledge 2024
To accompany the first edition of the School of Common Knowledge, L’Internationale Online is publishing a reading list. Comprising contributions suggested by the School’s speakers and hosts, the reading list offers contextual material for those both present in Zagreb and Ljubljana and for the platform’s wider readership. The reading list will be updated before, during and after the School.
The curriculum for this pilot programme focuses on two proposals:
–Exploring situated organisations as actors in the (art) world and as sites from which to speak about translocal connections. The programme will challenge universalism and globalism in culture as forces that serve particular class and cultural interests.
–Investigating and co-learning how to resist and transform the alliance of neo-liberal and neo-fascist forces that have established huge influence in world politics and its military, economic and cultural policies.
Reading list
Material related to keynote speakers:
Leonida Kovač, ‘Polyrhythmics and Migrating Voices’ in Ann Murray (ed.), Constructing the Memory of War in Visual Culture since 1914: The Eye on War, New York and London: Routledge, 2018
Tomaž Mastnak, ‘Twenty-Eight Years Later’ in Ana Mizerit and Adela Železnik (eds.), The Heritage of 1989. Case Study: The Second Yugoslav Documents exhibition, Ljubljana: Moderna galerija, 2017
Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, ‘Vampires in the Living Room. A View of What Happened to Eastern Europe after 1989, and Why Real Socialism Still Matters’ in Corinne Kumar (ed.), Asking, We Walk: The South as New Political Imaginary, Book Three: In the Time of the Fire, Bangalore, India: Streelekha, 2012
Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, ‘The Work at Reorientation’, Cross-border Talks, 15 October, 2022
Material related to invited participants and organisations:
Marco Baravalle, ‘Notes from a Performative Investigation’, ARCH+ #252, Open for Maintenance, 2023
Sezgin Boynik, ‘The Art of Slogans (The Performative Part)’, Journal for Performing Arts Theory, no. 19, 2011
Sezgin Boynik, ‘The Art of Slogans (The Constative Part)’, Journal for Performing Arts Theory, no. 20, 2012
Sezgin Boynik ‘Breaking Point of Structures: From Concrete Poetry to Partisan Print’, interview with Rastko Močnik, OEI Magazine No. 90–91, 2021
Sezgin Boynik and Tevfik Rada (eds.), ‘See You in the Next War’, Film as Political School, Volume 3, 2024
Cyrille Cartier, ‘Beyond the Binary: The intersection of care, identity and integration’, paper based on a presentation given at the conference ‘In the Frictions: Fragments of Care, Health and Wellbeing in the Balkans’ at the University of Zadar, 27–30 April 2023
Iva Kovač (ed.), GSG (Magazine for Contemporary Art and Social Issues of From the Citizens to Their City Initiative, issue 2, 2019
Irfan Hošic, ‘Cultural Institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1995 to 2020 and the Issue of Crisis’ in Nothing's Guaranteed, Sumerhall, Edinburgh, 2022
Irfan Hošić, ‘Urban and Cultural Transformation through the Practice of Total Engagement: Case Study KRAK’ in Irine Boric and Simone Venturini (eds.) RESCUE - REgeneration of disused industrials sites through creativity in Europe, 2021
Danica Sretenović and Gaja Mežnarić Osole, ‘Feral Occupations: “Our labor is our infrastructure!”’, Reader of the 35th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, 2023
Danica Sretenović, 'An Exercise in Feral Cartographies' in Prototyping Collaboration, Berlin: Creative Impact Research Centre Europe (CIRCE), 2023
Danica Sretenović, ‘The builder who travels for the sake of travel, Pioneer Railroad (1948–1954–2019...)’ in Martin Bricelj Baraga, Miloš Kosec, and Neja Tomšič (eds.), Nonument, Ljubljana: MoTA – Museum of Transitory Art, 2020
What, How & for Whom / WHW, ‘There is something political in the city air’ in Urška Jurman, Christiane Erharter, and Rawley Grau (eds.), Extending the Dialogue – Essays by Igor Zabel Award Laureates, Grant Recipients, and Jury Members, 2008–2014, Ljubljana, Berlin, and Vienna: IZA Editions, 2016
What, How and for Whom/WHW, ‘Magically, new highways, stadiums, and police stations emerge’ in Corina L. Apostol and Nato Thompson (eds.), Making Another World Possible – 10 Creative Time Summits, 10 Global Issues, 100 Art Projects, New York: Routledge, 2019
General Reading:
Zdenka Badovinac, Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-Socialist Europe, New York: Independent Curators International (ICI), 2019
Zdenka Badovinac, Bojana Piškur, and Jesús Carrillo (eds.), Glossary of Common Knowledge, Vol. 1, Ljubljana: Moderna galerija, 2018
Ida Hiršenfelder (ed.), Glossary of Common Knowledge, Vol. 2, Ljubljana: Moderna galerija, 2022
Related activities
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–MSU ZagrebVan AbbemuseumModerna galerijaZRC SAZU
Open Call – School of Common Knowledge 2024
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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–MACBA
The Open Kitchen. The fermented seed, colonialism and extractivism
The MACBA Kitchen is a working group situated against the backdrop of ecosocial crisis. Participants in the group aim to highlight the importance of intuitively imagining an ecofeminist kitchen, and take a particular interest in the wisdom of individuals, projects and experiences that work with dislocated knowledge in relation to food sovereignty.
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MACBA
The Kitchen: Workshop by Marina Monsonís
The Kitchen is a meeting place open to the participation of all, especially people and organizations that want to share their knowledge and experiences around the kitchen.
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Multicultural Youth Center
The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, together with the confederation of museums L'Internationale, is establishing a Multicultural Youth Center. This is a unique space for 16-24 year olds to explore and develop their creativity, make new friends and hang out in a friendly and supportive environment.
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–MACBA
Where are the Oases?
PEI OBERT seminar
with Kader Attia, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz, Emily Jacir, Achille Mbembe, Sarah Nuttall and Françoise VergèsAn oasis is the potential for life in an adverse environment.
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MACBA
Mobile Garden. A Place to Meet
An open space, a social space. How could the Museum be more open to the needs of the neighbourhood?
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Museo Reina Sofia
School of Commoning Practices
This exchange programme gathers different schools organized by volunteers and migrant communities in Athens (Open School for Migrants) and Madrid (School of Rights, Escuela de Español and Situated mediation School) in order to share their knowledge, exchange strategies and reflect on the experience of working together with migrant communities.
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–Museo Reina Sofia
Team of Teams
This project researches citizen participation as a fundamental pillar in the creation of community.
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–Museo Reina Sofia
Sustainable Art Production
The Studies Center of Museo Reina Sofía will publish an open call for four residencies of artistic practice for projects that address the emergencies and challenges derived from the climate crisis such as food sovereignty, architecture and sustainability, communal practices, diasporas and exiles or ecological and political sustainability, among others.
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M HKA
SUPERHOST | Club Antena. Intimate listening and dancing experience
with Nele Möller, Farida Amadou, Le Réalism, Céline Gillain, Roberta Miss, Elena Colombi
CLUB ANTENA is an intimate listening and dancing session with a lecture, concert, performance, catering and DJ sets, exploring what it means to listen with our bodies.
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–tranzit.ro
Non-Western Technologies for the Good Life
The experimental course ‘Non-Western Technologies for the Good Life’ (November 2023–May 2024) celebrates as its starting point the anniversary of 50 years since the publication of Tools for Conviviality, considering that Ivan Illich’s call is as relevant as ever.
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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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Tongue and Throat Memories
On hospitality and conviviality through food
Knowledges and convenings
Cooking Sessions -
–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 ZagrebModerna galerijaZRC SAZU
School of Common Knowledge 2024
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.
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MACBA
The Open Kitchen. Map of edible tensions
with Marina Monsonís, Paisanaje and Ruralitzem
The MACBA Kitchen is a working group situated against the backdrop of ecosocial crisis. Participants in the group aim to highlight the importance of intuitively imagining an ecofeminist kitchen, and take a particular interest in the wisdom of individuals, projects and experiences that work with dislocated knowledge in relation to food sovereignty. -
The Open Kitchen. Food networks in an emergency situation
with Marina Monsonís, the Cabanyal cooking, Resistencia Migrante Disidente and Assemblea Catalana per la Transició Ecosocial
The MACBA Kitchen is a working group situated against the backdrop of ecosocial crisis. Participants in the group aim to highlight the importance of intuitively imagining an ecofeminist kitchen, and take a particular interest in the wisdom of individuals, projects and experiences that work with dislocated knowledge in relation to food sovereignty. -
Moderna galerija
Book Launch: Collective Study in Times of Emergency, Ljubljana
with Nick Aikens (L'Internationale Online / HDK-Valand), Bojana Piškur (MG+MSUM) and Martin Pogačar (ZRC SAZU)
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Kyiv Biennial 2025
L’Internationale Confederation is a proud partner of this years’ edition of the Kyiv Biennial.
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–MACBAMuseo Reina Sofia
School of Common Knowledge 2025
The second iteration of the School of Common Knowledge will bring together international participants, faculty from the confederation and situated organisations in Barcelona and Madrid.
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–SALT
Plant(ing) Entanglements
The series of sound installations Warm Earth Sounds for Plants and the People Who Love Them ends with Fulya Uçanok’s sound installation Plant(ing) Entanglements.
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Museo Reina Sofia
School of Commoning Practices. Publication
Students, teachers and organizations of self-managed language and cultural mediation schools for migrants in Florence, Athens and Madrid share their experiences.
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–Museo Reina Sofia
Sustainable Art Production. Research Residencies
The projects selected in the first call of the Sustainable Art Practice research residencies are A hores d'ara. Experiences and memory of the defense of the Huerta valenciana through its archive by the group of researchers Anaïs Florin, Natalia Castellano and Alba Herrero; and Fundamental Errors by the filmmaker and architect Mauricio Freyre.
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–Museo Reina SofiaMACBA
Open Call – School of Common Knowledge 2025
Museo Reina Sofía and MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) invite applications for the 2025 iteration of the School of Common Knowledge, which will take place in Madrid and Barcelona 11-16 November 2025. The School of Common Knowledge (SCK) draws on the network, knowledge and experience of L’Internationale. 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. This year, the SCK program focuses on the contested and dynamic notions of rooting and uprooting in the framework of present – colonial, migrant, situated, and ecological – complexities. Building on the legacy of the Glossary of Common Knowledge and the current European program Museum of the Commons, the SCK invites participants to reflect on the power of language to shape our understanding of art and society through a co-learning methodology.
Related contributions and publications
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Glossary of Common Knowledge, Vol. 2
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Glossary of Common Knowledge
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Prácticas lumbung para resistir y colaborar desde el arte
Constanza Yévenes BiénzobasEN eslumbungSituated OrganizationsMuseo Reina Sofia -
Algunos términos que guían a lumbung press: Definiendo “edición”
Erick BeltránEN eslumbungSituated OrganizationsMACBA -
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 at Work – At the Crossroads between Utopianism and (In)Dependence
Moderna galerija -
Realize! Resist! React! – Performance and Politics in the 1990s in the Post-Yugoslav Context
Moderna galerija -
»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 -
Newsreel 65 – “We have too much things in heart…”
Moderna galerija -
The Heritage of 1989. Case Study: The Second Yugoslav Documents Exhibition
Moderna galerija -
From Kapital to Capital. Neue Slowenische Kunst – an Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia
Moderna galerija -
Museums under Political Control
Workers from Moderna galerijaModerna galerija -
Discomfort at Dinner: The role of food work in challenging empire
Mary FawzyLand RelationsSituated Organizations -
Mix tape: Let's funk up all genders!
Materia Hache / Others to the FrontEN esSonic and Cinema CommonsSituated OrganizationsMuseo Reina Sofia -
Towards Collective Learning, or, Decompartmentalizing Education
María Berríos, Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca, Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide, Nick AikensSchoolsSituated Organizations -
The Silence Has Been Unfolding For Too Long
The Free Palestine Initiative CroatiaInternationalismsPast in the PresentSituated OrganizationsInstitute of Radical ImaginationMSU Zagreb -
Dispatch: Harvesting Non-Western Epistemologies (ongoing)
Adelina LuftLand RelationsSchoolsClimatetranzit.ro -
Dispatch: From the Eleventh Session of Non-Western Technologies for the Good Life
Ana KunLand RelationsSchoolstranzit.ro -
Reading list: School of Common Knowledge 2024
School of Common KnowledgeSchoolsSituated OrganizationsMSU ZagrebModerna galerijaZRC SAZU -
War, Peace and Image Politics: Part 1, Who Has a Right to These Images?
Jelena VesićInternationalismsPast in the PresentZRC SAZU -
Dispatch: Practicing Conviviality
Ana BarbuClimateSchoolsLand Relationstranzit.ro -
Dispatch: Notes on Separation and Conviviality
Raluca PopaLand RelationsSchoolsSituated OrganizationsClimatetranzit.ro -
To Build an Ecological Art Institution: The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, Raluca VoineaLand RelationsClimateSituated Organizationstranzit.ro -
Dispatch: A Shared Dialogue
Irina Botea Bucan, Jon DeanLand RelationsSchoolsClimatetranzit.ro -
Dispatch: In between the lessons. Staying together in uncertain times, laughing in the face of trouble, and disobeying; the future belongs to us
Antonela SoleničkiSchoolsSituated OrganizationsMSU ZagrebModerna galerijaZRC SAZU -
Dispatch: The Commonsverse and Situated Organisations – or why the era of big institutions will come to an end
Denise PolliniSchoolsSituated OrganizationsMSU ZagrebModerna galerijaZRC SAZU -
Dispatch: A Buriti Tree
Lucas PrettiSchoolsSituated OrganizationsMSU ZagrebModerna galerijaZRC SAZU -
Poner el nombre a una causa en tierra extraña
Dagmary Olívar Graterol, Paola de la Vega VelasteguiEN esSchoolsSituated OrganizationsMuseo Reina Sofia -
Dispatch: To whom it may concern – the voice of the censor and re-calibrating words as an act of survival
AnonymousSchoolsSituated OrganizationsMSU ZagrebModerna galerijaZRC SAZU -
Rethinking Comradeship from a Feminist Position
Leonida KovačSchoolsInternationalismsSituated OrganizationsMSU ZagrebModerna galerijaZRC SAZU -
Reading list - Summer School: Our Many Easts
Summer School - Our Many EastsSchoolsPast in the PresentModerna galerija -
Dispatch: ‘I don't believe in revolution, but sometimes I get in the spirit.’
Megan HoetgerSchoolsPast in the Present -
Dispatch: Notes on (de)growth from the fragments of Yugoslavia's former alliances
Ava ZevopSchoolsPast in the Present -
Collective Study in Times of Emergency. A Roundtable
Nick Aikens, Sara Buraya Boned, Charles Esche, Martin Pogačar, Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, Ezgi YurteriInternationalismsPast in the PresentSituated Organizations -
Dispatch: A Silent Conversation
Anela DumonjićSchoolsModerna galerija -
Taking Part. A Guide to Participatory Tools and Techniques
EN esSituated OrganizationsMuseo Reina Sofia -
Atención: participar en el Museo de los Comunes
Fran MM Cabeza de VacaEN esSchoolsSituated Organizations -
S come Silenzio
Maddalena FragnitoEN itInternationalismsSituated Organizations