Chris Torch presentation - build up 28-29 giugno 2016

INTERCULT

CULTURAL CAPITAL,CULTURAL ECOLOGY

Chris Torch

Program Director, Rijeka 2020 (Croatia)Senior Associate, Intercult (Stockholm)Board member: Culture Action EuropeMember: European Experts Network on Culture (EENC)

Tito,Basilicata,Italia28june 2016

• ... since 1996. A hub for local, regional and international cultural action. Organises seminars and workshops. Creates co-productions. Arranges guest performances from abroad. Develops new audiences. Advocates progressive cultural policy.

• Since 2008, a national mission as The European Resource Center for Culture and a European Union mission as Europe Direct office in Sweden.

A PRODUCTION AND RESOURCE CENTER

Sarajevo (theatre production) 1993 * * = Intercult as Main OrganiserBacchanalia (theatre production) 1996 *Landscape X (project) 1997-1998 *THEOREM (network) 1998-2006 - multi-annual cooperationAlbanian Traces 1999 *Hotel Europa 2000 *Culturebase.net (network) 2002 och 2006Comedia Network (network) 2002-2004 – multi-annual cooperationBaltikum-Adriatico 2003 *SEAS/Phase 2 - Production 2004SEAS/Second Wave 200525++ 2006European Operations (Operational Grant) 2006 *Black/North SEAS 2007-2010 * - multi-annual cooperationHome not Home 2008 – European Year of Intercultural DialogueEuropa Direkt - Intercult becomes Stockholms Europe Direct 2009-2012CORNERS/Research & Development 2011-2012 *CORNERS - turning EUROPE inside out 2014-2018*

EU FUNDED CULTURE PROJECTS 1993-2016

INTERCULT

Arts & Democracy

CITIZEN // VISITOR

developingintercultural competence

INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK

INTERCULTURAL INSIGHT

INTER // LOCAL

Internationalé

Nationalê

Regional/Local

Environmental change(technology, sustainability)

Reduced democratic participation(apathy)

Increased fear of immigration(islamophobia, cultural introversion)

Shift of economic power(globalization)

What is an appropriate

cultural response?

SPACEShared Spaces

Imagined Spaceso museums - making history presento culture houses - neighborhoods

o public space – la piazzao theatres, concert halls

PARTICIPATION• amateurs and professionals

• audience councils

• engaging audiences in process,not only as consumers

• cultural tourism

• heritage and legacy

Akçakoça, Turkey - September 2010

Wunderbaum BEER TOURISTBlack/North SEAS, 2008-2010

Re-creating the circle ...

Action MatrixEach project is evaluated according to the following indicators

impulseWhy should this project be done? What makes it relevant?

placeWhere does the project take place? Community, public space, established art spaces, new places for

art?

timingHow long does the project take? Continuous or repeated? Different phases?

actionWhat will happen? Size and continuity of the event?

strategic partnershipsWho are the co-organizers? Who are the stakeholders? Who could fund it? Other support?

local engagementWho is the local community engaged? Are they stakeholders/participants or only audience?

potential impactWhat are the consequences of the action? What could be the spin-offs?

Liepaja, Latvia on the beach in KarostaEscape from Troy - Banuta Rubess & NTI/Riga

Stockholm 1998Landscape X in three parts:

– "Re-mapping" (winter 1998)

– "Euralien" (spring/summer 1998)

– “Utopia//Dystopia" (fall 1998)

Bologna 2000and

Festival D’Avignon, Wiener Festwochen, Bonner Bienalle, Intercult

Hotel Europa

Istanbul 2010and many others …

Black/North SEAS

the shipyards in Gdansk, Poland - 2004

Gdansk, Poland in the shipyardsOdys-Seas - Leszek Bzdyl & Robert Rumas/Gdanskaugust 2004

“DATES”• 2003,30artistsfrom11EuropeancountriesjoinedintravelstounfamiliarharbourcitiesaroundtheBalticandAdriaticSeas…

• In2006/2007,11DATESrealizedwithartistsfrom/todifferentBlackandNorthSeaharbourcities…

Funding fromECF,EU/Culture2000,TheSwedishInstitute,NordicCouncilandclosecollaborationwith25++Program (initiatedbyCulturesFrance) and

culturebase.net (aeuropeandatabasenetwork)madetheseresearchtravelspossible…

Klaipeda, Lithuania in the harbourBARI - Flota/Ljubljanajuly 2004

2004Klaipeda,Lithuania(july)

Kaliningrad/Svetlogorsk,Russia(july)Liepaja,Latvia(august)

Gdansk,Poland(september)Ljubljana,Slovenia(december)

2005Rijeka,Croatia(june)Koper,Slovenia(june)

Stockholm,Sweden(august)Podgorica,Montenegro(september)

Udine,Italy(october)Helsinki,Finland(november)

Liepaja, Latvia on the beach in KarostaEscape from Troy - Banuta Rubess/Rigaaugust 2004

Liepaja, Latvia on the beach in KarostaEscape from Troy - Banuta Rubess & NTI/Rigaaugust 2004

Liepaja, Latvia on the beach in KarostaEscape from Troy - Banuta Rubess/Rigaaugust 2004

Black/North SEAS

a European platform

Arts, Urban Re-Invention& Public Space

2007-2010funded i 40 månader av EU

Kultur programmet

BlackSEAS2008Odessa,Ukraine(23may-1june)

Varna&Balchik,Bulgaria(3-11june)Mangalia,Romania(9-15june)

BlackSEAS2009Istanbul,Turkey(20-28march2009)

NorthSEAS2009Helsingør,Danmark(4-8august)Göteborg,Sweden(13-23august)Tromsø,Norway(12-20sept)

Skegness/Lincolnshire,UK(24sept-3oct)

Skegness/Lincolnshire UK

• SEAS Xpedition Turkey with international team. Istanbul to Hopa – September 2010

… and …

• SEAS X Batumi (Georgia) – Sept 2010• SEAS X Stockholm (Sweden) – Nov 2010

SEAS X 2010BACK TO THE BLACK SEA

SEAS Xpedition – Hopa, Turkey, September 2010

Umeå 2014Donostia/SanSebastian2016and 11 other partners from 9 countries …

CORNERSturning Europe

inside out

turning Europe inside out2014 - 2018

Partners

turning Europe inside out

Intercult (Sweden)Exodos (Slovenia)POGON (Croatia)Drugo More (Croatia)CCI//Gdansk (Poland)Donostia/San Sebastian 2016 – European Capital of

Culture (Basque Country/Spain)Arts Council Northern Ireland (UK)Isis Arts (UK)REX (Serbia)Teatro Pubblico Pugliese (Italy)DokuFest (Kosovo)

PARTNERS

Artists


Piazza / Stanica / Bazar


DocuArt


Basecamp


Co-creations



Audience Links

Examples of individual artistic methods


Digital Thread

Haninge/Stockholm (Sweden)

Prizren (Kosovo), Bela Crkva and Belgrade (Serbia)

Belfast (Northern Ireland, UK)

Rijeka (Croatia)

Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Zagreb (Croatia)Northumberland (England, UK)

Donostia/San Sebastián (Basque Country, Spain)

Gdańsk (Poland)

Middlesbrough (England, UK)

Puglia (Italy)

May 2015 —

August 2015 —

October 2015 —

May 2016 —

May 2016 —

June 2016 —June 2016 —

September 2016 —

May 2017 —

July 2017 —

Fall 2017 -

Events



www.cornersofeurope.orgFind us on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Vimeo

stories heard on one street cornerretold on another …

üUmeå, Sweden120.000 people, large university, high tech investment,

European Capital of Culture 2014

üRijeka, Croatia150.000 people, large university, post-industrial port,

candidate - European Capital of Culture 2020

üMatera, Italy70.000 people, small university, cultural heritage/tourism,

European Capital of Culture 2019

SMALL CITIES – BIG FUTURES

RiHubco-working, governance innovation,

citizen monitoring

Rijeka Resource1. BARGES

space & tech

2. CREWSmanagement & leadership

3. VOYAGERSpublic & community

Some lessons learned:

Sustainable events, repeated and

developed over a period of time, with multiple encounters

choice of themes and threads: a symbol

hotelsea

corners

finding the universal in the provincial

the personal in the commonwealth

co-creation

it is the collaborative, cross-cultural factor

which gives a European dimension

cooperative efforts create greater impact

Rather than BIG projects, create BROAD partnerships,

both local and european.

Yoghurt Cultures

www.intercult.se

CORNERS www.cornersofeurope.org

Chris Torch presentation - build up 28-29 giugno 2016

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