Littérature scientifique sur le sujet « Komi imprints »

Het merendeel van het drukwerk dat kunstenaars Nico Dockx en Dennis Tyfus produceren met hun respectievelijke labels Curious en Ultra Eczema komt tot stand via samenwerkingen met andere kunstenaars, schrijvers, muzikanten, architecten en performers. Collega’s uitnodigen, met hen in interactie treden, ideeën uitwisselen en ten slotte ook samen creëren, is een even essentieel als noodzakelijk gegeven binnen hun artistieke praktijk. De persoonlijke relaties die ze hebben met andere kunstenaars vormen hierbij het belangrijkste uitgangspunt. Als uitgevers willen ze zich niet alleen inzetten voor, maar ook communiceren over zowel hun eigen als andermans praktijk, vanuit een onmiddellijk en wederzijds begrip van elkaars werk. Dit alles is gebaseerd op ideeën over vriendschap en commoning, een nieuwe, in de marge gegroeide en op de praktijk gestoelde ideologie binnen de samenleving en binnen de kunsten.Most of the printed material that artists Nico Dockx and Dennis Tyfus produce under their respective Curious and Ultra Eczema imprints comes into being as a result of collaboration with other artists, writers, musicians, architects and performers. Getting together with colleagues, interacting with them, exchanging ideas and finally creating something together, is an element of their artistic practice that is just as essential as it is necessary. The personal relationships they have with other artists is the primary jumping-off point. As publishers they not only want to promote and communicate about their own practice but about that of others as well on the basis of an immediate and mutual understanding of each other’s work. This is based on ideas about friendship and commoning, a new ideology that has grown up in the margins of society and the arts and which is rooted in practice.

Abstract In 2006, the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in his message during the World Water Day in 2006, with the theme ‘water and culture’, that water is not only essential for life; it is also a wide-ranging cultural presence – an inspiration for artists, a focus of scientific research, and an indispensable element in the religious rituals of many traditions and faiths. All this shows the importance of water in different cultures and shows that water is a Social and Cultural Space. In arid landscapes like the south-west region of Algeria, water is at the heart of human existence and the development of this region. The people have managed this precious resource and have developed many cultural practices around water. The people gave their water management system of underground channels the name ‘foggara’. The aim of this study is to understand the purpose of foggaras and to examine how foggaras – as an essential system for life in an arid area – play an important, conceptual role in local cultural orientations. The people of this region have built an environment that respects the laws of sustainable development, that is to say the oasis. An oasis is composed of a source of water (foggaras), a village (ksar), and a palm-grove. The foggara water in an oasis has a strong cultural dimension. Without understanding and considering the cultural aspects of our water problems, no sustainable solution can be found.