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Lidia Varbanova

Dołączył:
15 Lis 2005

Piątek 22 Wrzesień 2006 11:44:17 am

Your opinion on What is "European Cultural Cooperation"

Andreas Wiesand

Dołączył:
17 Gru 2005

Wtorek 06 Czerwiec 2006 1:48:54 pm

"European" or "in Europe"?

Good question, Lidia, and exactly going to the heart of the ERICarts conceptual paper on "European Cultural Co-operation" (to be downloaded from the start page of this site). Our paper was actually prepared a year ago and now it will be great to see, whether the information and cases presented on labforculture will reflect mainly one of these approaches - or both of them. I look forward to hearing more opinions, not only about this particular distinction...
Andreas

Momchil Georgiev

Dołączył:
07 Cze 2006

Piątek 09 Czerwiec 2006 10:13:01 am

Cultural cooperation

European cooperation in culture is:
- to rediscover our common roots
- to present to the others our own uniqueness
- to find our place in the euro[ean cultural scene

Lidia Varbanova

Dołączył:
15 Lis 2005

Piątek 22 Wrzesień 2006 12:58:28 pm

"Cooperation in Europe" or "European cooperation"?

What do you think? Is it the same? How do you understand it from your own perspective and context? What is your own definition and understanding of this term?

Marta Palmich

Dołączył:
30 Maj 2006

Piątek 22 Wrzesień 2006 1:07:33 pm

Let’s help less visible professionals to share culture across Europe!

Cultural cooperation means different thing to various groups of people and professionals-researchers, policy makers, artists, academics. The means we cooperate are also different-from quick online chats and blogs to “offline” long debates, conferences, workshops. I believe in people-to-people contact as much as I believe that online platforms like the LabforCulture can help us to share and cooperate, exchange and learn from each other. I also strongly wish that we work more for visibility of others, not only for promoting of our own projects and initiatives. The “Respect of differences” should be connected with the “promotion of otherness”. We have to invite new circles of professionals and less visible partners to join our projects and initiatives on pan-European level, we have to invest efforts to help good ideas and excellent professionals and artists to be as visible as we are, to be as successful in their fundraising as we are. Only then we will move from “sharing cultures” to an upper stage of “helping others to share culture” which I think is crucial. The feeling of a real success is possible only when you share it with those who would never achive it without your help, and cultural cooperation is about that.

Petya Koleva

Dołączył:
10 Paź 2006

Wtorek 12 Grudzień 2006 11:31:07 am

cultural cooperation

In my experience of research and direct practice cultural cooperation is born out of needs and necessities to work together and live together. Since cultural activities are not the planned budget line in most projects, cultural exchange and cooperation happens because of inevitabilitiy.

In that sense noone can help 'other' people share culture but we can make people aware of what cultural practice means and of educational paths for intercultural communication, of practical support available on European level.

That culture is an essential part of living because it is a methodology for survival and development on personal and social level means that there are differences. Each of us lives in a unique cultural space and even within this space and within a lifetime we experience our own 'otherness' to the norms of culture that we get by with. This may be a major reason why we need to share our culture, to put in public the internal worries, joy, fear of death and knowledge that life goes on.

My point is that culture is not something that can be shared in an idealistic sense. As it is knowledge that is learned directly in living and not via formal schooling, culture is by definition shared. It is common to all of us to the extent that it brushes on the skin and on the emotions of people. Everything else we use but do not share. We may use the cultural products or output of the industries etc. to be able to share visions and emotions. They are the bricks for the cultural space we share, we learn about them or we experience them but we do not share the same words until we exchange them actively. Often cultural cooperation reveals that we use the same word to mean different terms of reference. Only then actual cultural cooperation starts, at the moment we strive to see our own limits and the needs to overcome barriers of habitual one way use.

One can share the ideas provoked by a book and the needs for pride in a given cutlural context which has made possible to share them.

Culture is a fundamental part of human development, on personal and social level, on national and European one. I consider everyone's need to make their cultural project recognised justified. Those who can not promote their projects can be helped by learning how others promote and why they do that. To achieve investments from more people and to develop such skills and knowledge that empower the cultural practitioners to achieve visibility for cultural communication is what 'sharing culture' means to me.

Lately I have had to discuss why a theatre performance can not be seen as less important in its cultural impact than a book which can be printed and distributed around the world in millions of copies. On that comment I simply have to say that I know the difference between reading a book and seeing a play and that is because I enjoy both and get different things out of them. One of those is a direct cultural experience, it is a public event, it is shared cultural communication and a shared political moment. Theatre used to be the most sophisticated art for sharing a culture in Europe, it was a cultural practice in itself. Lately it is an art form under the threat of experimental conceptual game and an institutional or professional domain facing severe budget reviews. Now it is considered unprofitable even by cultural funding perspective because it is so culturally complex, it is tied to language, to performance spaces and to the many professionals needed to make it happen. Theatre is becoming the idea of an ornamental institution, just like art is becoming the idea of political journalism. Both are drifting away from cultural practice as we all are drifting away from a community into a consumer society for ideas or products.

Judging the impact of sharing a culture by the return profit on its investment or by the numbers of consumers it can reach at once is by far a novel perspective on human intelligence derived from culture. Those measurements are certainly valid tools but they are not the central criteria that distinguish the product of culture from that of any other industry. The more of the same cultural product reaches the more people in an individualised space and the less sharing culture is political the less we will know what culture means and how we share learning from difference.

This is what I hope that we can start to see, culture is not a sterile lab and it is a risk taking economy. When we talk about cooperation let’s help the cultural context to appear for itself, let's not promote ideas but practices and support the last.

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