Editor Mo Diener, Co-editor RR Marki
MORPHING THE ROMA LABEL
Published in 2022 (Switzerland), German/English/Romanes, 360 pages, ISBN 979-8-83254-29-42.
What might a contemporary artistic practice look like that expresses the sensitivities of Roma in Switzerland and in Europe, that unravels their history and sets the record straight on the erroneous assumptions that extend to the present, that examines them thoroughly and with a dash of fluxist humor, and that responds flexibly to actual developments in art and minority politics? Not all of the performances and actions conceived and shown by the Roma Jam Session art Kollektiv (RJSaK) in recent years fulfill each of these points, but RJSaK's work operates on all of these levels simultaneously. Morphing the Roma Label is a publication documenting a nearly ten-year collaboration between the members of the collective and their accomplices, in this form of assemblage itself it has become an art project that reevaluates and reflects on its work, and at the same time is an aesthetic experience in its own right, activating, liquefying and dynamically performative.
Contributors
Roma Jam Session art Kollektiv, Mo Diener, Michael Felix Grieder, RR Marki, Suzana Milevska
Designed by the artist and musician Allan C.Kupper
Contents
14–53 Tableaux Très Vivants
54–83 Morphing Portraits
84–109 Hack the Urban Space
110–145 Manifest Roma Dada Avantgarde
146–201 Detox Bodies and Institutions
202–247 Chroma – The Future is Roma
248–279 Symposium Open Theory Lectures
280–309 Open Roma Culture
310–333 Activism
334–343 The Collective Bookshelf and Friends' Collection
344–347 Further References
348–349 Captions
350–351 Authors
352–357 Acknowledgements
358 Imprint
MORPHING THE ROMA LABEL
Published in 2022 (Switzerland), German/English/Romanes, 360 pages, ISBN 979-8-83254-29-42.
What might a contemporary artistic practice look like that expresses the sensitivities of Roma in Switzerland and in Europe, that unravels their history and sets the record straight on the erroneous assumptions that extend to the present, that examines them thoroughly and with a dash of fluxist humor, and that responds flexibly to actual developments in art and minority politics? Not all of the performances and actions conceived and shown by the Roma Jam Session art Kollektiv (RJSaK) in recent years fulfill each of these points, but RJSaK's work operates on all of these levels simultaneously. Morphing the Roma Label is a publication documenting a nearly ten-year collaboration between the members of the collective and their accomplices, in this form of assemblage itself it has become an art project that reevaluates and reflects on its work, and at the same time is an aesthetic experience in its own right, activating, liquefying and dynamically performative.
Contributors
Roma Jam Session art Kollektiv, Mo Diener, Michael Felix Grieder, RR Marki, Suzana Milevska
Designed by the artist and musician Allan C.Kupper
Contents
14–53 Tableaux Très Vivants
54–83 Morphing Portraits
84–109 Hack the Urban Space
110–145 Manifest Roma Dada Avantgarde
146–201 Detox Bodies and Institutions
202–247 Chroma – The Future is Roma
248–279 Symposium Open Theory Lectures
280–309 Open Roma Culture
310–333 Activism
334–343 The Collective Bookshelf and Friends' Collection
344–347 Further References
348–349 Captions
350–351 Authors
352–357 Acknowledgements
358 Imprint