10-12-2009

11-12-2009

Austria, Linz
Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz

Posted by: tuna-poyrazoglu2

Category: Other

Field: Visual arts

Source http://igbk.de

IGBK is partner and co-organiser of the European project ‘Urban Interventions: Artistic perspectives for the urban space’.
The project, funded by the EU’s culture programme, is coordinated by the City Linz and brings together project partners from 5 different European countries that aim at contributing to the mobility of visual artists within the European Union as well as in one candidate state (Turkey). Besides IGBK and the City Linz, project partners are the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, the Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center Istanbul and the Foundation Tallinn 2011. ‘Urban Interventions’ is an artistic exchange project ‘on the topic of urban development as well as related interventions in the urban space and interactions with the local artistic community / the population’.

The project will furthermore contribute to the ongoing discussions on how to further mobility of artists in Europe. Hosted by Atelierhaus Salzamt in Linz on December 10 and 11, 2009, IGBK will organise an experts’ meeting on the topic ‘mobility in the visual arts sector in Europe’.

The topic ’mobility of artists and cultural professionals’ enjoys great popularity at European level. It has been a priority of the Culture Programme since 2000 and has been further reinforced as a specific objective of the Culture Programme for the period 2007 - 2013: As part of the Open Method of Coordination among EU Member States, an expert working group on the ‘mobility of artists and other professionals in the cultural field’ was set up in March 2008. Also ‘mobility’ is a cross-cutting theme in the three civil society platforms (Access to Culture, Cultural Industries and Intercultural Dialogue).
The European Commission commissioned the study ‘Mobility Matters. Programmes and Schemes to Support the Mobility of Artists and Cultural Professionals’ which was submitted by ERICarts in October 2008. The study ‘Information systems to support the mobility of artists and other professionals in the cultural field: a feasibility study’, commissioned by the DG Education and Culture, was conducted by ECOTEC Research & Consulting Ltd in March 2009.
The ‘Call for proposals for the networking of existing structures supporting mobility in different cultural sectors’ was published in June 2008 by the Commission and finally four projects (‘e’mobility’, ‘practics’, ‘space’ and ‘changing room’) were selected for co-financing. A call for proposals on ‘Support to Transnational Mobility Programmes or Schemes in the Field of Culture’ was launched by the DG EAC.

IGBK and its project partners will bring together an experts’ round to focus on the visual arts sector, to outline specific experiences and demands of visual artists in particular.

Besides the discussion on how to further develop and coordinate existing funding and supporting schemes, priority will be given to the reduction of obstacles and to the question on how to make things easier for individual artists and groups. This is as to e.g. transparency and harmonisation of procedures and application forms in fiscal and social matters, to the simplification of cross-border transportation, to the reduction of visa problems and costs, to the launch of a European identity card for visual artists.
Furthermore the important topic ‘access to information and knowledge’ will be discussed as well as the unequally distributed opportunities for artists in different countries.

The outcome of the expert meeting will on the one hand be a recommendation catalogue that will be handed over to the relevant EU political bodies. (The OMC working group on the ‘mobility of artists and other professionals in the cultural field’ will prepare a final report on the implementation of the Council Work Plan for Culture 2008-2010 by the end of 2010.)
Also the meeting is scheduled as a ‘strategy meeting’ that aims at developing further steps on how to reduce obstacles and how to deal with the problems within the different European countries.

As a first step IGBK launches an open ‘Call for Obstacles’. Visual artists are invited to hand in concrete obstacle experiences and demands related to mobility and exhibitions/exchange projects. The collected statements will provide a basis for the experts’ meeting. Furthermore the output of the ‘e.mobility.how to make mobility easier for artists’ webpage (www.e-mobility-forum.forumactif.net) will be taken into consideration.

The expert round itself, about 25 participants, brings together visual artists (delegates of artists’ associations and of smaller informal structures and artist-run initiatives) as well as practitioners in the field of artists’ residencies. European/international organisations like the International Association of Art (IAA) Europe, the European Council of Artists (ECA), ResArtis, Trans Artists etc are invited.
In addition experts who can build on existing studies and (pilot) projects (< on-the-move >, ’Mobility Matters’, ‘Information systems to support the mobility of artists and other professionals in the cultural field: a feasibility study’, ’Survey on the legal instruments affecting international mobility of artists’, ’Practics. Make Culture Move’) take part in the meeting.
Members of the European Commission (DG ‘Education and Culture’ and DG ‘Taxation and Customs’), the European Parliament (Education and Culture Committee) and the OMC working group ’Mobility of artists and other professionals in the cultural field’ are invited.

Culture Action Europe. The European Forum for the Arts and Heritage is partner of the event.

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