The workshop “Informality in Arts: Towards an Impossible Encyclopaedia”
Following the launch of the third volume of the Global Encyclopaedia of Informality edited by Professor Alena Ledeneva, Pushkin House is excited to host the first workshop in the series of ongoing collaborations with the Fringe Centre at the UCL School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies (SSEES) on informality in arts.
During the workshop, we will address the complex terminology, definitions and language issues that arise when speaking about informality. The goal would be to look at more examples of informal practices in art, approaching the theme of informality in its relation to “cousin” terminologies (such as “shadow” or “opacity”). The ongoing open call for submission of informal art projects seeks to assemble a collection that captures the spirit of ambivalence: artistic visualisation of the invisible; verbalisation of the non-verbal; art as a by-product of life, rather than intended production; artful responses to formal constraints; performative artefacts and practices that resist archiving. The Global Informality Project looks for documentation of completed visual art projects that relate to themes of informality, and explores the artistic approaches that can contribute to our understanding of informality.
The various projects submitted for the encyclopaedia will be presented and discussed as case studies. The planned outcome of the project development is the publication of a future volume on informality in the arts, with partners ranging from the UCL Fringe Centre and Pushkin House to artistic initiatives and academics.
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