Out of place: mobility, nomadism and engagement
A three-day workshop on issues faced by alternative art spaces and the strategies they employ to maintain their presence.
The bigger why
As DIY artists' spaces face increasing scrutiny from government entities and landowners, coupled with the rising pressures of real estate in "revitalising neighborhoods," artists and cultural workers are losing vital spaces and territories within cities. This dynamic creates a sense of instrumentalization for capital interests.
While this "no-place" situation has spurred innovative mobile and nomadic practices, it has also impacted the working conditions and engagement of artists and creative workers in Alternative Cultural Places (ACPs) over time.
More details
This three-day workshop focuses on the issues faced by ACPs and the strategies they employ to maintain their presence in gentrifying arts and cultural districts. We aim to explore the unstable, nomadic, and activist practices developed within ACPs as creative responses to the scarcity of space. Our ultimate objective is to explore engagement and dis-engagement, and to envision alternative organisational models that support the development of cultural workers while fostering more inclusive territories through political and community engagement.
The workshop has been designed with a variety of forms including panel discussions, interactive workshops, soundscapes and prototyping activities. The audiences of the workshop include, Artists and cultural practitioners, activists and community organizers, urban planners and architects, academics and students in cultural studies, anyone invested in the future of alternative cultural spaces.
THURSDAY
- 09.30 - “Migration and the infrastructural (re)production of Norra Grangesbergsgatan” with Laleh Foroughanfar (Lund University)
- 10.30 - “Out of Place - What ever happened to NGBG?” With Iain Dace (NGBG Förening)
- 11.30 - “Strategies of Survival: What next?” with AlterPlaces international partners
- 14.00 - “Sound Scapes” - A bike ride around the “kulturljudzon” neighbourhood recording sound clips of a rapidly changing area
- 16.00 - “Listen” - Creating Podcast from the sounds of the “kulturljudzon” with NGBG Members and Hugo Boothly (Malmö University)
FRIDAY
- 09.30 - “Gather in the Garden - growing pains of a community garden” with Heather Oldby (Växtverket)
- 10.30 - “Meet the neighbours” - Visiting cultural actors in the kulturljudzon
- 14.00 - “Prototyping Permanence” - Caroline Dalh (Senior Lecturer Ph.D. in Landscape Architecture)
- 18.00 “Podcast Time” - “This Week on NGBG” - Ian Dace and Pia Lindroth (NGBG Förening)
SATURDAY
- 10:00 - CONVERSATION - “Sustainable Engagement”
Iain Dace (NGBG - Malmö, Sweden)
Vanesa Matoševic (Mochvara - Zagreb, Croatia)
Olivier Le Gal (La Station - Paris, France)
Thalia Giovannelli (Trans Europe Halles)
moderated by Amy Gottung (DIY Space Project Toronto) - 11:30 - CONVERSATION - “Local Practices - Sustaining grassroot cultural movements”
Frida Trollmyr (ABF Malmö)
Pärra Von Andreasson (CFUK Malmö)
Paul Kraus (Hypnos)
Pierre Alatbeh (Ailé)
moderated by Thalia Giovannelli (Trans Europe Halles)
