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Dear ELIA Newsletter Reader,

I am pleased to introduce this Newsletter, the main focus this time is the 10th Biennial Conference. We have almost 450 delegates registered. Registration is still open, but we will stop when the 500 registrations are reached.

During the General Assembly meeting in Gothenburg, members will receive the ELIA Report of the past two years and the Four Year Development Plan that the Representative Board proposes. The next Representative Board will be elected in Gothenburg, I personally hope that many members will be present and give input for the future ELIA activities.

In this newsletter you can read about the next Teachers’ Academy that will take place in Sofia. The programme is very promising with masterclasses from prominent teachers. The ‘call for workshops and presentations’ was emailed around and can be found on the website; proposals are already coming in.

During the Biennial Conference in Gothenburg you will receive more detailed information on future activities and events ELIA has in store for you.

I am very much looking forward to welcome you all in Gothenburg and raise a glass in the tent!
I wish you a pleasant read, please contact us with comments, suggestions and ideas.

Warm regards,

Carla Delfos
Executive Director ELIA


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So far, we have received registrations from almost 450 participants worldwide. Delegates from art schools are coming from countries all over the world, including Austria, Belgium, Benin, Canada, China, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Iceland, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the USA.
It is still possible to register online until we have reached the maximum of 500 participants; if there are still places available, late deciders can also register on site at the conference.

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 The full programme brochure is currently being printed and available for download at the Programme section of the ELIA Biennial site.

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 The General Assembly will be held on Saturday 1st of November from 9h30 – 13h00, at the Gothenburg Academy of Music and Drama. While the ELIA Conference will be open to all, the General Assembly is a forum restricted to members only. The agenda and papers will be sent to all ELIA members in a mailing on 15 October.

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 All partners meeting, Wednesday 29 October

The thematic network artesnet Europe is taking an active role in the conference, contributing its own experience on Qualifications Frameworks and innovative programmes to the symposia and presenting its Artistic Research network and website at an extra session.
The morning before the grand opening of the conference, Wednesday 29 October from 9h30 – 14h00 , there will be an All Partners Meeting at the Gothenburg Academy of Music and Drama. Until noon, there will be separate strand meetings, and after lunch, a plenary session. Artesnet members will receive a more detailed agenda in the coming weeks.

www.artesnet.eu
Fringe session: Artistic research in Europe

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 The exhibition Talkin' loud and sayin' something! , which is the centre of a symposium at the 10th ELIA Biennial, has opened at the Gothenburg Museum of Art ( www.konstmuseum.goteborg.se ) on 24 September. There will be another opening event as part of the Conference programme.
The exhibition presents works by major artists who include research as part of their artistic activity. A premise underlying this project is the belief that contemporary art can develop interestingly by exploring several of the links between advanced artistic work and other forms of knowledge and creativity. This exhibition is the first of its kind and aims to open discussion of what art research can contribute to art and society.

Participating artists are: The catalogue for the exhibition is out now and available for download. A special edition of Art Monitor, the book is both a visual documentation of the exhibition and a reflection on the research practices involved in the process. It comprises a long methodological essay, interviews with the artists, and four artists’ statements.

Click here >> to download your copy. (3 MB)
Read more >> about the exhibition.

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 The opening ceremony will be enlivened by the performance Burst before we break! Twenty-one students stage a journey past the conventions of what to play and how to do it — also when the tables are turned.
The composer Staffan Mossenmark (University of Gothenburg) initiated this project and invited Choreographer and Professor Efva Lilja (University College of Dance in Stockholm) to join. Together with students from Gothenburg and Stockholm, Staffan and Efva have conducted this investigative process within — and between — the different art forms music, dance and circus.

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 At the Biennial’s Interactive Forum, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday night from 22h00 – 23h00, there will be presentations in the tradition of Pecha Kucha (Jap. “sound of whisper”) – which means 20 slides and 20 seconds per slide, period. It is still possible to send in a proposal by means of the online Registration Form. Presentations confirmed so far include exciting topics such as Autonomous Projects in Public, Creative Co-makership, Diversity and Contrast, The Singer in Empty Space, and A Passion for the real.

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 Why not come to Gothenburg a couple of days before ELIA’s 10th Biennial, and check out some art events loosely but essentially connected to the conference?

In the days before the conference, there are several artistic research projects coming to a finish: Also, apart from the Talking loud and saying something! exhibition, there are several other things to watch: Read more >>


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 Sofia (Bulgaria), 1-4 July 2009

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 Deadline 1 December 2008

Following the success of the ELIA Teachers’ Academy Barcelona in 2003, in Rotterdam in 2005 and in Brighton 2007, we are pleased to announce the 4th ELIA Teachers’ Academy in 2009 which will be hosted by the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) 1 - 4 July 2009 in Sofia, Bulgaria. The event will be in the framework of artesnet Europe, the ERASMUS Network for Higher Arts Education.

The Academy’s aim is to contribute to professional development for professors, teachers and researchers in higher arts education through participation in, and engagement with, challenging experiences and debates set in an international context. Participants will The overarching theme of the Teachers’ Academy 2009 is ‘storytelling’. The Teachers' Academy will explore and celebrate the many ways in which artistic storytelling integrates creativity, innovation, education and culture.

Teachers of higher arts education institutions from all over Europe and from all art disciplines will be selected to give workshops and/or academic presentations. A new feature of the Teachers’ Academy 2009 will be a series of master classes offered by leading educational practitioners whose methods of teaching have been valorised and acknowledged world wide. Confirmed is world renowned voice teacher Kristin Linklater, Head of Acting in the Theatre Arts Division of Columbia University New York.

We are inviting ELIA members to make submissions for a total of 24 presentations and 8 workshops.

Papers
Submissions for presenatations should include an abstract of 400 words and should be written to stimulate dialogue and relate to the aims and focus of the Teachers’ Academy. The submissions will be peer reviewed and the selection will reflect a balanced division of regions, countries and disciplines. Presentations should be no more than 20 minutes long and each presentation will be followed by a 10 minute period for discussion.

Workshops
Proposals for workshops should include a short summary and a clear description of the structure of the workshop and the space, facilities and number of participants required. Each workshop will last for 90 minutes including time for an introduction.

The deadline for receipt of presentations and workshop proposals will be 1 December 2008. The selection will take place mid December and applicants will be informed on 18 December 2008.
The working language during the Teachers’ Academy will be English.

www.eliateachersacademy.org
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 Final results presented, premiere in Berlin

As a contribution to the 2008 Year of Intercultural Dialogue, ELIA selected 28 students to make a short for the E3'film compilation. E3'film will officially premiere on 18-19 October at the Prix Europa Festival in Berlin.

At a meeting in Berlin on 15 September, the final films were presented to an international jury. Impressed by the high artistic and technical quality of the submitted films, the jury selected 5 films which will be awarded with a viral marketing strategy and distribution.

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 The language of the arts and intercultural dialogue

To document the earlier film project …I see you , ELIA is organizing a symposium for all participants in Berlin on 17-18 September. This symposium will lead to the production of a booklet that maps the development of the project, presents the student filmers and reflects on the problems of visualizing intercultural dialogue.

A selection of the films will performed at the symposium The arts as dialogue?, at the 10th ELIA Biennial.

Click here >> to order your copy of the DVD.
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 Deadline extended

At Hotel Bloom!, the former Royal Crown Brussels, students from ELIA member schools are decorating over 4100 meters of walls with mural paintings. Because of the success of Hotel Bloom! the rooms are often fully booked. This means that students can still register for this fantastic project by clicking here. The deadline for proposals is February 2009 .

For an impression of all the rooms click here >>

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 The Importance of Artistic Research and its Contribution to 'New Knowledge' in a Creative Europe

The ELIA strategy paper on artistic research sets out an approach for the immediate future with regard to the development of a research culture and the creation of ‘new knowledge’ in Higher Arts Education. The inclusion of the third cycle in the Bologna process has had significant impact: many institutes of the arts are now in the process of establishing research teams and centres, and have developed a research infrastructure, policy and strategy.

It is not the role of ELIA to articulate or create a fixed position on behalf of its members on the definition of arts research. Its primary function is to stimulate further cross disciplinary and cross institutional discourse with the aim of creating a persuasive, compelling and collective argument focused towards all interested parties, advocating the essential value and importance of arts research as a significant and specialist contribution to new knowledge.
Therefore, the strategy paper expresses ELIA’s full commitment to: The text of the strategy paper has been agreed upon at the most recent executive meeting in Amsterdam, 25-26 May. It has been translated into French and German and will be distributed at the ELIA Biennial Conference. Members who already wish to receive a printed copy can send an email to Joost Lanshage.

Read the full text >>
Download the paper in pdf>> (187 kB)

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ENCATC Annual Conference and General Assembly
“Intercultural dialogue and project management: New training programmes in a context of major challenges”
16-18 October 2008, Lyon, France

The international ENCATC annual conference, in partnership with the Faculty of Anthropology and Sociology of Lyon2, the city of Lyon and the Rhone Alphes Region, will focus on the International UNESCO Convention for the Protection and Promotion of Cultural Diversity. This document has highlighted the major international and local challenges ahead in the field of cultural development and prevention of conflicts.
Moreover, in the framework of the European Year for Intercultural Dialogue, this meeting aims at occupying a central position on the question of training, examining the current transformations at work to consider how expertise, skills and know-how should be adapted to fulfill new requirements.

The General Assembly, on 18 October, is open only to ENCATC members.
Alongside its Annual Conference, ENCATC is also organizing:

2nd Young Cultural Policy Researchers Forum 2008
“Cross-cultural, qualitative approaches to cultural policy research”

The second Young Researchers Forum will be organised in Lyon from 15- 16 October 2008 at the occasion of the 16th ENCATC International Conference and the Cultural Policy Research Award (CPRA) ceremony.
Organised to stimulate the creation of a network of young cultural policy researchers with European competencies the Young Cultural Policy Researchers Forum has the ambition to give tomorrow's scientists the possibility to exchange content related aspects and results of their work, and to exchange about different methods and relevant fields of research.
The Forum 2008 will focus on 'Cross-cultural, qualitative approaches to cultural policy research' and will be organized by ENCATC in partnership with the University Lumière II and with the support of the European Cultural Foundation.

www.encatc.org


16th Culture Action Europe/EFAH General Assembly
23-25 October 2008, Marseille, France

Culture Action Europe, formerly known as EFAH, holds its Annual Conference in Marseille on 23-25 October. This year's conference will explore the ever more important question of the role of culture in Europe’s external relations. Its goal is to understand better the political context for such work and its impacts on cultural players (some of whom are already developing cooperation projects beyond of Europe’s borders).

The two main themes are:
  1. The place of culture in the Union’s external relations:
    • What is really at stake in external European relations and how is the Union facing up to the challenge?
    • What are the needs of operators on the ground and what should Europe be doing in this area?
    • What is the role of local authorities in the implementation of Europe’s international and external cultural policies?
  2. The role of civil society in developing Europe’s cultural policies:
    • How can we influence Europe’s cultural action? What are the interests that we need to defend or promote?
    • How can we better structure and coordinate our voices?
Further information will be availble soon on
www.cultureactioneurope.org

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DeSForM 2008 - the 4th European Workshop on Design & Semantics of Form & Movement
6-7 November 2008, Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach, Germany

On 6 and 7 November the next DeSForM workshop will take place at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main/Germany. The actual debate about Design & Research shows that there is a need for more and detailed knowledge about the disciplinary aspects of Design. Inter-, trans- and even multidisciplinary discourses are necessary, because today Design is at the same eye level as other scientific disciplines. But Design today has its own objects, goals and methods.
Since the 1970´s knowledge about Design has been developed continuously – the „Theory of Product Language“ is widely recognized as an important disciplinary kernel of Product Design and Design Research. The HfG Offenbach, as an important centre of product language, is looking forward to hosting the next DeSForM workshop, open to teachers, practitioners, researchers and students.

www.desform.de


AEC Annual Congress
6-8 November 2008, Aarhus, Denmark

The AEC Congress 2008 will take place in Aarhus, Denmark. Following the highly successful AEC Congress 2007 in Strasbourg, during which the results of the first cycle of the ERASMUS Network for Music ‘Polifonia’ and the AEC ‘Accreditation’ and ‘Mundus Musicalis’ projects were presented, the AEC Congress 2008 will be addressing a series of new themes in the framework of ‘Polifonia’ second cycle, such as research in conservatoires, instrumental and vocal teacher training, and international strategies in conservatoires. The Annual General Assembly of AEC member institutions will also take place, including the popular information forum. In addition to the working programme of the Congress, the event will also include various music performances throughout the sessions and several original social events.

www.aecinfo.org


IETM Autumn Plenary Meeting
6-9 November 2008, Zürich, Switzerland

IETM’s Autumn Plenary Meeting 2008 will take place in Zurich from 06 to 09 November. The meeting will contribute to the «European Year of Intercultural Dialogue» by focusing on the theme of «misunderstanding».
In the artistic programme, ten theatres invite you to an up-to-date review of the Swiss contemporary theatre and dance scene.

www.ietmzurich.ch


Creative Clusters 2008 Conference
17-20 November, Glasgow, Scotland

Creative Clusters is an independent policy conference examining the growth of the creative economy, with a manifest interest in initiatives from around the world that are designed to have an impact in both cultural and economic terms.
Creative Clusters believes that creativity is the key factor driving development. Across the world, enterprises based on individual creativity are booming. Furthermore, knowledge and culture-based activities now play a central role in the activities of all businesses. This is the era of the creative economy.

Creative Clusters Glasgow 2008 has five themes: www.creativeclusters.com


Cumulus Conference "Design & Research"
St. Etienne, 20-23 November
Registration open - 25 August - 20 October 2008

The Saint-Etienne Higher School of Art and Design (ESADSE) is pleased to host the Cumulus Conference "Design & Research" from 20-23 November 2008, during the 6th International Design Biennial Saint-Etienne, organised by the Cité du Design.

Questioning the role of design research
Using design to grasp issues such as environment, social changes, or economic and technological evolutions is the core of the reflections and the activities led by the ESADSE and the Cité du Design. That's why these themes will be the basis of the Cumulus Conference Saint-Etienne 2008 and will be developed through the exhibitions of Saint-Étienne International Design Biennial 2008.

During 3 days, international experts and young researchers coming from various fields and selected by a call for proposals will invite the Cumulus Conference participants to think about the challenges and resources of design research today, exploring these 3 following themes: The Conference will focus on an innovating, creative and not only academic conception of research.

Keynotes and guests: www.saint-etienne-cumulus08.fr
www.cumulusassociation.org



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