Artists in Dialogue, Transforming Communities' is a Res Artis General Meeting-conference organised by Res Artis in the SMART project space, Amsterdam. October 9 - 11, 2008.
The conference is a face-to-face encounter for artists and cultural practitioners from all over the globe to present and discuss new transformations in residencies in the contexts in which they work, drawing attention to exemplary projects developed by smaller grass roots organisations linked to social, cultural and political contexts. These initiatives facilitate the dialogue of guest artists with local artists and the community. Such initiatives have built unique structures for producing and showing contemporary art on a small scale, creating wide networks of similar artists’ initiatives.
As part of the conference, Igor Dobricic will present AlmostReal to discuss the ways in which this ECF arts initiative has been supporting collaborations and mobility between an international network of artists and organisations, how specific social, political and cultural contexts demand different forms of support and how these changing dynamics of the project is coming together as an informative archive of collaborations on AlmostWeb: an archive of the conditions and realities at play between artistic practice in different parts of Europe.
Two other ECF initiatives Rhiz.eu and Labforculture.org will also present and discuss the relation between virtual cultural platforms and on the ground realities.