Residency Programmes Forum
5 & 6 June 2014, Pogon Jedinstvo, Zagreb

Round table with:

Annemarie Türk (independent curator, Vienna, AT)
Claude Veron (Jeunes Talents Cirque Europe, Paris, FR)
Luca Bergamo (Culture Action Europe, Brussels, BE)
Yvette Vaughan Jones (Visiting Arts, London, UK)
Tamara Perišić (Assistant Minister of Culture, Zagreb, HR)

Moderator:

Emina Višnić (Pogon, Zagreb, HR)

Through various partnerships on a local, regional and transnational scale arts residencies have been developing throughout Europe, becoming one of the major tools for fostering artistic mobility and cultural exchange. More often they involve not only artists of various disciplines, but also researchers, architects, techies and experts in other fields. Residency programmes strongly affect broadening of artistic practices, acting as platforms where communication with local contexts takes place. Therefore, together with taking into account their artistic value, their broader role as social practice needs to be examined. Existing and possible new roles of residency programmes in ever-changing environment, with global and instant communication provided by high technology and new features must also be considered. Although we are generally aware of the importance of residency programmes, it still makes sense to discuss the reasons and objectives that justify past and future investments, especially in specific circumstances of certain countries or regions where infrastructure and support for residency programmes has yet to be developed. What can we learn from existing practices in Europe? Why did residency programmes become so popular and what are their purposes? What kind of support do they need? What kind of stimulating measures in local, national and European cultural policies should be introduced in order to meet set goals of cultural and broader social development that are linked with residency programmes?

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