Yana Klichuk and Primavera Gomez Caldas. Dealing with the Social Vulnerability and Poverty as part of the Invisible Archives project workshop

The workshop discusses the issues of social involvement as part of cultural and artistic programs on the example of the Invisible Archives (les Archives Invisibles) project presented at the Manifesta 13 exhibition. Invisible Archives is the non-institutional memory of various public initiatives and activities of communities that originated and exist in several districts of Marseille. In 2019–2020, guest artists and creative teams retold the story of these communities and initiatives, throwing out a challenge against the dominant discourse, at eight exhibitions and under related parallel programs.

The master class will present the analysis of the Invisible Archives project at Manifesta 13. The project presentation was the starting point for discussing the social agenda in the activities of cultural institutions and artistic practices. The Invisible Archives represented some genealogies and non-institutionalized memory structures of various public initiatives and community synergy, which originated in and are related to certain locations in Marseille.

About the Program:

The Theater and Museum. Social Mission program is part of the large-scaled public program of the Theatrocracy. Catherine II and Opera exhibition and festival. The Program is aimed at developing practical curatorial, producer, and administrative skills to implement cultural projects with social topics.

The Theater and Museum. Social Mission professional education program represents the best world practice in implementing projects with social topics, including projects in the field of ecology, education, combatting social injustice, and demography. It will introduce participants to successful cooperation strategies and implemented projects.

The Program is addressed to professionals of museums, theaters, and other cultural institutions, government bodies, other organizations (including commercial ones), as well as to independent curators, producers, and artists implementing cultural projects and interested in developing a social agenda under cultural projects.

Curators of the Professional Educational Program: Anton Flyorov and Maria Beylina (Theater Institute).

Russian experts, teachers of the Program:

Valentina Ostankovich, a theater artist.
In 2012, she graduated from the experimental course of D.A. Krymov and E.B. Kamenkovich at the State Institute of Theater Arts (GITIS). Artist of the Dmitry Krymov’s Laboratory, author of scenography and costumes for the performances of the Children’s Musical Theater named after N.I. Sats, the Pyotr Fomenko’s Workshop, The Theater of Nations, The Moscow A.S. Pushkin Drama Theater, the Praktika Theater, etc. Winner of the Golden Mask award. Since 2014, she has been teaching at the GITIS Directing Department; she taught at the Creative Start course at the British Higher School of Design.

Nadezhda Konoreva, Deputy Director of the Vsevolod Meyerhold Center.
Founder and Director of the Kultproekt Creative Association. In different years, she was a producer of such festivals as Golden Mask, New Drama, CinemaTheater.doc, and Easter Festival.