Artists does not know: guerilla knowledge, unlearning and gardening of everything
Ivana Momčilović's lecture will discuss the relationship between art and gardening, primarily using the example of the Les Orangeries de Bierbais project.
Ivana Momčilović's lecture will discuss the relationship between art and gardening, primarily using the example of the Les Orangeries project that Momčilović leads. Ivana Momčilović is a Yugoslav playwright, poet and researcher, living in Belgium, where she co-founded the Les Orangeries de Bierbais residency program in Bierbais. Her practice focuses on displacing philosophy and art into various spheres of everyday life, such as education, migrant movements, gardening, and permaculture, as well as redefining concepts of the nonexistent, the impossible, and temporary free territories, applying them in the fields of contemporary aesthetics and politics. She explores the relationship between fiction and ideology, as well as between aesthetics, politics, and the “amateur” approach to knowledge and forms of collective intelligence. She is the initiator and active member of several collectives: Collective EI-Migrative Art; Edicija Jugoslavija (a self-publishing initiative), PhD In One Night – a platform for aesthetic experimentation for all, and the Laboratory of Radical Peace. Since 2005, within PhD In One Night, she has developed various methods of knowledge sharing as collective artistic creation, aimed at self-organized groups, children, students, and researchers of all ages.
The event takes place as part of We Are Open, in cooperation with the National Gallery Prague and the Jindřich Chalupecký Society as part of the Café Chalupecký program, which presents foreign guests from the field of contemporary art.
photo: Ivana Momčilović archive