EXHIBITION:
"TO BEGIN THE BEST WE CAN"

TOOLKIT FOR A JOINT ACTION
25.05 / 10.07.2014
GALLERY NOVA, ZAGREB

FOTO: IVAN KUHARIC                                                                              INSTALLATION VIEW ->
 


The context of the third module is determined by the erosion of social security, massive unemployment and the unstable labour market in Croatia, which brings crucial themes to the fore: the new poor, workers' self-organising, direct democracy, social solidarity, self-organised citizens' activities, and contextual theology. In addition to activities that include workshops, lectures, discussions and screenings related to the main themes of the project, the central element presented in Gallery Nova takes the form of a portable modular spatial unit - a toolkit - that was created by all the participants in the project. Andreja Kulunčić proposed a collaboration with the group Direct democracy in school, as well as with the New Union and a series of formal and informal groups that mostly stem from the Zagreb Student Plenum of 2009 - groups such as BRID, Women's Front, Fem Front or Right to the City, and also with a string of other organisations and individuals who took part in the making of the toolkit for joint action.

Initiated in the Gallery Nova the toolkit will travel around smaller towns in Croatia and the region with the purpose of educating, informing, opening a dialogue, networking and archiving of previous material.

Using art's resources to establish wider infrastructural support for different forms of social activity, this project does not reject art as its starting point, but, beginning as well as one can, uses the exhibition as a possible place of critical pedagogy, in which art is not the exclusive means of representation but a cohesive force, able to mobilise ideas, encourage discussion and initiate action.


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PRODUCTION:
Authors: Andreja Kulunčić, the Group Direct democracy in school in collaboration with New Union and the Organization for Workers' Initiative and Democratization (BRID).
Toolkit spatial elements: Mirna Horvat, toolkit graphic design: Luka Juras and Dejan Dragosavac - Ruta. Curatorial support and project organisation: Martina Kontošić@WHW and WHW. Production: WHW, MAPA, 2014/2015.

Supported by: Gradski ured za kulturu, obrazovanje i sport Zagreb, Ministarstvo kulture RH, Evropska kulturna fondacija/ECF, Programa Evropske Unije Kultura 2007-2013, Zaklada "Kultura nova" and HAVC.

 
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