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AFTER THE GROWTH?
JORIS JANSSENS, 21 JANUARY 2016
TRENDS IN PERFORMING ARTS PRODUCTION & MOBILITY
TODAY
- Facts & figures about performing arts from Flanders since 2001
- International touring
- Funding: the Arts Decree
- International coproduction
- Position of artists in the field
- Future prospects
FACTS & FIGURES
FACTS & FIGURES# 0: ABOUT THE DATA
OUR DATABASE
OUR DATABASE
OUR DATABASE
OUR DATABASE
‘Credits’ for companies & (co)producers
OUR DATABASE
DE BASIS ZIJN PRODUCTIES
‘Credits’ for artists
DE BASIS ZIJN PRODUCTIES
Performances abroad
PRODUCTIONS PER SEASON
Reruns
Creations
FACTS & FIGURES# 1: INTERNATIONAL TOURING
PERFORMANCES ABROAD
PERFORMANCES ABROAD
GREATEST HITSCircus Ronaldo
Needcompany
Berlin
Alain Platel
Ontroerend Goed
Rosas
Peeping Tom
Ontroerend Goed
Peeping Tom
Jan Fabre / Lisbeth Gruwez
THE LIFESPAN OF HITS
FACTS & FIGURES# 2: (INTERNATIONAL) FUNDING
STRUCTURAL FUNDING
2001-2005: Performing Arts Decree
2006-2015: Arts Decree
PURCHASING POWER
2001-2005: Performing Arts Decree
2006-2015: Arts Decree
INTERNATIONAL PROJECT FUNDING
0 €
1.000.000 €
2.000.000 €
3.000.000 €
4.000.000 €
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Arts Decree projects Top down projects
FACTS & FIGURES# 3: INTERNATIONAL COPRODUCTION
N° OF FOREIGN (CO-)PRODUCERS
ORIGIN OF FOREIGN (CO-)PRODUCERS
TYPE OF FOREIGN (CO)PRODUCERS
FACTS & FIGURES# 4: PERFORMING ARTISTS
NUMBER OF PERFORMERS
FRAGMENTED EMPLOYMENT
MORE FREELANCERS
FUTURE PROSPECTS
- Shifting modes of production & touring
- Companies > flexible production units
- Freelancers from different disciplines and countries join forces to make a production
- They assemble a transnational network of coproducers, where they show the work
SHIFTING PRACTICES
TRANSNATIONAL SYSTEM
- mobility of artists and works has increased a lot since the 1980’s
- a transnational system for production and presentation
- the role of international networks
- the development of national policies
- the development of EU policy
- More productions
- More shows abroad
- More artists
- Less funding, but more foreign coproducers
- annual growth ratio of 11% (average)
- exponential growth: doubling each 6,15 years
GROWTH
FUTUROLOGY
YEAR N° coproducers2020 10902026 21802032 43602038 87202044 174402050 348802056 697602062 1395202068 279040
HOW SUSTAINABLE IS THE GROWTH?
- pressure on transnational system
- pressure on arts policies
- debate about legitimacy of arts funding
- decreasing budgets & purchasing power
- organisations fragment the budgets
- Artists are weak link in the production chain
- Freelancers & flex workers
- Financial & social insecurity
- How to develop a consistent body of work in a fragmented trajectory of ad hoc projects and ‘hypermobility’?
HOW SUSTAINABLE IS THE GROWTH?
- the need for transformation and transition
- to put artists back in the centre of practices and policies
- to rethink the production & touring system
- to rethink national and EU policies (= coming to terms with the ‘transnational’)
- to re-value the arts in society
POLICY CHALLENGES
