Experts' meeting on 'Mobility in the visual arts sector in Europe'

IGBK is partner and co-organiser of the European project ‘Urban Interventions: Artistic perspectives for the urban space’.
The project, funded by the EU’s culture programme, is coordinated by the City Linz and brings together project partners from 5 different European countries that aim at contributing to the mobility of visual artists within the European Union as well as in one candidate state (Turkey). Besides IGBK and the City Linz, project partners are the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, the Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center Istanbul and the Foundation Tallinn 2011.
 
The project contributes to the ongoing discussions on how to further mobility of artists in Europe. Hosted by Atelierhaus Salzamt in Linz on December 10 and 11, 2009, IGBK organised an experts’ meeting on the topic ‘Mobility in the visual arts sector in Europe’. Culture Action Europe was partner of the event.
Discussions with representatives of European artists’ associations, residencies, cultural networks and information organisations as well as researchers focused on existing mobility obstacles and the question how to make things easier for individual artists and groups. Priority was given to the topics ‘customs and taxation’, ‘visa regulations’, ‘information. coordination and access’ and ‘supporting schemes’.
 
To find out about outcomes of the meeting and recommendations on how to deal with mobility problems at EU level and within the member states read the summary.

Challenges for Mobility_recommendations from the visual arts sector (PDF-Dokument, ca. 378,8 KByte)

Mobility Studies

Informations Systems: Feasibility Study_ECOTEC_2009 (PDF-Dokument, ca. 969,3 KByte)

Mobility Matters_ERICarts Institute_2008 (PDF-Dokument, ca. 627,0 KByte)

Visas.The Discordant Note_Freemuse_2008 (PDF-Dokument, ca. 170,5 KByte)

Impediments to Mobility_R.Polacek_2007 (PDF-Dokument, ca. 1,4 MByte)

Mobility Links
 
on the move - The Performing Arts Traveller's Toolkit
 
Changing Room Knowledge Base - Independent information about working in culture in Europe, written by cultural operators for cultural operators
 
PRACTICS makes culture move - 3-year project coordinated by the Finnish Theatre Information Centre with the aim to facilitate the provision of information about EU cross-border mobility in the cultural sector. The project will develop so-called PRACTICS Infopoints which are conceived as 'EU Cultural Mobility Contact Points'. Their task will be to offer relevant and user-friendly information to foreign cultural workers who want to work in the countries in which the PRACTICS Infopoints are based as well as to national cultural workers who want to work in another EU-country.
4 organisations (in Wales, the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain) are piloting the PRACTICS Infopoints during the course of the project (2009 - 2011):
wales arts international (Wales), sica. dutch centre for international cultural activities (Netherlands), kunstenloket (Belgium) and Interarts (Spain).