On Pessimism and Optimism in the Time of COVID-19 Pandemic — Dušan Grlja from Beton
Beton (Concrete), from Belgrade, was a joint cultural and artistic endeavour of the members of the original editorial board. We understood the editorial office primarily as an intermediary (how else), which, following its poetic determinants, would provide an organized, well-thought-out printed / digital place in the media field and editorial support for publishing texts and visual contributions by our esteemed authors mostly from the (ex-)Yugoslav space, but also from the former and present neighbourhood – these published authors and their readers together with the editorial board formed the political and aesthetic field of Beton. In 2019 Beton phase 2 began. In print and online. The concreting of the damned courtyard continues, but the change should definitely be marked. The new editorial board brings its editorial policy and its thematic orientations, but the aegis under which it works remains the same: the expansion of the space of freedom, always against censorship, against any and all dogmatism; against revisionism; against the nationalist matrix and the relativization of the 1990s; against the “conspiracy of silence” and the calculated (s) half rebellion; against patriarchal backwardness and stale lies about the free market. http://www.elektrobeton.net/vesti/na-kraju-pocetak/
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Open in new tab Gestures of Radical Imagination: A Program For The Useful Revolution — Emanuele Braga from Institute of Radical Imagination
The Institute of Radical Imagination (IRI), from Naples, is a group of curators, activists, scholars and cultural producers with a shared interest in co-producing research, knowledge, artistic and political research-interventions aimed at implementing post-capitalist forms of life. IRI is a hybrid between a travelling research centre, a refuge for intellectuals and artists at risk, a radical museum and a policy-making body generating ideas and applied knowledge that respond to specific urgent needs on the ground – more than a structure, an intellectual logistical infrastructure operating across existing arts, academic and activist networks. https://instituteofradicalimagination.org/about/
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