Decolonial Cultural Practices Towards Pluriversal Cultural Institutions and Policies

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.

INTRODUCTION

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

Chapter 1: Enacting Postcapitalist Cultural Politics: documenta 15 and Beyond

Višnja Kisić and Goran Tomka

Chapter 2: Tracing conflicts: Unpacking Antagonizations between Politics and the Political during documenta 15

Friederike Landau-Donnelly

Chapter 3: Ethics of Care in Cultural Policy and Practice. Case Study documenta15

Adil Serhan Şahin and Dunja Karanović

Chapter 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

Chapter 5: Rethinking Art Institutions: Examining documenta 15 with a Focus on the Istanbul Art Scene

Miyase Çelen

Chapter 6: The Curator as Ally – Curatorial Shifts Towards Commons and Artistic Collectivity at documenta 15

Lilli Kim Schreiber

Chapter 7: Lumbung as a Culture of Common Intentionality. A Post-Theoretical Approach to Cultural Production

Julian Kraemer and Laetitia Lüke

Chapter 8: Maaya Philosophies at documenta 15 – Curatorial Practices from Mali Challenging Patterns of Representation in the International Art Sphere

Michèle Brand

Chapter 9: Collective Learning in Expanding Settings? Reflections on Collectivizing Methods at documenta15

Sophie Mak-Schram, Marteinn Sindri Jónsson and Ernesto Oroza

Chapter 10: A Glossary Attempt to Harvest the Summer School: A Vocabulary for Grounding, Rooting and Standing

Zeynep Okyay