Imágenes Paganas (Pagan Images) is a compilation of seven dialogues about unique cultural practice experiences that take place in peripheral contexts. Each interviewee reflects on this concept and gives examples according to his or her own experience: context (political, geographical or budget related), artistic issue dealt with, production conditions, target audience, etc.
Thus, in Imágenes Paganas you will be able to read conversations about good practice with the following pairs of projects, administrators or artists: Carlos Ferreyra + Ana Gilligan [museums and galleries administration; Ansenuza’s Museums Network + Júpiter Gallery]; Emiliano Fuentes Firmani + Gabriela Borioli [Cultural Networking; Café cultura Nación]; Marcelo Massa + Andrea Musso [Performing Arts Administration; La Menage Festival + Medida x Medida]; José Bisio + Marcos Díaz [Touristic Developments, their relationship with culture and the public realm; various public administation experiences]; Esteban Tazzioli + Andrés Oddone [Night Life, audiences and the culture field; Casa Babylon + Random]; Sonia Yulán + Verónica Lencinas y Daniela Bobbio[Library Administration; Biblioteca Popular República Argentina + Mediateca Enterate!]; Amadeo Zanotti + José Palazzo [Present Cultural Legislation Modification, Proceeding Frameworks; La Vuelta de Callejeros]
Conducted and compiled by Julieta Fantini, these interviews make part of a larger Project –a Wiki http://gestioncultural.wikia.com/-. If you visit this Wiki you will be able to review works and reflections [experience stories, theoretical reflections and related documents] of a diverse group of Ibero-American administrators and artists that respond to the same objective in their own words.
Es por amor (For the fun of it)
It is likely that the people belonging to the local sector that were involved in this book –artists, cultural sub-sectors’ agents, organizations and institutions, companies and the public sector, cultural administrators and producers- will not find big answers or discoveries about their daily activities. The team’s motivation was to make this book a reality humbly just for the fun of it. They were convinced about the fact that Córdoba’s city cultural sector should stop looking to itself and start showing and promoting itself in a different manner.
To know how much produce or cultural goods and services are worth, how many jobs they create and what the working conditions are were facts we wanted to find out, to offer the cultural sector a different outlook and to provide well thought arguments that even though coming from the Academy do have a socio-cultural and economic profile for their application. These arguments also suggest concrete actions that can be carried out by the public and private sector and also by our producers, creators and artists, who are the starting point of this chain of cultural value.
Es por amor is also a result of the research conducted between November 2005 and March 2006 called “Impacto de la cultura en la economía cordobesa. Identificación de las cadenas de valor que integran el sector cultural córdobes: producción editorial, escénica, musical y visual” (Culture’s impact in Córdoba’s economy. Identifying the value chains that make up Cordoba’s culture sector: publishing, performing arts, music and visual arts). This research was funded by the grant Proyectos de Investigación para el Desarrollo Regional, Convocatoria Universia – Banco Río.
Lic. Milagros Ortiz compiled this publication out from the research conducted by Mgt. Alejandro Romanutti, Lic. Paula Beaulieu, Lic. Daniela Bobbio, Mr. Francisco Marchiaro, Mgt. Daniela Monje, Lic. Milagros Ortiz and Lic. Mariana Pirra.