Imprints of the Collective Body Yazan Khalili (The Question of Funding) in conversation with Erick Beltrán (lumbung press)
What does it mean to make art in the present moment? How can artists enact solidarity and contribute to build infrastructures for cultural resistance at a time of genocidal violence and impunity? For this in-conversation event, artists Yazan Khalili (core member of The Question of Funding) and Erick Beltrán (lumbung press) will discuss the role of artistic production in opening space for new ways of assembling to confront various forms of injustice.
This conversation will draw from the artists’ shared experience taking part in different collectives, platforms and experiments in self-organisation including documenta fifteen (2022), which was curated by ruangrupa and based on the tradition of lumbung, which is the name of communal granaries in Indonesia. As a practice of commoning, lumbung refers to the deposit of common resources for redistribution for the long-term benefit of the members of a community.
Emerging from this context, lumbung press is a Barcelona-based collective printing practice. It occupies an intermediate space between a cooperative press and an independent publishing house (creators taking charge of the means of production), rooted in the direct transmission of artistic research and social activism. Since its birth at documenta fifteen, lumbung press has distributed more than 50,000 free printouts at exhibitions and protests around the world.
Also taking part in the last documenta –where their participation sparked a virulent controversy on German media–, The Question of Funding is a growing collective of cultural producers and community organizers from Palestine. By documenting, interrogating, and disseminating resources and knowledge around the political and economic roles of cultural work, it aims to rethink the economy of funding its impact on cultural infrastructures in Palestine and worldwide.
Presented in collaboration with Hangar, where Yazan Khalili is taking part in the programme Alto el foc (Ceasefire now) on Monday 11 March. This event is presented as part of Song for Many Movements, an ephemeral experiment in which the ground floor of MACBA becomes a stage for encounters, conversations and shared listening. Curated by María Berríos and Sabel Gavaldon.
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