If you can't make it on the day - the conference comes to you via live stream.
We would feel very honoured to see you at the conference and we would appreciate if you could circulate the press release below among your friends and networks.
Kind regards,
Jan Hendrik Brueggemeier on behalf of the Centre for Creative Arts
////// Press release //////
Re-structure
2014 - A conference discussing the
re-structuring of the arts, culture
and creative sector in Australia
today
20. Nov 2014
- 11am-7pm
215 Franklin St, CBD, Melbourne,
La Trobe University (City Campus)
This is a free
event but requires RSVP: http://www.trybooking.com/GFKF
Live stream available @ http://centreforcreativearts.org.au/live
Budget cuts proposed by the Abbott
government have instigated a proliferation
of restructures across the public sector.
These restructures will have far reaching
impacts on culture and education in
Australia. Not only are we witnessing the
manifestation of a markedly neo-liberal
policy paradigm with its small
government and big society rational,
but with so many cultural workers
currently sustaining their practice through
employment in the public sector, we may also
see a failure of a particular kind of
Western art professionalism.
How can
knowledge sharing and art practice be
maintained and organised differently in
this time?
This conference
looks at the current state of the arts, and
considers alternative modes of culture and
knowledge production within times of
shrinking public expenditures. Featuring
participants from performance, fashion,
gaming, media and community intervention,
the event explores both broader sustainable
strategies as well as "clever partial
solutions" to cultural and knowledge
production in a post-public sector
environment.
In seeking
alternatives, the Re-structure
Conference looks to the
proliferation of smaller scale community
economies worldwide, in both on and
offline environments, and to the
modes of cultural production and knowledge
exchange with other sectors such as
environmental NGOs.
The conference
will include presentations by Dr. Stephen
Healy (co-author of Take Back the
Economy), Dr Joan Staples (researcher
/ Environment Victoria), Dr Geert Lovink
(Institute of Network Cultures), Angharad
Wynne-Jones (artshouse / tippingpoint
Australia), Dr. Maria Miranda (artist /
researcher / ARI experience), Jon Hawkes
(policy analyst / co-founder Circus Oz), Dr.
Grace McQuilten (researcher / curator /
founder of Social Studio), Siying Zhou
(artist, VCA / Melbourne Uni), Trent Kusters
(League of Geeks), Dr. Katharine McKinnon
(community planer / La Trobe University),
Rick Chen (pozible.com), Fee Plumley
(artist, digital activist), Vic McEwan (CAD
factory) and many more. (See website for
more details.)
While focussing on what can be done locally, Re-structure 2014 also considers developments occurring elsewhere on this planet. In this light, Re-structure 2014 takes place synchronously to the in Amsterdam, MyCreativity Sweatshop: A Reality Check on the Creative Industries organised by Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam.
URLs
http://restructure2014.net
http://networkcultures.org/mycreativity
Contact:
Jan Hendrik Brueggemeier,curator, Centre for Creative Arts, La Trobe University
email: info@centreforcreativearts.org.au
mobile: 0432 486 793
Keynote by Dr Stephen Healy (co-author of Take Back the Economy)
Panel 1: Artist run initiatives – How gets art into communities and community into arts?
Here current examples of ARI are being discussed that engage with community economies as well as introduces into modes of cultural production within different communities.
Panelists: Dr Maria Miranda, Siying Zhou & Dr Grace McQuilten
Panel 2: Internet and cultural platforms - The merits and disillusions of the Internet
Although the Internet offers means for networking and self-organisation, one question remains: if we can come up with alternative platforms to what current crowd-funding websites are already offering and under which framework could we do that?
Panelists: Trent Kusters, Rick Chen & Fee Plumley
Panel 3: Learning from
cross-sectorial experiences
This panel compares the environmental
and cultural sector. Issues like the
environment or sustainability are similar to
the arts and culture not at the top of the
list when it comes to funding and lobbying
but the environmental sector in Australia,
though, seems to have a longer tradition of
“going independent” in terms of
funding.
Panelists: Dr Joan Staples, Angharad
Wynne-Jones & Vic McEwan
Panel 4: Culture & civil society
Lastly we are pondering into questions
of cultural production as a part of civil
society and the role of the state as a
facilitator of such. Do we need to refresh
our bigger picture view here or do we better
just keep picking up the pieces while
society is moving on?
Panelists: Jon Hawkes, Dr Grace McQuilten
& Dr Katharine McKinnon
Panel 5: My.Creativity Sweatshop: A
Reality Check on the Creative Industries
– a skype conversation with Dr Geert Lovink,
director of the Institute of Network of
Cultures, Amsterdam University of
Applied Sciences and co-organiser of My.Creativity Sweatshop: A
Reality Check on the Creative Industries.
Photo credit:
"Fruit Pyramid Lanao" source: http://takebackeconomy.net