CHANCES OF CRISIS – MOVEMENTS OUT OF AN UNSTABLE FIELD

network project / round tables / workshops / blog

 
The effects of the actual financial crisis on the art field have already left visible traces within anyways, economically instable field, characterized by precarious working conditions for artists.

Many project spaces, art initiatives, art projects and galleries are facing restructurings, major financial difficulties or had to close down already. Incentives, mainly for small or non for profit organizations have been cut back, frozen or been linked to specific conditions for support. International projects have been affected as well, which hits its feed back on co-financed, planned projects in Germany. Even already started projects with signed contracts and guided with the commitments of financial support from German foundations have been canceled and send out no reply on request (as observed in Russia for example).
The crises for example is also been used for impelling more drastically changes in the area of Berlin's financial support (for example cutbacks of financial project resources, intensification of –œlighthouse– support or an increasing shift towards supporting art projects linked to specific objectives).

Art and society however are inseperably intertwoven with each other. Art mirrors society, utopian concepts are basic conditions for progress, society enables art production and reception through participation. Artists are part of operating systems, utilization systems and validation systems and at the same time they could be part of a politically acting infrastructure.

Nevertheless artists and art initiatives are constantly shifting between self-determination and interdependency, between instrument and instrumentalization, between utopias ans reality.

Should we consider this as our given reality? Or could we do something – just now?

arttransponder likes to view this subject out of a perspective of possibilities and potentials, out of a perspective which explores and reveals capacities.

arttransponder therefore invites all interested art initiatives and project rooms for an intensive and active exchange, at first via blog. Subsequent we invite for a two day round table meeting with guests.

With help of a first survey, by revising our various artistic, organizational and institutional potential as well as investigating varying interests we would like to create possibilities and fundamentals for a reciprocative networking, efficient support, entually the founding of a lobby and methods of resolution for further relevant subjects.

We would like to suggest you discussing and questioning the following themes (co-determined and expanded with your help), to take the results as a basis for a common round table talk on 12th and 13th of August 2009.


Aktions 2009:



First Round Table took part on 26. and 27.08.2009 in arttransponder followed by the  Workshop  at FU Berlin on 04.10.2009 organized in the framework of the congresses Make Capitalism History

Am 27.10.2009 gab es im arttransponder zum Thema Netzwerkgestaltung - Internetforen und Tauschringe, einen Erfahrungsaustausch mit Mecklenburger Künstlerinnen.

Die Erfahrungen zeigten, dass Künstler/innen und Kunsträume der Bildenden Kunst im Gegensatz zu anderen Gruppen, wie beispielsweise Theaterschaffenden, längerfristig bisher kaum projektübergreifend in größeren, sozialpolitischen Kontexten zusammenarbeiten.
Die positive Resonanz auf das Projekt Chances of Crisis zeigte aber auch, dass es jedoch offenbar trotz des vereinzelten Arbeitens und der weit verbreiteten Konkurrenzangst ein starkes Interesse gibt, die vorhandenen Wirkungsbedingungen zu verändern.

Erste Fragen, Bedürfnisse und Themenschwerpunkte, die sich aus den ersten drei Veranstaltungen herauskristallisiert haben, lassen sich wie folgt zusammenfassen:







  • Which interest is existing for you to engage with this theme? Wich questions are mostly relevant for you?

  • Has the financial crises affected your projects/project groups already? If yes in which way? In which manner are you reacting or plan to react? Which actions and arrangements steering against could be taken on or have been taken on already?

  • Will the art- and cultural sector succeed in gainig benefits out of the actual developement by kicking off a discussion to generally revise the wavering piramid of valuation? Has only the aftermath of the crisis to be discussed or would it be worthwile to analyse the reasons also?

  • How do we have to validate the permanent precarious working conditions?

  • Which possibilities are existing to deal with the present situation or use it as a chance for lining up new cooperations? How could this cooperations and conditions possibly look like?

  • Do you have any suggestions whom to invite as guest or lecturer who could enrich our round table meetings?

  • Do you have any ideas how such meetings could be sustainable?

  • pursuing questions related to exchange and networking

  • Cooperations and federations are creating new possibilities of acting:

  • Are you interested in a networking between initiatives and project rooms focussing these themes?

  • How could such a network look like and usefully be created?

  • Which aims can be reached with networks? Which impact could they have?

  • Do you have interest in and possibilities to share resources for working more flexible? Do you know resources out of other origins, which could be used for common future projects? How could possibly an exchange of resources look like? (possibilities could be for example a system for exchange/internet platform, common application for projects with similar subjects, communities for project spaces)


Actions 2010

2010 started a series of exchange meetings with independet art spaces and initiatives which was open for the public.

The hosts introduced their work concept and idea of the organization followed by discussion and exchange and invitations to focus deeper on current issues within a workshop or round tables.






Bilder: Art Laboratory


Strukturgespräche:

14. Februar 2010, 14 Uhr – Art Laboratory - Roundtable: Spenden und Fundraising
23. März 2010, 17 Uhr – Berliner Pool - Roundtable: Auslotung von Formen zur guten internen Kommunikation und erfolgreicher Außendarstellung
12. Mai 2010, 17 Uhr – Rosalux - Absprache nächster Schritte zur Vorbereitung des Jourfixes
23. Juni 2010, 18 Uhr Morgenvogel Real Estate - Präsentation, Diskussion der Ergebnisse Arbeitsgruppe Jourfixe

Weitere Treffen sind in diesem Jahr bei After the Butcher, Culturia, Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben, OKK / Raum 29, Raum für Zweckfreiheit, Stedefreund, Skulpturenpark Berlin Zentrum, Sparwasser HQ, Substitute, Unwetter und Uqbar geplant.

Initiativen und Räume die Interesse haben, sich an den Strukturgesprächen zu beteiligen bitten wir, uns eine email info@arttransponder.net zu senden.


20. und 21. März 2010

Im Rahmen der Ausstellungsreihe ZWEIPLUSEINS ist arttransponder eingeladen das Projekt Chances of Crisis vorzustellen und zu diskutieren.
Künstlerhaus Artacker e.V., Ackerstraße 18, Berlin



STRUKTURGESPRÄCHE 2011:

 

24. Februar 2011 -  Okk (Organ für kritische Kunst) | raum29

Präsentation OKK durch  Pablo Hermann - Gast: Herbert Mondry BBK Berlin, Moderation: Anne Katrin Storck,  Präsentation/Diskussion des Positionspapiers als mögliche Grundlage für Jour Fixe Gespräche



Chances of Crisis is a project initiated by Tatjana Fell in co-operation with Carsten Horn und Kerstin Karge








Bilder: Anne Katrin Stork

06. September 2010

Präsentation des von der Hamburger Netzwerk Initiative Wir sind woanders initiierten im Juni 2010 erschienen Readers Wir sind woanders #2
Zur Notwendigkeit kultureller Grundlagenforschung, Selbstorganisation, gesellschaftspolitischer Reformansätze und den Gefahren der Neoliberalisierung


anschließende Paneldiskussion mit Anabela Angelovska, Michel Chevalier / Wir sind woanders, Hamburg, Jole Wilcke / UNWETTER und Marina Sorbello / uqbar
bei superbien / Gewächshaus für zeitgenössische Kunst

Der Katalog entstand als Ergebnis des EUROPEAN ART FESTIVAL HAMBURG 2007. Hier zeigten 25 Hamburger Kunsträume in einem vierwöchigen Festival neue Strömungen, Produktionsweisen und Strategien der europäischen Kunstszene. Eingeladen waren eine Reihe europäischer Partnerinstitutionen, die ein facettenreiches künstlerisches und kulturpolitisches Bild Europas entwerfen. mehr








Collage by Carla Orthen




VIERWÄNDEKUNST Festival
08. bis 16. Oktober 2010

SYMOPSIUM Die Republik der Subkultur – die deutsche Off Szene im Vergleich
09. Oktober, 15 Uhr
arttransonder präsentiert das Netzwerk unabhängiger Berliner Räume
CON-SUM, Ronsdorfer Straße 77, Düsseldorf



SEVERAL PURSUIT: FAILURE 05 - 07 November 2010
In the frame of the symposium arttransponder presents its hitherto experiences in setting up networks.
Symposium in the frame of SEVERAL PURSUIT, 06 November 2010
Institute für alles Mögliche, Schererstraße 9 / 11, Berlin







Bilder: Stefan Riebel



Chances of Crisis is a project initiated by Tatjana Fell

in co-operation with Carsten Horn und Kerstin Karge (arttransponder)




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