The Octopus

On Diversities, Art Production, Educational Models, and Curatorial Trajectories, edited by Basak Senova

Art and Communication Practices (KKP) and Zentrum Fokus Forschung (ZFF) are delighted to present the book The Octopus: On Diversities, Art Production, Educational Models, and Curatorial Trajectories — to be published on March 18, 2024, by De Gruyter as part of Edition Angewandte, the book series of the University of Applied Arts Vienna — in the presence of the editor and some of the authors.

The book, edited by curator, designer and researcher Basak Senova, is the accumulation of the Octopus Programme (2019-2022), a guided research-based educational programme that encouraged artistic research and production-based collaborations in different geographical regions: Austria, Finland, Tunisia, Palestine, South Africa, Sweden, and Turkey.

The Octopus Programme developed new critical perspectives to process artistic research and practices while bridging and acknowledging: the diversity of socio-political realities, academic and non-academic intellectual models, institutional and alternative curatorial practices, accessed and distributed resources and facilities, and multiple knowledge production models. By merging the viewpoints of academic entities and contemporary art institutions, the programme developed a generative research methodology by creating an autonomous network.

With contributions by
Ruth Anderwald + Leonard Grond, Çelenk Bafra, Yane Calovski, Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Olfa Feki, Hristina Ivanoska, Johannes Jäger, Anne Klontz, Bronwyn Lace, Maria Lantz, Verena Miedl-Faißt, Maarit Mustonen, Marcus Neustetter, Egle Oddo, Barbara Putz- Plecko, Basak Senova, Renad Shqeirat, Bochra Taboubi, and Johan Thom, as well as project texts by Noor Abed, Sophia Bellouhassi, Younes Ben Slimane, Férielle Doulain-Zouari, Eser Epözdemir, Els van Houtert, Bengü Karaduman, Marwa Manai, Verena Miedl-Faißt, Nondumiso Lwazi Msimanga, Maarit Mustonen, Jannis Neumann, Sofia Priftis, Alina Rentsch, Kim M. Reynolds, Julia Stern, Bochra Taboubi, and Conny Zenk

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The Octopus: On Diversities, Art Production, Educational Models, and Curatorial Trajectories
Edition Angewandte
ISBN: 9783111365343
Editor: Basak Senova
Publisher: De Gruyter
Language: English
Pages: 256

Available at De Gruyter as of March 18, 2024.

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