Keeping it real: challenges to locally-rooted cultural practice in Reykjavik. Evaluating the role of institutions in developing the interface between human creativity and technology.

Sunday,21 March 2004, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik (LAM).

More information and pre-registration:
Rebecca Ragnarsdottir/Living Art Museum:                 551 4350
ny-*at*nylo.is

Schedule:

1300-1345
Arrivals

1345-1400
Welcome. [aladin/alkhemi; Marita Muukkonen/NIFCA; LAM.]

1400-1500
1. Mapping local evidence of a growing interface between human creativity and technology - the case of cultural planning and production. [Co-animation LAM et al]

1500-1515
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1515-1615
2. Obstacles and opportunities in developing self-sustaining cultural institutions. [Co-animation Manyfacture + LAM project participants et al]

1615-1630
Interval

1630-1730
PARTICIPANTS CAN CHOSE BETWEEN TWO OPTIONS: 3A OR 3B

CHOSE:
1630-1730
3B. Extending competence and creating practical methodologies for success: Capacity Building/Legacy Development. Plenary discussion. [Co-animation Marita Muukkonen, Manyfacture, LAM]

OR CHOSE:
1630-1730
3A. Extending competence and creating practical methodologies for success: Capacity Building/Legacy Development. Intensive workshop: aladin/alkhemi will be facilitating this session, which will focus on PERSONAL and PRACTICAL skills; for logistical reasons part of this will have to be 'closed' to observers but will involve skills development of a diverse if small group, including participants drawn from public, private and not-for-profit sectors. [Animation aladin]

1730-1800
3C. Feedback from 3A+3B above. Plenary session FOR ALL. [Co-animation aladin, Marita Muukkonen, Manyfacture, LAM]. END

1800
EVENT CLOSES

Keeping it real takes place informally and across approximately five hours on Sunday 21st March 2004 in Reykjavik's Living Art Museum. It will fit around and to a degree complement the collaborative project 'Manyfacture', taking place in the building and which involves the Museum and the Critical Studies course at Malmö Art Academy, Sweden.

The event is intended for practitioners with an interest in cultural process and production - not restricted to cultural institutions. It is structured to permit a broadly representative participation - including across public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

The focus is PRACTICAL and NOT theoretical. It is hoped that dialogue as well as practice development will centre on real cases contributed by participants themselves.

The occasion will afford networking opportunities for interested parties.

The colloquium is devised and animated by aladin/alkhemi U.K. with the collaboration of Rebecca Ragnarsdottir/Living Art Museum, Marita Muukkonen/NIFCA, Manyfacture/Malmo Art Academy and the Nordic Council. The event will be jointly chaired by aladin and the individuals named above and hosted by Living Art Museum

About the facilitators:
aladin - aladin has been responsible to the Mayor of London for developing the strategy for culture, media, sport, arts, heritage and tourism in the capital city since 2000; the creative industries, inclusion, diversity and sustainable development have been amongst his areas of focus. He is Vice Chair of the Cultural Strategy Group at City Hall, London, an interdisciplinary artist/producer/director/curator and also Founder of alkhemi, the heterodox, hybrid international strategy consultancy.
Marita Muukkonen - Marita is Projects Director at the Nordic Institute of Contemporary Arts (NIFCA) in Finland.
Manyfacture + Malmo Art Academy - as part of a pre-existing collaboration with Living Art Museum, Manyfacture participants have been
documenting visits to locally rooted ´spaces of research´ around the
world and carrying out interviews of people involved with institutions.

More information and pre-registration:
Rebecca Ragnarsdottir/Living Art Museum:                 551 4350
ny-*at*nylo.is