BE PART Chiara Bersani URB festival Elly Van Eeghem Collectief Elan(d) QUEEREEOKÉ Ridha Tlili Par Hasard Collectief Gob Squad Abel Holsborough Eszter Nemethi Dafna Maimon Jennie Moran Andrew Graham Cork Midsummer Festival Leentje Vandenbussche Lotte van den Berg Henry Mulhall Myvillages Bebe Books Roland Gunst Zoe Laureen Palmer Maarten De Vrieze L’AUTRE MAISON Marwa Arsanios Rest for the wicked Scottish Sculpture Workshop Santarcangelo dei Teatri Sophie Hope Vincen Beeckman Manoeuvre ATLAS Anna Karasinska City of Women Mara Oscar Cassiani Ben Fury Samah Hijawi L’Art Rue Artsadmin selma banich  Natural Contract Lab Homo Novus Festival de Marseille VIERNULVIER Chiara Bersani URB festival Elly Van Eeghem Collectief Elan(d) QUEEREEOKÉ Ridha Tlili Par Hasard Collectief Gob Squad Abel Holsborough Eszter Nemethi Dafna Maimon Jennie Moran Andrew Graham Cork Midsummer Festival Leentje Vandenbussche Lotte van den Berg Henry Mulhall Myvillages Bebe Books Roland Gunst Zoe Laureen Palmer Maarten De Vrieze L’AUTRE MAISON Marwa Arsanios Rest for the wicked Scottish Sculpture Workshop Santarcangelo dei Teatri Sophie Hope Vincen Beeckman Manoeuvre ATLAS Anna Karasinska City of Women Mara Oscar Cassiani Ben Fury Samah Hijawi L’Art Rue Artsadmin selma banich  Natural Contract Lab Homo Novus Festival de Marseille VIERNULVIER 

About

Art Beyond Participation – BE PART is a 4-year project initiated by a network of 10 EU and non-EU partners that critically explores the politics and practices of participation in the arts field. From collaborative art-making and sharing to decentralised governance models involving local citizens, artists and policy makers. BE PART sets out to collectively foster new approaches and structures for the co-creation and mobility of art through collaborations of co-creating publics, artists, researchers and organisations. Together we test theoretical frameworks, develop practical methodologies of coming together and institute collaborative working models within the BE PART network and beyond.

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Protocol

During the BEPART project, the Critical Network joins the process offering their jointed perspectives and voices to disclose and detect new learnings.

“During these 3 days of the 1st Protocol Drafting Workshop our team of 14 very engaged and passionate artists/researchers shared many personal experiences, observations, ideas, visions, methods, tools and strategies to develop the content of the protocol and think of ways to implement the protocol. We gather all these inputs in an organic and intuitive way in a working document called Protocol Draft 1.0. We consider the seemingly chaotically structured working document a fertile organic field or mine from which we extract inspirations, values, principles and practices.

We defined a series of basic principles we consider universal to the performance art ecosystem and that could become the fundamentals of this long term reflection on a more equal (re)distribution of power within BEPART institutions.”

Read the different versions of the protocol here.

Evaluation

Sophie Hope and Henry Mulhall see evaluation as part of a practice-based approach to research. Over the course of BE PART, they have used evaluation techniques that aim to get a more situated and nuanced idea of what’s happening across the network. They are using methods that aim to get a sense of how various people engaged with the project at different times and places, engaging with micro, meso and macro levels of BE PART.

The evaluation has involved 3 methods; Cards On The Table, Fieldwork Diarists and Blind Dates used to embed critical reflection during the process of BE PART, with an aim to inform the direction of their work, connect people across the network and gather data for further analysis.

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Read the full evaluation report


Latest events
Lines – L’autre Maison Co,Andrew Graham, L'Art Rue, 22.09.2023 — 08.10.2023 events
International Assembly IV,Homo Novus, 06.09.2023 — 08.09.2023 events
A Pact with Waters – Commoning with Sejoumi,Natural Contract Lab, L'Art Rue, 04.10.2023 — 06.10.2023 events
Talk | BODIES OF LIBERATION,Santarcangelo Festival, 16.07.2023 events
Talk | DO NOT APPROVE,Santarcangelo Festival, 15.07.2023 events

Latest fieldworks
Stadsatelier – 10 years of artistic practices in and with the city,ATLAS, viernulvier, Homo Novus, Ghent, Rīga,  fieldwork
Wrong Families,Gob Squad, Homo Novus, Rīga,  fieldwork
How deep is your love?,QUEEREEOKÉ, Baltic Drag King Collective, Homo Novus, Rīga,  fieldwork
AiR: Artist in Residence,Artsadmin, London,  fieldwork
Zet U!,Par Hasard Collectief, Manoeuvre, viernulvier, Belgium,  fieldwork
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