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Independently run, autonomous artistic initiatives outside official structures have become important factors in art in public space. These projects not only create artistic platforms aimed at incorporating artists but also exploit multifariously communicative, hence social and political, possibilities for contributing to the way public space is treated by the public. The workshop will present various examples and, based on these, discuss structures for fostering autonomous artists’ initiatives in the public domain.

Speakers:
Stefanie Endlich (Journalist, Author, University of Arts, Berlin)
Horst Hoheisel (Artist, Kassel, Germany)
Oscar Mauricio Ardila Luna (Artist, Colombia / Berlin)
Patricia Pisani (Artist, Buenos Aires / Berlin)
Frieder W.M. Schnock (Artist, Berlin)

Moderator:
Elfriede Müller and Martin Schönfeld (Office for Art in the Public Realm / bbk Berlin)

Good life in times of cholera and other turbulences – What role for cultural governance?

What type of promotion and protection is needed for cultural expressions from the side of decision-makers and political administrators? Why is there a need for support of the arts without control of content? In an international perspective on cultural policy – What is conducive, what is obstructive? How do the arts and culture contribute to society? This introductory plenary sets the stage for the theme on cultural policy strategies and funding structures. The background of this debate is informed by the recent UN decision on culture as a strategy in development. Looking beyond 2015 and the current Millennium Development Goals, what will be essential for human development by 2030? As cultural goods and services are increasingly connected to trade relations and negotiations, and substantially transformed by digitisation, how to keep the space for policy innovation open? With 121 States having become Party to the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Promotion and the Protection of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, what opportunities for inclusive cultural governance?

Speakers:
Suraiya Begum (Cultural Secretary, Bangladesh, Ministry of Cultural Affairs)
Christine M. Merkel (Head, Division of Culture, German Commission for UNESCO)
Salif Sanfo (Cultural Manager in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)

Moderator:
Ole Reitov (Programmee Manager, Freedom of Musical Expression, artsfex Initiative, Denmark)

Fostering the transition towards cultures of sustainability – A policy debate

Which institutional frameworks, support structures, policy processes, and funding designs may foster – rather than hinder or limit – art‘s transformative potential towards cultures of sustainability? How to retain subversive imagination, openness for transformations, and avoid instrumentalisation? How to genuinely integrate across policy borders and beyond linear planning? How to support ecological artists and foster cultural diversity?

Speakers:
Dan Baron (International Project Director and responsible for teacher-education in Arts Education at the Institute of Transformance: Culture and Education in Belem, Brazil)
Adrienne Goehler (Berlin-based Curator, and Cultural Politician; Proposer of a Fonds for Aesthetics and Sustainability)
Jordi Pascual (Coordinator of the process “Agenda21 for Culture” at the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG); Teacher for urban cultural policy and management at the Open University of Catalonia – UOC in Barcelona)

Moderator:
Nancy Duxbury (Senior Researcher and Co-coordinator of the Cities, Cultures and Architecture research group at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal; Adjunct Professor of the School of Communication,
Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Connecting and catalysing: Aesthetics, community and ecology toward a culture of sustainability

Which situations, which challenges is art playing with, at the crossroads of ecologies,
communities, and aesthetics? How does art work as a seismograph and
catalyst of deeper transformations? How can art contribute to sensitise for and
unpack the complexities we have to deal with in our lives? Where are the limits
and the challenges for such artistic and cultural practices?

Speakers:
Davide Brocchi (Social Scientist, Journalist, Cultural Activist; Founder of KulturATTAC
and of Cultura21; Lecturer at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, the
college of Bochum, and the Ecosign Academy for Design in Cologne)
Michelangelo Pistoletto (Artist, Painter, and Art Theorist, Italy)
Shelley Sacks (Interdisciplinary Artist, Director of the Social Sculpture Research
Unit at Oxford Brookes University, UK)

Moderator:
Sacha Kagan (Research Associate at the Institute of Cultural Theory, Research,
and the Arts at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany; Vicepresident
of Cultura21 and Founding Coordinator of Cultura21‘s international
network)

Art in public space: Democracy and participation

Against the backdrop of the growing privatisation of the public sphere, increasing
importance is being attached to providing transparent and democratic
structures for selecting and commissioning art in public space. Based on traditional
public art, over the last few decades, art competitions have emerged as
a possible and important means of implementing democracy and participation.
The workshop will present various models for competition procedures and discuss
the prospects of achieving standard international or European guidelines.

Speakers:
Leonie Baumann (Rector Art Academy Weißensee, Berlin)
Herve-Armand Bechy (Art Public, Paris)
Lou Favorite (Visual Artist, Berlin)
Thorsten Goldberg (Visual Artist, Berlin)
Kevin Atherton (National College of Art and Design, Ireland)

Moderator:
Elfriede Müller and Martin Schönfeld (Office for Art in the Public Realm / bbk Berlin)

The session will be in English and German

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