ART AND CULTURE
28/11/2009: Session in the Mitte, Basel, Switzerland
Participating:
-in doing art: Melanie (Sculpture), Saskia (painting)
- in talking: Ianthe, Achim, Anna, Irene, Jelena
- holding the platform of art and culture in Connectivity 2011: (till now: more people are warmly welcome!)
Ianthe, Achim and Jelena with Melanie and Saskia
In Gent, we decided to meet in the Mitte in Basel to do an art performance and to have a meeting about art and culture in Connectivity 2011. Bringing this two things – doing art and thinking and talking about art- together, is part of our vision about the art and culture in Connectivity. We want this to be integrated, as we think doing art should be already in the process, and not only in the ‘product’, the conference. In this way, the meeting each other through art, the exchange that can come with this, can already start now…
These are the minutes of the meeting we had in the Mitte:
Mapping where we are:
What kind of art do we love, where is our connection to art?
- classical music
- creative writing (poetry)
- acting
- singing
- drawing
What else is art?
- sculpturing
- craft
- painting
- movies
- photography
- dancing
- clowning
- Eurythmy
- pantomime
-music in general
- ……
How was art installed in the Connectivity 2006?
- Craft Village
- Workshops
- Street Music /Jam
- Evening Program
-Big Stage
- Night Café
Concrete ideas for Connectivity 2011:
- 1 piece of art/ collective artwork:
– everyone can join in painting/sculpturing
- 1 ongoing story: everyone adds one sentence
someone starts 1 piece of art, i.e. a poem and gives it to someone else who maybe draws something to it or finds a song (…) and passes it on while the event is happening
-Documentation:
– Magazine
- “Diary of Connectivity” (one computer and /or a real book)
– writing
– pictures
– painting
- short movies
- connecting writing (poems/plays)
– with music
– with acting
– with movement
– with painting
- …..
- bringing every day a group of children from a different kindergarten from the Townships/ the area around
– to join in the art and culture village, to draw, paint….
– to be a part of the event
- classical orchestra
– workshop
– concert at conference
– tour/ exchange with SA- people /i.e. visiting Workcamps
- clowning/circus/pantomime together
- performance in the end
- sewing- atelier: collection of clothes and fabrics: recycling + cloth swap
- making instruments
- connect, meet through dancing/ movement
– traditional dances
– create one world/global- dance together
- cooking: sharing traditional meals from different cultures
- drawing portraits of each other (workshop)
- street-artists: drawing portraits: you can pay with sth you are good at: massage, hugging, smiling =)
- in the end of Connectivity 2011: celebration of our Art: connecting all different kind of art
Next steps/Questions:
- how we want to work:
- important is that organizing, thinking, planning and doing, being creative should be balanced
- where is the centre of information? à sharing google agenda
- how to collect information? à sharing documents at gmail (art.connectivity@gmail.com) à blog? connectivity website?
