Saturday, April 22, 2006, 10:00 – 17:00
at domicil, Hansastr. 7-11, 44137 Dortmund

The international colloquium focuses primarily on the question as to which form of organisation cultural production needs today and what type of qualities are produced by different structures. Is a large central structure characterized per se by hierarchy, impermeability, and immobility, while smaller units are distinguished by the converse qualities? How can long-term structures be preserved in the context of cultural work that is increasingly based on project funding? The relationship between independent and institutionalized culture is to be investigated, with special attention given to the context of advancing globalization and the institutional transformations taking place in this framework.

Bojana Cvejic is theoretician and co-initiator of PAF, an open-source structured platform in the field of contemporary performance and choreography in France.

Michael Fehr is director of the Institute for Art in Context at the University of Arts Berlin. For many years, he was director of the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum in Hagen.

Vasif Kortun is author, curator and founding director of Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center in Istanbul and was co-curator of the 9th International Biennial of Istanbul 2005.

Tomislav Medak is philosopher with focus of research on social and cultural policies. He coordinates the theory program and publishing activities at the Multimedia Institute in Zagreb.

Elke aus dem Moore is art historian, curator, artist in the field of photography/film and, since the beginning of 2003, artistic director of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart.

Gerald Raunig is author of numerous publications on contemporary topics of philosophy, art theory and cultural policy and co-director of the "European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies"http://www.eipcp.net/ in Vienna.

Marten Spangberg is performance artist, theoretician and dramaturge. He is co-initiator of a project called “International Festival” and of a temporary theatre in Graz.

Bettina Steinbrügge is co-director of the Kunstraum of the University Lüneburg.

Dirk De Wit acts on behalf of the Flemish Ministry for Culture as project developer and networker in the field of art and media. He is founder of the initiative Digitaal Platform in Brussels.

Katherina Zakravsky is cultural theoretician and curator. She wrote her doctoral thesis about Immanuel Kant’s theory of institution and she researches in the field of contemporary sociocultural phenomena.

Peter Zorn is film-maker, curator and co-founder of the Werkleitz Gesellschaft as well as director of the Werkleitz Biennale in Halle (Saale).

Agenda for public colloquium „What kind of cultural institutions do we need? On the (political) effects of structures“

April 22, 2006
domicil, Dortmund

10:00-10:30 Welcome (Inke Arns, Hartware MedienKunstVerein and Katrin Klingan, relations)

10:30-11:45 Structure as Culture – Culture as Structure
Katherina Zakravsky, Gerald Raunig
moderated by Inke Arns

11:45-12:45 Pros and Cons of Temporal Centralization
Vasif Kortun (Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center; Istanbul Biennial in 2005, Istanbul/Turkey)
Peter Zorn (Werkleitz Biennale, Halle/Germany)
Michael Fehr (Institute for Art in Context, University of Arts Berlin/Germany)
moderated by Frauke Burgdorff and Goran Sergej Pristas

12:45-13:45 Lunch break

14:00-15:00 Alternatives of Centralization
Elke aus dem Moore (Künstlerhaus Stuttgart/Germany)
Marten Spanberg („International Festival“, Stockholm/Sweden)
Bojana Cvejic (PAF, France)
moderated by Frauke Burgdorff and Goran Sergej Pristas

15:00-16:00 Networking the Structure
Tomislav Medak (Zagreb - Cultural Kapital of Europe 3000, Zagreb/Croatia)
Bettina Steinbruegge (Kunstraum of the University Lüneburg/Germany)
Dirk De Wit (Digitaal Platform, Brussels/Belgium)
moderated by Frauke Burgdorff and Goran Sergej Pristas

16:00-17:00 Round-up discussion with speakers and other participants