On the occasion of the new year and the launch of SICA’s new international magazine Dutch Mountains, SICA/ Dutch Centre for International Cultural Activities and Trans Artists invite you to a debate on ‘Tolerance and Hospitality’. It is a great opportunity to share ideas and experiences on artists' mobility in general and residency in the Netherlands specifically. Thursday  28 of January at the Smart Project Space (Arie Biemondstraat 111, Amsterdam)

Programme:

15.00                            Doors open

15.30 – 15.45                Introduction by Danielle van Zuijlen (artist and curator, author of ‘Tolerance, rather than hospitality – is the Netherlands still the free port it pretends to be’, Dutch Mountains)

15.45 – 17.00                Case Studies and debate moderated by Erik Hagoort (Trans Artists, curator, researcher)

17.00 – 17.15                Launch of Dutch Mountains, speech by Isabelle Mallez (Maison Descartes, president of EUNIC Netherlands)

17.15 – 18.30                Informal drinks

 

A large and varied network of Artist-in-Residence centres and guest studios in The Netherlands provides international artists with opportunities to develop their work, connect with other (local) artists and to take part in the Dutch cultural landscape for a certain period of time. Residency opportunities are part of a culture of hospitality in a country that is more famous for its tolerant culture than for its hospitality. What is it that makes The Netherlands attractive for foreign artists? What inspires them to stay? How do their hosts, artist-in residence centres, function within their local infrastructure? What are opportunities and threats for the sustainability of the culture of hospitality that they represent? 

 

Project Space 1646 and STROOM Den Haag, centre for visual arts and architecture both in The Hague, are invited to start the discussions with a “case-study”. ‘1646’ was created by four international artists, who studied at the Royal Academy of The Hague and decided to stay. They took over the small art initiative 1646 and turned it into a project space with several studios and introduced an artist-in-residence program. For their activities they receive support from the city of The Hague.

 

Stroom director Arno van Roosmalen will introduce the policy of Stroom through which, among others, these initiatives are supported. He will also introduce the discussions that take place within Stroom preparing scenarios enrolling from the results of the upcoming city council elections in March in which, among others, the PVV probably will take part.

 

 

 

Via: SICA and Trans Artists