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New York–ul din mine.
New York este un oras in care intri asa cum ai intra intr- o carte buna. Primul lucru pe care il simti este un fel de tremur interior, foarte intim , greu de transmis in cuvinte. O bucurie a intilnirii cu ceva neasteptat, care te scoala din orice letargie, te surprinde si te inhata fara sa ai timp sa te aperi.
Orasul pare ca un val urias, iti pica in fata si te da peste cap, dupa care, cind iti recistigi echilibrul, te poarta in suvoiul unei energii teribile, orice impotrivire fiind imposibila.
The art of making choices and the choice to work with the arts
Policy choices when heading an already existing art organization are difficult to make and even more difficult to keep. And they have to be made quickly and clearly because in arts and culture, like in business, the quicker one gets the lot!
The Year of Intercultural dialogue – a challenge for Romanian democratic practices
In February 2008, just at the moment when programs of the year of Intercultural dialogue were
launched in Romania, one of the national representatives in the EU parliament, Ioan Mircea
Pascu, was expressing his indignation about the programming of ‘California Dreaming’ as part
of the Parliament’s film festival dedicated to this very issue.
La Plopi – Academia itinerantă Andrei Şerban
La Plopi a început, în fine, o aventură la care am sperat şi în care am investit mult, alături de colaboratoarele mele atît de fidele şi de apropiate, Oana Radu şi Ştefania Ferchedău: laboratorul de creaţie Andrei Şerban. Intitulat “Academia itinerantă”, atelierul de la Plopi a coagulat, cu răbdare şi fără multă vîlvă, starea de…
Povestea unui experiment teatral – Academia itinerantă Andrei Şerban
Academia itinerantă Andrei Şerban este un proiect iniţiat de ECUMEST şi de Institutul Cultural Român de la New York, şi susţinut financiar de Administraţia Fondului Cultural Naţional, Institutul Cultural Român, Institutul Cultural Român de la New York, ECUMEST. Proiectul a început printr-un atelier de creaţie, la Plopi, lîngă Cluj, cu participarea următorilor actori: Csilla Albert (Teatrul Maghiar, Cluj),…
Despre exportul cultural al produselor “Men in Black”
Am fost surprinsă zilele trecute (revăzînd accidental o secvenţă din Men in Black) să constat că există o scenă în care extratereştrilor care stau la coadă să pătrundă pe Pămînt li se dau diverse instrucţiuni, printre care aceea că, dacă ies pe stradă, ciudat cum arată, să o facă doar noaptea şi numai în East…
The Necessary Awakening
Since the fall of communism sixteen years ago, few issues regarding the development and orientation of European cultural policy have achieved consensus among informed analysts. However, most accept the idea that 1990 marked not only the end of post-WWII division between Eastern and Western Europe, but also a radical, tangible shift in the ways European public administrations approach involvement with cultural affairs.
Cui îi e frică de Andrei Şerban – Purificare
În plină desfăşurare a serilor de Reenactment Teatrul Luni la ICR din New York, aflu despre ce se petrece cu Purificare, de Sarah Kane (spectacolul lui Andrei Şerban la Bucureşti). Preţul biletelor (absurd de mare), reacţii critice, reacţii ale tinerilor artişti. Read more: https://agenda.liternet.ro/articol/3549/Corina-Suteu/Cui-ii-e-frica-de-Andrei-Serban-Purificare.html
Secvenţe despre discriminarea pozitivă
Un nou serial de succes, difuzat de televiziunea americană din toamna lui 2006, e intitulat Studio 60. El conţine toate stereotipiile politically correctness-ului de după 9/11 şi vorbeşte despre viaţa unui studio de televiziune scăpat de la faliment de un grup de tineri, creativi şi dinamici; apar obişnuitele complicaţii sentimentale ale celor care – ca…
Arhiva ECUMEST
This page includes different reports, papers and articles produced by the ECUMEST team and its collaborators and partners in main areas of intervention of the association. INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL COOPERATION Overview of the Romanian independent cultural scene in focus at LabforCulture.orgAuthor: ECUMEST, at the commissioning of LabforCulture.orgA series of materials on this theme were prepared by…
Politici culturale “la ei” şi “la noi”
Cincizeci de ani de politici culturale în Europa occidentală. Cincizeci de ani de dezvoltare economică în Europa occidentală s-au aflat sub semnul unor politici culturale concentrate în jurul problematicii eterne a participării la actul cultural şi a celor două aspecte interrelaţionate ale sale: democratizarea culturii şi democraţia culturală. Read more: https://dilemaveche.ro/sectiune/tema-saptamanii/articol/politici-culturale-la-ei-si-la-noi
Not afraid to be an Alien
For having being involved in networking activities for 15 years now, I heard much about the post networking ‘era’ and about the imminent collapse of European networks. Well, that was a wrong hypothesis and it seems even more so if we consider that European cultural networking succeeded in changing, in a radical way since the 80’s, the stiff diplomatic vocabulary and the sometimes too conservatory cooperation practices of cultural and artistic interaction. TransEuropeHalles is, in this respect, a brilliant example of networking reshaping and reinvestment (I do not believe there are even other cultural networks in Europe that had 60 meetings since their foundation).
Challenges of Cultural Cooperation in Southeastern Europe: the Internationalization of Cultural Policies and Practices
The cultural cooperation logic marking the last 14 years in Southeastern Europe (SEE) has to be
regarded from a broad perspective as driven not only by the consequences of the collapse of the
communist institutional order, but also as a result of the general transformations taking place at a
European and international level: the challenges resulting from the liberalization of markets,
globalization processes and technological revolution (new technologies, information support for
knowledge, deepening inequality North/South, the redefinition of the role of culture and the
growing tendency towards transversal governance, replacing the pyramidal paradigm of
authority).
Born in Illyria or “How to build cultural cooperation with (South ) Eastern Europe”
It was two days after the first of May glittering EU enlargement ceremonies
ended. As usual before one of my trips to somewhere in Europe, I was taking the
taxi in Nantes and saying bye-bye in Romanian to my sixteen year old daughter,
who, despite her French schooling, still speaks her mother tongue pretty well.
As I prepared to leave, the young French taxi driver looked on with what I
thought to be the average curiosity that we are now so used to, after ten years of
‘where does your accent come from?’ and, ‘what is your nationality, Madame, if
I am not too indiscreet…?’
The empowerment of civil society agents in new democracies
The notion of civil society and the emergence of an effectively democratic civil sector in post communist countries is in the centre of the present argument.
New cultural policies should be , in former communist countries, designed according first and foremost to the axiomatic lack of democratic behaviour that these societies are showing still now and focus very strongly on the civic empowerment of the individuals that are independent opinion leaders.
How to love Madonna, understand Shakespear and create something new
Essay-Interview: “How to Love Madonna, Understand Shakespeare and Create SomethingNew,” Boekmanstudies, Amsterdam (2004) Complexities in contemporary arts and cultural management >>> Read the entire interview here [PDF]
The Importance of a Cultural Approach Towards the Accession Process
In his article “EST-OUEST- le dit et le non dit”, the Polish historian Francizek Draus points out that Eastern Europe and Western Europe have different perceptions of the accession process. While a Westerner’s concern is directed mainly towards the technical complexity of the process to be engaged, Eastern countries give it much more a meaning…