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The Role of Art in Social Struggles

Deadline for Applications: 8 November 2020

 

 

The morning newspaper, someone said back in the 19th century, is a prayer of civic society.

The self-sufficient daily consumption of information makes all of us believers. The information that reaches us through newspapers, radio, television and the Internet, market news, weather forecasts, black chronicles, horoscopes, "live reporting" to "serious" sections where the economy, wars and catastrophes are screened, create a map that helps us to go through the day and get used to the world around us.

However, what happens when that map becomes hopelessly unreliable and when, instead of safe paths, even if they were "problematic", it offers us only doubt, cynicism and paranoia as a new dogma? What happens when the basic intervention of the ideological apparatus of power is not building trust among citizens, but creating a constant feeling of fear, threat and distrust? How can we turn that language of doubt and confusion into something else, another new map?

The emergence of new media, social networks and fast communication channels, which are warm to the point of McLuhan's language, have led to the proliferation of "fake news". These are "news from the unconscious" which do not aim to inform but only serve to undermine faith in any form of wider sociability that is not based on naked violence, power and cynicism.

The traditional media, long lulled into their almost religious position, are unable to cope with this new phenomenon. The facts are powerless in the face of these "alternative truths." Art, on the other hand, was never enslaved to facts but was always able to break through them to the truth.

To this end, the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia is organizing the first in a series of workshops that will deal with artistic processes through which we can conquer news – all that reach to us, the fake ones as well as the others – and turn them upside down like a sock, turning the evening lies into a world of eternal news. and the truth. The "Role of Art in Social Struggles" workshop will use a variety of tools, including intellectual and artistic experiences such as art history and theory, conceptual practices, theater, poetry and design.

The practical part of the workshop, based on previous artistic experiences and examples, will deal with the analysis of daily newspapers, radio news and television diaries - our daily pursuit of ideological interpretations. Using the news as a blind guide through nationalisms and chauvinisms, we will read and critique, draw and collage, write over and rewrite, dramatize and demonstrate. In other words, we will intervene in the media world around us and, through a three-day workshop, turn "news from the unconscious" into "eternal news".

 

 

What: Workshop „The Role of Art in Social Struggles“

Where: Belgrade

When: 13-15 November 2020

Who: Young artists (up to 35 years old), across Serbia and from all artistic fields

How: Apply at HO.konkurs@gmail.com, no later than 8 November 2020.

 

 

 

Lecturers

Olga Dimitrijević

Svebor Midžić

Branko Dimitrijević Prota

 

 

Mentor

Darinka Pop Mitić

 

 

The workshop is taking place within the project „Making Diversity Reality: Building Inclusive Society through Education and Culture“, with the assistance of the European Union. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia and may in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union

 

 

 

 

 

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