Description: The Dialectionary is a handy little compendium of ideas and projects by Cluster, a network of eight contemporary visual arts organizations located in the residential peripheries of European cities (and one in Israel) who are focused on commissioning, producing and presenting experimental process-driven contemporary art. The artists entries are organized alphabetically by keywords such as Alliances, Chaos, Empathy, Energy, Noise, Network, Stranger, Sustainability, Thing and Time, among many others. Compiled from a series of meetings over two years, Dialectionary positions the work of these visual arts organizations in relation to wider sociopolitical and cultural concerns. Cluster members include: CAC Brtigny, Brtigny-sur-Orge; CascoOffice for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht; CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Mstoles, Madrid; The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon; Les Laboratoires dAubervilliers, Paris; P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana; The Showroom, London; and Tensta konsthall, Stockholm.
Brief description: Maria Lind is a curator, writer and educator based in Stockholm and Berlin. She has served as director of Tensta konsthall, artistic director of the 11th Gwangju Biennale, director of the Center for Curatorial Studies graduate programme at Bard College, and director of Iaspis, the International Artists Studio Program in Stockholm. Her previously published books include Selected Maria Lind Writing and Seven Years: The Rematerialisation of Art From 2011-2017, both published by Sternberg Press.