Expanded documentation of the SPACES project (2011-2014)
This publication explores the development of a cultural public sphere in Central Eastern Europe. Framed by reflections on the past, it invites the reader to follow the contemporary experiences of the project SPACES – Sustainable Public Areas for Culture in Eastern Countries, which developed numerous participative artistic and cultural actions in Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine from 2011 until 2014. From underground passages in Tbilisi, Georgia, to places of memory in Yerevan, Armenia, derelict industrial zones in Kyiv, Ukraine, and areas of urban conflicts in Chisinau, Moldova: the artistic interventions presented in this volume mirror the social transformation processes in post-Soviet Europe and the positioning of artists in the struggle for change and for new, empowered forms of citizenship.
With contributions by Ruben Arevshatyan, Nataša Bodrožić, Kateryna Botanova, Oleksandr Burlaka, Heidi Dumreicher, Nora Galfayan, Ina Ivanceanu, Bettina Kolb, Aleksandra Krauze, Richard S. Levine, Nini Palavandishvili, Lali Pertenava, Oleksiy Radinski, Stefan Rusu, Vitalie Sprinceana, Taguhi Torosyan, Vladimir Us.
Edited by Nataša Bodrožić and Nini Palavandishvili
Published by Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra, Austria
English edition
23 x 17 cm / 208 pages / softcover
Images in colour and b/w
Print run: 2000
Printed in Austria
ISBN: 978-3-99028-425-4
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