The Octopus – On Diversities, Art Production, Educational Models, and Curatorial Trajectories

The book is the accumulation of the Octopus Programme (2019-2022), a research-based educational programme to promote artistic research, diversities, and collaborations in numerous European, Mediterranean, and African cities.

The Octopus Programme developed new critical perspectives to process artistic research and practices while bridging and acknowledging: the diversity of socio-political realities, academic and non-academic intellectual models, institutional and alternative curatorial practices, accessed and distributed resources and facilities, and multiple knowledge production models. By merging the viewpoints of academic entities and contemporary art institutions, the programme developed a generative research methodology by creating an autonomous network.

With contributions by
Ruth Anderwald + Leonard Grond, Çelenk Bafra, Yane Calovski, Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Olfa Feki, Hristina Ivanoska, Johannes Jäger, Anne Klontz, Bronwyn Lace, Maria Lantz, Verena Miedl-Faißt, Maarit Mustonen, Marcus Neustetter, Egle Oddo, Barbara Putz- Plecko, Basak Senova, Renad Shqeirat, Bochra Taboubi, and Johan Thom, as well as project texts by Noor Abed, Sophia Bellouhassi, Younes Ben Slimane, Férielle Doulain-Zouari, Eser Epözdemir, Els van Houtert, Bengü Karaduman, Marwa Manai, Verena Miedl-Faißt, Nondumiso Lwazi Msimanga, Maarit Mustonen, Jannis Neumann, Sofia Priftis, Alina Rentsch, Kim M. Reynolds, Julia Stern, Bochra Taboubi, and Conny Zenk