Supporting Performing Arts Circulation in Europe
Pilot Project for Artist Mobility, supported by the European Commission
In 2008, ten national cultural institutions with an international policy and practice created a platform, dedicated to Supporting the Performing Arts Circulation in Europe: SPACE.
The members of SPACE share a position in between politics and the artistic field in their own countries, work as centres of information, promote the (performing) arts on a national and international level and are experienced in supporting and running European cultural projects.
They share the belief that one of the cornerstones of a European cultural policy is to facilitate the circulation of (performing) arts across Europe, and also realize there are still a lot of imbalances in this transnational arts sphere, between countries, regions, artists, disciplines and cultural operators.
SPACE’s objective is to give priority to the mobility of arts productions and to combine cultural mobility with cultural diversity, European citizenship and investing in emerging generations. Still a young initiative, SPACE will enlarge the network while implementing the different activities of the multi-layered project.
Together with the three other cultural mobility pilot projects (e.mobility, PRACTICS and Changing Room), SPACE addressed policy recommendations to the European Commission. The project had three different strands that were carried out between December 2008 and November 2011. The SPACE partners are currently working on an application for the European Culture Programme (deadline September 2012).
For more background info, see below or click here.
Travelogue: Mapping Performing Arts Mobility - website launched
On October 6th, the SPACE network presented the results of the pilot project it has been running since 2009. This conference was realised in the framework of and in collaboration with the IETM plenary meeting in Krakow. A part of this conference was dedicated to Travelogue. Both the Travelogue publication (including poster) and the website were presented. The presentation can be downloaded here and a brief summary can be found below.
Moving on! Next Steps in Mobility Practices - international conference
In collaboration with and in the frame of the IETM plenary meeting in Krakow, SPACE (Supporting Performing Arts Circulation in Europe) organizes an international conference on mobility in the performing arts.
SPACE is an experimental pilot project devoted to improve the conditions of mobility in Europe and is supported by the European Commission. In the last three years the project worked on the improvement of the networking skills of more than 80 professionals (art managers, programmers and critics) and on the other side initiated the mapping and the definition of intermediary organisations in Europe and launched an innovative system of mapping the performing arts circulation in Europe (Travelogue).
Recommendations March 2010
Together with the three other pilot projects on mobility, SPACE presented the first outline of the joint policy recommendations to the OMC working group on mobility of the European Commission. You can find the document here.
Travelogue Seminar - March 5-6, 2009
In a first working session held on March 5th-6th 2009 in Brussels, methods for linking, sharing and comparing data were explored. The meeting was set up as an information and training session about the possibilities of linked data in a cultural context, more specifically international touring of performing arts productions. The session was aimed at researchers and information specialists in cultural institutions. 47 delegates from 16 different countries attended this first Travelogue meeting. You can find the presentations of the different lecturers below.
Terugblik seminar 'Home & Away' mei 2008
Einde mei 2008 organiseerden IETM* en VTi een tweedaags seminarie over internationaal touren in de podiumkunsten in het kader van een IETM Satellite meeting in Brussel. 50 cultuurbeleidsmakers uit 27 verschillende Europese landen bogen zich over de resultaten van een rondvraag en gingen in discussie over de manier waarop hun overheden internationale samenwerking in de podiumkunsten ondersteunen. Presentaties zijn onderaan te downloaden.
SPACE: general background
Supporting Performing Arts Circulation in Europe
Pilot Project for Artist Mobility, supported by the European Commission
In 2008, ten national cultural institutions with an international policy and practice created a platform, dedicated to Supporting the Performing Arts Circulation in Europe: SPACE.
