PERIPHERAL VISIONS – towards a trans(l)national publishing culture
The project extends earlier collaborations and connects 8 organizations from 6 EU and non-EU countries to respond to the fragmentation of the cultural field and digital congestion caused by the current pandemic context. The partners are particularly suitable for this as they produce cutting edge cultural content, practices and knowledge, including in-depth research of new digital technologies, and reach large and diverse audiences.
Partners in the project are: Kulturtreger, Maska Ljubljana, eipcp. europäisches institut für progressive kulturpolitik, Udruženje gradjana Kuda.org, Association of citizens Kontrapunkt Skopje, Multimedia institut, with associated partners Kulturföreningen glänta Ekonomisk förening and Eurozine – Gesellschaft zur Vernetzung von Kulturmedien mbH.
The core of the project is international exchange among small/er cultural and linguistic contexts in European semi-peripheries, whereby they support each other through co-production, co-creation, transfer of know-how and sharing of resources.
Through multilingual publishing, transdisciplinary cultural production, alternative distribution, exchange of knowledge, digital content, open source digital technologies and new game formats, the project creates international space for creation and experimentation in publishing. With the objective to cut through the noise that causes paralysis in communication among cultural producers and artists in small/er cultural contexts, it stimulates creativity and circulation of artists and works, facilitates the trans-national distribution of content and exchange of practices and builds capacities by taking advantage of new technologies.
More
Maska will co-publish with the project partners the translation of Bojana Kunst’s newly published book The Life of Art: Crossing the Lines of Care into German (EIPCP, Austria) and Croatian (MaMa, Zagreb), and will dedicate the Performance Festival to the theme of care, the main theme of Bojana Kunst’s monograph. The project will co-publish a collection of essays C-section by Arab women authors (MaMa, Zagreb). The project has already published a bilingual issue of the much-awaited magazine Maska JUFU 2.0, and a short manifesto of YUFU will be published on a digital open-source platform to be developed by the Slovenian collective Kompot. The knowledge gained from the development of the collaborative editorial platform will be presented in an international workshop. We have also launched an open call for theatre productions by YUFU, which will deal with the issue of life in the region in the near future and will be based on the theme of Yugofuturism. The strongest proposal will be selected and will be premiered in January 2024. We will work with Radio Student to produce 5 radio programmes and 5 videos on the theme of Yugofuturism.
Supported by:
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
