|
rural art - urban art
RURAL ART - URBAN ART - the NORDIC PERSPECTIVE
“This diversity in visual art helps to strengthen and develop artistic
activity in the Region, and to increase the impact on the general public and on
stakeholders including artists, galleries, curators, museums, art institutions
and critics in the Nordic Region and beyond”.
quote:
Nordic Council of Ministers
“Artists’ residences are an important resource for the art community in our
region. They give the artists and culture professionals an opportunity to work
together with artists from other parts of the world, and to find inspiration
within our region”, says Ragnheidur Tryggvadóttir, the chair of the expert group
for residences.
quote:
KKNORD
"4.2
Promoting the mobility of artists and cultural practitioners – who are essential for the
flourishing of CCIs – contributes significantly to their professional skills
and/or artistic development, developing their own research and exploration ambitions, opening up new
market opportunities and enhancing their career possibilities in particular through their
participation in residencies, festivals, live touring performances, international exhibitions
or literary events. Mobility can also more directly impact positively on the performance
of CCIs by opening up new market opportunities through schemes which improve industry export strategies, promote international job placement schemes or
reinforce capacity building."
quote:
GREEN PAPER - Unlocking the potential of cultural and creative industries -
EUROPEAN COMMISSION COM(2010) 183
GROENBOEK - Het potentieel van de culturele en creatieve industrieën vrijmaken
- EUROPEESE COMMISSIE - COM(2010) 183 definitief
VIHREÄ KIRJA Kulttuuriteollisuuden ja luovan alan teollisuuden mahdollisuudet
käyttöön - EUROOPAN KOMISSIO -
KOM(2010) 183 lopullinen
FUNDING and ASSESSMENT CRITERIA of the RESIDENCE PROGRAM by KKNORD
Funding for artists' residencies
The module supports residencies that offer working facilities for professional
artists and cultural operators
Funding
* the module provides funding for individual residency centres in the Nordic and
Baltic countries to receive professional artists and cultural operators
* from other countries in the region
* each residency will receive annual funding to cover scholarships for 2 - 4
artists
* the scholarships should cover travel expenses, board and lodging for
approimately 2 months
* the residencies themselves select the artists according to the residencies'
own criteria
* the residencies are offered the opportunity to attend an annual meeting to
exchange experiences and to discuss timely questions related to their work
* the residencies are offered resources for joint information activities through
which they can, for example, provide details on their application deadlines and
criteria or introduce their facilities and the artists working in them
Assessment criteria for residencies
* the residency centre works with professional artists and cultural operators on
a regular basis
* the residency centre has explicit objectives and a desire to support
innovative artistic work
* the centre has capacity to support the work processes of the artists in
residence
* the residency centre has capacity to work with several artists at the same
time or is engaged in documented partnerships with the local art scene
Art centre Saksala ArtRadius has applied in the RESIDENCE PROGRAM OF KKNORD,
because the content, experience and expertise of the artist-in-residence program of art centre
Saksala ArtRadius fit very well with the Nordic view on development of rural regions
and creative industry. The art center is a pioneer in the Cultural and Creative
Industry (CCI) and contributes extremely to the development of the rural area
and the mobility and exchange of artists and cultural workers.
In an application for artist-in-residence support art centre Saksala ArtRadius has
informed the expert group of Nordic Culture Point about the quality and importance of the program for the visiting artists, the cultural
influence in the region and the importance for the artistic development of the
youth. The artist-in-residence program of Saksala ArtRadius is an important
stimulus for innovative cultural actions which will bring the isolated rural
area of east Finland into the Nordic region.
The outcome of the application however has made it clear that art
residencies in rural Finland are not qualified as professional institutes. It
also shows that the definition of the Nordic Region does not include Finnish
rural areas..
The published list of selected residencies shows that there is a high
preference for non-profit organizations (non-commercial) in or near cities which are located at
or near the coasts of the different Nordic and Baltic countries. This preference
defeats private initiative to culturally develop the rural region, as if
artist-in-residencies in rural regions are not professional. It qualifies
artists participating in these residencies as amateurs (quote Helsingin Sanomat
19.9.2007).
The opinion of the expert group ignores the conceived strategy of the Nordic
Council, to activate the creative industry and to professionalize the artistic
field. More and more artists are registered as an SME and to be able to produce
their art, artists have to develop a marketing strategy also.
Artist-in-residencies are protected areas for artists to work temporarily
without this economic pressure and to work freely on their art production,
building their international network. Residencies must to apply for funding to
enable artists to work in an artist-in-residency.
The expert group asserts that professionalism, competence and quality do not
exist in Finnish rural areas. To the contrary - Innovative forms of creative
industry are an integral part of the artist-in-residence strategy.
It seems as if artists must be dependent on the goodwill of sponsors, grants,
and subsidies in order to be an accepted professional artist.
Pioneering to creating new concepts and models has to be supported with vision
and open mind. Entrepreneurship by artists, cultural workers, designers,
scientists and other creative persons is demanding for other regulations which
are not available yet. The difference between profit and non-profit, commercial
and non-commercial is in the CCI not longer working. Some parts in an
organization never will have benefit, while other parts are commercial very
successful. It is the exchange between these different ways of thinking and
executing which makes this sector so divers and innovative. There has to be
enough space for freely research, development and exchange before new
strategies, programs and products can be initiated.
|
|
|
Arts Council Finland
|
AllaprimA foundation the Netherlands
|
AREFS taide ja kulttuuri ry
|
|