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Islands of Kinship

A Collective Manual for Sustainable and Inclusive Art Institutions
The project is co-funded by the EU

25/07/2024

New Agora project explained. 🔮
New meme from the third and final series of commissions created by on the Island of Kinship’s recent program line titled New Agora. ✨

Unveiling the essence of this thematic line, this project explores the evolving landscape of public space on art production, and the changing dynamics of art consumption. 🙋‍♀️ Join us in deciphering the relationship between contemporary art, citizen needs, and local communities, with outcomes ranging from education to vibrant festivals. 🌐🎨

22/07/2024

The third episode of the ⁠⁠Islands of Kinship⁠⁠ (IOK) podcast brings the recording of a debate organized in November 2023 by .

The debate brought together the writer-artist and S.U.R. Colectivo (Sofia Guridi, Florencia Pochinki, Amy Gelera and Natalia Ruiz Román) to present their views, practices and experiences in relation to social and ecological sustainability of art institutions. They lead discussion on how art institutions can work on the questions of climate justice, transformative justice and eco-cripness and their intersections. The discussion was facilitated by Kay Han.

🔊 Listen to this episode via our Spotify account Island of Kinship. 🔗 You can find the link in our bio.

19/07/2024

New meme from the third and final series of commissions created by ! ✨

In Islands of Kinship (IOK), we take the Collective Manual for Sustainable and Inclusive Art Institutions step by step. 🤝🙃

The IOK interconnects and transforms the practical functioning of six mid-scale visual art institutions across Europe (Prague, Bratislava, Bitola/Skopje, Cologne, Helsinki and Riga). 👐 To do so, it requires some manuals to take better care of our individual needs in order to make meaningful changes in our collectives and our institutional operations. 🙃

16/07/2024

New meme from the third and final series of commissions created by ! ✨

The reality of running a cultural institution is a web of interconnected and complex relationships. Not all of their elements are perfect nor can be the way we wished for. ⚖️♻️

14/07/2024

Islands of Kinship (IOK) engaging in various forms of self-reflection and critique.♻

IOK also has meme commissions. 🌟Third and final series of the meme commissions was created by , a meme (fine) art studio and collective organ of institutionally-critical imagination based in Prague. They have created an extensive series of memes reflecting upon the art world with its peculiarities but also what we are trying to achieve through the IOK project. ♻

11/07/2024

🔊 The second episode of the ⁠⁠Islands of Kinship⁠⁠ (IOK) podcast contextualizes the show 𝑶𝒇 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒔 by Luki Essender .

Luki Essender approaches nature as q***r, summoning a system of objects that constructs the semblance of place. Sculptural forms, architectural typologies, and visual cues are recast as a speculation, a hallucination – a world. 𝑶𝒇 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒔 was the artist's first solo exhibition in Slovakia and it was produced as one of the new artwork commissions within the IOK project.

Listen to this episode via our Spotify account Island of Kinship. 🔊🔗 You can find the link in our bio.

The project Islands of Kinship (IOK) interconnects and transforms the practical functioning of six mid-scale visual art institutions across diverse regions in Europe (Prague, Bratislava, Bitola/Skopje, Cologne, Helsinki, Riga) in an innovative collaboration model.
The IOK podcast series includes eight episodes containing interviews with the artists creating new artwork commissions within the project.

08/07/2024

New meme commission: Unveiling inclusive curatorial strategies with . 🌍✨

🌍 Inclusive Curatorial strategies are an integral part of our Islands of Kinship (IOK) project. We address the redistribution of power, knowledge, visibility, and resources in curatorial practices across partner institutions. Let’s tackle them all! 🙌

04/07/2024

New meme from the third and final series of commissions was created by ! ✨ Based in Prague, Czech Republic.

Not having a sea coast, sea beaches, ports or any kind of maritime activity… Sometimes, it can feel like being an island. 🏝️

02/07/2024

Islands od Kinship has started a podcast! 🎙️

In the first episode, dive into the art of Diana Lelonek, a Polish artist whose latest work, "Stork, a Sacred Bird," explores how nature adapts to human-made environmental changes.

In her installation, storks, symbols of blessing and happiness, are seen in the dystopian landscape of the Getliņi landfill. This powerful piece sheds light on the interconnectedness of life, industrial monocultures, and climate change.

Listen on Spotify! Link in bio.

27/06/2024

New meme from the third and final series of commissions was created by ! ✨

Are you ready to appreciate art institutions that address inclusion, democratic exchange, kinship and togetherness? We are! Let’s work together so there are more of us. 👋🏻

13/06/2024

▪︎Language Matters: Accessible and Inclusive Communication in Art Spaces▪︎ PROGRAM DETAILS

17:30-18:00 – Performative lecture and spatial intervention by Ludmila Rodrigues

▪︎For this special occasion, Ludmila Rodrigues has created a spatial intervention for one of Stroom’s rooms, where visitors are welcome to slow down while experiencing a decrease of sensory stimuli. The artist will share her latest experience in music theater making, where different modes of perception were engaged. In collaboration with theater collective [in]operabilities, from Hamburg, she has developed haptic and acoustic objects for both actors and audience members. The project questioned how a diversity of bodies perceive music and theater and ultimately what bodies are entitled to perform.

▪︎Ludmila Rodrigues operates as an artist, spatial designer, lecturer and occasional performer, at the intersection of architecture, perception, and ritual. Her spatial interventions and choreographic objects become interfaces to activate the senses and explore physical dialogues with her audience. Through performative situations, Rodrigues investigates the entanglement of social interaction, vulnerability, agency and trust.

19:00-20:00 - Dinner with listening session by Katayoun A***n

▪︎discourse, moniker of Katayoun A***n, is an Iranian-Dutch DJ and selector from Amsterdam. She began digging, collecting, and playing music from 1930s-1980s Iran since 2015. First at self-organised parties and later at the iconic Red Light Radio. Her radio show titled ‘Female Vocalists from Iran (and Beyond)’ is a journey of deep listening across different musical landscapes, interweaving the voices of 20th-century female vocalists from Iran, and at times, the larger geographical area that comprises Iran. Her sounds span from soulful Persian Avaz to jazzy tunes, upbeat funk, and synth dusting up and bringing to the fore sweeping sounds and lesser known and forgotten gems from Iran in her sets.

Full program and tickets reservations (free) available via link on bio 🔝
The symposium is taking place within the international project Islands of Kinship, co-funded by the European Union.

12/06/2024

▪︎Language Matters: Accessible and Inclusive Communication in Art Spaces▪︎ PROGRAM DETAILS

18:00-19:00 - Launch of the Islands of Kinship publication followed by a panel discussion

▪︎The project Islands of Kinship interconnects six mid-scale visual art institutions across diverse regions in Europe (Prague, Bratislava, Bitola/Skopje, Cologne, Helsinki, Riga) in an innovative collaboration model addressing issues of inclusion, kinship and togetherness, democratic exchange and the ethics, emotions and practical solutions for a sustainable and fair institutional operation. The “Collective Manual for Sustainable and Inclusive Art Institutions“ is a result of the joint endeavors to address these themes via collaborative exhibitions, educational and public programs, co-commissioned artworks, but most importantly through smaller and larger transformative institutional experiments, aimed both at the inner operation, and outer collaboration and communication.

▪︎The heart of the IOK project was the possibility for each of the participating institutions to create a new job position of an Inclusion Coordinator. A unique group of insiders to the themes of accessibility, neurodiversity, social justice, ecological sustainability and gender diversity was formed. Each Coordinator worked both within the local context of their respective organization and engaged in an international and intersectional exchange as a part of the network. Texts by the Inclusion Coordinators, alongside those by the project’s curators and close collaborators, form the contents of the publication. We understand them as a call for wider discussion, as our means of sharing where we have come so far, acknowledging that this may only be the beginning in our attempts to lay grounds for art institutions that don’t solely survive the profoundly difficult times we find yourselves in, but also create grounds for positive and possibly radical change.

▪︎The coordinators from the various art institutions participating in the IOK project will be present in the panel discussion accompanying the book launch, each of them briefly introducing their contribution for the publication.

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