Texts, reports
International Co-Production Manual
The journey wich is full of surprise
As these backstage snippets of conversation, advice and cathartic confessions from interviews with experienced international co-producers in Europe and Asia demonstrate, it is high time for this publication.
Gentrification and culture
International meeting : urban planning and culture. A gentrification inevitable ?
In Genève september 28th and 29th, 2011
Look Out…Look In
An extract from a very interesting text written by Moukhtar Kocache and published by the Art Council. "I write this from Jerusalem, unable to return to Cairo, my base for the last seven years. There, young people have creatively – and with great heart – chosen to be active participants in shaping their future, revealing in the process, global imminent change, shifting social realities and the decline of traditional moral, political and economic Western hegemonic stability. The moment sheds (...)ARTS PLAYERS TALK TO ARTS DECISION-MAKERS
10 proposals by Autre(s)pARTs for a different relationship with art and with local communities
Point of View : Independence
How can you not go mad when you work in an independent arts centre?
This was the question asked last autumn at the sixty-ninth meeting of Trans Europe Halles, in Krakow. Indeed, one may ask this question, because the exercise of our activity in this context is difficult, complex and, especially, structurally fragile! And anyway, what is an independent arts centre? Last January, I was invited by the Pekarna centre, in Maribor, Slovenia, to take part in a conference entitled “New Times / New (...)”New Times New Models" – Investigating the internal governance models and external relations of independent cultural centres in times of change -
In January 2010, the conference New Times New Models was held at Trans Europe Halle Member Centre Pekarna Magdalenske Mreze (Maribor, Slovenia) and organize with the support of ARTfactories/Autre(s)pARTs. New Times New Models – Investigating the internal governance models and external relations of independent cultural centres in times of change Compiled and edited by Sandy Fitzgerald. Pekarna magdalenske mreže 2010. This book is ambitious. By using the example of governance models, which (...)The problems encountered by new project spaces
Inverting the Imperatives by Philippe Henry
Published in Passages, a Swiss cultural magazine from the Pro helvetia foundation, number 33, winter 2002.
Extract :
" Alongside the established network of public cultural facilities, and intentionally departing from its preconceived ideas andmanner of functioning, a number of artistic experiments have recently been taking place. In France, where for the most partthe public sector (above all the national and local authorities) still have the upper hand, it is only over about the past ten (...)The Millenaris Park, MuseumsQuartier, and Tate Modern:
New Social Spaces of Art in Budapest, Wien, and London
By Allan Siegel (Budapest)
Allan Siegel is a lecturer in the Intermedia Department of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. He is working on a film about Roma music in Central Europe.
Extract :
"The cultural centre and the social space of art
Within the lexicon of urban structures and activities that characterise the daily lives of those who live, work within or visit cities, we can perceive the reflections of the urban phenomenon wherein “space takes for us the relations among (...)A Crisis in Urban Creativity?
Reflections on the Cultural Impacts of Globalisation, and on the Potential of Urban Cultural Policies by Dr. Franco Bianchini
Paper presented at the international symposium The Age of the City: the Challenges for Creative Cites, Osaka, February 7th-10th 2004
The work in progress presented at this symposium considers some aspects of the cultural impacts of globalisation (1) on contemporary Western European cities, and some of their implications for urban creativity. It concentrates on trends which have the potential of undermining the conditions for urban creativity. These include the following: the dispersal (...)1 | 2