Gotong Royong – Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

The discursive programme supplementing the Gotong Royong. Things We Do Together exhibition intends to add to what we learned from the exhibition itself. Recent changes in the social, political and economic climate—including economic crises, political-religious extremism, the questioning of climate changes, populist and nationalist trends, the crisis in education and the gradual breakdown of community ties—seem to be universal. The Gotong Royong. Things We Do Together exhibition offers projects, actions and grassroots solutions by using artistic-educational activism to defy these negative indicators. We would like this discursive programme to put the exhibition in a broader context. The programme’s meetings will differ both in format and in their way of presenting knowledge. The meetings will involve artists and activists who are taking part in the exhibition, as well as analysts of culture and of connections between politics and economics. We believe that it is important to investigate concrete issues. In these meetings, we will think about what acting together means, why nationalist tendencies are picking up and what role an unconventional perspective can play in transforming education.

• Marianna Dobkowska
• Konrad Schiller
  • All the meetings will take place in the exhibition space

• 24/10/2017
  • 18:00
    • Gotong Royong. A short history of Indonesian cooperation – Irwan Ahmet & Tita Salina, Marianna Dobkowska, Krzysztof Łukomski, Reinaart Vanhoe
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• 08/11/2017
  • 18:00
    • The rebirth of global nationalisms – participants: Imani Jacqueline Brown, Clara Ianni, Ewa Alicja Majewska
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• 15/11/ 2017
  • 18:00
    • Education. Grassroots resistance strategies – participants: Tainá Azeredo, Joanna Pawluśkiewicz, Katarzyna Winiarska
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• 06/12/2017
  • 18:00
    • Exoticization, a barrier to liberating the excluded – participants: Vincent Rumahloine, Igor Stokfiszewski
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