Conditions for funding of contemporary art have changed rapidly, but we are rarely aware of exactly how. Lack of knowledge and misconceptions about these issues abound, making constructive discussions difficult.Where lies the land in terms of public and private funding for contemporary art, mainly within a European context, and what repercussions this has on art production itself?
View the presentation "Last Night I Dreamt That Someone Funded Me" by STEALTH.unlimited (Ana Dzokic and Marc Neelen) and Edi Muka
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HOW DOES FUNDING IMPACT the cultural space of the newly emerged societies of the Western Balkans? In recent years, a group of cultural practitioners, initiators of medium or smaller·scale cultural organisations, has emerged in this context. They have been challenged and triggered by institutional breakdown during the 1990s, and have become (often unlntentlonally) the forerunners of models of cultural production which now transgress to the practice of more mainstream organisations.
Both the emergence and the agenda of these forerunners have been influenced by the very exclusive group of cultural funders operating in this region - but the extent to which this has shaped their activities and set their future from here on is little discussed. In other words: how does it work - and more importantly, where do these forerunners place themselves in a decade from now?
Last Night I Dreamt That Someone Funded Me reveals experiences gathered from How Soon Is Now? (2008), an exercise to imagine the provisional futures with to cultural organisation from the Westem Balkans and from this years' Tirana International Contemporary Arts Biannual- in collaboration with Edi Muka.
