[spectre] New York launch for European Cultural Policies 2015

[Geert Lovink]

> European Cultural Policies 2015: A Report with Scenarios on the Future 
> of Public Funding for Contemporary Art in Europe
>
> A collaboration between Iaspis, eipcp and åbäke
>
> US Book Presentation: Wednesday May 3rd, 2006; 7-9 pm
>
>  at e-flux
> 53 Ludlow Street
>  New York City
>  t. 212 619 3356
>
> 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 was produced on the occasion of the 
> Frieze Art Fair in October 2005, where it was distributed free of 
> charge. The report is also be available as a pdf-file at 
> http://www.iaspis.com and http://www.eipcp.net
>
>  The other way to view future development would be towards a more 
> critically oriented art – a cultural practice that finds its own route 
> via the establishment of self-supporting micro-systems. This vision of 
> art is not necessarily adapted for exhibitions and other established 
> institutional formats while it would remain an important component of 
> civil society. This more engaged system would encompass more forms of 
> collaboration than present-day art appears to do, all according to the 
> contributors to the report. But how would it be funded?
>
>  Please join us at e-flux on Wednesday, May 3rd, from 7 to 9 pm, for 
> the presentation of European Cultural Policies 2015: A Report with 
> Scenarios on the Future of Public Funding for Contemporary Art in 
> Europe.