Date: 22 January 2019
Time: 11:00 – 16:00
Venue: CISR Ligovskiy pr. 87, office 300
The seminar explores the potential and limits of arts-based approaches to social research. It is a collaboration of the Centre for Social Research (CISR) and the research project “Spaces of Justice Across the East-West Divide” tasked to advance and create spaces for knowledge production that crosscut a) the East-West divide and b) the boundaries between academia, art and activism.
The seminar consists of academic presentations as well as a performance by Gluklya and the Agents of New Knowledge. It asks whether it is possible to find novel angles to questions of migration, gender and sexuality by combining the spheres of academic research and art. It explores the limits of established patterns of academic knowledge production and advocates a co-creation of knowledge involving actors from various fields of society.
The seminar will be followed by a performance “Re – thinking Cherry Garden” by Gluklya and The Agents of New Knowledge.
The performance will acquaint the workshop participants with the carriers of the New Knowledge Production in unexpected roles. This is a young generation of free-thinking people trying to find themselves and their place in society. With their help, the artist Gluklya offers to consider different types of representations of fragility and the possibility of freeing time. Where and when can creativity grow in a rigidly structured system of capitalism? How can we imagine the space of political imagination in the conditions of total logistics planning? The performance is part of the MAMA Residence project, exploring the intersection of personal and political in the context of changing temporality. The main theme of this project is aimed at exploring Ethics of Care and the possibilities of practicing poetic language of art within the carefully constructed situations where it becomes a political statement.
The title refers to Chekhov’s play The Cherry Garden, where the garden disappears under the brutal onslaught of modernity, and the heroes lose their home and leave a place where many things will be irretrievably lost. Fragility also disappears under the onslaught of wielding axes. To prevent this from happening, you need to recall all the most important stories happening in this garden and learn to be open.
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