CULTURE
Changing faces
Changing Faces has 4 objectives:
1. to develop a visual record of the Evolution of European Cultural Heritage, which is accessible through a number of media;
2. to create knowledge networks of academic, archive and gallery venues using photography;
3. to engage with schools and communities to foster better understanding of social diversity through involvement in the project;
4. to provide a framework in which photographers create new work using research to increase public awareness of cultural heritage issues
Mobil round tour in European textile-industry centres
Mobile round tour as a transferable method for the exhibitions of all participating museums giving information about manufacturing processes, work and production of the industrial culture of textiles; delivering insides to the past on site by historical views of the setting, by images and movies of people who have worked on these settings and by accompanying explanations and reports referring mainly to contemporary witnesses and characterising the commonality with other places.
The innovative IT-tool for museums MORITZ found immediately huge interest in many European countries and even at the MoMA in San Francisco where the programme manager for interactive educational technologies sent a postgraduate student to Bremen for writing his thesis about MORITZ.
www.haalck.de/nordwolle/rundgang_nordwolle.html; www.haalck.de/nordwolle/rundgang_lodz.html; www.haalck.de/nordwolle/rundgang_riga.html
CUMULUS The European Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media
This network acts in the field of design, which is a rarely covered cultural area.
- It links various European partners, mostly university teachers and researchers.
- Hosted by a Finish University, this network has a strong educational dimension, including design courses.
- It explores the links existing between design, arts and their societal and economic environment.
- Therefore, it contributes to addressing the issue of knowledge and creativity transfer.
Cumulus collaborates under the flagship of the EU not only through Culture 2000 programme but also through the LLPProgramme and other activities like EU External Window programme or EU-Atlantis Programme.
Res Artis
Res Artis is the worldwide network of artist-residencies and residential art centres. Res Artis is the largest existing network of artist residency programmes, representing the interests of more than 200 centres and organisations in 49 countries worldwide that offer to international artist facilities and conditions conducive for making art." About 100 member institutions are based in 23 EU countries.
X-OP-Exchange of art operators and producers
-Establishing contemporary technological infrastructure at art and education centers, art residencies and creative initiatives in all regions of Europe
-Setting structural backbone for place to place distribution
-To synchronise already existing productions in a topographis and time interval perspective of neigbourhood
-To round up and interconnect specific facilities into full featured productions capabilities
-To provide open source mapping of production and presentation venues
-Touring and production of art works
-Focus on "biopower"; technological and biological integration of transportation, mobile living/working environments and efficient communications technologies
-Establishing developmental infrastructure in order to advance the efficiency of creation and transfer of knowledge into products, services and processes
-Establishing efficient and multi-sectorial cooperation between centers, producers, operators, artists, researchers and theoriticians in the network
-Developing ICT infrastructure which enables quick, broadband networks for research, education, culture, art and business environments
-Suitable infrastructure and spatial conditions of the centers for art production and interdisciplinary fields of research
-Identification and networking of sub-points in all European regions
-Further extension of the network through inclusion of multipurpose production and presentation spaces centers from all regions
X-op concept sees as art not only as supply and demand of cultural products/goods, but as the centre of creativity and innovation, creativity being a complex process of multi-dimensional interactions- ranging from technologies, science, management and market. Innovativity of society is encouraged by artistic heritage, processes of creation references - in other words, by physical and non-material outputs of art production in connection with other activities.
Moving Borders with the days of poetry and wine medana festival
The project emerged out of the international poetry festival Days of Poetry and Wine that has for 11 years contributed to moving traditional borders in the realm of poetry.
Topics:
- The relation between poetry and other arts
- Translating poetry
- Poetry in new media
- The relation between national literatures and European literature
- Celebrating the factual removal of a border
- Promotion of modern European poetry and reading culture
Four international poetry festivals will take place (at least 80 poets, more than 20 000 visitors) with 2 translation forums, 2 whole-day poetry events in Cormons, guest arrangement of poets in Malmö, 2 SMS poetry competitions, 5 round table discussions on the relation between national and European literatures and 2 other meetings on translation among small European language communities. The conclusions will be published in the Slovenian, Swedish and Slovak journals and on a special web site. We shall publish 6 bilingual poetry collections (translation into Slovenian, together with the originals), 10 translation of poetry collections into Slovak and 4 multilingual anthologies of poetry.
Szene Salzburg
High quality festival for dance, theatre, music which gathers and stimulates young, enthousiastic, high level artists; international networking event to develop, stimulate contemporary performing art.
Contemporary, innovative and creative performing art with an international participation of young artists at European level; gives space to new ideas, trends and development within this sector.
U.N.I.T.E.: Urban Native Integrated Traditions of Europe
The aim is to research and examine the origin of traditional and national musical forms across 4 EU countries. Musicians and DJs will record and perform new versions of traditional music. They also intend to include music of a specific national or local meaning to any one country, for i.e. patriotic war songs, popular songs etc. Chief area of interest is how music moves through time and place, and the change in the meaning of that music at it moves.
They have strong relationshipwith radio, press, street and online promotions. The recording along the finding of their initial research, a brief history of the project and its evaluation will be available for wider public access on the internet. This project has a high level of trans-sartorial activity in the performing arts, new media and cultural heritage disciplines. This evidenced through the music, performance, technology and cultural research elements.
Musée d'Ethnographie et Cultures du Monde
Redéfinir la place et le rôle des musées d'ethnographie, crées pour la plupart dans le contexte des colonisations. Dix musées d'ethnographie européens proposent de mener des ateliers scientifiques sur des questions de société liées à la perception des populations des autres continents et orchestrées autour de deux thèmes majeurs ( la "modernité" et les "premières rencontres"), lesquels thèmes traverseront, toutes les activités et les productions du projet: exposition, colloques, spectacle, publications. Constitution d'un Réseau international de Musées d'Ethnographie.
Création d'une œuvre théâtrale pour porter un éclairage différent sur de grandes questionsde société, telles les migrations et le rôle des diasporas dans les sociétés occidentales. Un spectacle croisant théâtre, danse, musique, vidéo et création plastique sera créé sur le sujet "les voyageurs de l'ombre" et servira comme une plate-forme de dialogue et de réflexion. Le spectacle sera présenté au musée du Quai Branly à l'occasion de l'inauguration de l'exposition itinérante. Tournée dans les pays participants.
