1st Edition
Decolonial Cultural Practices Towards Pluriversal Cultural Institutions and Policies
From documenta 15 to pluriversal horizons: rethinking cultural practices, institutions and policies
Özlem Canyürek and Meike Lettau
PART I: ON THE PATH TO PLURIVERSALITY IN KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AND CULTURAL POLICY
1. Enacting postcapitalist cultural politics: documenta 15 and beyond
Višnja Kisić and Goran Tomka
2. Tracing conflicts: unpacking antagonizations between politics and the political during documenta 15
Friederike Landau-Donnelly
3. Ethics of care in cultural policy and practice: case study documenta15
Adil Serhan Şahin and Dunja Karanović
4. Attempts to establish equality and diversity in the cultural sector – analysing documenta 15
Charlotte Hüser
PART II: COLLECTIVITY IN ART INSTITUTIONS AND LUMBUNG PRACTICE
5. Rethinking art institutions: examining documenta 15 with a focus on the Istanbul art scene
Miyase Çelen
6. The curator as an ally: curatorial shifts towards commons and artistic collectivity at documenta 15
Lilli Kim Schreiber
7. Lumbung as a culture of common intentionality: a post-theoretical approach to cultural production
Julian Kraemer and Laetitia Lüke
8. Maaya philosophies at documenta 15: curatorial practices from Mali challenging patterns of representation in the international art sphere
Michèle Brand
9. Collective learning in expanding settings? Reflections on collectivizing methods at documenta 15
Sophie Mak-Schram, Marteinn Sindri Jónsson and Ernesto Oroza
10. A glossary attempt to harvest the summer school: a vocabulary for grounding, rooting and standing
Zeynep Okyay
Biography
Meike Lettau holds a junior professorship in cultural and media policy studies at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, Germany. Her research interests include international cultural relations, artists as agents of change, socio-political transformation processes and culture in conflict regions, among others. She is currently leading the DAAD-funded project ‘Tawasol Cultural Production and Policy Network’ focusing on the WANA region. Previously, she was academic associate at the University of Hildesheim and coordinator of the graduate school ‘Performing Sustainability: Cultures and Development in West Africa’. She has worked for various cultural institutions (e.g. Goethe-Institut, KHOJ International Artists’ Association, Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations [ifa]).
Özlem Canyürek is a sociologist of cultural policy, politics and education. She holds a PhD from the University of Hildesheim, Department of Cultural Policy. Her research centres on marginalized knowledges, narratives and aesthetics in the German cultural field. Her dissertation 'Cultural Diversity in Motion. Rethinking Cultural Policy and Performing Arts in an Intercultural Society' was funded by the European Open Science Cloud for open-access publication. She has examined diversification processes in the performing arts for the German Performing Arts Fund (2021) and in children’s and youth theatre for ASSITEJ Germany (2023), focusing on practice-informed approaches to cultural policy.
