Mai 2022
Künstlerhaus Lukas
Arbeitsstipendium im Künstlerhaus Lukas Ahrenshoop
gefördert durch das Land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
https://www.kuenstlerhaus-lukas.de
2022
BACKBONE BERLIN
Backbone Berlin is a platform that aims to facilitate and foster long term support of artistic practice within the independent dance scene of Berlin and beyond as well as to question current issues related to precarity of artistic work, commoning of resources, mutualisation, alternative models of long term development, ecology and sustainability of practices within the field of dance and its wider community. Backbone Berlin is currently hosted by independent performance and visual art producers Barbara Greiner and Sarah Parolin.
Sarah Parolin, Barbara Greiner and Agata Siniarska, Alice Chauchat, Angela Alves, Clement Layes, Giulia Messia, Gretchen Belgen, Ixchel Mendoza Hernandez, Jared Gradinger, Julia Rodriguez, Kasia Wolinska, Lea Moro, Louise Trueheart, Manon Parent, Maria F. Scaroni, Olympia Bukkakis, Roni Katz, Sheena McGrandles, Siegmar Zacharias, Xenia Taniko
2021
IMAGINING FUTURES
Imagining Futures: What If?
Rethinking Europe’s independent festival landscape
A new publication created by members of the Imagining Futures network, a EUNIC funded project in partnership with the Goethe-Institut London and Transform Festival, Leeds UK
A year into the Covid-19 pandemic, Imagining Futures brought together twelve innovative performing arts festivals for a pan-European experiment: a future-focused network that offered its participating festival directors and artists a deep listening space and a moment to be together, think together, and dream different futures.
Care, well-being, and sustainability became prominent topics across the series of digital and in-person residencies. Together the participants considered how to share power, how to leave behind the inherited structures and ideologies that so many cultural institutions adhere to, above all how to rip up the rule book and work instead with radical new ideas and provocations that might transform ‘what is’ into ‘what if’.
The many provocations, inspirations, examples of existing good practice and desired ‘what ifs’ discussed by the network have been gathered into a new publication that aims to continue to inspire and inform the working practices of festivals, cultural institutes and associated organisations across Europe and beyond.
On Friday 20th May at 4pm CET, artists Angela Alves and Claire Lefèvre and festival directors Amy Letman and Anna Mülter will share insights into the conversations that took place across the project at Goethe-Institut’s Frequencies. Sharing Feminisms festival in Berlin and online, find out more.