CE Arts-Based Activities in Europe
Recent Community Economies Arts-Based Activities in Europe have included:
2024-2027. FRICTIONS: Experiments in Arts-Based Administrative Practices
From 2024 to 2027, the Alpine Community Economies Laboratory in Vallagarina (Lagarina Valley), Italy is hosting artist-activist Kate Rich to work on her Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (grant agreement no. 101147188). Kate's project, FRICTIONS, builds on her 30+ years of experience across art, business and social fields and includes experiments in tactical administrative practice involving exemplary small-scale cultural initiatives including The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (Belgium), Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons (Netherlands), and FoAM (Belgium and Croatia). Image below shows an experiment with a 4D diverse economies budget.
2023. Art on the Scale of Life
A major review of Kathrin Böhm's arts practice Art on the Scale of Life was published in 2023, and it includes critical reflections by CEI Europe Member Emeritus Professor Katherine Gibson. The book features 25 years of work, and covers the depth and breadth of Böhm's work especially as enacted through social action projects such as The Centre for Plausible Economies (2018–ongoing) and Company: Movements, Deals and Drinks (2014–ongoing). The book is published in Europe and the UK by Sternberg Press (with HDK-Valand, PUBLICS, and The Showroom), and distributed in the US by MIT Press (or email Kathrin). Associated events included Kathrin Böhm in conversation with Elvira Dyangani Ose, Director of MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona.
2022. Community Economies Featured at Documenta Fifteen
Community economies artists and practitioners made an important contribution to the fifteenth edition of documenta, the 100-day exhibition that takes place in the German city of Kassel every five years and was held June to September 2022.
One community economies initiative was run through the The Rural School of Economics and Myvillages. Activities started in and around Kassel in mid-2021 in the lead-up to documenta fifteen. The School brought attention to ‘rural undercurrents’ in the area and involved four long-lasting organisations that are based on community economies values: Upländer Bauernmolkerei, a co-operative style run organic dairy; Kommune Niederkaufungen an intentional community that practises a shared pot economy; Kulturzentrum Schlachthof a cultural centre based on democratic principles and appreciation of cultural diversity; and Frauentreff Brückenhof, a women’s meeting place that supports a vast network of local women and their families through principles of care, trust and equity.
