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---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Mobility in the visual arts sector in Europe - Call for Obstacles From: "igbk" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, July 31, 2009 16:26 To: [email protected] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Obstacles The Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (IGBK) is looking for visual artists contributions to an experts meeting on mobility in the visual arts sector in Europe. Tell us about your experiences with exhibitions abroad or with foreign artists taking part in artistic projects in your country. Let us know about problems you faced and obstacles you met when crossing borders, about bureaucratic matters that constrained projects or about transportation issues. Did you have any difficulties when bringing back home art works that you worked out during a residency abroad? Didnt you get the right information on customs questions, because you didnt know whom to ask? Were you asked to pay import turnover tax on own works when crossing borders? Wasnt it possible to take part in an exhibition due to high transportation costs? Or was it impossible to join a workshop because of visa problems? Are there any obstacles that mobile artists face which we do not have in mind at this point? Please let us know about your experiences and send us short statements on mobility obstacles. These contributions will be the discussion basis for an experts meeting on mobility in the visual arts sector in Europe that will take place on December 10 and 11, 2009, in Linz (Austria). Background The Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (IGBK) is partner and co-organiser of the European project Urban Interventions: Artistic perspectives for the urban space. The project, funded by the EUs culture programme, is coordinated by the City Linz and brings together project partners from 5 different European countries that aim at contributing to the mobility of visual artists within the European Union as well as in one candidate state (Turkey). Besides IGBK and the City Linz, project partners are the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, the Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center Istanbul and the Foundation Tallinn 2011. Urban Interventions is an artistic exchange project on the topic of urban development as well as related interventions in the urban space and interactions with the local artistic community / the population. The project will furthermore contribute to the ongoing discussions on how to further mobility of artists in Europe. Hosted by Atelierhaus Salzamt in Linz on December 10 and 11, 2009, IGBK will organise an experts meeting on the topic mobility in the visual arts sector in Europe. Mobility of artists and cultural professionals enjoys great popularity at European level. With the European Agenda for Culture the EU political bodies are putting more effort to mobility and have scheduled the further development of artists mobility as a political objective. IGBK and its project partners will bring together an expert round to focus on the visual arts sector in particular, since the specific experiences and demands of visual artists related to exchange projects and mobility are often not sufficiently outlined. Besides the discussion on how to develop and coordinate existing funding and supporting schemes, priority will be given to the reduction of obstacles and to the question how to make things easier for individual artists and groups. This is as to e.g. transparency and harmonisation of procedures and application forms in fiscal and social matters, to the simplification of cross-border transportation of art works, to the reduction of visa problems and costs, to the launch of a European identity card for visual artists. Furthermore the important topic access to information and knowledge will be discussed as well as the unequally distributed opportunities for artists within the different countries. The experts round brings together visual artists, practitioners in the field of artists residencies and delegates of studio offices/studio networks as well as of European/international organisations like the International Association of Art (IAA) Europe, the European Council of Artists (ECA), ResArtis etc. In addition, experts who can build on existing studies and European pilot projects will take part in the meeting. Also supporting bodies are invited and will be questioned regarding supporting schemes and daily working requirements. Furthermore members of the European Commission, the European Parliament and the EU expert working group on conditions for the mobility of artists and other professionals in the cultural field will be invited. The outcome of the expert meeting will, on the one hand, be a recommendation catalogue that will be handed over to the relevant EU political bodies and expert working groups. Also the meeting is scheduled as a strategy meeting that aims at developing further steps on how to reduce obstacles and how to deal with the problems within the different European countries. To prepare the meeting, IGBK launches an open Call for Obstacles. Visual artists are invited to hand in concrete obstacle experiences and demands related to mobility within Europe (and beyond). Please send us short statements on your experiences, be brief and precise about the place where things happened and about who was involved. And also add demands and suggestions on what needs to be done to make things easier for artists and who needs to be addressed. These contributions are much important, as the collected statements will provide a basis for discussions in the expert meeting. We need the input of every visual artist who is working internationally to formulate relevant recommendations for the political and administrative bodies within Europe. Please pass this Call for Obstacles on to artists across Europe and send us your statements until the end of September 2009 at the latest. Thank you very much! Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (IGBK) Thomas Weis / Christine Heemsoth Rosenthaler Str. 11 D - 10119 Berlin Tel.: +49 (0)30 23457666 Email: [email protected] http://www.igbk.de
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Call for
Obstacles The Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden
Künste (IGBK) is looking for visual artists’ contributions to an experts’
meeting on ‘mobility in the visual arts sector in Tell us about your
experiences with exhibitions abroad or with foreign artists taking part in
artistic projects in your country. Let us know about problems
you faced and obstacles you met when crossing borders, about bureaucratic
matters that constrained projects or about transportation issues. Did you have any difficulties when bringing
back home art works that you worked out during a residency abroad? Didn’t you get the right information on
customs questions, because you didn’t know whom to ask? Were you asked to pay import turnover tax on
own works when crossing borders? Wasn’t it possible to take part in an
exhibition due to high transportation costs? Or was it impossible to join a workshop because
of visa problems? Are there any obstacles that mobile artists
face which we do not have in mind at this point? Please let us know about your experiences and
send us short statements on mobility obstacles. These contributions will be the
discussion basis for an experts’ meeting on ‘mobility in the visual
arts sector in Background The Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (IGBK) is partner
and co-organiser of the European project ‘Urban Interventions: Artistic
perspectives for the urban space’. The project, funded by the EU’s culture
programme, is coordinated by the City Linz and brings
together project partners from 5 different European countries that aim at
contributing to the mobility of visual artists within the European Union as
well as in one candidate state ( The project will furthermore
contribute to the ongoing discussions on how to further mobility of artists in ‘Mobility of artists
and cultural professionals’ enjoys great popularity at European level. With
the European Agenda for Culture the EU political bodies are putting more effort
to mobility and have scheduled the further development of artists’
mobility as a political objective. IGBK and its project partners
will bring together an expert round to focus on the visual arts sector in
particular, since the specific experiences and demands of visual artists related
to exchange projects and mobility are often not sufficiently outlined. Besides the discussion on how
to develop and coordinate existing funding and supporting schemes, priority
will be given to the reduction of obstacles and to the question how to make
things easier for individual artists and groups. This is as to e.g.
transparency and harmonisation of procedures and application forms in fiscal
and social matters, to the simplification of cross-border transportation of art
works, to the reduction of visa problems and costs, to the launch of a European
identity card for visual artists. Furthermore the important topic
‘access to information and knowledge’ will be discussed as well as
the unequally distributed opportunities for artists within the different
countries. The
experts’ round brings together visual artists, practitioners in the field
of artists’ residencies and delegates of studio offices/studio networks
as well as of European/international organisations like the International
Association of Art (IAA) In addition, experts who can
build on existing studies and European pilot projects will take part in the
meeting. Also supporting bodies are invited and will be questioned regarding
supporting schemes and daily working requirements. Furthermore members of the
European Commission, the European Parliament and the EU expert working group on
’conditions for the mobility of artists and other professionals in the
cultural field’ will be invited. The outcome of the expert
meeting will, on the one hand, be a recommendation catalogue that will be
handed over to the relevant EU political bodies and expert working groups. Also the meeting is scheduled as a
‘strategy meeting’ that aims at developing further steps on how to
reduce obstacles and how to deal with the problems within the different
European countries. To prepare the meeting,
IGBK launches an open ‘Call for Obstacles’. Visual artists are
invited to hand in concrete obstacle experiences and demands related to mobility
within Please send us short
statements on your experiences, be brief and precise about the place where
things happened and about who was involved. And also add demands and
suggestions on what needs to be done to make things easier for artists and who
needs to be addressed. These contributions are much important, as
the collected statements will
provide a basis for discussions in the expert meeting. We need the input of
every visual artist who is working internationally to formulate relevant
recommendations for the political and administrative bodies within Please pass this
‘Call for Obstacles’ on to artists across Thank you very
much! Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (IGBK) Thomas Weis / Rosenthaler Str. 11 D - 10119 Berlin Tel.: +49 (0)30 23457666 Email: [email protected] |
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