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Creative Collaborations Summary |
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What, How and for Whom / WHW (Zagreb, Croatia) |
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Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (Biennial Department), Turkey Dr. Paul O'Neill, UK |
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"Between a Rock and a Hard Place" |
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Bristol, UK; Zagreb, Croatia; Istanbul, Turkey |
“Between a Rock and a Hard Place" will utilize the potential of three structurally diverse organizations (What, How & for Whom/WHW, Zagreb; Situations, Bristol; and IKSV, Istanbul) with already established collaboration and mutual interest in exploring position of contemporary art practice in ‘marginal’ or ‘ghost’ geographies of European modernism such as ‘Balkans’ and ‘Middle East’. It will consist of series of public events (panel discussion, workshops, lectures, exhibitions) in Bristol, Istanbul, and Zagreb, and it will be structured around the dichotomies and parallels of art practices in a representative art manifestation such as the 11th Istanbul Biennial (curated by WHW) and locally based non-institutional initiatives aiming at creating new modalities of cultural production.
WHW is a collective and non-institutional initiative whose activities are rooted in social reality of so called ‘marginal geography’ which is an important starting point for developing curatorial concept of the next Istanbul Biennial. WHW engagement with Istanbul Biennial tries to avoid typical biennial tactic of 'parachuting' in the city and addressing only imaginary 'international audience', but rather attempts to connect the questions pertinent for Istanbul, as well as resources, ideas, and proposals developed within Istanbul Biennial to our practice in Zagreb and to collaborations we are developing with long-term WHW partners. “Between a Rock and a Hard Place” uses the visibility created by international position of the 11th Istanbul Biennial “What Keeps Mankind Alive?” and opens up the collaboration planned as a part of the project towards rethinking of the questions of production, definition, and presentation of the work and of artists' identity in globalized world.
Through a series of public events in three different cities, the project explores the possibilities that an exhibition in such a popular, as well as contested, format as a biennial, can offer to artist and curators from supposedly shrinking but still corporeally very real geographical margins.
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Barucco, Austria |
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London Handel Festival, Uk |
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Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro |
Musical Vehicle brings performances and educational projects to Croatia and surrounding countries. Travelling through time, the programme brings pieces from European musical past to audiences of various social and national backgrounds. It brings us close to our common European identity through learning and communication.
It will create a platform which would link together the existing musicians who already dedicate themselves to early music, offering them possibilities to learn, cooperate and interact with their generally more experienced colleagues from other European countries. Another goal is to heighten the awareness of the importance of historically informed performance of pre-19th century music among talented musicians of the younger generation, but also among the general public.
The project has two main activities: concert activity and promotion (establishing an active concert activity, presenting programmes and projects with a wider appeal, combining music with other arts such as theatre, opera, dance, literature, co-operation with educational institutions) and specialized education in early music performance practice (organizing master classes and workshops with internationally renowned soloists and teachers; stimulation of specific early music-related projects within educational institutions, master classes at early music festivals).
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Vlasta Delimar, Croatia |
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Efi Ben-David, Israel |
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Sinead O’Donnell, Northern Ireland |
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Poshiya Kakil, Kurdistan-Iraq |
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February 2009 to February 2010 |
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Toynbee Studios, London, UK; Staglinec, Croatia; Tel Aviv, Israel; Belfast, Northern Ireland and Hawler, Kurdistan-Iraq |
A creative collaboration between independent artists working in the UK, Croatia, Israel, Northern Ireland and Kurdistan-Iraq. Lost and Found will bring together five female artists who share the experience of creating powerful and passionate performance within the context of recent war or conflict. The artists will spend time making and showing work together in each country, responding to each other and the different environments within which they find themselves. The project will take place over the course of one year from February 2009 and will culminate in a performance commissioned for the 30th National Review of Live Art, Glasgow in February 2010.
The intention of Lost and Found is to establish long-term creative exchange between the participating artists, to engage in intercultural dialogue and to forge partnerships with artists and organisations across the regions.
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Full House Promotion, Greece |
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Rossen Mihailov-Choreographer, Bulgaria |
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Hrvatski institut za pokret i ples, Croatia (Mirna Žagar,) |
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Greenwich Dance Agency, London, UK, Fullhouse Promotions, Athens, Greece, Croatia and Bulgaria (venues to be confirmed) |
Skills Exchange focuses on making links between gDA in South East London and dance artists in South East Europe. The project seeks to facilitate exchanges of knowledge, experiences and artistic opportunities to create and perform work. A key aim would be to act not only as a catalyst for the further development of dance in the region, but to enable an ongoing dialogue over a minimum of 3 years to shape and inform practice for all 4 partners.
This application focuses on the research and development phase of the project which is the first of two phases. To begin the project and establish relationships gDA and partners will exchange short term visits. The final stage of this part of Skills Exchange involves each artist being resident at gDA for 1 week. This will provide time and space for a more thorough familiarisation of the London and UK dance ecology and to respond to interests outlined in first two visits. This residency also affords an excellent opportunity for each European artist to platform their work in the UK at a gDA Cabaret, an innovative and high profile event in the local and national dance community.
Phase 2 will focus on artist development and exchange at each of the South-East European partner bases. This is a chance to spend time in the partner bases fostering a skills exchange in situ which will widen the influence and reach of this project. A weeklong practical residency will be led by a UK-based artist (selected jointly by partners in conversation with British Council). The partner artist would act as a support to the British choreographer allowing for a close dialogue between artists from different countries throughout the process. The other partner artists would be encouraged to attend this intensive as well as their own. Dance artists invited from across the region would be identified by partners and recommendations would also be sought from British Council officers. The residency would culminate in an informal performance.
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Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic | G-MK (Zagreb, Croatia) |
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Centre for Contemporary Public Art Elementi (Bitola, Macedonia) |
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Sarajevo Centre for Contemporary Art (Sarajevo, BH) |
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LAB (Prishtina, Kosovo) |
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Culture Zone (Podgorica, Montenegro) |
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Lindart (Tirana, Albania) |
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1 July 2009 – December 2010 |
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Albania, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, UK. |
The Culture Lobby (TCL) project is the regional initiative of Belgrade-based arts NGO Kiosk to instigate cross-border collaboration among cultural operators, curators and artists to create and exhibit a participatory “active archive” that will examine the process of EU integration in Western Balkan societies. Artists will document visually (photographs) and aurally (audio recordings) what citizens of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia think will change or disappear when their territory joins the EU. As an archive of the people, TCL will be an unconventional cultural monument of the collective future memories of a particular moment in this region’s history. It will constitute an archive of the people as opposed to an archive as an apparatus of the state.
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Literature Across Frontiers, |
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Mercator Institute for Media, Languages and Culture, |
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Transcript – European Internet Review of Books and Writing, UK |
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Profile / Festival of the European Short Story, Croatia |
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Romanian Cultural Institute, Romania |
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Helicon – Society for the Advancement of Poetry in Israel / Helicon Poetry Journal, Israel |
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Literature Across Frontiers |
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Turkey, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia and Romania |
Literature in translation has the potential to promote cross-cultural understanding and encourage intercultural dialogue, especially in situations of past or current social and political conflict. The project will aim to explore and use this potential by working with and targeting the younger generation of literary professionals and audiences in the region, and will aim to connect particularly countries and areas where political conflict has prevented cultural contact. Literary exchange in the region of South-East Europe tends to concentrate on the translation and publication of established authors, while in some cases there are few or no translations between some of the region's languages. The project aims to develop closer links among literary organisations and publishing outlets (print and electronic / virtual) in the region of South-East Europe with a view to creating an informal network which will facilitate literary exchange and explore the potential of literature as a tool of intercultural dialogue.
The project aims to create a platform for intercultural dialogue through literary exchange in the in the region of South-East Europe, extend the work of the Literature Across Frontiers network into the region through cooperation among local organisations and use of existing LAF resources and contacts, create an informal network of literary organisations, magazines, publishers and individuals in the South-East Europe region in view of future on-going cooperation, encourage translation and publication of literary work by younger authors from the region and create opportunities for literary translator training and translation and editing skills development.
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