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(Self) Organisation | Creativity & process | Network

Studio Visit Ethics

The Studio Visit Ethics project gathers artists’ lived experiences to investigate and challenge how studio visits are normatively (and uncritically) conducted. As a result, a printed and digital poster publication was launched by Feminist Culture House, designed by Anh Ngo. It includes a flowchart that maps possible pathways for navigating different moments and positions during studio visits.

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Rights & Safety

Guide: Safety Considerations when working with Artists and Communities from Diverse Genders, Sexualities, and Cultures

Author(s): Samia Sayed & Claire Pettigrew

This guide invites arts institutions, arts workers and peer artists to critically reflect on their approach to working with artists and communities who experience intersections of diverse gender, sexuality and culture. Institutions and arts workers have a duty of care to ensure the safety of artists and communities engaged in their spaces.

Our aim is to offer space to consider the specificities and complexities of experiences of gender, sexuality and culture and to share suggestions for adopting culturally safer practice. Here’s what we explore in this guide: intersectionality, cultural competency, prioritising discretion and disclosure of identity, safety tools for action.

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(Self) Organisation | Rights & Safety

The CERF+ Studio Protector: A Comprehensive Artist Studio Protection Guide

A collection of CERF+‘s (Craft Emergency Relief Fund) guides, tips and bundles of advice surrounding the artist’s and their studio’s safety.

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Archiving & Documenting

Building an Archive of your Work

Author(s): Peter Keegan & Laura Boswell

By its very nature, being an artist generates work.  You may be able to sell everything that you do, but more likely there will be works that need to be stored – and catalogued.

Archiving your work is a grand way of saying ‘keep a record’, but this particular kind of paperwork is an essential aspect of every artist’s job. In this episode Laura and Peter offer their hints and tips for establishing and maintaining a sensible system without the need to go full-on dusty archivist!

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Archiving & Documenting

Artwork Documentation Tool

Dear Artists, if you’d like to be more in control of the future presentation of your artworks, this tool gives you guidelines to do just that. We know that documenting and preserving your work is not easily done, or is complicated by competing requirements of your time and resources. For these reasons and more, LIMA created this Artwork Documentation Tool to empower you and other artists to feel in control of documenting your own artworks so you’ll be able to show them now and in the future. The tool is free to use and offers a series of steps and tasks to support you in gathering and documenting information about your artworks and also acts as a place to store this. The information you bring together will contribute greatly to your own personal knowledge of your practice and will also help you more easily offer your work for exhibition, acquisition and purchase to interested galleries, museums and collectors.

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Archiving & Documenting

Career Documentation for the Visual Artist

| ISBN: 979-8-9861173-3-1

This free educational workbook provides a breadth of information and perspectives about legacy planning for artists, along with practical tools that support engagement with this long-term, and sometimes challenging, process. The guide is part of the Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Creating a Living Legacy (CALL) initiative, which for nearly 15 years has supported artists in their efforts to catalogue, manage, and preserve their life’s work.

Career Documentation for the Visual Artist features an esteemed group of professional voices in the artist legacy and archiving field, and covers a range of topics including: setting priorities and goals, creating a support system, budgeting for your inventory practice, mapping your archival legacy, creating an artwork inventory, managing digital image assets, creating a bibliography, drafting a preservation plan, capturing your career map and timeline, and more practical advice for documenting your career as an artist.

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(Self) Organisation | Collaboration & Collectives

Generative Decision Making Guide Leaflet

Author(s): Samantha Slade

The Generative Decision Making process is a process for taking decisions by consent. Its ideal for self-organising when you want to make decisions collectively in the spirit of moving the organisation forward.

The process builds on the Integrated decision making method of Holacracy adding the culture and practice of Art of Hosting.

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Parenthood

Parenting in the Arts: Meaningful tools for Parent Artists

We have been putting together meaningful tools that artist parents should be aware of: supportive networks, inspiring podcasts, residencies that welcome artists to come with their families, insightful books, magazines, social channels etc.

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Collaboration & Collectives | Self-care

Art of Asking for Help

Have you ever thought that we can improve our asking for help skills and even approach asking for help as a practice? Our awareness of the specific type of help we are asking for and the words we use to ask for help can be fine-tuned. Indeed, the more our request for help is precise the higher our chances of obtaining the help we actually want and avoid frustrations on both sides (feelings of not being heard or not being appreciated).
At Percolab we have developed a simple tool to support the development of our asking for help culture along with a step-by-step manual to increase your own awareness of your asking for help skills.

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Publishing

How to Book in Japan

There are a great many books about making books, and this one is by no means a replacement for them. Rather, this is the guide that the authors wish they had when they started making books – a guide that was able to answer the questions they struggled to resolve and that shared crucial advice from those who were perhaps more experienced or knowledgeable. A total of twenty contributors, ranging from publishers and studios to artists and photographers, present their various styles of work in this helpful volume. More importantly, each has their own beliefs about what should be made into a book and why. A book for those who still want to make paper books.

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Parenthood

On the Move x Points of Entry – Parenthood and Mobility in the Arts

On the Move is collaborating with Points of Entry to take its first leap into the world of podcasting – curating an urgent conversation about the lack of support for art workers with children and how this intersects with cultural mobility.

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(m)otherhood in the arts

A report on the symposium ‘(m)otherhood in the arts’ that took place on Thursday 15 February 2024 in Flemish Arts Centre de Brakke Grond. How can the arts sector provide care and make it possible to combine parenting with being an artist?

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Parenthood | Rights & Safety | Self-care

between art & family

Author(s): Mirthe Berentsen

This is between art & family, or as we like to call it in Dutch, tussen kunst & kind. In this podcast, writer and artist Mirthe Berentsen speaks to idealists about change – whether it be through artistic, political or academic research, this space is for those questioning the norm.

While navigating through these discussions, Berentsen and her guests are delving into the nuances of private, personal, and public spheres, unraveling the complex fabric of political and artistic life. A platform for everyone seeking change, from redefining the nuclear family and challenging patriarchy to dismantling ableism and reconceptualizing care.

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Archiving & Documenting

TRACKS

TRACKS is designed like a suitcase that contains the tools artists and arts organisations need for the preservation of their own archive and/or collection(s).

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Archiving & Documenting

Actions to archive your art and practice

There are several steps you can take to ensure that your archive is properly stored and accessible. Here you will find an overview of the most important actions specific to archive care.

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Sustainability

GCC Carbon Calculator

The GCC Carbon Calculator is a free online tool for estimating the greenhouse gas emissions of art organisations and projects. Using common art world metrics, it provides a breakdown of emissions and offers both detailed reporting and a quick assessment tool to help manage your environmental impacts effectively.

For more detailed reporting, the GCC Carbon Calculator provides comprehensive insights, while the Quick Calculator offers a rapid assessment of your carbon footprint, ideal for preliminary evaluations or quick insights. Both elements are designed to help you understand and manage your environmental impact effectively.

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Business

The Art Biz

Author(s): Alyson Stanfield

An art business podcast. Conversations with artists and people in the art ecosystem about anything and everything having to do with the business of art.

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Education | Research | Sustainability

Out of Theory – Relational Ecologies of Theory and Practice in the Arts

Author(s): Peter Sonderen (ed) | ISBN: 9789491444951

Over the past 30 years, the rise of art as research has brought theory to the center of art education. Out of Theory: Relational Ecologies of Theory and Practice in the Arts explores how theory can be approached in the arts and its evolving connections with other disciplines. The first part examines the dynamic relationship between theory and practice; the second presents outcomes from Polyphonic Landscapes, an artistic research project that treats theory as practice. It asks: What is a landscape? How can sonic research reshape our understanding of the environment? And how can listening foster a more embodied and reciprocal connection with the world?

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Creativity & process | Health

Creating Wellbeing: Attitudes and engagement with arts, culture and health

Creating Wellbeing: Attitudes and engagement with arts, culture and health provides insights into who is accessing the arts to improve their health and wellbeing, and how people feel about the idea of ‘arts on prescription’ – an innovative practice that seeks to improve overall wellbeing by including arts engagement as part of health treatment plans. The report also highlights new areas of inquiry to deepen our understanding of Australians’ engagement with and attitudes towards arts, culture and health.

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(Self) Organisation | Exhibiting

Exhibition Resources

A webpage by CCA Portal with templates and suggestions to create a well organised exhibition.

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Exhibiting

Media, Audiovisual, Video and Audio Works and Displays

There are lots of different ways that video, audio and other electronic media can be used within exhibitions. This chapter is a brief introduction to some of the technical considerations that you will need to make when including these types of works and displays in an exhibition.

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Exhibiting | Sustainability

Sustainable Exhibitions Checklist

Consider the discussed areas of activity to weigh up the most sustainable and economically advantageous approach before, during and after touring an exhibition.

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Exhibiting

Smithsonian Guidelines for Accessible Exhibition Design

Exhibitions are complex presentations that convey concepts, showcase objects, and excite the
senses. However, as museums recognize the diversity within their audiences, they realize that
exhibitions must do more: exhibitions must teach to different learning styles, respond to issues
of cultural and gender equity, and offer multiple levels of information. The resulting changes in
exhibitions have made these presentations more understandable, enjoyable, and connected to
visitors’ lives.

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Sustainability

Close The Loop

In a circular fashion industry, designers, producers, retailers & consumers are challenged to take the whole life cycle of a garment into account. Flanders DC and Circular Flanders guide you through the principles of this sustainable way of working.

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(Self) Organisation | Collaboration & Collectives

A White Institution’s Guide for Welcoming Artists of Color

Author(s): Fannie Sosa & Tabita Rezaire

This guide is non exhaustive compilation of ways cultural institutions, public or privately funded, where people in places of curatorial responsibility are overwhelmingly white and/or light skinned, as well as spaces that utilise the white cube(/black box) as the display frame, can and should and will have to redistribute their material and immaterial resources when welcoming Black folks, people of color and our audiences. It applies to a wide scope of sometimes seemingly politically disparate settings, such as museums, community centers, galleries, parties, workshops, concert halls, URL platforms, universities, foundations, theaters, classrooms, autonomous and/or self managed spaces, online art shows, etc.

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Rights & Safety

Training for Exploitation? Politicising Employability and Reclaiming Education

Author(s): Precarious Workers Brigade | ISBN: 978-0-615-59011-0

We are a group of precarious workers in culture & education.  Through our work together, including the making of our Carrot Workers’ Counter-Guide to Internships (1) and the organising of a People’s Tribunal on Precarity (2), it has become clear to us that our colleges and universities play a pivotal role in setting up and normalising free and precarious labour/life regimes.

In response to this realisation, we have started to work towards an alternative curriculum that could be used as a tool by educators and/or students. Educators in courses in the arts and cultural industries, gallery educators, vocational or professional development tutors, lecturers in charge of work placements and careers development officers might all find this resource helpful. We envisage this alternative curriculum to be used in relation to “vocational” education, internships, professional practice classes, preparation for work experience and other kinds of “work-related learning” embedded within or encouraged by educational practices.

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Writing

An Artist’s Text Book

Author(s): Jan Svenungsson | ISBN: 978-951-53-3009-3

This book is about writing, from my point of view as a visual artist. All artists need to write on a great number of occasions today, whether they like it or not. Many do not, and many wish they could write more easily. Complaints are heard about the art schools, where there is often little or no time for the actual teaching of writing as a subject – by artists who share the students’ concerns.

The book attempts both to analyse some artists’ writing and to give practical tips and inspiration for how to write, based on my own story and experiences. It is not without contradictions. I hope it will have an interest for anyone who writes, or wants to write, whether artist or not.

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(Self) Organisation | Rights & Safety

Accessability in the Arts: A Promise and a Practice

Author(s): Carolyn Lazard, Kemi Adeyemi (ed.)

Accessibility in the Arts: A Promise and a Practice is an accessibility guide geared toward small-scale arts nonprofits and the potentially expansive publics these organizations serve. It details specific ways in which disabled people are excluded from cultural spaces and offers possible solutions to those
barriers. Moving away from historical and juridical definitions of accessibility, this guide considers the unique capacity of small scale arts organizations to meet the needs of disabled communities. It engages principles of disability justice to think through what can urgently be done to create more equitable and accessible arts spaces.

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Business

Guidelines for the Postponement or Cancellation of Work

The purpose of this message is to introduce some basic guidelines that can be used by artists and nonprofit institutions as we begin to navigate the future of work in our field during the pandemic. These guidelines aren’t a long-term solution for the crisis ahead, but are based on how the sector’s economy functioned until very recently—that is, on what we already know.

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Business

The artist’s fees toolkit

Author(s): Richard Murphy

The artist’s fees toolkit takes you step-by-step through a process to calculate your individual daily rate and prepare quotes for freelance work.

You are guided through a series of forms, where you enter your personal income requirements, overheads particular to your practice and the realistic number of days you can work annually. You enter the figures and the toolkit does all the calculations. We recommend you use this toolkit regularly to ensure your rate of pay stays in line with your needs.

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Collaboration & Collectives | Creativity & process | Research

PD A+C Dialogues: Processing Artistic and Design Research

“Processing Artistic and Design Research” gathers two PD candidates in a conversation about artistic and design research, the process of a research project in the context of a third cycle in education, and the links we can foster between research and practice.

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Business | Writing

Grant Writing Basics: How To Put Your Best Foot Forward with Funders

Author(s): Amy Aronoff

Filmmaker, consultant, producer, and arts funding specialist Tracie Holder shares her grant writing expertise with NYFA to help you gain confidence in your fundraising and proposal writing abilities by providing a solid road map to begin the process.

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Business

How Much Should I Sell This For? A Pricing Guide for Visual Artists

Author(s): Amy Aronoff

“How much should I sell this for?” is a question nearly every artist has asked themselves. This question can be tricky, as not only is it difficult to quantify the value of art, but the art market is unique in that it doesn’t follow the same rules and logic as typical sales. While there is no set way to price your art, this post offers tips from art world insiders that you can use to value your work.

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(Self) Organisation | Network

Alternative Art Guide

The Alternative Art Guide is a tool to discover art spaces that are often difficult to find. With over 1800 spaces worldwide it is the largest online overview of non-profit, artist-run, and independent art spaces. The interactive map makes it easier to get the most out of a visit to a new city, or to find out what is around the corner at home.

Additionally, Alternative Art Guide provides insight into local conditions for the presentation of contemporary art with a collection of articles. The articles are contributed by artist-run spaces and curators in the field, raising questions about locality versus globalisation and how different art practices take shape around the world.

The guide will continually be updated by adding new spaces to the overview, and keep track of spaces when they move or close.

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(Self) Organisation | Business | Writing

Knowledge Base

Articles published by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) with advice and tips for artists’ business, organisation, and practice.

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Collaboration & Collectives

Not a toolkit! Fair collaboration in cultural relations: a reflAction

Author(s): Cristina Farinha, Avril Joffe, Matina Magkou, Anna Steinkamp, Katelijn Verstraete, and Sudebi Thakurata

Not a toolkit! aims to raise awareness about fair practices in cultural relations, and asks pertinent questions we should be asking of ourselves – as individuals, as professionals and as organisations operating within a system – to challenge and improve our practices, policies and procedures when engaging in cultural relations activities.

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Sustainability

EUNIC Sustainability Toolkit: A Practical Guide for Cultural Relations Institutes

Author(s): Maria Elena De Matteo and Eva Balaban

This toolkit was authored by Maria Elena De Matteo and Eva Balaban and commissioned by EUNIC through an open call. It is designed to serve as a practical guide for cultural relations institutes and beyond, helping them engage more deeply with sustainability initiatives.

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Collaboration & Collectives

Radical Ritual – An itinerant survey along the 45 N parallel

Author(s): Forty Five Degrees | ISBN: 9786069505564

More just spatial practices are to be found in the diversity and nuances of myriad space-making paradigms that tackle local challenges while providing credible responses to current global issues. In Radical Rituals proposes a collection of spatial protocols following an imaginary line: the 45°N parallel. This line crosses Europe, from the Atlantic Coast to the Black Sea. The practices are named rituals because they strengthen the potential for collective action in order to reach systemic change. They are labeled radical because they are highly transformative and point toward possible futures.

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Sustainability

Transformative Currents – Art & Action in the Pacific Ocean

Author(s): Cassandra Coblentz (ed) | ISBN: 9798990698581

The authors and contributors are leading figures in Blue Humanities – an emerging field spanning historical, visual, cultural, and literary studies of the ocean. At a time when the Pacific Ocean’s health is increasingly fragile, documenting and sharing their work is more crucial than ever, highlighting how artists contribute to improving ecological conditions in marine and coastal environments. Transformative Currents fills a critical gap in art history by exploring this urgent topic while amplifying Indigenous voices alongside their Western counterparts. The book and its accompanying exhibition – curated by Coblentz with Katzeman and Duan for Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide – feature artists at various career stages from diverse locations. One of the first exhibitions to embrace such a broad cultural perspective on Pacific environmental issues, it presents a dynamic mix of voices from different geographical and professional backgrounds.

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Research

The Research Catalogue (RC)

The Research Catalogue is the largest repository for artistic research. As an international platform for sustainable, long-term, open access publication of artistic research outcomes and results, it hosts 4,800 published expositions and serves 28,000 users. It aims to be an open space for experimentation and exchange.

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(Self) Organisation | Collaboration & Collectives

DAS Theatre feedback method

Hybrid, cross-disciplinary artistic practices are often hard to be defined and their product to be
discussed; DAS Theatre is an educational institution which brings these artistic practices in the
foreground of today’s art discourse, also by implementing this feedback method. Together with
the philosopher Karim Benammar, DAS Theatre first defined the major obstacles which, in a
collective setting, often prevent critical exchanges from having a stimulating learning effect.

The central aims for the feedback situations are: to empower the artist who is getting feedback on
his or her work, to go beyond the pronouncement of judgments, to allow fundamental criticism, to
create a sense of (self-) discipline for the sake of precision and clarity, and, last but not least, to
increase the enjoyment of giving and receiving feedback.

You can find the film they made here.

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Rights & Safety

Safe Space Podcast

The “Safe Space Podcast” is an 8-part conversation series which consists of 2 preludes and 6 main episodes. We talked to 20 architects, designers, artists, human geographers, students and educators about systemic discrimination and oppression in the field of architecture, with a view to advocate for more equitable architectural education, practice and production.

The 8 roundtable conversations were curated, moderated and recorded by Safe Space Collective in collaboration with ROM for kunst og arkitektur. They were held at ROM between May and June 2021. The podcast was edited by sound engineer Xavier Guinois, with music by Fleur bleu·e.

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Creativity & process

Creative Pep Talk

Creative Pep Talk is a weekly podcast companion for your creative journey. Transform your creative potential into reality by making your creativity a practice. A “creative discipline” can feel like an oxymoron. Creativity is about doing something new. Discipline is about doing something consistently. The aim of this podcast is to help you strike that elusive balance.

Each week, New York Times bestselling author illustrator Andy J. Pizza shares everything he’s learning about building a thriving creative practice. Through solo episodes and interviews with top-tier creatives, Pizza brings you the strategies and stories that you need week in and week out to keep your inner critic at bay, bust through creative block and stay creatively pepped to the max!

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(Self) Organisation

Packaging and shipping artworks

A step-by-step instruction manual by ‘Arts, Artists, Artworks’ with additional tips and advice to safely and internationally ship artwork.

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Archiving & Documenting | Education

Archiving Your Work

How does archiving shape the story of an artist’s practice? How do artists decide what to keep, what to let go of, and how to preserve their legacy? Are archives a vital extension of a creative practice or can artists consciously decide not to build one? In this one hour, live Artist Lab, join collector at large at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, Josh T Franco, and 2020 Creative Capital Awardee Cannupa Hanska Luger as they discuss practical strategies and create space for reflection on the meaning and purpose of archiving creative practices. They will also share best tips and practices for archiving and answer questions from the audience.

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Business | Network

European Platforms for the promotion of emerging artists

The 16 platforms highlight emerging European artists and their work throughout Europe and the world.
As part of the Creative Europe programme, the European Union is co-financing 16 European platforms for the period 2021-2023. These platforms implement projects to increase the visibility and circulation of emerging European artists and their work, to develop both their careers and their talent.

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Education | Research

What Methods Do

Artistic research makes the relationship between art and society permeable. Rather than bracketed in the private realm of the lone artist or the circuit of art institutions, artistic research opens up its practice to the public domain. Its methods become part of the collective process of exploration and re-imagining.
The symposium What Methods Do explored how these methods play a role in producing knowledge, shifting boundaries between disciplines, and reconfiguring the agency of art in a societal context. It posed the questions: What do methods do? How can they be used? How do they address the urgencies of a world in dire need of new perspectives? The symposium was structured in three sessions, each addressing particular aspects and implications in the use of artistic research methods.

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Business | Network

Pro Helvetia

The Swiss Arts Council promotes contemporary, professional art and culture of national interest on behalf of the federal government. Their tasks, which they carry out independently, are set out in the Culture Promotion Act.
Active in all disciplines except film, Pro Helvetia stands for transdisciplinary contemporary artistic practice. They support the creation and dissemination of contemporary, professional art from Switzerland, as well as cultural exchange both within the country and abroad. They provide (thematic) stimulus for the development of contemporary artistic and cultural creation and support projects with a view to aesthetic, personal and content-related diversity. They advocate for equal opportunity and sustainability and are committed to creating favourable conditions for artists and cultural practitioners.
In addition to the foundation’s head office in Zurich, Pro Helvetia is also represented internationally by six offices abroad.

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Education | Residencies

Residency Unlitmited

Residency Unlimited (RU) is a non-profit arts organization that supports the creative process of US based and international artists and curators at all stages of their career through its unique, customized residencies and year-round public programs. Our growing global network consists of 850+ alumni. In 2024 RU hosted residencies for 62 artists and 15 curators from 39 countries. Since RU’s founding in 2009, collaboration and developing partnerships lie at the heart of our mission, to successfully leverage resources for participating residents and optimize their experience.

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Residencies

Rivet

Rivet is a unified search platform designed to help you find and activate opportunities to advance your creative practice.

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Collaboration & Collectives | Network

Cities of Design Network

The Creative Cities Network seeks to develop international cooperation among cities that have identified creativity as a strategic factor for sustainable development, in the framework of partnerships including the public and private sectors, professional organizations, communities, civil society and cultural institutions in all regions of the world. The Creative Cities Network facilitates the sharing of experience, knowledge, and resources among the member cities as a means to promote the development of local creative industries and to foster worldwide cooperation for sustainable urban development. The Creative Cities Network consists of 7 different Creative Fields, which are: Literature, Design, Crafts and Folk Art, Film, Music, Media Arts and Gastronomy. The members of the network are centers of excellence in their field and support each other in their activities.

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Rights & Safety | Self-care

Artists at Risk Connection (ARC)

Artists at Risk Connection (ARC) is an independent international organization whose mission is to defend and advance the right to artistic freedom, providing practical resources and support for artists and cultural workers at risk worldwide.

They work to protect artists and cultural workers at risk due to their creative expression, often tied to their identities or roles within their communities. By providing vital resources and support, ARC helps them navigate challenges such as persecution, censorship, harassment, threats, and violence from both state and non-state actors—whether targeted for their art or their broader impact on cultural, social, and political issues.

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Network | Residencies

Stroom

On this digital notice board of Stroom you will find calls, tips, ongoing schemes, funds and calls in and around the Dutch arts field. All calls are in the original language (Dutch or English) and are copied directly. For questions, please refer to the corresponding websites indicated with the calls.

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Rights & Safety

Mores

Support and advice on addressing transgressive behaviour in the cultural, creative, and media sector.

As a support service, Mores provides a safety net for employees and students in the cultural, creative, and media sectors who are dealing with transgressive behavior and cannot or do not wish to approach a confidential counselor within their own organization.

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Research

In these circumstances – On collaboration, perfomativity, self-organisation and transdisciplinarity in research-based practices

Author(s): Philippine Hoegen & Lilia Mestre | ISBN: 978-94-93148-85-7

This book discloses a history of the methods of artistic research in the context of the academisation of art education, and an abrasion of the once unbridled scene of artist-run organisations in Northern Europe. There are 35 contributions, many of them collaborative, ranging from concrete projects to interrogative speculations about artistic research. It aims to demonstrate how artistic research operates institutionally through a complex intertwinement of practices and how a.pass, over the past 14 years, has carved out a space for artistic research to imbricate in fields of both art and education, and stir the sediments of disciplinary enclosures.

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Collaboration & Collectives | Creativity & process

Making Matters – A Vocabulary for Collective Arts

Author(s): Janneke Wesseling & Florian Cramer | ISBN: 978-94-93246-11-9

The world today faces overwhelming ecological and social problems and the concern for material existence on earth is more pressing than ever. Making Matters spells out various roles that visual artists and designers play facing these issues. Collective action is necessary and inevitable.

Collective action often changes the artist’s identity and working habits: from individuality and autonomy to collectivity and collaboration, both locally and globally. These developments have given rise to new kinds of collective art and design practices: artists work together with non-artists, make products for their local environment and take on multiple identities, such as researcher, community activist, computer hacker or business consultant.

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Collaboration & Collectives

This Book is Yours. Recipes for artistic collaboration

Author(s): Sally de Kunst, Julien Babel, Alberto de Andrés, Valentine Paley, Gosie Vervloessem, Julien Vuilleumier | ISBN: 978-3-907112-09-0

In a house where several people live and work together, the kitchen is the hub: it is the meeting place where people engage in informal discourse. This is also the case with the Arc Artist Residency in Romainmôtier: the kitchen was the beating heart of the institution. It was a place where artists gathered when they took a break from their research, where they cooked and ate together, where other guests joined them. This book is inspired by the kitchen, by its conviviality, the sharing of food and knowledge, the experiments that took place there.

This publication is a handbook for artistic collaboration. It is neither a retrospective of Arc nor a documentation of the artistic projects that took place there.

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Collaboration & Collectives

Art for the People, Art by the People

Author(s): Mahmoud Saleh Mohammadi | ISBN: 9789464002522

This publication is of Mahmoud Saleh Mohammadi’s research project at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, summarizing over a decade of artistic research in Italy, Finland, and Belgium. His research centers around the role of participatory art in urban regeneration, specifically how collaborative participatory artistic practices can activate communities, foster empowerment, and build resilience by integrating local resources, traditions, and histories. This approach is central to the mission of Spazio Nour, the cultural organization he founded, which uses art as a means to strengthen communities and challenge socio-economic disparities.

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Collaboration & Collectives

Breaking Free: Queer Temporality and Collaborative Art

| ISBN: 9789083449838

This guide offers manuals to stitch, paint and identify appropriate wear, a script to perform and stimulating ideas and experiences. ‘Breaking Free: Queer Temporality and Collaborative Art’ is a celebration of collective creativity and self-expression, offering a dynamic fusion of artistic tools to explore and to queer identity. Inspired by Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica and brought to life by queer artist LDB+ (Lieven De Boeck), this manual blend academic insight, artistic practice, and lived experiences. Through stitching, painting, and performing, this book guides and invites participants to engage in collaborative art making while challenging traditional norms. Highlighting the strength of community, the book offers open-source tools, ideas for creating, activating, and experiencing art in dynamic and transformative ways.

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Collaboration & Collectives

Remapping Collaborations Working Group

| ISBN: 9789083301129

This publication emerges from the 2023 London Design Biennale. It involves an international working group facilitated by Delany Boutkan and Setareh Noorani, both researchers at the Nieuwe Instituut, which confronted the intricate and often uncomfortable dynamics of collaboration. Through public sessions and intimate dialogues in London and Rotterdam, the realities of collaboration and collectivity were examined. Two transcripts from the public events are reworked in this publication, along with essays by contributors that push against the established frameworks of international cultural events, including biennales, which remain siloed in geographic and geopolitical terms.

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(Self) Organisation | Creativity & process

The Artist’s Way

Author(s): Julia Cameron | ISBN: 9781788164290

The Artist’s Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist’s life. Still as vital today—or perhaps even more so—than it was when it was first published one decade ago, it is a powerfully provocative and inspiring work. In a new introduction to the book, Julia Cameron reflects upon the impact of The Artist’s Way and describes the work she has done during the last decade and the new insights into the creative process that she has gained. Updated and expanded, this anniversary edition reframes The Artist’s Way for a new century.

Network

RESHAPE

An Experiment in Collaborative Change-making in the Arts.

RESHAPE is a collaborative, bottom-up research process that proposes instruments for transition towards an alternative, fairer, and unified arts ecosystem across Europe and the Southern Mediterranean.

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(Self) Organisation | Business | Network

Artist-Run Europe

Artist-Run Europe is part how-to resource, part history, and part socio-political critique of the conditions, organisational models, and role of artist-led practice within contemporary visual art and society. This online resource is a newly developed companion to the landmark 2016 publication (now available in an expanded second edition).

It features a project outline, introductory essay, publication overview, new case studies, and is centred around a searchable and updatable artist-run index: a collaborative tool to quantify and compare the disparate attributes, organisational models, funding structures and aims, of spaces and projects from across Europe. An initiative of Pallas Projects.

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Research

Selected Bibliography of Artistic Research

A document created by Artistic Doctorate Research containing a bibliography of articles about various aspects of artistic research.

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Exhibiting | Residencies

Artenda

Artenda provides a clear overview of high quality international art open calls and opportunities. Residencies, scholarships, competitions, prizes, project grants, exhibtions, and public art projects. The search is facilitated, accelerated, and personalized by the means of the filters.

Furthermore, we help artists through the way the open calls are selected and presented: recommendations are personalized, there is a personal agenda with deadline reminders, and tips provide ideas for a successful application.

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Archiving & Documenting

Collecting Otherwise Manuals

| ISBN: 9789083301198

Since 2020, Collecting Otherwise, initiated by the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, has explored how archives and their policies shape institutional memory, urban history, and public heritage, challenging the idea that heritage is “neutral”. It aims to change institutional culture to recognise and champion under-represented roles, practices, and perspectives in archives. Besides rethinking archival practices in case studies from the National Collection, the project addresses annual themes on collecting and develops collaborative tools. The manuals invite engagement with these tools to support reparative archival work and deepen reflections on the responsibilities of memory.

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Sustainability

Towards sustainable arts: European best practices and policies

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Sustainability

Sustainable international travel in the arts: Flanders Arts Institute shows the way with a new map

Which cities can you reach by train from Brussels-Midi – or the other way around – within half a day? Flanders Arts Institute wants to offer an alternative for many destinations in Europe. That is why we are presenting a new railway map with destinations that can be reached by train in less than 6.5 hours.

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Residencies

196 Residencies in France

As part of its mission to support creative practice and to provide information for professionals working in the field, the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP) publishes 196 Residencies in France, a practical guide to residencies for artists, curators, critics, art theorists and art historians. It is one of the CNAP’s Guides to Contemporary Art, which are aimed at all those working within the CNAP’s scope.

196 Residencies in France responds to requests for information on residencies and the way they operate. An accessible and user-friendly resource for professionals, it is obtainable in print, free of charge, at all contemporary art venues in France – and for free download.

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Education

Node Center

Founded in 2009, Node Center is the first e-learning program for curators and art professionals. Through real-time interaction with skilled lecturers, we provide practical knowledge that is often not available in the art academy or certain geographies. Our courses are designed to equip you with skills for use in real world and professional settings.

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Publishing

Publishing Publishing Manifestos

| ISBN: 9784991395819

The Japanese-English bilingual Publishing Publishing Manifestos is an essay by visual artist and author Michalis Pichler that serves to introduce ‘Publishing Manifestos’, which marked the 10th anniversary of the Berlin Art Book Fair and Festival in 2018. Unlike other book fair catalogues, the book consisted of manifestos by artists and writers. This new essay appears as part of the Tokyo Art Book Fair 2024 and aims to unravel the behind-the-scenes of the hype in recent art book scenes. Offering a variety of perspectives, it touches on publishing as an artistic and political practice, the economy of independent publishing, art book fairs as public spheres, post-digital publishing, and more.

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Creativity & process | Publishing

Books as Art Practice

Author(s): SerraGlia | ISBN: 9789526528663

In a time of endless scrolling and disappearing attention, this manifesto presents 11 concise reflections on what it means to make books today: as art, as process, as a form of resistance. For SerraGlia, books are not just containers for finished work – they are the work itself. A way to slow down, shift attention, and create connections outside traditional art circuits.

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(Self) Organisation

Kunstenpocket #4 – A Fair New World?!

| ISBN: 9789074351591

This publication is the result of A Fair New World?!, a research and development trajectory that ran from 2020 to 2022, in which Flanders Arts Institute has been exploring ways in which we can collectively shape the new world.
We focused on what change – fairer, more sustainable, more inclusive – can mean for the arts in Flanders. We explored what we as a field of engaged arts professionals can do to make that happen.
True to our mission, we did this through gathering knowledge, encouraging experimentation, involving people in conversation on how to organise ourselves more effectively in the arts.

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What is fair?

The conversation tool What is fair? wants to sensitize people to work together in the visual arts in a fair way: think about being compensated correctly, providing a safe and inclusive work environment, being transparent about information and expectations, giving each other opportunities to learn and grow, and working together in trust.

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(Self) Organisation

Three Is A Crowd

Flanders Arts Institute developed, together with Timelab, a new card game Three is a crowd. With this game, we want to make governments, private players, cultural organisations and others work together even better. The card game originated from the need for cooperation in space projects, but can be used for any project where players from different domains and sectors are looking for common ground. Whether you are playing with someone who is close to your point of view or has a completely different one, the game reveals what you can do together and where you can strengthen each other.

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(Self) Organisation

Kunstenpocket #3 – D.I.T. (Do It Together)

Author(s): Delphine Hesters

This pocket publication by Flanders Arts Institute attempts to understand the position of the artists and the difficulties that they experience in today’s world of the arts. By pointing out the problems that artists experience, we also detect the shortcomings of the functioning of the system as a whole.

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Writing

The Lure of the Biographical – On the (Self-)Representation of Modern Artists

Author(s): Sandra Kisters | ISBN: 978-94-92095-25-1

The Lure of the Biographical zooms in on the supposed relationship between the art and the personal image of artists. The book explores how visual artists use their personal history and image to make a name for themselves, and how they try to control how their artistic output is interpreted. At the same time, it investigates how other parties such as art critics, biographers, photographers, filmmakers, art historians and art dealers link artists’ lives to their work. The framework for studying the (self-)representation of artists focuses on the textual and visual means used by artists as well as others. Through three detailed case studies of the image and work of French sculptor Auguste Rodin, American painter Georgia O’Keeffe, and British painter Francis Bacon, the book demonstrates what mechanisms and strategies are at play in creating the artist’s image, from the nineteenth to the late-twentieth century, and, in addition, proposes a model for future research into questions of (self-)representation.

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Writing

Writer Conversations

Writer Conversations offers a lively and engaging analysis of the practice of writing on photography. Composed as interviews with highly distinctive writers at the forefront of discourses and debates around visual culture, it provides sustained exploration into the processes and motivations that have given rise to an array of critical commentary and intellectual histories shaping the understanding, appreciation and study of photography today.

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Education

Verandering teweegbrengen. Teaching Artists en hun rol in het creëren van een betere wereld

Author(s): Eric Booth | ISBN: 979-8338609514

Teaching Artists work directly in any kind of community (such as schools, hospitals, neighbourhoods, businesses) and use their unique skills to create change at individual and collective levels. Teaching Artistry is the sleeping giant of social change and Making Change shows why.

Learn how Teaching Artists can activate everyone’s innate artistry to achieve a wide range of positive goals. Enjoy stories of the surprising impact of their collaborations in healthcare, government, education, business, environment, social justice and peacebuilding. This inspiring book will leave readers – both inside and outside the arts – with an awareness of new possibilities to create a better world.

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Education

Clu++ter: Creativity + Collaboration in Fashion Education

Author(s): Andrea Cammarosano | ISBN: 9789490521677

Creativity in fashion spans multiple dimensions, forming a continuum that education must deeply explore. This book advocates a practice-based approach to examining the connections between individual creativity and collaborative dynamics, as well as between spontaneous creation and industrial processes. Emphasizing material and construction—the foundations of fashion—it highlights their role in enabling personal expression and collaboration within creative and industrial systems. Through workshop-based projects, the book demonstrates how material and construction foster creativity and teamwork. It brings together students, educators, industry experts, and companies to explore fashion’s possibilities. Conversations include insights from Walter Van Beirendonck, Lutz Huelle, Sara Sozzani Maino, and Colomba Leddi, among others.

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Education

One And Many Mirrors: Perspectives On Graphic Design Education

Author(s): Brad Haylock, Luke Wood (eds) | ISBN: 9780995473010

This ambitious book brings together a wide international selection of new and recent writing by educators and practitioners who question the rules and hierarchies of graphic design education today. It holds a vivid mirror up to the ways in which graphic design is imagined, taught, received, and reproduced. Edited by two designer-educators (Brad Haylock and Luke Wood), ‘One and Many Mirrors’ provides an urgent overview of the field of contemporary graphic design education for all those concerned with its past, present, and possible futures.

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Education

[SHIFT]. Exploring Relationships between Artists and Technology in Education

Author(s): Fabiola Camuti, Olle Paap | ISBN: 9789491444807

[SHIFT]. Exploring Relationships between Artists and Technology in Education explores the interplay between technology and education within the arts. In doing so, it reveals the often-unnoticed structures of domination that influence our interactions with digital and educational environments. This book challenges the perceived neutrality of technology and proposes a radical rethinking of our relationships with the tools we use to create and learn.

This is a call to action. [SHIFT] encourages artists, educators and technologists to forge paths toward a more inclusive and equitable future. By engaging with the arts as a dynamic framework, this book offers experimental strategies for dismantling oppression and reimagining how we live and learn in a technology-driven world.

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Education

Through Witnessing. Threading the critiquing, making, teaching of design

Author(s): Nida Abdullah, Chris Lee, Xinyi Li (eds) | ISBN: 978-90-833501-2-7

This book names and wrestles with design and institutional design education’s pseudo-neutral relationship with colonial capitalist world orders and what it means to teach and design today. It slowly weaves together ideas on designing as a mechanism of maintenance and teaching against bureaucratic inertia. How does design give form to social fictions? How does design and the professionalization of design schooling maintain the priorities of nations and capital?

Engaging in pedagogical expressions of rage, generosity, forgiveness, slowness, and chaos; contributions of lecture, essay and interview reflect on the weight of being, the possibilities and sometimes impossibilities towards un-doing and un-maintaining the enduring legacies of colonial powers.

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Education

Being Together: A Manual for Living

Author(s): Grace Ndiritu | ISBN: 9789083222448

Grace Ndiritu delves into radical approaches to education, drawing from her self-directed research in alternative, nomadic, and spiritual communities. Her experiences – from Buddhist monasteries to permaculture communities – profoundly shaped her understanding of embodied learning and its relevance in times of social upheaval. ‘Being Together: A Manual for Living’ reflects on these themes, weaving voices from her social practices to explore collective action and shared destiny within the context of contemporary art education. This second edition, enriched with new essays, deepens the dialogue around these ideas. Published alongside her solo exhibition ‘The Compassionate Rebels, Tools for Everyday Living Part 1’ at Page Not Found, the book extends the exhibition’s exploration of transformative educational practices and communal living.

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Education

Change the World! A Research Book for Children & Adults

Author(s): Sibylle Peters | ISBN: 9781732066649

Would you like to start changing the world from your living room? What if your neighborhood made its own money? What would happen, if all animals, including humans, had equal rights in the park next door? Have you considered that you are flying through space right now? Sibylle Peters, director of Theatre of Research, a Hamburg-based theater dedicated to creating social experiments together with audiences of all ages, invites readers to reimagine the world—and act on it. Based on 20 years of performance-based research, and guided by children’s wishes and concerns, this book of at-home experiments shows you how to change reality through play.

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Creativity & process

The Contemporary Condition – The Autonomy of Art Is Ordinary: Notes in Defense of an Idea of Emancipation

Author(s): Kim West | ISBN: 9781915609618

Over recent decades, a post-critical theoretical and methodological paradigm has become increasingly dominant in the human sciences. Proponents of this approach have come to dismiss the idea—central to all modern aesthetics—of the autonomy of art. Written by critic and researcher Kim West, this book is a defence of art’s autonomy and addresses some of the major arguments against it in recent post-critical writings. West critiques three key positions: first, that the concept of art’s autonomy equals a myth of objective independence; second, that it is inextricably tied to traditions of formalist elitism; and third, that the ideal of autonomy reinforces the illusion of the inherently free and rational subject. From within this critique, West advances principles for how the autonomy of art could be understood today.

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Business

But how does it change the price of tomatoes in the market?

Author(s): Adnan Softić, Amelie Jakubek, Ami Lien, Enzo Camacho, Nina Softić, Okhiogbe Omonblanks Omonhinmin, Shehzil Malik and Sonia Hamad | ISBN: 978-3-949973-31-4

In 2021, seven Fellows of the postgraduate program of the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) gathered in despair over the institution’s failings. This publication explores what happens next. It emerges from an experimental process of dialogue and documentation, and tackles questions regarding globalized art production and the dissemination of knowledge. A dense collage of both critique and transformative artistic practices, the book is a unique contribution to the debate on socially engaged art. Just as importantly, it provides a point of reference for artists in comparable situations: those who pursue their work in the face of deadlocked institutions which uphold the status quo despite claiming to do the opposite. It strives to be a helpful pointer for artists who insist nonetheless on their ethical and political prerogatives. Vulnerability and conflict will accompany any such process, inevitably, and our publication does not dissimulate any of these things—even as it charts possible paths beyond them.

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Creativity & process | Writing

The Impossibility of Silence: Writing for Designers, Artists & Photographers

Author(s): Ian Lynam | ISBN: 978-90-832706-8-5

The Impossibility of Silence is a book for artists, designers and photographers interested in approaching writing about their vocation and culture. Drawing upon decades of experience as a writer, designer, artist and teacher, Ian Lynam offers up a plethora of inspirational and concrete approaches to writing about creative fields.

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Writing

Beautiful Madness. Art Writing as Art Curating

Author(s): Mark Kremer | ISBN: 978-94-93246-36-2

Curating exhibitions and ‘art writing’ are closely related: both activities construct a meaningful narrative about artefacts and artists, both interact with a public, viewers/readers; both make space for the experience of art objects. For their work, curators and art writers tap the primary source: the living artist, their work and world. Both cherish a proximity to the maker, for it allows them to delve into artistic processes, consider things in a state of becoming. An essential tool for curators and art writers alike is the dialogue with the artist.

Mark Kremer has been writing, curating, teaching, and interacting with artists for decades. Beautiful Madness is an accumulation of his writings on contemporary art (1993–2023). The book gathers pieces along lines of affinity, themes, and attitudes, structured in five topics: Trace; Gesture; Rudiment; Polyphony; Fortitude. It mirrors his experiences with art curating, writing, thinking and is of value to anybody who wants to sharpen their pen, and rethink what curating might mean.

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Collaboration & Collectives | Residencies

Contemporary Artist Residencies – Reclaiming Time and Space

Author(s): Taru Elfving, Irmeli Kokko, Pascal Gielen | ISBN: 978-94-92095-46-6

Artist residencies provide space, time, and concentration for making art, doing research and for reflection. Residencies are crucial nodes in international circulation and career development but also invaluable infrastructures for critical thinking and artistic experimentation, cross-cultural collaboration, interdisciplinary knowledge production, and site-specific research. The globalization process and the demands of the creative economy have had an impact on artist residencies. Ecological and geopolitical urgencies are now also affecting them more and more. In response, many residencies today actively search for more sustainable alternatives than the current neoliberal condition allows for artistic practice. With a range of critical insights from the field of residencies, this book asks what the present role of artist residencies is in relation to artists and the art ecosystem amid transformations in society.

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Residencies

Archipelagic Affects

Author(s): Yornel J. Martínez Elías, Huang Chong-Kai, Emily Shin-Jie Lee | ISBN: 978-90-83079-36-3

Archipelagic Affects explores how art residencies nurture effective spaces to study the tangible and intangible cultural, historical and geopolitical connections between different island countries. Conceived by Yornel J. Martínez Elías, researcher Emily Shin-Jie Lee, and in collaboration with Taiwanese novelist Huang Chong-Kai, Archipelagic Affects interweaves visual and textual materials created in different time-spaces. Together, they form a shared travelogue that documents how cultures and worlds cross paths through an art residency experience.

Reflecting on how words connect worlds, and how publishing practices generate new content and correlations, the booklet highlights the importance of art residencies in creating new confluences and solidarity networks to sustain cultural production and dissemination within and beyond national boundaries. If we consider an art residency as an island where a group of strangers from different backgrounds temporarily inhabit, how can these unfamiliar strangers make their time together meaningful, and perhaps further create an archipelago of solidarity beyond geographical boundaries after leaving the island?

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Education

Nearness – Art and Education after Covid-19

Author(s): Marlies De Munck, Pascal Gielen

The Covid-19 crisis teaches us how priceless human nearness is. Art and education can’t do without it either. Like works of art, people lose their aura when kept at digital arm’s length. Art is lifeless when it can’t resonate with bodies. In Nearness, Marlies De Munck and Pascal Gielen diagnose a new reality. Only culture marks the difference between surviving and living.

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Education

Feminism, Pedagogy and the Studio: Reflections Across Four Decades

Author(s): Griselda Pollock | ISBN: 978-1-915609-66-3

In 1985, Griselda Pollock critically examined the gender politics of twentieth-century art education that, she argued, reinforced masculinist and individualist ideologies within capitalist conditions of artistic production. She linked the cult of authorship to the non recognition of women as artists, even in the face of the evidence of women’s considerable participation in modern art. She explored the impact of a critical post-modern and feminist artistic engagement with theories of meaning, subjectivity, and the image drawn from outside the “studio” model. She ultimately proposed “feminist interventions in art’s histories,” where expanded histories—including race, class, gender, and sexuality—challenge both the monographic-all-male model of the hero artist and the hegemony of formalist art theory.

Almost forty years later, in 2022, she revisited the impact of “1968” and its theoretical revolution. She historically situates the major geopolitical and ideological shifts since 1989 (The Fall of the Berlin Wall) and 2001 (9/11), and notably since 2007 the touch-screen phone (linking to the internet and social media). She identifies a troubling cultural tendency post-2010 that, with thanks to Derrida, she terms “insta-grammatology.” Finally, she calls for a critical analysis of how the “grammar” of social media reduces the spectrum of nuanced thinking and performs a political surveillance of ideas.

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Education

Alternative Pedagogical Spaces: From Utopia to Institutionalization

Author(s): Anna Colin | ISBN: 978-1-915609-67-0

Grounded in empirical research, Alternative Pedagogical Spaces: From Utopia to Institutionalization is a critical inquiry into the establishment, development, and transformation of alternative pedagogical and social spaces. Written by Anna Colin, a former director and co-founder of Open School East, an independent art school and community space founded in London in 2013, this essay-length book explores the instituting factors, organizational life cycles, and alignments and misalignments between values and practices that permeate such a project.

The essay delves into the qualities and prerequisites for what Colin calls “multi-public educational organizations.”  It also scrutinizes the hurdles associated with the effort to remain alternative, including processes of habituation, temptation or pressure to scale up, ethos-bending fundraising exercises, and long tenure, as well as the plain desire for stability and sustainability.

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Education

Wor(l)ding: A Harvested Glossary for Social Justice in Arts Education and Beyond

Author(s): Michelle Teran, Ali Şahin, Kari Robertson, Pablo Lerma | ISBN: 978-90-83423-12-8

Wor(l)ding: A Harvested Glossary for Social Justice in Arts Education and Beyond is a glossary of references harvested from discourses of equity, diversity, inclusivity, social justice, and social practices, not only in an arts education context, but also as part of broader, systemic urgencies.

Words are contextualised through a praxis of referencing the many writers, thinkers, artists, and creators who have deeply engaged with, or even coined, the terms in this publi­cation. Multiple interconnected struggles are interwoven through and within the voices that are present in this glossary. This approach acknowledges that we already have all the tools and words we need; the work is not to innovate or invent, but to amplify and connect.

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Exhibiting

Why Exhibit? vol. 2 – On Curating Photography

Author(s): Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger, Iris Sikking (eds) | ISBN: 9789083451046

A discussion on curatorial practices around photo-based images, centred on the current challenges faced by curators and artist working with photography. How do they navigate its constantly changing appearance? How are issues of representation dealt with? And what kind of mediation is necessary while seeking new forms of authorship and interaction with audiences? Offering insights into a wide range of experiences, reflections, and views from various curators, writers, and researchers, this book focuses on practical perspectives intertwining photography and curation – conversations which are vital for curating photography in light of pressing issues surrounding the medium.

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Publishing

Self Publish, Be Happy – A DIY Photobook Manual and Manifesto

| ISBN: 9781597113441

An economic and cultural revolution has shaken the photobook world in the last five years: self-publishing. Operating as their own publishers, a generation of photographers have had an instrumental role in today’s photobook renaissance. Self Publish, Be Happy offers a do-it-yourself manual and a survey of key examples of self-published success stories, as well as a self-publishing manifesto and bookmaking tips from the photobook community. The manual portion of this volume offers insight, advice and rudimentary how-tos for the photographer interested in self-publishing. The survey offers an overview of the contemporary self-publishing landscape; each case study illustrates a particular theme and genre of self-publishing (such as diary, documentary or conceptual object), and is accompanied by a personal testimony from the artist. Author Bruno Ceschel issues a rallying cry for all those involved in the contemporary photobook revolution, urging photographers to take control of a moment in which the photobook, in all its manifestations, has never before been so omnipresent in our cultural landscape, nor so critical to the photographer’s practice.

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Moving Through the Space of the Picture and the Page. The Photobook as an Artistic and Architectural Medium

Author(s): Stefan Vanthuyne | ISBN: 9789493146976

In recent years, the book has firmly established itself as an artistic medium for photography. Open a photobook today and with any luck you will enter a world full of visual twists and turns. A previously enclosed block suddenly becomes an open volume, and through that volume you can move and navigate. How you do so, through which spaces and at what pace, is largely determined by the book’s architecture.

Moving through the Space of the Picture and the Page brings together essays on six contemporary Belgian photobook makers and the way they deal with space, time, movement and surface within the book and within the photographic image. The artists discussed are Tine Guns, Dirk Braeckman, Els Martens, Max Pinckers, Vincent Delbrouck and Aglaia Konrad.

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