Rhyzom

Dissemination represents the product of each project, reflecting the research and development each partner has done by pulling it into a format to share the knowledge they have gained through working as part of the network.

This book brings together a series of reflections and practices around issues of local and trans-local cultural production within different contexts in Europe, prompted through the agency of a collaborative and networked project : Rhyzom.

All these cultures developped within local contexts are intrinsically related to political, economic, social and material aspects and to specific temporalities, spatialities, individual and collective histories and experiences. Like the whole Rhyzom project, the book is an attempt to create transversal links and connections within and across different local framings and to seize instances of the dynamic and complicated nature of notions of 'local' an 'culture' through multiple forms of practice, which address the critical condition of culture in contemporary society. In relations with 'local', 'trans-local', 'place' and 'culture', issues of conflict and contest, ecologies, politics and care practices, common and commonality, institutions and agencies are adressed.

The book is written by architects, artists, activists, curators, cultural workers, educators, sociologists, geographers and residents living in different rural and urban areas in Europe and is addressed to anyone concerned with the relation between culture, subjectivity, space and politics today.

The list of projects and topics presented in the book is open : the Rhyzom website provides the framework for futher displays and possible collaborations.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THE BOOK:

You can send the order form available at the bottom of the page ( 20 euros + postage costs)                    A free PDF of the book is also available for downloading at the bottom of the page

The Translocal Condition takes as its starting position an idea that the local is the exact point at which people can act in the interests of change. By connecting translocally, it becomes possible to build networks of change.

Each of the eight participating artists or artist collectives, drawn from around the world, shows a film work that engages with specific local conditions. By focusing on action and possibility, these works place the capacity and the responsibility for change in the hands of ordinary people, wherever they find themselves. 

The Translocal Condition is a collection of minds project, curated by Fiona Woods : http://www.collectionofminds.net/com4.htm

During the Festival ÜBER LEBENSKUNST at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.