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INTERCULT
CULTURAL CAPITAL,CULTURAL ECOLOGY
Chris Torch
Program Director, Rijeka 2020 (Croatia)Senior Associate, Intercult (Stockholm)Board member: Culture Action EuropeMember: European Experts Network on Culture (EENC)
Tito,Basilicata,Italia28june 2016
• ... since 1996. A hub for local, regional and international cultural action. Organises seminars and workshops. Creates co-productions. Arranges guest performances from abroad. Develops new audiences. Advocates progressive cultural policy.
• Since 2008, a national mission as The European Resource Center for Culture and a European Union mission as Europe Direct office in Sweden.
A PRODUCTION AND RESOURCE CENTER
Sarajevo (theatre production) 1993 * * = Intercult as Main OrganiserBacchanalia (theatre production) 1996 *Landscape X (project) 1997-1998 *THEOREM (network) 1998-2006 - multi-annual cooperationAlbanian Traces 1999 *Hotel Europa 2000 *Culturebase.net (network) 2002 och 2006Comedia Network (network) 2002-2004 – multi-annual cooperationBaltikum-Adriatico 2003 *SEAS/Phase 2 - Production 2004SEAS/Second Wave 200525++ 2006European Operations (Operational Grant) 2006 *Black/North SEAS 2007-2010 * - multi-annual cooperationHome not Home 2008 – European Year of Intercultural DialogueEuropa Direkt - Intercult becomes Stockholms Europe Direct 2009-2012CORNERS/Research & Development 2011-2012 *CORNERS - turning EUROPE inside out 2014-2018*
EU FUNDED CULTURE PROJECTS 1993-2016
INTERCULT
Arts & Democracy
CITIZEN // VISITOR
developingintercultural competence
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
INTERCULTURAL INSIGHT
INTER // LOCAL
Internationalé
Nationalê
Regional/Local
Environmental change(technology, sustainability)
Reduced democratic participation(apathy)
Increased fear of immigration(islamophobia, cultural introversion)
Shift of economic power(globalization)
What is an appropriate
cultural response?
SPACEShared Spaces
Imagined Spaceso museums - making history presento culture houses - neighborhoods
o public space – la piazzao theatres, concert halls
PARTICIPATION• amateurs and professionals
• audience councils
• engaging audiences in process,not only as consumers
• cultural tourism
• heritage and legacy
Akçakoça, Turkey - September 2010
Wunderbaum BEER TOURISTBlack/North SEAS, 2008-2010
Re-creating the circle ...
Action MatrixEach project is evaluated according to the following indicators
impulseWhy should this project be done? What makes it relevant?
placeWhere does the project take place? Community, public space, established art spaces, new places for
art?
timingHow long does the project take? Continuous or repeated? Different phases?
actionWhat will happen? Size and continuity of the event?
strategic partnershipsWho are the co-organizers? Who are the stakeholders? Who could fund it? Other support?
local engagementWho is the local community engaged? Are they stakeholders/participants or only audience?
potential impactWhat are the consequences of the action? What could be the spin-offs?
Liepaja, Latvia on the beach in KarostaEscape from Troy - Banuta Rubess & NTI/Riga
Stockholm 1998Landscape X in three parts:
– "Re-mapping" (winter 1998)
– "Euralien" (spring/summer 1998)
– “Utopia//Dystopia" (fall 1998)
Bologna 2000and
Festival D’Avignon, Wiener Festwochen, Bonner Bienalle, Intercult
Hotel Europa
Istanbul 2010and many others …
Black/North SEAS
the shipyards in Gdansk, Poland - 2004
Gdansk, Poland in the shipyardsOdys-Seas - Leszek Bzdyl & Robert Rumas/Gdanskaugust 2004
“DATES”• 2003,30artistsfrom11EuropeancountriesjoinedintravelstounfamiliarharbourcitiesaroundtheBalticandAdriaticSeas…
• In2006/2007,11DATESrealizedwithartistsfrom/todifferentBlackandNorthSeaharbourcities…
Funding fromECF,EU/Culture2000,TheSwedishInstitute,NordicCouncilandclosecollaborationwith25++Program (initiatedbyCulturesFrance) and
culturebase.net (aeuropeandatabasenetwork)madetheseresearchtravelspossible…
Klaipeda, Lithuania in the harbourBARI - Flota/Ljubljanajuly 2004
2004Klaipeda,Lithuania(july)
Kaliningrad/Svetlogorsk,Russia(july)Liepaja,Latvia(august)
Gdansk,Poland(september)Ljubljana,Slovenia(december)
2005Rijeka,Croatia(june)Koper,Slovenia(june)
Stockholm,Sweden(august)Podgorica,Montenegro(september)
Udine,Italy(october)Helsinki,Finland(november)
Liepaja, Latvia on the beach in KarostaEscape from Troy - Banuta Rubess/Rigaaugust 2004
Liepaja, Latvia on the beach in KarostaEscape from Troy - Banuta Rubess & NTI/Rigaaugust 2004
Liepaja, Latvia on the beach in KarostaEscape from Troy - Banuta Rubess/Rigaaugust 2004
Black/North SEAS
a European platform
Arts, Urban Re-Invention& Public Space
2007-2010funded i 40 månader av EU
Kultur programmet
BlackSEAS2008Odessa,Ukraine(23may-1june)
Varna&Balchik,Bulgaria(3-11june)Mangalia,Romania(9-15june)
BlackSEAS2009Istanbul,Turkey(20-28march2009)
NorthSEAS2009Helsingør,Danmark(4-8august)Göteborg,Sweden(13-23august)Tromsø,Norway(12-20sept)
Skegness/Lincolnshire,UK(24sept-3oct)
Skegness/Lincolnshire UK
• SEAS Xpedition Turkey with international team. Istanbul to Hopa – September 2010
… and …
• SEAS X Batumi (Georgia) – Sept 2010• SEAS X Stockholm (Sweden) – Nov 2010
SEAS X 2010BACK TO THE BLACK SEA
SEAS Xpedition – Hopa, Turkey, September 2010
Umeå 2014Donostia/SanSebastian2016and 11 other partners from 9 countries …
CORNERSturning Europe
inside out
turning Europe inside out2014 - 2018
Partners
turning Europe inside out
Intercult (Sweden)Exodos (Slovenia)POGON (Croatia)Drugo More (Croatia)CCI//Gdansk (Poland)Donostia/San Sebastian 2016 – European Capital of
Culture (Basque Country/Spain)Arts Council Northern Ireland (UK)Isis Arts (UK)REX (Serbia)Teatro Pubblico Pugliese (Italy)DokuFest (Kosovo)
PARTNERS
Artists
turning Europe inside out
turning Europe inside out
Piazza / Stanica / Bazar
turning Europe inside out
Piazza / Stanica / Bazar
turning Europe inside out
DocuArt
turning Europe inside out
Basecamp
turning Europe inside out
Basecamp
turning Europe inside out
Co-creations
turning Europe inside out
turning Europe inside out
Co-creations
turning Europe inside out
Audience Links
Examples of individual artistic methods
turning Europe inside out
Digital Thread
Haninge/Stockholm (Sweden)
Prizren (Kosovo), Bela Crkva and Belgrade (Serbia)
Belfast (Northern Ireland, UK)
Rijeka (Croatia)
Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Zagreb (Croatia)Northumberland (England, UK)
Donostia/San Sebastián (Basque Country, Spain)
Gdańsk (Poland)
Middlesbrough (England, UK)
Puglia (Italy)
May 2015 —
August 2015 —
October 2015 —
May 2016 —
May 2016 —
June 2016 —June 2016 —
September 2016 —
May 2017 —
July 2017 —
Fall 2017 -
Events
turning Europe inside out
turning Europe inside out
www.cornersofeurope.orgFind us on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Vimeo
stories heard on one street cornerretold on another …
üUmeå, Sweden120.000 people, large university, high tech investment,
European Capital of Culture 2014
üRijeka, Croatia150.000 people, large university, post-industrial port,
candidate - European Capital of Culture 2020
üMatera, Italy70.000 people, small university, cultural heritage/tourism,
European Capital of Culture 2019
SMALL CITIES – BIG FUTURES
RiHubco-working, governance innovation,
citizen monitoring
Rijeka Resource1. BARGES
space & tech
2. CREWSmanagement & leadership
3. VOYAGERSpublic & community
Some lessons learned:
Sustainable events, repeated and
developed over a period of time, with multiple encounters
choice of themes and threads: a symbol
hotelsea
corners
finding the universal in the provincial
the personal in the commonwealth
co-creation
it is the collaborative, cross-cultural factor
which gives a European dimension
cooperative efforts create greater impact
Rather than BIG projects, create BROAD partnerships,
both local and european.
Yoghurt Cultures
www.intercult.se
CORNERS www.cornersofeurope.org