Welcome to Arts & Audiences 2016
November 7-8 Gothenburg, Sweden
LEADING TRANSITION
How can the arts get involved with the pressing need for social change? How do we engage audiences to contribute to a resilient transition into an upgraded world? And what, in practical terms, do we need to change to be successful?
If you are interested in political, institutional or artistic leadership challenges in the arts and culture sector, this is a conference for you!
Perspectives
During the conference our speakers and guests will explore the different perspectives of “Audience", “Artists”, “Institutions" and “Leadership” and see what kind of possibilities and challenges they offer for the future.
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Registration queries
For any registration queries or changes please contact Conference & Education Centre
E-mail: anita.backman [at] vgregion.se
Phone: + 46 700 82 49 95
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Arts & Audiences is a Nordic cross-sector meeting point for cultural leaders, artists, artistic directors, curators, producers, learning managers, communication managers, cultural architects and strategists who want to find new ways to extend and expand audience engagement.
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Day 1, November 7, 2016
AUDIENCES AND ARTIST
9.30–13.00
Registration with Coffee
13.00-14.45
Outlook keynotes
To establish the theme – Leading transition – and to set us off, we will explore different perspectives on leadership challenges for a culture sector in transition. We will consider both the every day thresholds and get a sense of the systemic interplay that will either enhance or make change difficult.
Are we still in the arts business?
Kristin Danielsen, Director General, Arts Council Norway
Watch!
Developing cultural leadership - an essential European challenge
Chris Torch, Program Director Intercult/ Europa Direkt Intercult, Sweden
Watch!
Artistic development and transformative structures
Magdalena Malm, Director General, Public Art Agency Sweden
Watch!
Watch the talk with Kristin Danielsen, Chris Torch, Magdalena Malm och Petra Johansson
14.45–15.10
Snack buffé
and coffee
15.10–16.05
Spaces for Inclusion
What happens when ”the people formerly known as the audience” take centre position in artistic development? Who makes the offer and who is the storyteller? With a quick set of examples from the Nordics we re-examine the re-construction of social relevance, artistic quality and meaning.
“Inclusion is about love and borderlands. In the search for knowledge, aims and the stranger in yourself”
Carl-Oscar Sjögren, Artistic director and initiator, The Non Existent Center, Ställberg, Sweden
Watch!
“Nordic Music Days – An all inclusive exp(h)earience”
Martin Q Larsson, Chair, The Swedish Society of Composers
Watch!
The importance of being earnest
Vibeke Flesland Havre, Artistic director & Trond Stensland, storyteller, Folket Festspillsscene, Bergen International Festival, Norway
Watch Vibeke!
Watch Trond!
16.05-16.15
Stretching legs with coffee
16.15-17.00
Artistic strategies for relevance
The movement is evolving rapidly. Socially engaged art and participatory art practices in Europe are ever finding new contexts and areas of expressions. What are the social and political implications? How do communities in transition transform the arts and the very idea and meaning of being an artist?
Mutually inclusive
Jo Parkes, Choreographer and Film Artist, Berlin, Germany
Watch Jo Parkes.
Art in transition
Sandra Trienekens, dr and culture sociologist, The Netherlands & Wouter Hillaert, theatre critic, Belgium
Watch Sandra and Wouter!
17.00
End of day one
17.00-19.00
Optional off program
19.00–19.30
Bubbles and Mingle in Vinterträdgården
– hosted by The Cultural Affairs Committee, the region of Västra Götaland
19.30
A curated dinnerparty in three acts
A saloon, a place for dialogue, reflections and magic
Hang out at Post
Day 2. November 8, 2016
LEADING CHANGE
09.00-09.45
Coffee
09.45–11.00
Leading institutions towards resilience and relevance
When society is in transition, when audiences and artists seek new ways to engage with the arts - how does it affect the institutions and what new challenges must leaders and executives deal with in leading their institutions towards resilience and relevance? How can leaders make institutions move?
Staying Edgy - Ensuring institutional relevance with the help of everyone
Lynn Scarff, director Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Watch Lynn Scarff
The future proof institution
Julie Aldrige, CEO Arts Marketing Association, Cambridge, UK
Watch Julie Aldrige
Center for the Art of Doing Something About It
Deborah Cullinan, CEO Yerba Center for the Arts, San Fransisco, USA
Watch Deborah Cullinan
11.00–11.15
Stretching legs with coffee
11.15–12.10
Leading institutions towards resilience and relevance (continued)
A lounge conversation on stage with Q&A:s led by Anne Torreggiani, CEO The Audience Agency, London, UK
Watch the conversation led by Anne Torreggiani with Lynn Scarff, Julie Alderige and Deborah Cullinan.
12.10–13.15
Lunch
13.20–14.20
Navigating change and resistance
Challenging power structures is not expected anywhere to be a walk in the park and that goes for the arts as well. In this session we will hear a few personal stories, from different parts of Europe, about trying to give the public creative voice and space, how to find new positions and perhaps unexpected ways of collaboration.
Participatory arts and structures of power
Chris Baldwin, Curator, European City of Culture 2016, Wroclaw Poland
3 x Trans Europe Halles:
Giving voice and space to the public
- Birgitta Persson, Secretary General Trans Europe Halle
- Amanda Mogensen, Mejeriet, Lund, Sweden
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Elli Papakonstantinou, Vyrsodepseio, Athens, Greece
Watch Chris Baldwin, Amanda Mogensen, Eli Papakonstantinou and Birgitta Persson
14.20–14.45
Coffee with snackbuffé
14.50-16.30
The Leadership we need
For a long time the concept of cultural democracy have been informing the culture policies of Europe. One may wonder just how successful such ambitions have been and we may ask ourselves just how the creative interplay of policy, institutional and artistic leadership must be designed in the future to succeed.
The Copernican Revolution of Culture Policy
Steven Hadley, Queens University, Belfast, North Ireland
some assembly required – Rita Davies on constructing culture plans
Rita Davies, Chair Ontario Arts Council, Canada
Beyond Leaders
Andrea Phillips, Valand Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden
Watch Steven Hadley, Rita Davies and Andrea Phillips
16.30
End of day two
16.30
Post Bar After
Conference hang out at NORDA bar
- Day 2. November 8 2016
- Day 1. November 7 2016
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Fakta
Off programme
17.15-19.00
30 minute tour or 2.7 km from Hotel Clarion Post.
2.7 kilometres, or 30 minutes, of Gothenburg history and events that have shaped the city, its inhabitants, and visitors
Location:
The tour starts at Post.
You need: Pick up the map at the conference desk. Go by yourself or with friends.
17.15-19.00
The Malm Whale - A Video Walk
by Gothenburg Then and Now
Location:
Choose between five different spots in Gothenburg. You need: Download the app Malmska Valen to your smartphone and bring a pair of headphones. Go by yourself or with friends. The video walk is only available in Swedish.
As you move around the urban spaces of Gothenburg, you will be following the journey of the Malm whale from the Museum of Gothenburg to the Natural History Museum in the year 1918. Using one’s own technology (smartphone), the observer will be in
motion physically as well as fictitiously, having downloaded the story with archive and newly filmed material via Appstore/Google Play. As you press “play”, your journey on foot begins. On the screen you can see houses and streets that also surround you as you look up. You will be seeing your surroundings in real life as well as on screen, slowly lulling you into a displaced reality. The artistic gaze falls on details activating our communal memory. Art, text, and archives from 1865 to 2014. The Malm Whale is the only stuffed blue whale in Europe.
17.30-18.30
This Misery of Light
Art Exhibition
Location
Göteborgs Konsthall (the Gothenburg Art Hall, Götaplatsen)
Available to a limited number of participants
Welcome to an hour of mingling, art experience, and discussions at the exhibition
This Misery of Light by the artist Lina Selander, now on display at Göteborgs Konsthall. Liv Stoltz, art and exhibition curator, will be giving a short introduction to the exhibition and Mija Renström, educational curator, will be presenting thoughts around the ongoing project Children Meeting Darkness, and the public work with the exhibition.
17.15-19.00
30 minute tour or 2.7 km from Hotel Clarion Post
2.7 kilometres, or 30 minutes, of Gothenburg history and events
that have shaped the city, its inhabitants, and visitors
Location:
The tour starts at Post
You need: Pick up the map at the conference desk. Go by yourself or with friends.
17.15-19.00
The Malm Whale - A Video Walk by Gothenburg Then and Now
Location:
Choose between five different spots in Gothenburg. You need: Download the app Malmska Valen to your smartphone and bring a pair of headphones. Go by yourself or with friends. The video walk is only available in Swedish.
As you move around the urban spaces of Gothenburg, you will be following the journey of the Malm whale from the Museum of Gothenburg to the Natural History Museum in the year 1918. Using one’s own technology (smartphone), the observer will be in
motion physically as well as fictitiously, having downloaded the story with archive and newly filmed material via Appstore/Google Play. As you press “play”, your journey on foot begins. On the screen you can see houses and streets that also surround you as you look up. You will be seeing your surroundings in real life as well as on screen, slowly lulling you into a displaced reality. The artistic gaze falls on details activating our communal memory. Art, text, and archives from 1865 to 2014. The Malm Whale is the only stuffed blue whale in Europe.
17.30-18.30
This Misery of Light – Art Exhibition
Location
Göteborgs Konsthall (the Gothenburg Art Hall, Götaplatsen)
Available to a limited number of participants
Welcome to an hour of mingling, art experience, and discussions at the exhibition
This Misery of Light by the artist Lina Selander, now on display at Göteborgs Konsthall. Liv Stoltz, art and exhibition curator, will be giving a short introduction to the exhibition and Mija Renström, educational curator, will be presenting thoughts around the ongoing project Children Meeting Darkness, and the public work with the exhibition.
Moderators
Anne Torreggiani, CEO, The Audience Agency
Petra Johansson, Art advicer and curator, Kultur i Väst, Västra Götalandregionen
Speakers
Amanda Mogensen, Assistant manager director of the cultural center Mejeriet in Lund
Amanda is a assistant manager director of the cultural center Mejeriet in Lund. She is a communications strategist and has extensive experience in managing and developing communication and organizational work within the political and non-profit organizations. During the super election year of 2014 in Sweden, she was Chief Executive for the Swedish feminist party's (Feministiskt initiativ) election campaign. Read more about Amanda
Dr Andrea Phillips, PARSE Professor of Art and Vice-Prefekt of Research at the Valand Academy, Gothenburg
Andrea writes and lectures internationally about construction of publics and the potential of forms of political, architectural and social reorganisation within artistic and curatorial culture. Andrea will argue that moving beyond the division between artist and audiences has significant implications for the practices and politics of leadership. Read more about Andrea
Birgitta Persson,Secretary General Trans Europe Halle
Carl-Oscar Sjögren, Artistic director & initiator The non existent Center
Chris Baldwin, Curator, European City of Culture 2016, Wroclaw Poland
Chris Torch, Program Director Intercult/ Europa Direkt Intercult, Sweden
Deborah Cullinan, CEO Yerba Center for the Arts, San Fransisco, USA
Elli Papakonstantinou, Artist, theatre director and founder of Vyrsodepseio
Jo Parkes, Choreographer and Film Artist, Berlin, Germany
Julie Aldrige, CEO Arts Marketing Association, Cambridge, UK
Kristin Danielsen, Director General, Arts Council Norway
For decades Kristin has been an important voice in the Nordic countries, advocating the importance of audience engagement and institutional change. Read more about Kristin
Lynn Scarff, Director Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Magdalena Malm, Director General, Public Art Agency Sweden
Martin Q Larsson, Chair, The Swedish Society of Composers
Rita Davies, Chair Ontario Arts Council, Canada
Sandra Trienekens, Dr and culture sociologist, The Netherlands
Steven Hadley, Phd, Cultural Policy Queens University, Belfast
Vibeke Flesland Havre, Artistic director, Folkets festspillscene, Bergen International Festival
Is there a new era dawning in Europe, in which horizontal cooperation and networking between culture and other fields of society gains a foothold? In our presentation Sandra Trienekens and I explore two examples. One is the Belgian civil movement Heart over Hard. The second is a Dutch initiative in which local artists and arts organization are taking the lead in re-evaluating policy and budget structures at the municipal level. We conclude our talk with our joint manifesto “Art in transition. Manifesto for Participatory Art Practices.” Read more about Wouter
- Amanda Mogensen
- Andrea Phillips
- Anne Torreggiani
- Birgitta Persson
- Carl-Oscar Sjögren
- Cecilia Gelin
- Chris Baldwin
- Chris Torch
- Deborah Cullinan
- Elli Papakonstantinou
- Julie Aldridge
- Khashayar Naderehvand
- Kristin Danielsen
- Lynn Scarff
- Magdalena Malm
- Sandra Trienekens
- Steven Hadley
- Wouter Hillaert
- Jo Parkes
- Martin Q Larsson
- Rita Davies
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A curated dinnerparty in three acts
A salon, a place for dialogue, reflections and magic with Lundahl o Seitl and Khashayar Naderehvandi
Curators: Cecilia Gelin, Art historian and gestalt psychotherapis and Petra Johanssson, art adviser and curator, Kultur i Väst, Västra Götalandsregionen
Lundahl & Seitl will participate in the dinnerparty with Unknown Cloud. The Cloud is forecasted to pass over Clarion Hotel Post around sunset on the 7th and Arts & Audience participants will be one of the first to test the application - technology created in order to be able to experience it.
Curators:
Cecilia Gelin, Art historian and gestalt therapist and Petra Johanssson, art adviser and curator, Kultur i Väst, Västra Götalandsregionen
Read more about Lundahl & Seitl
Bild: Image. Skinnareviksberget Stockholm. Latitud / 59.329324 Longitud / 18.068.581 19 september 2016 1936 CET
Khashayar Naderehvandi, Writer, Poet & Literary critic
Khashayar Naderehvand will read poetry during the dessert at the dinnerparty.
i, born in 1981, made his debut in 2011 with the poem Samlin by the moon at all synthesis that was followed by the novel Resting in your tireless hands (2013). He is active as a critic of the Kulturnytt of P1 and since 2015 PhD student in Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg. Khashayar Naderehvandi was awarded the Swedish Radio Short Story Prize 2014 for short story "Interrogation".
Registration for the conference has been closed.
Price
1 person
SEK 1.795 excluding 25% VAT (May 2 - August 1)
SEK 2.495 excluding 25% VAT (August 2 - October 1)
SEK 2.795 excluding 25% VAT (October 2 - October 25)
Three person or more:
SEK 1.495 excluding 25% VAT (May 2 - August 1)
SEK 2.195 excluding 25% VAT (August 2 - October 1)
SEK 2.495 excluding 25% VAT (October 2 - October 25)
Discount Tickets
Arts & Audiences are offering discounts tickets for 500 kr to make it possible for freelancers and students from Sweden to attend the conference. This offer is intended to support artists and students in the field of participatory arts for whom the conference costs are a barrier to attending.
The support includes: a ticket, lunch, fika and a 3-course networking dinner. To be eligible for a discount ticket you must meet the criteria. To be eligible for a discount ticket you must meet the criteria.
Registration queries
For any registration queries or changes please contact Conference & Education Centre
E-mail: anita.backman [at] vgregion.se
Fakta
THIS IS WHAT YOU GET: The conference starts at 13.00 on November 7th and ends November 8t at 16.00. The conference include a 3-course networking dinner on. The days also includes side events with opportunities to explore and enjoy Gothenburg, a city in transition. You may look forward to meeting colleagues for a day and a half, enjoying internationally acclaimed keynotes, and sharing your own thoughts in thematic breakouts. 7 keynotes, 4 curators, 1 artistic act, 1 moderator. Coffee, lunch and 3-course dinner, bubbles and buffé included.
The venue, Clarion Hotel Post, brings you right into the centre of Gothenburg. Everything in one place. Clarion Hotel Post is a trendy hotel set in a former post office built in 1925 with a modern gray addition. It's a 2-minute walk from Göteborg Central Station, a 15-minute walk from the shops of Kungsportsavenyn and 2 km from the Swedish Exhibition and Congress Centre.
There's free breakfast. There are also 2 bars and 2 hip restaurants serving Swedish fusion cuisine. Other amenities include a rooftop pool, a spa, a fitness center and a living room.
Clarion Hotel Post (venue for the conference – discounted hotel)
Drottningtorget 10
For room reservation, send an e-mail to meetings.post [at] choice.se stating the following:
- Booking number: 2099R264442
- Name
- Singleroom (1518 SEK) or Doubleroom (1607 SEK)
- Date of arrival, as well as number of nights you will be staying
- Credit/Debit card information with expiry date for security and payment
Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.
Johanna Hagerius
Project manager
General inquiries
johanna.hagerius [at] www.kulturivast.se
Henrik Martén
Conference director
Speaker & program inquiries
henrik.marten [at] www.kulturivast.se
Nils Wiklander
Conference director
Speaker & program inquiries
nils.wiklander [at] www.kulturivast.se
Pernilla Johansson
Press & general inquiries – accreditation, requests for interviews
pernilla.m.johansson [at] www.kulturivast.se
Arts and Audiences 2016 is produced by RePublik, Kultur i Väst, in collaboration with NPU - Norsk Publikumsutvikling, CKI - The Danish Centre for Arts and Interculture and Producentbyrån.
Kultur i Väst is the region's cultural administration and manages development work under the authority of the Cultural Affairs Committee. We have been commissioned to strengthen and develop the role of culture and forms of art in Västra Götaland and to initiate investments based on the strategic cultural policy objectives. This work involves creating the prerequisites for evenly distributed cultural activities from a geographical, content and social perspective. Our objective is for accessibility, equality, diversity and internationalization to characterize the development of the cultural sector.
RePublik - Audiences Sweden - is a centre for audience development and engagement. We promote increased and widened participation in the public culture sector and support the development of diverse and audience centered culture organisations. With a special focus on leadership and artistic practices, building on the experience and knowledge of our partners, we aim to make visible the great variety of approaches to audience centered development and engagement. We believe that sharing experiences and good practice among different artistic and cultural fields will stimulate further development and strengthen innovative cultural leadership.
Together with partners in Sweden, Scandinavia and beyond, we aim to develop the services best needed to support and join forces with the many transformative efforts that are made in organisations and institutions, big and small, every day.
RePublik - Audiences Sweden - is a part of Kultur i Väst and Region Västra Götaland.