We are now looking back on a very successful symposium in Zurich, Switzerland where the 4th ELIA Leadership Symposium was held on 2–4 December 2009.
The 4th ELIA Leadership Symposium was hosted by the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). On behalf of ELIA we would like to thank the host, the organizers, the speakers and all participants for their energizing contribution.
We are keeping this site open for your information. Please find papers from the speeches and presentations here and pictures here.
A full list of participants with their CVs is on download here;
participants will also receive it by e-mail.
The theme of the 4th ELIA Leadership Symposium is “Value is Vulnerable”, inspired by a poem by the Dutch poet Lucebert. The relevance of this theme is underpinned by the current world crisis, which above all is a crisis of trust.
In Zurich, key decision-makers from leading and influential art schools worldwide will enter into discussion with representatives of prominent opera-houses, theatres, art galleries and private collections about the validity of traditional and innovative values as generated by artists and art institutions, in relation to the future of our societies.
The next Leadership Symposium, in 2011, will be held in Vancouver, hosted by Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
Keynote speakers
Janet Ritterman
Quentin Cooper
Round table contributors
Hans Jakob Roth
Hartmut Esslinger
Nigel Carrington
Anne Keller
The 2009 ELIA Leadership Symposium will revolve around the following five themes:
- A Continuum of Cooperation and Competition
- Arts in Economic Times: Arts, Economy and Ethics
- Art Schools as Counterpart / Counterpoint to the Art Market and Creative Enterprise
- The Value of Alliances and Mergers and the Vulnerability of Art Institutions
- The Art / Science Paradigm
To ensure an optimal level of interaction, representation, focus and collegiality, participation will be limited to 80 leaders and key decision makers. Delegates will be senior figures from a diverse but representative set of arts and design institutions throughout the world. Collectively, the delegates will demonstrate:
- a range of professional, cultural and institutional backgrounds
- active engagement in key issues and debates affecting higher arts education and cultural management
- a willingness to contribute to and lead debates, share experience and practices, and carry forward initiatives that emerge from the Symposium.
- Gerald Bast, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
- Carla Delfos, ELIA, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Bettina Ganz, Zurich University of Art, Switzerland
- Hans Peter Schwarz, Zurich University of Art, Switzerland
- Kevin Thompson, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, China
- Chris Wainwright, University of the Arts London, United Kingdom
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