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Grant for workshop on Precarious Infrastructures.

The board of Uses of the Past has decided to grant the support of the seminar Precarious Infrastructures. April 26th 2017.

The seminar Precarious Infrastructures directs attention to the border-crossing strategies developed in self-organized art projects as a place to find inspiration for alternative models of connecting art, culture, creativity and institutional action. Seizing on the idea of precarious infrastructure as a creative tool for enabling alternative models of co-existence, the seminar presents experiences and accounts from two recent experiments with border crossing institutional action. These are: CRAC/Espacio Santa Ana (Chile) and Konsthall C (Sweden). What is special for these initiatives (CRAC and Home Works programme) is that they do not conform to pre-established divisions of labour in the art institution. Rather they develop lines of allegiances and collaborative working models from local situations - disregarding such divisions between artistic practice, social co-creation and institutional agency.