Project IZYUM_recovery, will be a topic for discussion during TEH 97 CONFERENCE ART OF SURVIVAL , which will take place in Tartu /Estonia from 30.05- 02.06.2024 .

This session is public and also accessible online link to the website of the conference you can find with this link – https://www.aparaaditehas.ee/teh-97-conference
Curator of IZYUM_recovery project Anastasiia Gulak will take part in discussion during session “CULTURE AND CARE : Rebuilding alternative cultural spaces & overselves.
Session moderated by :

Laura Aufrere

Together with Speakers:
Anastasiia Ponomareva – Urban Curators Agency (Ukraine)
Amy Gottung – DIY Space Project (Canada)
Louna Sbou – Oyoun (Germany)
Olivier Le Gal – La Station (France)
Casey Wel – Artist and researcher (USA)

As urban landscapes embody a series of injustices (displacement, gentrification, marginalization, …), alternative cultural places (ACP) have diversified their action, extending beyond the cultural sector, to contemporary forms of solidarity. These renewed practices and somewhat undisciplined paths are developed by ACPs communities to open their spaces and inhabit them with new sets of competences focusing on care, transmission, pedagogy, co-creation, and any form fostering and welcoming diversity of expression and selves. However, ACPs are faced with tensions, backlash movements, official censorship as well as hidden forms of self-censorship. Our panel will explore some of ACPs’ strategies and challenges associated with such transformations and issues, including work organization, alliances, censorship, instrumentalization – as well as the space for hope cultural spaces and communities can nurture in a contemporary urban environment.
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The conference is supported by City of Tartu, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, National Foundation of Civic Society, Tartu 2024
Organised by Trans Europe Halles @transeuropehalles
Special support for curator and Izyum _recovery project – IZOLYATSIA platform for cultural initiatives @izolyatsia