[Discussion] Artistic Strategies of Success - a dialogue between the East and the West

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Artistic Strategies of Success - a dialogue between the East and the West=
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03.12.2004-05-12-2004
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The conference aims to the professionalisation of Artistic Strategies regar=
ding to the cultural dialogue between Eastern and Western Europe. With re=
gards to the contents this conference intends to deal with the radical so=
cial change and the fast development of the artistic and cultural scene o=
f five countries in East and South-East Europe (Bulgaria, Serbia, Sloweni=
a, Hungary and Poland), presenting and discussing the different political=
, economical, social and cultural conditions of production, exhibition an=
d reception, supporting programs, travel scholarships and possibilities o=
f exchange for artists. The lecture of Barbara Steiner shows that the ter=
m "Eastern europe" is an abstract and political construction, which conce=
rns less with topographical borders than with pictures of imagination, as=
sessments and mechanism of in- and exclusion of the postcommunistic count=
ries. The process of national idendity finding will be demonstrated by di=
scussing the part of art and culture in this process. It is also a contra=
diction between "national identity" and "global art-discussion" and the r=
elevance of the art and the artists. Important and fundamental for the co=
nference "Dialogue between the East and the West" is to destignate the cu=
ltural differences in these countries and to reflect differentiately the =
political, economical and artistical practises. Therefore we will invite =
artists, curators and collaborators of institutions, which participate bo=
th in the Western and Eastern context. A moderated panel discussion marks=
 the end of the conference, which aims at a network by achieving and disc=
ussing specific questions and possibilities of artistic professionalisati=
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Information, Inquiries: Sabine Oehlmann, by phone: 0049.(0)5331.808415 or e=
mail:sabine.oehlmann@bundesakademie.de

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The Federal Academy for Cultural Education Wolfenbuettel, the German Artist=
 Association

German Federal Cultural Foundation