Kontekst Collective / Zadruga Oktobar / Belgrade
Kontekst Collective is an autonomous organisation whose work concentrates on interconnecting critical theory and practice, field of visual art and culture with a wider social engagement.
The main fields of work are critical theory, cultural policy, visual arts, research, education, activism. In our practice, we are interested in research conducted together with artists and other actors, conceptualising exhibitions and works of art, and realising them in collaborative processes. As we find the divisions between professions extremely problematic, as they are maintaining the division of labor as we know it, we are trying to blur these borders, to hybridize the space through engaging with different kinds of activities. Furthermore, for us, it is important that our political position is clear enough to be understandable to a broader audience and not only to the „proper educated“ and thus capable of reading it.
Through our critical approach to the social reality, direct intervention and persistence to initiate discussion on topics that are rarely discussed, we are trying to destabilise most retrograde and conservative social – economic and political – processes. From October 2013, together with a group of activists we have started Social Center “October” that became a hub for one part of the left-orientated critical scene in Belgrade.
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