Thursday, Nov 28 / 11:00 -12:30 Protest at the Flemish Parliament Leuvenseweg 86, 1000 Brussels Monday, Nov 25 / 19:30 – 23:00 Meeting at Beursschouwburg, Gouden Zaal https:/www.beursschouwburg.be Sunday, Nov 17 / 17:00 – 22:00 Organisational Meeting at Beursschouwburg, Gouden Zaal https:/www.beursschouwburg.be Thursday, Nov 14 / 09:30 -11:00 Protest at the Flemish Parliament Leuvenseweg 86,…
ALMANAC LAUNCH
SUMMER CAMP 2018 has come to an end, and the FAIR ART ALMANAC for 2019 is now available. We were thrilled by our Open Forum, Editing Workshop, and Dummy Presentation in Allée du Kaai at Avenue du Port 49, 1000 Bruxelles, and we look forward to welcoming you in another time and space for questions, concerns,…
FAIR ARTS ALMANAC CAMP 2018
a forum on fair practice in the arts in three acts 01.09.18 + 02.09.18 :: OPEN FORUM 11am – 7pm 03.09.18 – 07.09.18 :: EDIT WORKSHOP 10am – 6pm 08.09.18 :: DUMMY PRESENTATION 4pm @ Allée du Kaai Avenue du Port 49, 1000 Bruxelles Please subscribe to the events bellow! State Of The Arts (SOTA)…
Call :: Fair Art Almanac / Summer Camp
Dear art practitioners State Of The Arts (SOTA) invites you to take part in its first annual Summer Camp on fair practice, taking place in September 2018. It is a next step in a process SOTA initiated to reflect on the complex relationships between artistic, political and economic spheres. The Summer Camp is aimed at…
FAIR ART ALMANAC / A SOTA SUMMER CAMP
State Of The Art proposes to launch an annual Summer Camp for art practitioners of any background and color – a camp where everyone concerned with the concrete conditions of art making comes together and discusses the politics of practice. The Camp shall be a meeting point of people working on all sides of the artistic production, wether in or out of institutions, as artist, technician or in administration, wether engaged in research or in production. The Camp gathers forces of those who want a strong, advanced, differentiated, diverse and challenging artistic culture in their closer or larger surrounding.
The Camp’s goal is to publish an almanac of art’s practices in Belgium and beyond.
The FAIR Almanac 2019 is aimed as a tool that gathers practices, knowledge and perspectives in form of a year calendar, generated during the Summer Camp. It shall discuss and develop five core fields of fairness in the arts: solidarity, ethics, diversity, ecology, and empowerment. The annually renewed Almanach shall be come a key instrument for a continuous discussion about working conditions in the arts.
Plenary Discussion
Plenary Discussion (+ bio guests) In the afternoon we all get back together and discuss the proposals on the table. What did we learn from the morning session and what can we do? What are the snags when it comes to fair practice? How broad are the spectres in different art practices and fields…
Symposium on Solidarity
The reports of the working groups of the symposium on Solidarity of 27.02.2016 are available! SymposiumSolidarityFairPracticesArts_27022016_OverallReport — Solidarity. How do we work together? A first work conference in the long term project Towards Fair Practices in the Arts Saturday, February 27, 2016 Morning session @ Kunstenpunt, Ravensteingalerij 38, 1000 Brussel & Atelier Vlaamse Bouwmeester 09h30: doors…
Structure of the work tables, Symposium 2
In the morning we will invite all the conference visitors to participate in one of the work tables, thinking together about ‘fair practices’ within specific aspects of the artistic practice. At every table one or more specific ‘cases’ will be presented, which the group can unravel: what are aspects of ‘fairness’ and how to reach…
Concerns on Solidarity
Resulting the SOTA conference Solidarity: how do we work together? February 2016 The arts make a rich habitat. The exchanges and collaborations between artists, commissionaires, subsidizers, policy makers, curators, production teams, institutions, mediators and the public bring into play an impressive variety of art and cultural experience. Today, however, these work processes are under increasing…
Letter to minister Gatz
Sven Gatz, time to backtrack
In his latest decisions on subsidies for the arts, Minister Sven Gatz has blatantly ignored 60% of the recommendations his administration and assessment comities made, threatening the continued existence of artists and small organisations. 79 of the 129 applications for support that were positively assessed have remained unsupported. Non-the-less, the government program boasts: “Flanders cherishes its cultural field as a hallmark of quality, and is renown in the world for its arts and artists.” How does Flanders imagine it can continue showing off, when it is emaciating the soil? A reputation doesn’t appear from nowhere, it needs a source. In the arts, artistic practices are this source. What does this government have in mind for them?….