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Subject: Mobility in the visual arts sector in Europe - Call for Obstacles
From:    "igbk" <art la igbk.de>
Date:    Fri, July 31, 2009 16:26
To:      art la igbk.de
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Call for Obstacles

The Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (IGBK) is looking
for visual artists’ contributions to an experts’ meeting on ‘mobility in
the visual arts sector in Europe’.


Tell us about your experiences with exhibitions abroad or with foreign
artists taking part in artistic projects in your country.
Let us know about problems you faced and obstacles you met when crossing
borders, about bureaucratic matters that constrained projects or about
transportation issues.

Did you have any difficulties when bringing back home art works that you
worked out during a residency abroad?
Didn’t you get the right information on customs questions, because you
didn’t know whom to ask?
Were you asked to pay import turnover tax on own works when crossing
borders?
Wasn’t it possible to take part in an exhibition due to high
transportation costs?
Or was it impossible to join a workshop because of visa problems?
Are there any obstacles that mobile artists face which we do not have in
mind at this point?

Please let us know about your experiences and send us short statements
on mobility obstacles. These contributions will be the discussion basis
for an experts’ meeting on ‘mobility in the visual arts sector in
Europe’ that will take place on December 10 and 11, 2009, in Linz
(Austria).


Background
The Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (IGBK) is partner
and co-organiser of the European project ‘Urban Interventions: Artistic
perspectives for the urban space’.
The project, funded by the EU’s culture programme, is coordinated by the
City Linz and brings together project partners from 5 different European
countries that aim at contributing to the mobility of visual artists
within the European Union as well as in one candidate state (Turkey).
Besides IGBK and the City Linz, project partners are the Liverpool
Biennial of Contemporary Art, the Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Platform
Garanti Contemporary Art Center Istanbul and the Foundation Tallinn
2011. ‘Urban Interventions’ is an artistic exchange project ‘on the
topic of urban development as well as related interventions in the urban
space and interactions with the local artistic community / the
population’.

The project will furthermore contribute to the ongoing discussions on
how to further mobility of artists in Europe. Hosted by Atelierhaus
Salzamt in Linz on December 10 and 11, 2009, IGBK will organise an
experts’ meeting on the topic ‘mobility in the visual arts sector in
Europe’.

‘Mobility of artists and cultural professionals’ enjoys great popularity
at European level. With the European Agenda for Culture the EU political
bodies are putting more effort to mobility and have scheduled the
further development of artists’ mobility as a political objective.
IGBK and its project partners will bring together an expert round to
focus on the visual arts sector in particular, since the specific
experiences and demands of visual artists related to exchange projects
and mobility are often not sufficiently outlined.
Besides the discussion on how to develop and coordinate existing funding
and supporting schemes, priority will be given to the reduction of
obstacles and to the question how to make things easier for individual
artists and groups. This is as to e.g. transparency and harmonisation of
procedures and application forms in fiscal and social matters, to the
simplification of cross-border transportation of art works, to the
reduction of visa problems and costs, to the launch of a European
identity card for visual artists.
Furthermore the important topic ‘access to information and knowledge’
will be discussed as well as the unequally distributed opportunities for
artists within the different countries.

The experts’ round brings together visual artists, practitioners in the
field of artists’ residencies and delegates of studio offices/studio
networks as well as of European/international organisations like the
International Association of Art (IAA) Europe, the European Council of
Artists (ECA), ResArtis etc.
In addition, experts who can build on existing studies and European
pilot projects will take part in the meeting. Also supporting bodies are
invited and will be questioned regarding supporting schemes and daily
working requirements.
Furthermore members of the European Commission, the European Parliament
and the EU expert working group on ’conditions for the mobility of
artists and other professionals in the cultural field’ will be invited.

The outcome of the expert meeting will, on the one hand, be a
recommendation catalogue that will be handed over to the relevant EU
political bodies and expert working groups. Also the meeting is
scheduled as a ‘strategy meeting’ that aims at developing further steps
on how to reduce obstacles and how to deal with the problems within the
different European countries.


To prepare the meeting, IGBK launches an open ‘Call for Obstacles’.
Visual artists are invited to hand in concrete obstacle experiences and
demands related to mobility within Europe (and beyond).

Please send us short statements on your experiences, be brief and
precise about the place where things happened and about who was
involved.
And also add demands and suggestions on what needs to be done to make
things easier for artists and who needs to be addressed.
These contributions are much important, as the collected statements will
provide a basis for discussions in the expert meeting. We need the input
of every visual artist who is working internationally to formulate
relevant recommendations for the political and administrative bodies
within Europe.

Please pass this ‘Call for Obstacles’ on to artists across Europe and
send us your statements until the end of September 2009 at the latest.
Thank you very much!


Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (IGBK)
Thomas Weis / Christine Heemsoth
Rosenthaler Str. 11
D - 10119 Berlin
Tel.: +49 (0)30 23457666
Email: art la igbk.de
http://www.igbk.de

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