[spectre] European Cultural Policies 2015, workshop 19.11.05 (Modified by Geert Lovink) [u]

[iaspis]

European Cultural Policies 2015: A Report with Scenarios on the Future 
of Public Funding for Contemporary Art in Europe

The report was released 20 - 24 October 2005 at Frieze Art Fair as part 
of Frieze Projects, and is a collaboration between Iaspis, eipcp and 
åbäke.

- Workshop on Saturday 19 November 2005, 12 pm - 8 pm, at Iaspis in 
Stockholm

It is 2015. Art is almost completely instrumentalised - regardless of 
whether its financing is private or public. Art services are either 
national or European interests, where it is especially useful in the 
construction or reinforcement of specific identities. At the same time, 
art is a desirable commercial product. It is ideal for collecting and 
it contributes to regional development whilst providing society with 
new creative employment opportunities. Visiting art museums and centres 
is a popular, easily digested leisure activity. In 2015 art is also 
used to stave off undesirable fascistic and nationalistic tendencies in 
society.

This is one way of viewing the near future according to the eight 
contributors to European Cultural Policies 2015: A Report with 
Scenarios on the Future of Public Funding for Contemporary Art in 
Europe. The report is a collaboration between Iaspis (International 
Artist Studio Programme in Sweden) eipcp (European Institute for 
Progressive Cultural Policies) and åbäke, an international design group 
based in London. The report has been produced on the occasion of the 
Frieze Art Fair in October 2005. At the Frieze Art Fair, the report 
will be distributed free of charge. The report will also be available 
as a pdf-file at www.iaspis.com <http://www.iaspis.com> and 
www.eipcp.net <http://www.eipcp.net>

On Saturday 19 November 2005, tactics and strategies for concrete 
action based on the report will be discussed during a day-long workshop 
at Iaspis. With the authors: Hüseyin Alptekin (artist, Istanbul), 
Branka Curcic (editor of kuda.org, Novi sad), Tone Hansen (artist and 
critic, Oslo), Frédéric Jacquemin (Fondation Hicter, Brussels), Oleg 
Kireev (art and media critic, Moscow), Gerald Raunig (theoretician, 
eipcp, Vienna) and Cornelia Sollfrank (artist and publicist, Berlin). 
The authors will give public presentations on Saturday 19 November at 
Iaspis and will participate in a public workshop. Sunday 20 November is 
scheduled for closed discussions between the authors for the report.

The aim is to think through and discuss the various scenarios in order 
to start formulating methods for dealing with the situation. Are 
site-specific approaches necessary? How can networks and other 
alliances function? How realistic are alternative economies? What could 
be fruitful ways of approaching mixed economies? The workshop in 
Stockholm will later be followed up by workshops in Vienna and 
elsewhere.

To register for the Stockholm workshop please contact extra at iaspis.com 
<mailto:extra at iaspis.com> before Friday 11 November 2005. For further 
information visit www.iaspis.com

IASPIS / Box 1610 / SE-111 86 Stockholm
Tel +46 (0)8 402 35 77 / Fax +46 (0)8 402 35 92
info at iaspis.com / www.iaspis.com