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How is this enough? Rethinking cultural management

This short paper is the result of the opportunity to join the conversations happening at the Reshape Forum in Lublin during the first week of April. It is also part of the wider research I am conducting in the framework of my PhD in Artistic Studies at the University of Coimbra on alternative models of organization and management in the performing arts. If you’re interested in continuing this conversation, do get in touch. The research is funded by FCT - SFRH/BD/136458/2018.

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What Does ‘Reshaping’ Really Mean?

Personal reflections after the RESHAPE Forum, Lublin (1–3 april)

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Podcast form Lublin Forum // Introduction into RESHAPE: Imagining alternatives

If you missed the RESHAPE Forum in Lublin at the beginning of April 2019, here's a chance to hear what we talked about.

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Audio Podcast form Lublin Forum // What Is To Be Reshaped, panel discussion

Toni Cots, Igor Stokfiszewski and Amahl Khouri in conversation with Barbara Van Lindt about perspectives of artist, art workers and policy makers in Europe and South Mediterranean.

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CANCELLED: Reshape Intensive Zagreb

Unfortunately, we are canceling the public programme of the Reshape Intensive Zagreb that includes lectures by Renata Salecl, Vincent Liegey, Juliette Hennequin and Pascal Gielen, as well as announced walks and talks. The programme of the Intensive was primarily aimed to the participants of the Reshape project that are coming from various countries across the EuroMed region. Due to the current situation of the spreading of Corona virus across Europ, travelling and larger meetings represent an additional threat of the spreading of the virus. Although we wish not to contribute to the panic presented in some media, we are convinced that we should take the responsibility for the prevention of the further spreading of the infection. We apologise to all of those who planned to attend the Reshape Intensive Zagreb programme and announce that the lectures will be held as a part of other Reshape activities. The working part of the Intensive will be held online.

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Reshaping Zagreb Intensive: How We Switched From Physical to Digital

RESHAPE (Reflect, Share, Practice, Experiment) is a 3-year trajectory aiming at the development of new organisational models for a fair, sustainable, solidary and geographically balanced arts ecosystem in Europe and South Mediterranean countries. Forty artists and art professionals (we call them ‘Reshapers’) are working in small groups on answers and proposals around 5 complementary topics like value of social fabric, fair governance, solidarity funding, trans/post national practices and art and citizenship. Apart from these workshops in small groups, all Reshapers work together during a week in the form of an ‘intensive’; one was organised in Cluj in November 2019 and a second one was planned from 9 to 13 march in Zagreb, Croatia.

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Reshape Intensive Cluj

Intensive Cluj is a meeting of art practitioners interested in creating alternative organisational models for the arts that will take place in Cluj from 11 to 15 November 2019.

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RESHAPE closing conference: What kind of future do we want for the cultural sector?

Flanders Arts Institute was partner in RESHAPE, a large-scale EU funded collaboration project (2018-2021) in which 19 partners joined forces to draw a blueprint for a sustainable European arts eco-system that relates with contemporary society. 

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Translocality: artistic internationalisation after the corona crisis

DutchCulture asked researcher Errol Boon to respond to DutchCulture’s colloquium on translocality in the arts, reflecting on the upcomming challenges of international cultural collaboration after the coronacrisis. His response is valuable for RESHAPE, especially trajectory "Transnational/Postnational artistic practices"

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Values of Solidarity in the frame of Cultural Impact Now - a conference organized by TEH

On June the 2nd members of the Reshape community represented their work and results in the frame of conference that  gathered a broader audience of the European performing arts practitioners and experts. Twice a year, TEH organizes meetings and conferences to exchange knowledge, to start conversations and to connect with other cultural changemakers. These events serve as a hotbed of new ideas and collaborations, reflect diversity of the network and explore topics that matter to cultural workers all around Europe. 

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The RESHAPE project was presented for the first time offically to a wider audience in Bulgaria

An online conference organized by ACT Association (Bulgaria) took place on the 10th of June in Sofia. The multilingual event presented for the first time in detail the RESHAPE project to general Bulgarian audiences.

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CONFERENCE Reshaping the Art World: An Experiment in Collaborative Change-making

The results of the RESHAPE research are here – at the final conference, the RESHAPE community will come together and welcome artists, art workers, researchers and policy makers to discuss their ideas, test their proposals and join in on the conversation on the future evolution of the arts sector.

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Transformation is not only possible, it is necessary

RESHAPE - A Workbook to Reimagine the Art World was launched at the project's closing conference, which took place in Zagreb and Ljubljana from the 21st to the 25th of September 2021.

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Opening of the RESHAPE Conference and Lecture by Alenka Zupančič: The End of Fantasy Versus the Fantasy of the End

Opening speach by Tamara Bračič Vidmar and Milica Ilić at the RESHAPE Conference in Ljubljana and a lecture by Alenka Zupančič, moderated by Marijana Rimanić.

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The Art of Disobedience

A discussion by Valeria Graziano, Amanda Piña, Tjaša Pureber and Svetlana Slapšak, moderated by Teja Reba.

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Certain Things Need to Be Said if One is to Avoid Falsifying the Problem. – Decolonisation, Degrowth and Art

A discussion by Aadel Essaadani, Bojana Kunst, Raafat Majzoub and Ajda Pistotnik, moderated by Alma R. Selimović.

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Contesting the Neutrality

The topics of decolonization and degrowth are certainly not new, but with the recent global movements, they are receiving increased attention and a sense of urgency. The same sense exists within the art world, where the necessity for decolonizing cultural institutions is followed by the requisition to go beyond the performative level and to rethink the role of institutions and implement change at the structural level.

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Reflections on the Art World, Its Future(s), and Potentialities

Reshaping the art world that lacks distributions of power, equality, and diversity includes reimagining cultural institutions as its pillars.

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Alenka Zupančič: The End of Fantasy Versus the Fantasy of the End

For a long time, we were living in a configuration best described as being caught between two ends, expecting the change that never comes. This “end that couldn’t end” on the one hand caused a sense of hopelessness, almost ontological fatigue, and on the other hand, it fueled the fantasies of the end that imagines it through some sort of catastrophic scenario - thus actually maintaining the status quo.

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Disobedience means change

If culture is a set of invisible customs, rules and regulations pertaining to our society, can we view art as a way to question, break and reinvent them? Should artists be a force of disobedience, calling out for changes in the existing order of things? Can an artwork invite its audience to a space of shared concern, and function as an act of disobedience?

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Actions of Reshaping: An Overview of RESHAPE Conference Programme

Ivana Pejić spoke with the participants of the final RESHAPE conference, their prototypes and puting them in to practice.

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RESHAPErs Guide To Changing the (Art) World

By Tjaša Puber What follows is by no account an objective attempt to reflect the events of the final conference of RESHAPE project. Albeit not a part of the project itself, I was invited to participate on the conference on three separate events as a speaker, and can therefore only offer an insight from (sort of) within. Then again – RESHAPE never pretended to be anything but that. An inside job of trying to change the (art) world.