#1 takes place in association with Rhyzom (May 2009-October 2010), a collaborative network for local cultural production and trans-local dissemination funded under the Culture 2007 programme. Rhyzom is a partnership project with partners in Ireland, France, Turkey, UK and Germany, that aims to map emerging cultural productions related to local contexts (ie. eco-cultures, minorities’ skills and alternative economies, traditional practices and cultures of resilience, rural/urban exchanges), aiming to reinforce them through an European interdisciplinary network which constitutes a cultural collaborative platform for reciprocal empowerment and trans-local dissemination[1].
[1] Rhyzom project document
#1 is an exploration of the idea and practice of Commons.
Drawing on a network of people from around the world, #1 will assemble a collection of persepectives on that which is common, both historical and contemporary, and will place that assemblage of ideas directly into the public domain.
From text, images
(found or constructed, still or moving) and other information provided by
contributors, materials will be constructed and disseminated employing
different methods, levels and scales of intervention.
#1 locates itself on the margins of the visual
economy, employing hand-to-hand distribution of physical materials in order to test alternative ways of producing and distributing cultural materials.
Presentation of
material from all contributors will be an ongoing event occurring on the web and in various
locations around the world at times that may overlap. All contributors will be
invited to disseminate small amounts of material from other contributors in
their own locality. The ‘work’ then is both the interventions themselves and
the fluid, shifting set of relations between ideas, locations, practices and
forms that will emerge over time.
