Archive for November, 2007
European Cultural Policies 2015
European Cultural Policies 2015: A Report with Scenarios on the Future of Public Funding for Contemporary Art in Europe, takes a look into the future of cultural funding in Europe 15 years on. The view is bleak, indicating that regardless of whether the funding is private or public, art is becoming increasingly instrumentalised in the […]
European Cultural Policies 2015
A report with scenarios on the future of public funding for contemporary art in Europe.
The book European Cultural Policies 2015: A Report with Scenarios on the Future of Public Funding for Contemporary Art in Europe, was released between 20-24 October 2005 at the Frieze Art Fair, London.
This publication made in collaboration between Iaspis, eipcp […]
Radio activism ≠ radio aesthetics
Belgrade, 21 December 2005. In a public debate entitled ‘Radio aRtivism’, several practitioners of radio-based projects explore to what extent their method is related to activism or to an aesthetic practice. Both ‘local’ and some foreign guests take part in the forum. The participants are divided up according to their geographic origins: The German radio […]
Differences in radio activism between Hamburg and Novi Sad
A workshop, action and a panel discussion on creative possibilities for using radio revealed some interesting real ‘differences’ when artists from Hamburg attempted to transpose their artistic site-specific radio interventions to the public spaces in Novi Sad.
Novi Sad, 18 December 2005. The radio collective Ligna (form Hamburg) organised a workshop and action in a public […]
Welcoming emptiness
On the third Wednesday office-swap between Blue House and the ECF, Igor wrote some reflections on his experience of working in the Blue House. He writes about how emptiness and absence is necessary for creativity to emerge, yet is undesirable in a culture that is centred on economic productivity in which creativity is often pressured […]
The vertigo of ALMOSTREAL
In May 2006, Pages magazine invited ALMOSTREAL to write an article for the 5th issue of Pages entitled ‘On the Verge of Vertigo’. The ALMOSTREAL team welcomed this as a chance to reflect on the process of ALMOSTREAL and the conflicts between the ideals conjured at the administration desk and reality; between the intentions […]
On the Verge of Vertigo
The ALMOSTREAL team was invited by Pages Magazine to make a joint contribution that would reflect on the implications of ALMOSTREAL as an experimental arts funding project for the 5th issue ‘On the Verge of Vertigo’ of Pages magazine. The process of collectively writing this article turned out to be an incisive moment of reflection […]