http://europesupportsartists.wordpress.com/#english
Europe Supports Women Artists
This is a three part project
.
1. a symposium - to get to know one another and to
share what we know:
>From 27th 29th October 2006 bildwechsel will host a
meeting in Hamburg of women artists from different
countries. The artists are all women who have already
had some contact with bildwechsel, and who also have
their own understandings of what an artist-run
organisation is and/or can be. The symposium will be
based on the answers to a series of questions which we
have started to put together and which you can add to
or change. The themes that we want to look at are:
what is the situtation for women artists in different
countries, what is the situation for visiting women
artists, what are the different possibilities (women)
artists can take advantage of in their
countries/cities etc, what support systems are there,
what kind of things can you invent to help you, what
is the idea of a woman artist, and so on.
One of the central themes of the project concerns
different and alternative social and economic systems,
and we propose to reflect some of these in the
organisation of the symposium itself i.e one day to be
dedicated to the idea of pay what you want, another
day to only involve thing that havent been bought, a
third dedicated to the idea of bring and share, and
a fourth around the idea of redistribution of wealth.
2. a booklet - the women artists emergency tourism
guide:
a special tourist guide: the booklet will describe
what advantages (economic or otherwise) are available
for women artists in each country e.g. if you make a
scandal in poland you will become a well-known artist,
if you live in Sweden for 5 years you can get
financial support from the state, european artists can
apply for social security money in the UK, in bremen
you can get artist-money if you are registered there
for three years.
3. a website:
to record and to build up our knowledge about each
others situations, the situation of women artists in
different countries, how easy it is for other women
artists to visit / live / work in each country, what
support there is, what alternatives exist, and also
about the definitions and ideas of what it is to be an
artist in those countries.
The website for the project is currently being
designed and b
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