2005-05-19

Conference ""Tampering With Boundaries - The Cultural Manager", Potsdam

Within the Annual Conference 2005 of ENCATC, 60 students from all over Europe (and some from farther) will get together and will deal with this topic. On the weekend in the beginning of June, the students will meet approx. 250 teachers and professional from all over the world for an exchange and a process of mutual learning. The core of the students' meeting should be the exchange between students; exchange of experiences, of knowledge, of contacts, of projects and interests. The magic word for this weekend should be interaction. The students will not be recipients but participants; they take part and are involved in the process going on. The program with workshops and lectures will just give a frame that will be filled with the ideas and with the motivation of the participants. As the topic borders, boundaries, limits, is very wide spread, we do not expect to cover all aspects of it, we rather want to get closer to it with this, in a way experimental approach, and to become aware of the different aspects of it.

To tinker with boundaries, to mess around with borders, to manipulate limits, to displace frontiers... shortly: to tamper with boundaries... As a cultural manager we are always acting as a mediator between artist and recipient, between publicity and institution, between policy and culture, between art and commerce ... Within this duty, we are touching boundaries: financial, personal, national, religious, social, moral, cultural... A border is a line that divides two things from each other. Or is it a zone, a space "in between", where ideas or attitudes clash? Within my borders, can I be sure to be understood? Is progress the process of crossing borders? Which roles do borders play for cultural managers in the context of the changing Europe? "Tampering With Boundaries - The Cultural Manager".

ENCATC Students Forum