<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">dear julian, dear all,<div><br><div><div>Am 08.08.2011 um 14:36 schrieb Julian Oliver:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">The vulnerability here in Europe is the lack of reserve (or companion)<br>strategies and experience for sustaining development in a climate of shifty<br>political actors and economic austerity.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></blockquote></div><br></div><div>i am not sure if there is really a lack of strategies.</div><div>couldn't it be possible that these strategies are already there and in practice, but not visible?</div><div>or better to say, perhaps these strategies are just hidden by the existing </div><div>art-infrastructure which is obviously very well developed in euroland?</div><div><br></div><div>my current hometown düsseldorf for example has more than 30 self-organized </div><div>off-spaces, which are run with no or very small support by the city.</div><div>(for those who understand german: <a href="http://www.vierwaende-off.de/">http://www.vierwaende-off.de/</a> and <a href="http://www.vierwaendekunst.de/">http://www.vierwaendekunst.de/</a> )</div><div>hamburg and berlin have very energetic off-scenes too and switzerland got the <a href="http://www.offoff.ch/">http://www.offoff.ch/</a></div><div>of course there are always interferences and links between the 'on'- and </div><div>the 'off'-scene, so it doesnt really make sense to deepen any trenches.</div><div>and this is not my intention.</div><div><br></div><div>but to be honest i know some quite good boys and girls who do really awesome </div><div>work without any or at least with very very small support from institutions.</div><div>and not all of them are 'loosers'. ;-)</div><div>most of them are experimenting with this form of autonomous selforganization </div><div>because they want it. to be honest, especially when you dont care to much </div><div>on a vitae or a portfolio, these whole institutional world is even </div><div>as difficult as the artmarket.</div><div> </div><div>please dont misundertand me, i really do not want to glorify the lack of </div><div>institutional support. to have it, makes everything much easier.</div><div>but i am not sure if i really would agree with your theses there would </div><div>be a lack of strategies.</div><div><br></div><div>best regards</div><div>florian</div><div><br></div></body></html>