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Francesco Russo talks about the neighborhood cultural and social center Lleialtat that is co-managed by the community.
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Reshape Forum in Lublin
On April 1-2 we'll organize a Reshape Forum in Lublin where we'll gather 150 arts professionals and policy makers to exchange and reflect on alternative practices in the current art field.
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Results of the Reshape Open Call
In response to the Reshape Open Call, announced on 13 December 2018, 437 applications for becoming a Reshaper and 132 applications to attend the Lublin Forum were received. Here you can find more about selected applicants.
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The Directory of Alternative Practices
We're happy to announce that we published the Directory of alternative practices on our website!
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Do it Together. Practices and Tendencies of Participatory Governance in Culture in the Republic of Croatia
Participation does not imply only joining in the game but also the rules of the game, i.e., the conditions under which the game is played. Understanding these rules and the possibility of creating them make the key difference. Participation in this case becomes a tool for positive changes
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Podcast form Lublin Forum // Alexandros Mistriotis: Resisting Help
If you missed the RESHAPE Forum in Lublin at the beginning of April 2019, here's a chance to hear what we talked about.
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Audio Podcast form Lublin Forum // What Is To Be Reshaped, panel discussion
Toni Cots, Igor Stokfiszewski and Amahl Khouri in conversation with Barbara Van Lindt about perspectives of artist, art workers and policy makers in Europe and South Mediterranean.
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Do It Together. The position of the artist in today’s art world. — by Delphine Hesters
Although the professionalization of the arts sector continues to rise, and global budgets for art are also growing, alarm bells warning about the precarious socio-economic position of artists are ringing louder than before.
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CANCELLED: Reshape Intensive Zagreb
Unfortunately, we are canceling the public programme of the Reshape Intensive Zagreb that includes lectures by Renata Salecl, Vincent Liegey, Juliette Hennequin and Pascal Gielen, as well as announced walks and talks. The programme of the Intensive was primarily aimed to the participants of the Reshape project that are coming from various countries across the EuroMed region. Due to the current situation of the spreading of Corona virus across Europ, travelling and larger meetings represent an additional threat of the spreading of the virus. Although we wish not to contribute to the panic presented in some media, we are convinced that we should take the responsibility for the prevention of the further spreading of the infection. We apologise to all of those who planned to attend the Reshape Intensive Zagreb programme and announce that the lectures will be held as a part of other Reshape activities. The working part of the Intensive will be held online.
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A conversation about Reshape at La Lleialtat Santsenca guided by La Fundició and Radio Cava-Ret
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Brussels. In search of territories of new-urban creation. — by Chris Keulemans
This text is a report of a month in Brussels. No more, no less. The report of a month spent walking, talking and observing. At the invitation of Flanders Arts Institute and in particular of Sofie Joye, in charge of Diversity, Urbanity and Emerging Artists.
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How can national systems supporting art move beyond the national framework?
Ane Alsløv and Peter Koch Gehlshøj from the Danish Arts Foundation talk about the support system for arts in Denmark, international work of their institution and new emerging models in the arts field in their context.
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Viviana Checchi: Curating public engagement
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Vahid Evazzadeh: On The Role of Art in society
Vahid Evazzadeh, theater director, filmmaker and the chairman of the Counter Institute talk about the role of art in society, socially responsible art, his non-artistic practices and the experience of displacement - from Iran to Danmark.
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Amina Mourid — On civil society and culture in Tangier
Amina Mourid from Think Tangier speaks about the work of her organization, urban changes that are happening in Tangier and the response of the civil society to it.
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Abdou Benattabou: Mutual support of small organizations
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Allae Hamioui on different kind of exchange economy.
Allae Hamioui from Moqrisset, a small village near Chefchaouen in Morocco talks about Djebli Club - a place that operates with a different kind of exchange economy.
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Reshape Intensive Cluj
Intensive Cluj is a meeting of art practitioners interested in creating alternative organisational models for the arts that will take place in Cluj from 11 to 15 November 2019.
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Performing the under-performed. Performing arts spaces in Romania
A brief radiography of the performing arts scene in Romania, with a focus on the independent art scene: its fragile structures, their restless struggle to establish and maintain spaces for creation and production and their taste for socially and politically engaged practice.
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Igor Štiks: Activist aesthetics
Igor Štiks presented cases of activist aesthetics in the artistic acts, practices and works related to contemporary political and social activism of progressive and left-wing movements and groups in the post-Yugoslav region.
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Laura Roth: Feminisation of Politics and Activism
Feminism seems to be gaining momentum in many countries, but most organisations and groups are still working based on patriarchal standards. The “feminisation of politics” includes different elements, which all aim to change the way activism and politics (in a broad sense) are done.
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Đorđe Balmazović: Pits and Falls of Group Work // Marcell Mars: Memory of the World / Public Library
A joint lecture by Đorđe Balmazović and Marcel Mars held on 14/11/2019 during the Reshape Intensive in Cluj.
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Soraya Bahgat: Learning On The Go - On women’s rights and activism
Soraya Bahgat shared her journey as an “accidental activist” and social entrepreneur. While working as Head of HR for a leading Egyptian real estate developer, she founded a volunteer movement to combat the pandemic mob-sexual assaults that had plagued Tahrir Square during the 2011 revolution.
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Oxana Timofeeva: Solidarity On The Planetary Scale
A critical engagement of theory and the arts in a dialogue with natural and technical sciences is characteristic for the materialist turn in contemporary culture. It rethinks historical processes from the perspective of the posthuman turn: the history of humans has to be inscribed into the history of things and the history of the World – into the history of the Earth.
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Oxana Timofeeva: What Lenin Teaches Us About Witchcraft
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Jana Svobodová: On Theatre in Social Context
Jana Svobodová, a theatre director from Prague, talks about theatre in social context and involving ordinary people into the teatrical processes and .
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Lucia Kašiarová: Building Spaces of Freedom
Lucia Kašiarová, a performer, dancer, manager and founder of the culture space Studio Alta talks about Alta's program: the way how they work in both artistic and social realm.
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Ondřej Hrab - The Power of Socially Engaged Theatre
Ondřej Hrab, the director of Archa Theatre in Prague talks about his 28 years of work in the theatre and the socially engaged approach of Archa.
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Marielise Aad - What an Artist House Can Do to a Village
Marielise Aad talks about the creation and work of Hammana Artists House, an arts and residency center in the village outside of Beirut.
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Asena Günal: Working in Oppressive Environment
Asena Günal, the program coordinator of Depo in Istanbul, talks about independent and contemporary art sector in Istanbul and their working environment.
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Omar Berakdar: Gathering the Community of Displaced Artists
Omar Berakdar speaks about the work of displaced artists in Istanbul.
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Pascal Gielen: On Commonism
Pascal Gielen, a sociologist of culture based in Belgium, leading the Antwerp Research Institute for Arts at the Antwerpen University, talking about the concept of commonism and its powerful role in society, arts and culture.
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Vesselin Dimov: On Making Space for Independent Art Scene in Sofia
Vesselin Dimov from ACT Association talks about their collaboration with the Municipality of Sofia in order to secure the performing and working space for the independent cultural scene in Sofia.
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The Fairy Purse
Copyleft (Grants use rights, forbids proprietization): Reshape Network Trajectory Fair Governance Models and Christophe Joerin (TRNSTN) Edited by Martin Schick
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Translocality: artistic internationalisation after the corona crisis
DutchCulture asked researcher Errol Boon to respond to DutchCulture’s colloquium on translocality in the arts, reflecting on the upcomming challenges of international cultural collaboration after the coronacrisis. His response is valuable for RESHAPE, especially trajectory "Transnational/Postnational artistic practices"
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Athens Working Group: On Fairness, Collaboration and Work in Time of Crisis
Myrto Katsimicha in conversation with four practitioners working in the cultural field in Athens that participated in Reshape Remote Athens workshop in May 2020 at Onassis Air.
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Culture in the state of crisis- a conversation with representatives of Ukrainian Cultural Foundation
Just like all around the world, the COVID-19 outbreak has shaken the cultural sector in Ukraine, a country that has been struggling with an unstable political situation for a while now. The rise of cultural life after the Dignity Revolution of 2014, was soon accompanied by the establishment of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation - the state institution that introduces new mechanisms of funding for initiatives in the field of culture and creative industries. Thanks to the UCF, the non-governmental sector was not left to fend for itself during the pandemic, as the foundation took on the role of a crisis manager, trying to adapt quickly to the new realities.
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Mophradat - reinventing of articulations, discourses and meanings
Krystel Khoury presents Mophradat, an art organization that seeks to create opportunities for artists from the Arab world - a loose geographical determinant to which they approach in its full diversity and complexity. Located between Brussels and Athens, Mophradat is developing an innovative approach to funding, commissioning, collaborating, and gathering.
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Metod Fund: Reshape the institutions!
Based in Kiev, Method Fund was founded in 2015 by a diverse group of artists, curators, critics, architects and educators. Their founders — Lada Nakonechna, Olga Kubli, Tetiana Endshpil, Ivan Melnichuk, Denis Pankratov and Kateryna Badianova — describe it as an experimental self-educational project, focused on searching the form of an art institution that would meet the requirements of the present as well as the peculiarities of the local context. We’ve met via zoom with Lada on one screen and Olga, Ivan and Tetiana on the other, to talk about their views on institutional experimenting and reshaping.
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Radio is a Social Medium
Created 15 years ago, Radio Papesse is an online audio archive devoted to contemporary art and a place for the documentation and the articulation of a critical discourse around the visual arts. At the same time, it is a platform that brings together artists, musicians and producers and opens up space for interesting projects of sonic storytelling. Its creators, Carola Haupt and Ilaria Gadenz entered the radio venture at a time when it was quite marginalized, if not obscure medium but, in the meantime, new audiences have discovered its various potentials. In conversation with Ilaria we learned more about the radio as a medium in presenting contemporary art, but also as a tool for community building, especially in times of social isolation.
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Nevenka Koprivšek (1 June 1959 – 14 February 2021)
It is with shock and great sadness that we announce the sudden death of Nevenka Koprivšek, director of Bunker Ljubljana, a partner in the RESHAPE project. With her passing, Slovenian, Balkan and European performing arts lost a wonderful person, author, teacher, advocate and friend... A sharp thinker, full of dedication, love and empathy for the arts and artists, Nevenka's input has inspired and shaped RESHAPE and a tremendous amount of other collaborations. We will miss her greatly! In these sad moments, we express our condolences to Nevenka's family and close ones.