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The international interdisciplinary workshop was organized by the Department of Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in partnership with the Palack\u00fd University in Olomouc and the University of Warsaw. The workshop was focused on relations between cultural performative actions and rituals and the public sphere. Methods from theatre and performance studies, cultural studies and anthropology are taken as a starting point for interdisciplinary exploration of the topic. Three mixed Czech and Polish working groups spent three days of intensive collaboration to share knowledge on a) anthropology of protest movements and it\u2019s the theatricality, b) ethnographic field work and participatory communal activities, and on c) aesthetical (theatrical) framing of social conflicts. All three themes was introduced by a keynote from an expert and reflected in final general discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Working groups<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What Was the Aesthetics of Folk-Politics?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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V\u00e1clav Magid <\/strong>
Academic Research Centre of the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague<\/p>\n\n\n\n

V\u00e1clav Magid is a writer, visual artist, curator and editor. The scope of his interests covers the relationship between aesthetics and politics, the role of conceptual tendencies in contemporary art or the legacy of aesthetic theory of Frankfurt School. He holds a teaching position at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Brno University of Technology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The term \u201cfolk politics\u201d has been recently introduced by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams to describe a prevailing leftist tactic at the beginning of the 21st century, with its dominant focus on direct action, horizontalism and local solutions. While the hegemony of folk politics begun with the rise of alter-globalism in the nineties, its decline has been represented by the failures of the Occupy Movement after 2011. The seminar will be based on a hypothesis that most of participatory and politically engaged art of the last two decades can be placed in the framework of \u201cfolk politics\u201d, which will consequently allow us to apply aspects of its political criticism to the domains of aesthetics and art. Nevertheless, the large part of the seminar will be devoted to exploration of competing theories which have been used to conceptualize participatory and activist art of this era \u2013 from Nicolas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bourriaud\u2019s \u201crelational aesthetics\u201d through Grant Kester\u2019s idea of \u201cdialogical art\u201d up to Claire Bishop\u2019s accentuation of \u201cdissensus\u201d and antagonism, rooted in philosophy of Jacques Ranci\u00e8re. The ultimate failure of the promises of the \u201cfolk political\u201d participatory art and the consequent turn to the art of \u201cplatforms\u201d will be approached through the analysis of differences between the 7th and the 9th Berlin Biennials.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Culture of Protest\/Protest Culture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Marta Kol\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1<\/strong>
Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arno\u0161t Nov\u00e1k <\/strong>
Department of Social and Cultural Ecology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The seminar focused on study of culture of protest from a sociological, anthropological and media studies perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One part presented theoretical approaches to protest. What is a protest? The different kinds of protests. From pressure politics to prefigurative politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second part deal with methodological approach to study protests. The students will learn and practically apply qualitative research methods (participant observation, interviews, media analysis etc.). We analyzed particular forms of theatricality and media representations of protests, e.g. counterculture of the 1960s and the alter-globalization movement around the turn of millennium.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lectures<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Smells Like Teen Spirit<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Jan Z\u00e1le\u0161\u00e1k
<\/strong>Department of Theoretic Studies and History of Art, Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

sistant professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Brno University of Technology. In 2009 obtained a post-doctoral scholarship for the research on collaborative and participatory arts which resulted in a monograph entitled Um\u011bn\u00ed spolupr\u00e1ce (Art of Cooperation, 2011) (The art of collaboration). His following book Minul\u00e1 budoucnost \/ Past Future (2013) focused on the search for utopian potential of modernity in contemporary art. In 2008-2010 he was active as a curator at Galerie mlad\u00fdch (Galery of Young Artists) in Brno; and curated thematic exhibition Re-romantic (2009), Hork\u00e1 linka (Hotline, 2010), Vzpom\u00ednky na budoucnost II (Memories of the Future II, 2013), Apocalypse Me (2016) and Letting Go (2017). Jan Z\u00e1le\u0161\u00e1k is also a member of Skutek Association and Are (are-events.org) Association.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The aim of the lecture is to offer a background for V\u00e1clav Magid\u2019s seminar entitled What was the Aesthetics of Folk-Politics? It will introduce several \u201ccase studies\u201d \u2013 examples of artistic projects that declare the intention to achieve a change in the social fabric, in the way how politics is done, or how wealth and power are distributed, ranging from the early 1990s \u2018new genre public art\u2019 (Suzanne Lacy) or \u2018relational aesthetics\u2019 (Jens Haaning) to recent efforts to re-invent political art (Jonas Staal).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Towards an Alternative Social History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Tomasz Rakowski
<\/strong>Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of History, University of Warsaw<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In my presentation I will show how the unnoticed traditions of social selforganization born in rural Poland may reveal deep conflicts embedded in Polish society during the last decades. I draw on something that could be called \u201cthe culture of shaming\u201d \u2013 a perspective that appears where modernizing discourses on Polish society are confronted with the cultural experiences of Polish farmers and villagers. I subsequently explore several possible ways of going beyond this perspective: turning to the world of rural social subjectivity as it emerges from artistic and ethnographic projects, investigating the conditions of belonging and the possibilities of performing an \u2018inward turn\u2019, and exploring the potential to construct an alternative understanding of society \u2013 a proto-sociology. In my argument, artistic projects are linked with ethnography, and above all with the possibility of revealing an alternative social history, capable of reversing the fixed assumptions about the contemporary Polish society. The presentation will include a display of film materials.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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