European Cultural Policies 2015: A Report with Scenarios on the Future
of Public Funding for Contemporary Art in Europe
A collaboration between Iaspis, eipcp and åbäke
US Book Presentation: Wednesday May 3rd, 2006; 7-9 pm
at e-flux
53 Ludlow Street
New York City
t. 212 619 3356
It is 2015. Art is almost completely instrumentalised – regardless of
whether its financing is private or public. Art services are either
national or European interests, where it is especially useful in the
construction or reinforcement of specific identities. At the same
time, art is a desirable commercial product. It is ideal for
collecting and it contributes to regional development whilst providing
society with new creative employment opportunities. Visiting art
museums and centres is a popular, easily digested leisure activity. In
2015 art is also used to stave off undesirable fascistic and
nationalistic tendencies in society.
This is one way of viewing the near future according to the eight
contributors to European Cultural Policies 2015: A Report with
Scenarios on the Future of Public Funding for Contemporary Art in
Europe. The report is a collaboration between Iaspis (International
Artist Studio Programme in Sweden) eipcp (European Institute for
Progressive Cultural Policies) and åbäke, an international design
group based in London. The report was produced on the occasion of the
Frieze Art Fair in October 2005, where it was distributed free of
charge. The report is also be available as a pdf-file at
http://www.iaspis.com and http://www.eipcp.net
The other way to view future development would be towards a more
critically oriented art – a cultural practice that finds its own route
via the establishment of self-supporting micro-systems. This vision of
art is not necessarily adapted for exhibitions and other established
institutional formats while it would remain an important component of
civil society. This more engaged system would encompass more forms of
collaboration than present-day art appears to do, all according to the
contributors to the report. But how would it be funded?
Please join us at e-flux on Wednesday, May 3rd, from 7 to 9 pm, for
the presentation of European Cultural Policies 2015: A Report with
Scenarios on the Future of Public Funding for Contemporary Art in
Europe.
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