Başak Şenova Livres

This book documents the “CrossSections” project (2017–2019), an interdisciplinary platform for artistic research, artistic dialogue, and artistic production curated by Başak Şenova. In collaboration with 19 artists and nine institutions, Şenova developed and tested new strategies of artistic research and new ways of exhibiting, through artist-in-residence programs, exhibitions, performances, and presentations in Vienna, Helsinki, and Stockholm. In 56 contributions, the book documents all aspects of the “CrossSections” project, tracking and presenting different forms and methods of artistic practice and collaboration developed under constantly changing conditions and circumstances.

Diversity in artistic research This book presents the results of the Octopus Programme, an innovative fellowship in the field of artistic research. This international network of eleven institutions included selected participants from Europe, the Mediterranean, and Africa, and generated numerous events, workshops, and exhibitions. By promoting international collaboration, new critical perspectives were developed to investigate the diversity of artistic research and practice in different contexts – academic as well as nonacademic – inside and outside institutions, or in relation to resources. This brings into focus not only different curatorial models, but also different modes of knowledge production. Artistic research and collaboration between academies, art institutions, students, and experts Curatorial forms of presentation, research and documentation, progressive educational methodology Contributions by Ruth Anderwald / Leonhard Grond, Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Maria Lantz, Barbara Putz-Plecko, Johan Thom, and others

For thirty years Barbara Holub's socially and politically engaged art has linked urban development, social issues, and artistic interventions. As an accumulative process of participatory action, Holub's projects question the role of art in society, whether in the context of art itself, in urban public space, or in relation to corporations. This monograph offers a detailed view of Barbara Holub's extensive body of work as well as her projects with transparadiso at the interface of art, architecture, and urbanism, for which she coined the term "silent activism." Rather than directly propagating activism, Holub persistently creates performative situations for dialogic action with the aim of questioning norms and crossing boundaries.