The “Vania seminar”, organised in partnership with ENCATC (with the support of the European programme Leonardo da Vinci), was an opportunity to present the results of the two-years research work, and to debate key issues it raises with professionals of the sector (August 26 - 27th 2007, European Cultural Centre of Delphi, Greece). The topics addressed during the seminar were:
- the innovative training methods and tools in the field of European cultural cooperation
- the skills and competencies needed to develop this specific kind of project - the possibilty to implement a validation and certification process of training courses in the field European Cultural Cooperation Project Management

Vania research project aims to identify the key competencies needed by cultural managers and operators in the field of European cultural cooperation. Vania is a project coordinated by the Marcel Hicter Foundation (Brussels), Cupore (Helsinki), Evremathia (Athens) and International Intelligence on Culture (London).
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“The Position of the Speaker” Workshop Week at documenta 12, organized and hosted by Simon Sheikh, has come to a close. Read and comment on all the reports from the workshop week in the blog, check out the papers, links and presentations by the participants and listen to the podcast of the lunch lectures in the documenta 12 magazines space on LabforCulture.org.
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The Lunch Lecture, moderated by Simon Sheikh (Copenhagen/Berlin) will be devoted to the constructions and delimitation of a specific figure; the speaking subject. How does this figure emerge through discourse, and what are its functions? What can be said and not said in order for a speaking subject to appear as real, as authentic, as authoritative and/or as truthful? Questions which will also serve as reflections on the current exhibition and the editorial work of magazines: How is truth produced, and subsequently, staged? The participating editors are from: Chto Delat (Saint Petersburg/Moscow), Exindex (Budapest), Glänta (Gothenburg) and Vacarme (Paris).

Three films from the archives of the Balázs Béla Studio will be presented in the afternoon by the Hungarian Magazine Exindex. Three positions to deal with the double layered reality of the seventies/eighties’s Hungary (as opposed to the multilayered reality of today). While exploring the different conceptions of the figure of the […]

The collaborative project 9 Scripts from a Nation at War (developed by David Thorne, Katya Sander, Ashley Hunt, Sharon Hayes, Andrea Geyer) is presented and discussed today, Thursday 16 August as part of the Workshop Week ‘The Position of the Speaker" at documenta 12. Look at the blog about Irina Sandomirskaya’s lunch lecture “The Story of O.” (on Tuesday 14 August). Read and comment on all the reports from the workshop week in the blog, check out the papers, links and presentations by the participants and listen to the podcast of the lunch lectures in the documenta 12 magazines space on LabforCulture.org.
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