Trans Local Act

Trans Local Act - Cultural Practices Within and Across (2010) is the second publication in a series of 'To Act' books, produced collectively as part of trans-local collaborations, and published by peprav/aaa, Paris.

This book brings together a series of reflections and practices around issues of local and trans-local cultural production within different contexts in Europe, prompted through the agency of a collaborative and networked project: Rhyzom (www.rhyzom.net).

All these cultures developed within local contexts are intrinsically related to political, economic, social and material aspects and to specific temporalities, spatialities, individual and collective histories and experiences. Like the whole Rhyzom project, the book is an attempt to create transversal links and connections within and across different local framings and to seize instances of the dynamic and complicated nature of no- tions of ‘local’ and ‘culture’ through multiple forms of practice, which address the critical condition of culture in contemporary society. In relations with ‘local, and ‘trans-local’, ‘place’ and ‘culture’, issues of conflict and contest, ecologies, politics and care practices, common and commonality, institutions and agencies are addressed.

The book is written by architects, artists, activists, curators, cultural workers, educators, sociologists, geographers and residents living in different rural and urban areas in Europe and is addressed to anyone concerned with the relation be- tween culture, subjectivity, space and politics today.

Editors: Doina Petrescu, Constantin Petcou, Nishat Awan

Concept: atelier d’architecture autogérée, Agency, Cultural Agencies, PS2 and Public Works

Design: atelier d’architecture autogérée, Nacho Ormaechea and Tatjana Schneider (Agency), Burak Susut (Cultural Agencies), tonic design (PS2) and Kathrin Böhm (Public Works)

2010