Andreja Kuluncic

Kuluncic’s exhibition contains a video installation that presents the audience with research materials and an activities program drawn up jointly with the social organizations that took part in the project. The main aim is to establish a platform for sharing experience and knowledge acquired that allows for future collaboration between these initiatives and leads to the preparation of a manual or “tool kit” based on the experience of the organizations that may be of use to other initiatives. In parallel with the exhibition, a communication channel will be established with a broader public through insertions in newspapers and a website that functions as a database for social organizations in Mexico City.

Conquering and Constructing the Common allow us to ask questions about the role of the museum in social space and the capacity of art to take part in and make visible different kinds of practices and social actors who are usually excluded. At the same time, it addresses the way in which the idea of shared space or the commons is constructed and defined through a range of social practices and experiences, where this concept appears as a possible horizon. Bringing together research and the construction of political and social networks, Kuluncic’s work highlights the experience of self-organization as a key to urban experience and history.