Workshop
for the research in cultural management for artists
During
the past years the art scene of our country changed dramatically
thanks to the hard work of both individuals and institutions who
contributed to the formation of an interesting new generation
of artists in several cities. A new artistic production engaged
with contemporary thinking and language rose up in our cultural
scene. The absence of spaces dedicated to art which could contain
the production and the interests of these artists made many of
them take the initiative to create new public spaces devoted to
art. In a very short time a new cultural map was drawn, which
obliges the community to redefine the art system in order to give
visbility and impulse to a horizontal production of culture and
the search for new links within its parts.
To avoid the failure of the concretion of these initiatives’
aims, and taking into account the extraordinary amount of energy
that independent managements require in a country like Argentina,
Trama proposes an intensive workshop of research on the meaning
of independent artist’s initiatives in the current crisis,
offering theoretical and practical support in order to provide
these artists with tools to afford their aims in a more professional
way.
As a first step for a future possible exchange of international
resources, we also invite guest artists from other countries who
are running initiatives in their contexts as well, with difficulties
and aims similar to ours. We hope the confrontation of strategies
learnt under different circumstances will enrich the exchange
of information and will start building a possible net of collaboration
for future common discussions on cultural politics.
Thinking of the multiplying capacity that these initiatives can
have as original and autonomous models in cultural management,
we established the following aims.
Objectives of the workshop
• Define types of organisation initiated, their motivations,
aims, and structure in an attempt to optimize their results.
• Work on each initiative’s particular case, common
points and differences.
• Visualize a maximum and minimum aim for each initiative
and the community’s external view on them.
• Work on the internal organisation of each initiative, define
available human resources, and the way of capitalising the full
potential of each member for the good of the project.
• Confront artists’ initiatives working in other countries
of the region and in diverse contexts linked to post -colonialist
globalising problematics.
• Generate common strategies to get funds to support the
organisations. Co-operation and impulse of common aims for cultural
development in the "south".
Methodology of work
The workshop will last 8 full days. It will be held in a natural
area, where we expect to achieve maximum concentration. Trama
will be in charge of the organisation concerning accomodation,
trips, activities and documentation, but will also be present
as a participant in the workshop.
Before the workshop takes place, a dossier will be distributed
containing detailed information on each participant and initiative
as an introduction to the group. It will also contain important
information for the development of practical activities during
the workshop. The dossier will work as a main guideline throughout
the workshop.
The exercises proposed are aimed to focuse on the exchange of
ideas through brainstorming conducted through very practical activities.
The tutors and lecturers taking part are all experienced professionals
in this area. We will ask each participant to bring a project
(actual or fictional) to be discussed with the group.
Each tutor will represent an institution (whose aims and cultural
politics will be created by them, in order to expose paradigmatic
problems which artists’ initiatives usually must confront),
to which the participants will "apply". In order to
succeed, participants are invited to look for common strategies
and analyse the limitations and appeals of their proposals.
Please find attached the detailed schedule for the activities
of the workshop.
Participants
Tutors and lecturers
Ricardo
Basbaum, artist, theorist and organiser of Agora,
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Fernando Frydman, Argentina: professor in Fundraising at Universidad
de San Martín, Buenos Aires; member of Fundación Compromiso,
which represents in Argentina Drucker Foundation's self evaluation
programme for NGO's in USA; consultant in Management for Cultural
Institutions.
María José Herrera: Art Historian, reserchear and
curator of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes.
María José Figuerero
Sue
Williamson (South Africa)- Artist, founder member of Public
Eye, founding editor of ArtThrob.
Initiators
1. Leo Battistelli: artist, organiser and curator of independent
initiatives in Rosario, Santa Fe Province.
2. Carlota Beltrame: artist, curator and organiser of exhibitions,
workshops and lectures in San Miguel de Tucumán. Organized
Trama's activities in North-west region of Argentina.
3. Daniel Besoytaorube and Mario Gemin: artists and founders of
the Fondo Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo in Mar del
Plata. Organize Trama's activities in Mar del Plata.
4. Marcelo de la Fuente, artist, curator and organizer at Centro
Cultural Casona de los Olivera, Buenos Aires.
5. Ana Gallardo, artist, initiator and curator of "Lelé
de Troya", independent art space, Buenos Aires.
6. Santiago García Aramburu, artist, designer, founder and
curator of Duplus, alternative art space, Buenos Aires.
7. Goddy Leye, artist and organizer of several events in Cameroon.
Current participant at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in
Amsterdam. About starting his own artist's initiative, The Art Bakery
(El nombre AGREGALO EN CASTELLANO) in Camerún in January
2003.
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8. Gustavo López, artist, editor and founder of Vox, art
space and cultural magazine in Bahía Blanca, Province of
Buenos Aires.
9. Francisco Alí Brouchour, artist and organiser in Misiones
of the Museum of Contemporary Art at the UNAM. Universidad Nacional
de Misiones
10. Sandro Pereira, artist and founder of El Ingenio, in San Miguel
de Tucumán. Trama's participant in 2000.
11. Greg Streak, artist, curator and founder of Pulse project in
Durban, South Africa.
12. Carina Cagnolo, artist and co-founder of Cielo Teórico,
space for theoretical and art related discussions in Córdoba
city.
This activity took place thanks to the
support of the
Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Development Cooperation
through RAIN and Fundación
Antorchas from Argentina.
Trama is a partner in the RAIN
Artists' Initiatives Network.
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