COURAGE

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Zacheta Lower Silesian Fine Arts Association was founded in 2004 with the decision of a former Minister of Culture Waldemar Dąbrowski and the Mayor of Wroclaw Rafał Dutkiewicz. The institution was established within the National Cultural Program “Sign of the Times”.

Being a nongovernmental institution, the association joins the representatives of artistic environment and Wroclaw’s city officials. Its goal is to create a modern art collection, support the creative activity, promote the modern art, and cooperate with the Wrocław Contemporary Museum. The institution’s president is Jacek Szewczyk; and the honorary president – Rafał Dutkiewicz. The decisions on acquiring new works for the collection and other association activities are supervised by the Artistic Board.

Established in 1992, the Zoltán Kallós Foundation has for the past twenty-five years pursued a threefold (three-pillared) activity, where the folk-art activity, the museum, and the museum pedagogical programmes related to the collection have been subordinated to cultural activities, especially to education, which holds major importance. Already in 1992 the foundation established the Cultural Centre of the Transylvanian Plain,marking the beginning of organised camps for folk-music and folk-dance enthusiasts. The launch in 1999 of the diaspora teaching programme had a positive impact on its life, as the seasonal summertime activity was extended to the whole year. After a pause of twenty-five years primary education was reintroduced to Răscruci, along with the newly opened Hungarian kindergarten. The launch in 1998 of the ethnographic collection is listed among the major events of the 1990s.

Since 2000, the Foundation has been fulfilling existing needs by launching methodical training courses for Transylvanian Hungarian pedagogues and by organising vocational refreshment courses targeting young people. In 2007 the new diaspora boarding-school and the Education Centre ofthe Transylvanian Plain were inaugurated in Răscruci. Beginning with 2010, the foundation has been developing dynamically also thanks to increased financial support from Hungary. The inauguration in 2010 of the Zoltán Kallós Museum and Ethnographic Centre was followed by the launch of the educational programme in Sărmașu, of the Hungarian folk music school in Cluj-Napoca and of the Vocational School of Agriculture in Răscruci. Between 2014 and 2016 the inauguration of the diaspora boarding-school of Sărmașu was followed by the introduction of the creative folk art house in Răscruci and the inauguration of the agricultural experimental farm in Tiocu de Sus.

The Foundation is entirely absorbed in operating the diaspora boarding-school and the museum, the supply of objects for which was continuously enriched by Kallós from his own financial sources, just as during the communist regime. At present 140 children study in the diaspora boarding-school, 30% of whom live in mixed (Romanian–Hungarian) families. Pupils come from five Transylvanian counties (Mureș, Bistrița-Năsăud, Sălaj, Alba, and Cluj). The Foundation covers the entire territory of Transylvania, both in terms of teacher training (refreshment courses) and of musical education. Musical education is not provided only in schools but also in summer camps. The Foundation’s youth camp of 2017 was attended by 228 children, out of whom 100 benefitted from free musical instrument instruction courses.

The spider pattern featured on the seal of the Zoltán Kallós Foundation represents a cushion motif from the Transylvanian Plain. At the time of the foundation’s establishment the founder opted for this pattern when designing the seal. In retrospect, it has proved to be an excellent choice, considering that in the course of time the Foundation has undergone a cobweb-like evolution: the spider in the middle stands for the institution with the circles around it representing its various activities. No matter where the spider heads, there are always vibrations sent back and signals are spread all over within a large circle. The Foundation is building a community of professionals. Alumni of the diaspora boarding-school are welcomed back; some of them have already found employment there and, depending on possibilities, support is provided for finding other jobs as well. The Foundation is trying to guide the children in their care in such a manner as to ensure a secure future for them. Apart from educating the community, the institution also plays a role in preserving it.

Centar za nove medije_kuda.org bavi se istraživačkim projektima. Između 2003. i 2007. godine aktivno se bavio pitanjem redefinisanja polja omladinske kulture. Bili su producenti „Letnjeg kampa“, gde su pozivali goste, revidirali dešavanja u gradu i načine da se prepoznaju problemi omladinske kulture. Zajedno sa još nekoliko organizacija, kuda.org je osnovao Omladinski centar CK13 sa idejom da svojim primerom motiviše druge da se angažuju i organizuju slična mesta za mlade, u čemu su i uspeli. Do 2012. godine aktivno su učestvovali u radu CK13, nakon čega ga je preuzela novonastala grupa, a kuda.org je nastavio s daljim istraživačkim projektima.

Jedna od početnih tačaka u radu kuda.org bilo je gledište da vizuelna kultura u institucionalnom obliku s početka 2000. godina i način njenog predstavljanja nije zanimljiva mladima. Tada su počeli da problematizuju koji su to drugi oblici i koje infrastrukture bi mogle okupiti mlade i dati im bolju platformu.

Problem inicijalnog okupljanja određenog kolektiva večito je pitanje i zato kuda.org istražuje bilo koju vrstu političkog udruživanja. Kad se ljudi udružuju, s kojim ciljem, na koji način donose odluke i kako se određuje putanja i dinamika rada kolektiva. Ova pitanja su kompleksna i oslikavaju kulturološku pozadinu cele zajednice. Baveći se temom političkog udruživanja i rada umetničkih grupa, kuda.org želi da pokrene druge oblike za dalju analizu infrastrukture u socijalizmu. Godina 1971. krucijalna je za Novi Sad, ali je skrajnuta zbog drugih događaja u većim centrima, npr. Hrvatskog proljeća. Tada se desila smena generacija među političarima koji ipak nisu bili spremni da razumeju aktuelna dešavanja na polju umetnosti. Pantelić smatra da je Novi Sad tada odreagovao kao duboka provincija i da dalje nije pokazao stepen zrelosti da iz nje iskorači. Kuda.org svojim radom na to ukazuje i ne prihvata takvu situaciju. Zbog toga za cilj ima istraživanja i umrežavanja. Do sada je u Centru za nove medije_kuda.org radilo petnaestak studenata doktorskih studija, uglavnom inostranih, koji su dolazili kao istraživači produkcije centralnoevropskih avangardi.

Kuda.org okuplja ljude različitih profila, ne samo umetnike, i aktivno učestvuje u lokalnoj kulturnoj politici, gde kao akteri utiču i menjaju životne i radne okolnosti sa ciljem da stvore bolje uslove za produkciju. Nadalje, propituju sopstvenu poziciju u odnosu na prošla i buduća dešavanja. Umrežavanje i saradnja su im takođe važni ciljevi koje realizuju kroz radionice i predavanja. Od 2001. godine ugostili su predavače iz raznih oblasti: inženjerstva, IT-a, akademske zajednice, umetnosti, sociologije, humanističkih nauka, filozofije i analizirali ulogu novih tehnologija u savremenom društvu.

U razgovoru za COURAGE Zoran Pantelić kaže: „Da bismo sebi objasnili ko smo mi i kakva je naša pozicija, shvatili smo da istraživanje treba da ide i unazad i unapred. Unazad je analiza neoavangardnih konstelacija stvari koje se reflektuju na politiku i umetnsot, a ka napred, da bismo znali u kom pravcu treba da se krećemo da bismo bolje razumeli društvene fenomene.“ I zbog toga je „Trajni čas umetnosti“ jedna megastruktura. On nema svoju determinisanost okvirom, svaka pojedinačna poetika svih koji su bili udruženi može pojedinačno da se razvija i razvijaće se u odnosu na finansijske uslove i broj istraživača. Naredni planirani projekat je rad na knjizi o grupi KÔD sa Slavkom Bogdanovićem i Miroslavom Mandićem koji imaju bogatu arhivu artefakata.

Još jedna planirana oblast istraživanja je muzika koja je bila nematerijalni oblik rada i komunikacije. Izlaskom iz institucija, Predrag Vranešević kroz „Laboratoriju Zvuka“, Slobodan Tišma kroz „La Stradu“, počeli su da se bave muzikom. Ideja je da se pronađu i obajve snimci grupa koje su se okupljale u privatnim prostorima na distanci od institucionalne kulture. Ovaj oblik rada se sprovodi kroz program radno nazvan „Lost and Found“.

Vrste relacija su u centru zbirke i sadržaja na kojem radi kuda.org. Materijal koji je zasnovan na istraživanju određene istorijske građe sagledavaju kao supstancu za izgradnju nove produkcije, što predstavlja njihov metodološki pristup. Uz to sarađuju i sa istoričarima umetnosti, ali se ne bave sakupljanjem radova. Publikacije su im značajna delatnost i distribuišu ih na javnim izlaganjima, izložbama i drugim programima.

Analizirajući kulturnu politiku u gradu i pitanje javnih prostora, došli su do polja razvoja lokalne politike, gde motivišu ljude u lokalnoj zajednici da se udruže i sami preuzmu inicijativu u rešavanju problema i poboljšanju kvaliteta života. Pokrenuli su časopis „Stanar“ gde pojedinci pišu o svojim problemima, što je jedan od modela angažovanja da bi se učio i negovao javni dijalog.

Trenutno u organizaciji radi četvoro članova i pošto su projektno orijentisani njihov broj se menja. Osnovu čine veb-developer, uredništvo programa i administracija i svi su upoznati sa svim procesima, da bi svako mogao da doprinese.

Dalja polja rada: podrška produkcije drugih inicijativa ili umetnika, rad s lokalnom politikom i podrška lokalnom aktivizmu, organizacija seminara, istraživački projekti (prevodi, simpozijumi, izložbe).

The Lesbian Section LL (later called ŠKUC LL) was founded in 1987, as part of ŠKUC-Forum, the main Slovenian non-profit student and youth cultural organization. ŠKUC (an acronym for Student Cultural and Artistic Centre/Študentski kulturno-umetniški center) cites as its inspiration and birthplace the 1968 student protests. The organization itself was officially founded in 1972, in Ljubljana. In the late 1970s and 1980s, ŠKUC became the central platform for promoting and supporting the alternative cultural scene and new artistic practices in Slovenia. The organization survived the dissolution of Yugoslavia and social and political transition, remaining loyal to its original goals and leftist politics. There are several programs and thematic sections currently active within ŠKUC, such as the Gallery, the Equal Opportunities Section, a publishing section, and the ŠKUC archives.

In the mid-1980s, ŠKUC welcomed lesbian and gay groups, and supported the 1984 Magnus Film Festival dedicated to homosexuality. Lilit, the first Yugoslav feminist lesbian group, was established in 1985, and two years later it became ŠKUC LL (LL referring to Lesbian Lilith), having remained an independent organization within the broader ŠKUC network to this very day. Together with the gay group Magnus, ŠKUC LL has organized round tables, direct actions, and parties, published bulletins and other materials (Lesbozine), spoke out publicly in the mainstream press and at feminist gatherings. When appealing to the authorities, Magnus and LL act jointly, mainly via public statements, letters and editorials. Their main demands were the integration of homosexuality into socialist society, and the constitutional ban on discrimination based on sexual orientation (Velikonja and Greif 2012). A lengthy article about lesbianism in the magazine Mladina, featured on the front cover, and bearing the title “We Love Women” (”Ljubimo ženske,” Mladina, no. 37, Oct. 30, 1987, Ljubljana) is considered one of ŠKUC LL’s most recognizable and successful actions. The Week of Lesbian Cinema was held in 1988, in the ŠKUC Gallery in the very heart of Ljubljana. By the end of the 1980s, lesbian activism became an integral part of new social movements and the lively alternative cultural and club scene in Slovenia, but it also began articulating political demands and promoting the social acceptance and normalization of homosexuality. Slovenian lesbian activists made contact and lasting friendships with lesbians from other Yugoslav cities, namely Zagreb and Belgrade, and encouraged them to organize themselves and speak out publicly. ŠKUC LL continued its activities after Slovenia gained independence, and during the 1990s, the organization became one of the most active LGBT groups in the country. In cooperation with Magnus, ŠKUC LL co-founded the Roza Klub group, maintained the tradition of film festivals, published the gay and lesbian magazine Revolver, organized parties in the K4 club, fought homophobia and promoted LGBT rights and the values of an open society with equal opportunities.

At the end of 1990s, ŠKUC LL turned to sexuality and gender studies, in particular LGBT and queer theory, history and literature. The group publishes books, edited volumes and articles, for instance in special issues of Časopis za kritiko znanosti, and cooperates with academics at the University of Ljubljana. In the last 20 years, more than 30 books have been published as part of the Vizibilija series (a part of ŠKUC publishing). These consist of literature and non-fiction by Slovenian authors, and numerous translations of seminal works in gay and lesbian studies. On May 1, 2001, ŠKUC LL opened the Lesbian Library and Archive. In December 2000, preceding the establishment of the Library, a comprehensive bibliography of books and other LGBT-related writings in the Slovenian language was completed and published (Izbrana bibliografija, 2000). The Library contains mainly of foreign literary, theoretical, scientific and other writings, and a collection of newspapers and magazines. The Archive collection is focused on Slovenian materials and covers the period from the 1970s onwards. The Library’s catalogue is available online at: http://www.ljudmila.org/lesbo/knjiznica.htm.