The Biennale of Western Balkans presents the second edition of Art Pluriverse, a Community Science Series for Intangible and Natural Heritage in the Balkans, under the title Iatrosophia: On folk medicine and phytogeography. They invite artists and researchers to collaborate online with communities of practice, co-documenting traditional knowledge through research-based art and FAIR & CARE community archiving.
Iatrosophia: On folk medicine and phytogeography aims to explore folk medicine in the Balkans and empower living and past communities that safeguard local traditional medical practices, through research-based art documentation and community archiving.
For the Artist-Community Synergies strand, artists and communities will have the opportunity to cooperate together online, in order to co-document community cultural knowledge through contemporary art practices.
Up to five communities and an equal number of artists will be selected, forming artist-community synergies. Pairs will be able to meet online, set their course of action and work together throughout January and February for 4 weeks. Artists are free to suggest any combinations of art forms, media and creative processes (e.g. sketches, sound, GIFs, photographs) for the research-based artistic documentation of the community. The synergies will be featured on BoWB’s website in order for the audience to follow along.
The outcome of the synergies will be the documentation of the community’s traditional knowledge, experience, history and/or practices with artistic media, encouraging a research-based creative process of several art notes and records rather than the production of a single artwork.
Proposals are invited from local or international artists working with folk medicine or any other form of intangible/natural heritage (extended to eco-art and new media approaches) who are interested in experimenting in the field from diverse perspectives, bringing forth gender, ecological, intercultural and other critical issues. Each selected proposal will be awarded an honorarium of 300€.
