new book: Respublika! - Experiments in the Performance of Participation and Democracy (2019), edited by Nico Carpentier

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The Respublika! catalogue is out. It is open access, and you can 
download the 361-page book from here:
http://nicocarpentier.net/respublika/.

"Respublika! - Experiments in the Performance of Participation and 
Democracy" (2019), edited by Nico Carpentier and published by NeMe, 
reports on the Respublika! project, initiated and curated by Nico 
Carpentier and co-organised with NeMe and CCMC. The catalogue reports on 
the 18 Respublika! art projects, through project narratives, artist 
interviews and more than 200 photographs. The catalogue also contains 12 
reflexive articles, written by Bart Cammaerts, Nico Carpentier, Vuk 
Ćosić, Vaia Doudaki, Pascal Gielen, Helen Hahmann, Nicos Trimikliniotis, 
Olga Yegorova and Hazal Yolga.

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Respublika! - Experiments in the Performance of Participation and Democracy
Nico Carpentier (ed.)
Published by NeMe, Limassol
2019, 361 pages, ISBN 978-9963-9695-8-6
Open access at http://nicocarpentier.net/respublika/
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About Respublika!

Respublika! was a cluster of an arts Festival, three Exhibitions and 
several Seminars, initiated and curated by Nico Carpentier and 
co-organised with NeMe and CCMC. Respublika! translated the principles 
of community media in creative practice, in order to reflect on media, 
democracy and its participatory component, to analyze the 
(de)centralization of power in contemporary societies, and to showcase 
art projects that use participatory mechanisms to produce art projects, 
working with, and empowering members of one or more communities. 
Respublika! was multi-sited and multi-genre, and aimed to tap into the 
creative reservoirs of community media, civil society organizations and 
social collectives (and their members); but also of artists that are 
committed to the basic principles of participatory (community) 
communication.

Respublika! incorporated 18 art projects that relate to (at least) one 
of the following two objectives, which translate the principles of 
community media in creative practice:

1/to reflect on media, democracy and its participatory component, 
analysing the (de)centralization of power in contemporary societies,
2/to use participatory mechanisms to produce art projects, working with, 
and empowering members of one or more communities.

Respublika! consisted of three exhibitions, a festival and a seminar 
series. The first main exhibition, Open Community – Open Networks, took 
place from 4 November 2017 to 2 December 2017. The second main 
exhibition, Participation Matters, took place from 8 December 2017 to 19 
January 2018. The Festival ran in parallel with the first week of the 
second main exhibition, from 8 to 16 December 2017.

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Contents of the Respublika! catalogue

Foreword

An Introduction to Respublika! Experiments in the Performance of 
Participation and Democracy
Nico Carpentier

>Part I: Participations

Introduction to Participations
Nico Carpentier

Community Media as Rhizome
Nico Carpentier

The Art of Community Media Organisations
Nico Carpentier

Shaking the Airwaves: Participatory Radio Practices
Helen Hahmann

Life:Moving
Briony Campbell and the Life:Moving participants and project team

Life:Moving - The Six Participants
Briony Campbell and the Life:Moving participants and project team

Interview with Michele Aaron

Meet Y/Our Wall
Old Nicosia Revealed

Interview with Natalie Hami (Old Nicosia Revealed)

Community Art - A Neo-liberal Solution for the Deconstruction of Welfare 
State?
Pascal Gielen

Poetry Route River Flows
Wilfred Apiung Akan, Leonoor Akkermans, Eleanor Anabire, Loes ten 
Anscher, Kate Opoku Boateng, Jacomien den Boer, Mary Chulu, Desta 
Dekebo, Aliyi Abdulah Deressa, Assefa Addis Habtamu, Nayel Sayed 
Hasibullah, Mohamed Jalloh, Juliana Alphonce Kabaitilaki, Lufumu Fikiri 
katiko, Jonas Samuel Laryea, Susan Kosgei Lebuluz, Elizabeth Mutumi 
Mailu, Alick Sylvester Mbewe, Adélphine Muhirwa, Emerence Mukangabo, 
Mwale Ernest Mupemo, Kojo Tawiah Baah Nuakoh, Jeroen Rijke, Ali Makame 
Said, Brinah Mandisa Senzere, Samuel Smith, Yewbdar Tadesse, Sulemana 
Wahab, Loes Witteveen, Simon Satunmia Yambor

River Flows - An Artistic Approach Towards Community Resilience, 
Participation and Social Learning in Natural Resources Management
Loes Witteveen and Jacomien den Boer

Interview with Loes Witteveen

The Party of the Housing Dream
Peter Snowdon and the Groupe ALARM

Introductions to the Screening of The Party of the Housing Dream
Peter Snowdon, Aurélia Van Gucht and Abdo Naji

Street Magazines as Communicative Spaces of Inclusion and Solidarity
Vaia Doudaki

>Part II: Reflections about Democracy and the Political

Introduction to Reflections about Politics and Democracy
Nico Carpentier

Revalidating Participation: Power and Pre-Figurative Politics within 
contemporary Left-wing Movements
Bart Cammaerts

Artists, Cultural Producers and Activists: Integrations and 
Articulations of Struggles
Nicos Trimikliniotis

Mirror Palace of Democracy
Nico Carpentier

The Five Ideologies of the Mirror Palace of Democracy
Nico Carpentier

Its Good to Know
Join2Media

Interview with Didem Eroglu and Orestis Tringides (Join2Media)

Communities and Memories of Struggles: What is Left of the Occupy the 
Buffer Zone (OBZ) Movement?
Nicos Trimikliniotis

Motivwv1.1
George Kyrou

Interview with George Kyrou

Eclipse
Emilia Izquierdo

Interview with Emilia Izquierdo

Speaking the Unspoken: Challenging Hegemonic Discourses
Hazal Yolga

>Part III: Interactions

Introduction to Interactions
Nico Carpentier

wolFMoon howling
Irena Pivka and Brane Zorman

Its in My Nature
Brane Zorman

wolFMoon howling: Live Performance Instructions / Guidelines
Irena Pivka and Brane Zorman

Interview with Irena Pivka and Brane Zorman (CONA Institute)

What Is It About?!
Elena Volina and Mathieu Devavry

Interview with Elena Volina

Social Sculpture Performance/Workshop Unfolding-Unwrapped
Johannes Gerard

Interview with Johannes Gerard

All Sources Are Broken
Labor Neunzehn

Interview with Alessandro Massobrio and Valentina Besegher (Labor Neunzehn)

Open Mic - A Community Radio Experiment
MYCYradio

Interview with Hazal Yolga and Orestis Tringides (MYCYradio)

Community Spectradio
Yiannis Christidis, Markos Souropetsis and Co

Interview with Yiannis Christidis

>Part IV: Reflections about Identity, Community, Technology and Nature

Introduction to Reflections about Identity, Community, Technology and Nature
Nico Carpentier

Just a Short Article About the net.art That Was a Community
Vuk Cosic

... An Archeology of Silence in the Digital Age  An Artist Talk
Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud

Tools for the Next Revolution workshop
Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud

You Belong Here
Liza Philosof

Interview with Liza Philosof

Fugue
Nance Davies

Interview with Nance Davies

Architecture of a Spectral City
Will Kendrick

Interview with Will Kendrick

>Conclusion

Respublika! is Political. Why Participatory Art and Art on Participation 
Matters. A Political Analysis
Olga Yegorova

>Appendices

Festival Programme

Respublika! Seminars

Biographies

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