The Public Live Art Second Chance Fund. The Festival. November 2012.
Initiated and realised by Alexander Roberts and Ásgerður G. Gunnarsdóttir
10 am - 5 pm
10th November 2012
at Þjóðmenningarhúsið
The Public Live Art Second Chance Fund will host 60 members of the public who will work together over one day to award one artist (or group) 200.000 ISK as a kick-starter fund for their proposed art project.
Artists have submitted applications - we received over 40 applications from all over the world - and now we are seeking a jury who can adjudicate.
We are writing to you because we would like you to join us for this process.
The idea behind this project is to use the fund as a framework to instigate critical discussions around the following :
Terminology in Live Art
(what language are we using to discuss and describe Live Art discourse)
Public Service / Public Art
(what social responsibility or role does Live Art have in society when supported by public money, if any at all --- or what social responsibility does society have towards funding art, and what art is 'good' publicly funded art)
Transparency
(often funding processes and the decisions taken regarding what is, and what is not funded, is relatively opaque - The Festival is creating a fund that confronts this opaqueness by striving for optimum transparency. We are creating a space for a large public jury and then everything that is determined between the public jury over the course of the judgement day will be published in a book alongside all of the submitted applications. Readers will be able to see everything from the definitions of Live Art developed by the jury that day, to the reasonings for why certain works were preferred over others, to the transcribed debates and discussions – as well as the applications themselves.)
*** BONUS EVENTS ***
Future
Funding
Bodies
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Cultural
Policy
Making
Session
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11 am - 1 pm
SUNDAY 11th 2012
FUNDING
ANNOUNCEMENT
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PRESS
EVENT
(with SUNDAY WINE AND SNACKS)
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3 pm - 4 pm
Sunday 11th 2012
You can choose whether you attend the full Saturday - parts of Sunday - or attend both days.
Events took place at Icelandic House of Culture.
The events were supported by Reykjavík City, the Nordisk Kulturfond and the Iceland Ministry of Culture and Education.