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Participate Engage Transgress
Invite yourself into the Common Space
The Common Space: Gallery is a new venue for contemporary art in Prague which plays a different, yet complementary role to existing galleries. The Common Space: Gallery seeks to engage with publics who are not directly involved in the contemporary art scene, while maintaining a standard and focus that appeal to ‘insiders’. This blurs boundaries, providing an unintimidating setting for ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’ to interact and creating a new critical public for the Prague art scene. The exhibitions that have taken place so far have introduced the gallery itself, foregrounding its politico-philosophical foundations and illuminating the wider concept of common spaces.
Common Spaces are platforms for engagement, mutual reflection, disagreement and transgression which question current perceptions of public, private and common. Genuine Common Spaces are spaces of “unfear” which embrace uncertainty and make virtue of vulnerability. Rejecting atomization and categorization in society gives us new opportunities to approach each other, secure in our identities and then allows us to transcend these through interaction with others and escape the unmediated world-making of insular groups.
There are no pre-determined outcomes in Common Spaces, rather they are spaces of possibility where the unusual interactions that take place and the debased settings they take place in are platforms for new creativity through solidarity and mutuality. The Common Space: Gallery is located in a bedroom which emphasises solidarity with artists who, in a marketised world dominated by decorators, have limited access to gallery space, while the changed topography allows for a different and less defined experience than in a formal gallery.
The Common Space: Gallery is part of the wider project of Common Spaces being undertaken by Fakulta Solidarnosc. Other Fakulta Solidarnosc actvities include The Prague Philosophy Club and Everything is Political: Prague Political Discussion Space, which hold regular events aimed at generating greater understanding of politics and philosophy in order that people can engage in better understand their own ideas as well as the forces that are acting on them globally and locally, publically and privately.
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