Hosted by the Australia Council for the Arts and IFACCA, this mini-summit will be held on Friday 14 June 2013 in Sydney, Australia, coinciding with the 19th International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA) (www.isea2013.org).
The mini-summit will bring together a number of IFACCA members, including from Canada, Denmark, Mozambique, Namibia and New Zealand, as well as a selection of experts on this topic.
Artists have long explored the experimental space in the creation and realisation of work. Contemporary audiences are increasingly developing an appetite for art that doesn’t fit neatly within traditional categories. The lines between research and development/creative development and exhibition/presentation/performance are increasingly becoming blurred. It is timely to look at how this practice is developing in different parts of the world.
The mini-summit will investigate the following questions as a starting point and work with participants to develop some ideas, approaches and responses to supporting experimental arts practice at the national level but in a global context:
- How can government arts policy best support artists working in experimental arts?
- What are the right creative contexts for the development and presentation of experimental art?
- How do we encourage funding bodies, larger organisations and festivals to risk partnering with artists making experimental work?
- How are non-arts partners encouraged to support experimental arts practice?
- How do we better share knowledge between artists and organisations to further experimental arts
A report from the mini-summit will be published in the coming months which will inform further discussions planned to take place as part of the programme for the 6th World Summit on Arts and Culture to be held in Santiago, Chile on 13-16 January 2014 (www.artsummit.org).
For further information on IFACCA’s work in relation to new media arts policy, visit our topic page here: http://www.ifacca.org/topic/new-media/