Before the official start of the Victims’ Symptom project commissioned by LabforCulture and curated by Ana Peraica, planned for early this year, a series of interviews with renowned specialists are being published on the Victims’ Symptom blog, addressing a number of key questions from Peraica’s curatorial statement:
Why does the mass media prefer to talk in terms of numbers of corpses, calculating them morbidly, with apparent disregard for the victims’ status? Do numbers matter? Or is each loss a single one?
Does the number of victims reported by the media’s “truth speaking” make any real difference or is it self-feeding the spectacle that cannot report on few? Who earns on death? Is there a bureaucracy of death? What is the dominant exchange rate between civilians and soldiers, our victims and their victims?
Is the cultural production of victims preventing us from seeing the actual victims? Are we going to really see what happened […]
An interactive Web 2.0 platform on literature in ten languages, aiming to close the gap between the book and the web.
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In a two-day electronic media arts and culture gathering in the city of Novi Sad in Serbia, a few kilometres beyond the EU’s new transnational border, the Picnic brought together artists, theoreticians and media practitioners from across Europe to explore the changing cultural and artistic landscape within and beyond this new conglomerate of competing cultures, economies and identities.
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Gives technical support to the international cultural policy of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture. It contributes to all policy levels, from planning and defining strategies and operational guidelines to global assessment. Its website is a rich source of information about what’s going on in the Portuguese international cultural scene.
Of special interest is the Portuguese Cultural Directory.
Related organisation: Ministério da Cultura.
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An umbrella organisation of federal cultural associations that promote all areas of cultural and artistic life in Germany. Their common goal is to improve the framework for promoting the arts and culture, including tax and copyright law, employment conditions and social rights, as well as other legal issues that incorporate European harmonisation developments. The aim is to improve public commitment in the area of culture, as well as improving fair market chances for artists and promoting cultural economy and development possibilities for cultural institutions.
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The up to date event agenda of internationally oriented, independent expertise centre Virtueel Platform. VP stimulates innovation and supports knowledge exchange in the field of e-culture in the Netherlands. The agenda provides information on Dutch, European and relevant International events from the field of e-culture.
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Follow our blogging columnists as they explore issues that connect and challenge the cultural sector across Europe. LabforCulture currently features two regularly updated blogs, "Passing in Proximity" by Nat Muller and "Blue Monday" by Jelena Vesic, that can be followed here.
LabforCulture also features occasional reporting and views from key European cultural events. Check out the blogs from the events covered in 2007 (documenta 12 magazines workshops, Istanbul Biennial, EFAH conference) and check back for more to come in 2008.
And be sure to follow Victims’ Symptom curated by Ana Peraica through her blog on LabforCulture.
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A nomadic art centre organised around merchandise containers, the giant blocks that can be found in all the ports of the world. Each year, the Conteners team invites artists (from all artistic disciplines) in different cities to create a work of art in a container. From one to three months, artist and container are resident in a specific territory. At the end of this residency, all the artistic units travel via road, rail or sea to create an itinerant art centre in each of the three container cities. Through its mobility, this arts convoy reaches out to its audience in obsolete industrial areas and ports on the fringe of city centres, redefining the relationships between society, its artists and their works.
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This international Berlin-based initiative believes that the development of Europe depends on the power of culture used in a sustainable manner. It organises a series of activities and forums to discuss and draw attention to the importance of cultural policy to the European integration project.
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