CCQO at BALKAN EXPRESS
FLANDERS – BALKAN EXPRESS MEETING June 5-9, 2017 The field of art and culture has always been one of the most proactive pillars of society. Culture can be a powerful factor of social regeneration, contributing ...
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V2 Lab For Unstable Media Lecture – Creative or Common City?
On this afternoon Pascal Gielen will discuss the relationship between art, politics and civil space in the creative city, and how activists and creative workers respond to policy via alternative ways of self-organisation and strategies ...
THE ETHICS OF PARTICIPATORY ART – ARIA Seminar – 18.05.17
Intercultural participatory art projects are easily endangered by socio-political recuperation and ethical ambiguity. During this seminar, we will determine what the ethical and political challenges are and how they could be dealt with. How can ...
Freelancers: in feite buiten ze zichzelf uit
Het is soms al moeilijk genoeg om één baan te vinden, maar steeds meer mensen combineren twee of drie jobs. Multi-jobbers zijn meestal freelancers, die naar eigen zeggen vrijheid en zelfstandigheid nodig hebben. Maar ...
Research visit: exploring the urban commons in Madrid
CCQO’s sociologist Louis Volont continues his fieldwork in Madrid. The question at hand: how can artists working within public space use the urban voids of their city and contribute, sustainably, to their urban commonwealth? The ...
Plan A embraces the city of Antwerp
What is your dream for Antwerp in 2024? For one year long, Plan A gathers and refines ideas, dreams, and proposals for our shared future from all citizens of Antwerp. Together, the refined ideas will ...
ARIA-CCQO at G7 for Culture
The cultural sector is undergoing many changes and artists and other workers in the performing arts sector face many challenges. There is an urgent need to use these challenges as opportunities, by rethinking the relationship ...
Do It Yourself, But Not Alone
Onze Nederlandse vrienden waren gretig om van Belgisch onderzoek terzake iets te leren. Twee Belgische sociologen, Pascal Gielen en Louis Volont (Universiteit Antwerpen), schetsten het kader voor de avond. Voor een duurzame loopbaan heb ...
Artistic Constitutions of the Common City
ARIA RESEARCH SEMINAR APRIL April 20-21 The “enclosure of the commons” is a popular topic in political economics and philosophy of law. Discussions about open source and creative commons are just two examples that come to ...
Artistic constitutions of the civil domain – Eurozine
In the wake of the US presidential election, the severity of the crisis facing liberal representative democracy is clear. The need for a civil domain has never been greater, argues sociologist Pascal Gielen in a ...