Performance and Militant Curating: Rehearsing democratic imaginaries through critical spaces and publics : Rehearsing democratic imaginaries through critical spaces and publics

• During the last couple of decades in Europe we have witnessed a proliferation of artistic practices -what we might call the “political turn” - that sought to experiment with models of democracy and participation, as well as forms of intervention in socio-political realities. At the same time, in Southern Europe and beyond a series of social collective practices emerged in the face of an ongoing economic crisis seeking to offer alternative modes of solidarity and social organisation taking the form of medical clinics, social kitchens, food exchange networks, platforms against evictions, refugee support and cultural venues amongst others. Democratic imaginaries were practiced and contested through both artistic experimentations as well as such collective grassroots practices of commoning and solidarity. Critically reflecting on such practices might we be able to identify appropriate models of social/political pedagogy today? What practices might contribute in reforming democratic imaginaries and social modus operandi of co-existence? Can artistic venues and practices weighted upon calls for participation, inclusion and impact offer such models? How might practices and experiences of assembling and togetherness help us redefine what counts as‘democratic” or “non-democratic” today? Questioning the ongoing recuperation of “participation” and the potential of the “political turn” in the arts in conditions of precarity this article traces specific experiences of assembling in order toexamine models and practices that renew our habits of togetherness and bear the potential to form new political pedagogies.

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HUMANIORA  -- Konst -- Scenkonst (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts -- Performing Arts (hsv//eng)

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