Social Context Channel gathers and shares the work and thoughts of artists, critical thinkers and socially engaged actors who challenge todays's sociopolitical state of things.
Philosopher & Sociologist
Posted: Dec / 2014
Lecture on "Ignorance and the denial of the possibility of social change" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
In her latest book Choice (Profile Books, London, 2010) Renata Salecl investigates the paradox of today’s society that on the one hand we have vast possibilities for new knowledge but on the other hand we are inventing ever new ways to close our eyes and find particular enjoyment in denial. She recalls the famous psychoanalytic maxim that people do not have the passion for knowledge, but rather passion for ignorance. This passion leads us to close your eyes and ignore what is to be seen and comprehended. In her work Salecl poses the question, how come that we have become so passive in regard to social changes? How come that when we actually have the choice in regard to the type of society we want to live in for the future we rarely envision it and behave as in the best scenario the future is going to be just the continuation of the present?
Links:
inst-krim.si | wikipedia.org/wiki/Renata_Salecl
Citizens’ Initiative
Interview with Ljubomir Grgurević and Đuro Capor about the initiative “Srđ Je Naš” (Srdj is ours).
Philosopher & Sociologist
Lecture on “Perversion of power" at the Social Context conference at Art Workshop Lazareti in Dubrovnik, May 10 2014
Artist / Director of Art Workshop Lazareti
Interview with Slaven Tolj about Art Workshop Lazareti in Dubrovnik May 2014
Artist
Performance: “Cruising”, at the Social Context conference in Dubrovnik, May 10 2014
Philosopher
Lecture, "Is Spring the Shortest Season?", at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Ehnologist
Lecture on "Fishermen and ethnologists in the North – the story about how a fishing community tries to avoid being stripped of access to its resources" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Multimedia artist
Performance: "Personal statement", at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Cultural worker
Đuro Capor, from the local organisation “Srđ Je Naš” (Srdj is ours), presenting the initiative and activities of “Srđ Je Naš” at the Social Context conference at Art Workshop Lazareti in Dubrovnik, May 10 2014
Artist
Performance: "Leisure", at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Tone Olaf Nielsen and Morten Goll / Curator & Artist
Lecture on "Trampoline House: Building a Refugee Justice Space with Tools from Socio-Politically Engaged Art, Migrant Activism, and the Asylum Reform Movement" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Visual artist, educator and activist
Talk on "An urban walk through the district of Nørrebro - the presence of past struggles?" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Institute for architectural research
By Architects Dinko Peračić and Miranda Veljačić
Lecture on "Platforms – cultural centres of 21st century" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Cultural worker and activist
Lecture on "Tactical networking and the Right to the City" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
