[spectre] conference Public Art Policies 26-28 February 2004

[Inke Arns]

From:           	"eipcp" <contact at eipcp.net>
Subject:        	conference Public Art Policies 26-28 February 2004
Date sent:      	Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:26:58 +0100

Public Art Policies
Progressive Art Institutions in the Age of Dissolving Welfare States

26-28 February, 2004
Kunsthalle Exnergasse, WUK
A - 1090 Vienna, Währinger Straße 59

Progressive art institutions function both as buffers against the
influence of state and capital on critical art practices and as
machines of a soft instrumentalisation of resistance. In the
neo-liberal transformation process of the welfare state the
institutions seem increasingly to be losing their role of fostering
radical art practices: along with the financial constraints, the
financing bodies exert an increasingly direct influence on the
programs. What are suitable strategies and alliances between artists,
art institutions and progressive cultural policies, which are able to
reinforce the little onsets of artistic critique in the age of
dissolving welfare states?

with Marius Babias, Beatrice von Bismarck, Helmut Draxler, Charles 
Esche, Solvita Krese, Chantal Mouffe, Marita Muukkonen, Gregor 
Podnar, Gerald Raunig, Jorge Ribalta, Dorothee Richter, Stella 
Rollig, Katya Sander, Simon Sheikh, Ulf Wuggenig, et al.

programme and information:
http://republicart.net/conf2004/policies_program01_en.htm

The conference is organised by eipcp - European Institute for
Progressive Cultural Policies in the framework of republicart.

Join the advance online discussion (11 -16 February) at Discordia on
the issues to be raised at the Public Art Policies conference:
http://www.discordia.us

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