Pain While Folding Legs

Art in time of crisis settings, adjustments and new strategies

ARROWHEAD

new paths in contemporary art Valencia

SESSIONS

9 and December 16, 2009

Art in times of crisis

settings, adjustments and new strategies

-Wednesday December 9, 2009

17.30

Museum hall de Bellas Artes de Valencia

C / San Pío V, 9

Directed to analyze the basic needs of public support for the development of contemporary creativity and the need to devise tools and initiatives to break the dynamics of rift with the public, the communicative potential resulting from the use of new technologies as part of a strategy of collective visibility, etc. Artists invited to participate in active and art students.

Some sections address:

Creating -production facilities.

-Formats scholarships and grants.

Appropriation of public space for the continuous display of the new contemporary.

"The standardization of contractual practices in industrial relations.

"The fact associations as a strategy for cohesion.

is undeniable that the uncertainties in the economy, especially when the draft of the same points to something higher than just a cyclical change, structural effects on all social orders. Culture, and to a greater extent the field of contemporary art are especially sensitive segments understood as fundamentally important in the economic field, even though existing studies show business figures, the impact on many linked companies exhibition production and economic potential in real terms. May be missing, yes, sufficient cohesion and sectoral membership idea. This will be one of the purposes that give meaning to the work sessions that are proposed as part of Arrowheads.

analyze the sector's needs, locating and naming the deficiencies and implement a new approach to help reach a consensus on strategies as a prelude to action, will be the focus of the meeting.

Artists, art critics and gallery owners are some of the actors most directly involved in the scene in question, making it the most appropriate partners to initiate a momentum for dialogue and reflection.

are many factors that come betraying ART system failures, from the artistic training to the role of art criticism, from the production of the work its introduction in the market, from cultural management to their public disclosure. In times of plenty it is easy to "do" and even "evil doing" is an apology, but the real challenge is to "do good" when no excess of resources. Perhaps now that we should sharpen the wit and redouble the effort. The present moment it seems to claim it.