Vânia Rodrigues’ Post

To effectively address today's challenges, we firmly believe that an interdisciplinary approach is essential. Through our project "Stories of the Forest," - an interactive audio experience that tells important narratives and perspectives about the forest and its complex ecosystem through music, poetry, scientific insights, and reflections - we demonstrate the power of integrating talents and expertise from diverse fields such as arts, sound design, music, science, and technology. This Friday, Fredrik Jonsson, Tove Berglund, and Bernt Karsten Sannerud will lead a session at Sweden's largest cultural policy convention, hosted by Whateverland, where they will delve deeper into this collaboration. The technical soundscaping platform utilized in this project is being tailored and refined on a case-by-case basis. We are confident that it holds the potential to serve as a pivotal tool in enhancing Futures Literacy, imagination, and other cognitive prerequisites essential for addressing the multi crises we face. Collaborating with artists we aim to harness the platform's capabilities, and via immersive audio experiences, create a deeper understanding and collective response to these challenges. #tech + #arts & #culture + #science #futuresliteracy #identity #cognitivesciences #empathy #sustainability #ESG #sound #imagination #theimaginationcrisis

Evaluation in the arts is a topic that gets us culture folks riled up. What are the results of an artistic experience? For many, this question subjects our most precious and indescribable experiences to crude, invasive, belittling, and demoralizing descriptions as we try and find language and metrics to capture them. Evaluation, we worry, is inevitably reductive, limiting something that carries us beyond language and numbers to crude categories of value. However, an increasing number of arts leaders well-aware of these risks are growing convinced that the risks of NOT evaluating, of not learning to build metrics and language for impact and value, outweigh the risks of doing so. That in today's funding climate, we need the means to participate more effectively in comparative conversations about the public good. Otherwise, the ineffable becomes the invisible, as the public imagination grows more diverse in its sense of intrinsic values, and beliefs about the inherent public benefit of the arts are not as widely shared as we might think or hope. Jumping into discussion with me on this critical topic was my valued colleague Robin Sokoloski at Mass Culture. https://lnkd.in/gdhAJqBE

The SAR International Forum on Artistic Research will take place from April 10th to 11th 2024, hosted by Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Tilburg. This year the Society for Artistic Research (SAR) introduces a new meeting format, that offers time and space for thought-provoking and stimulating dialogue between artistic researchers, artists, practitioners, as well as policy makers and stakeholders from diverse backgrounds. Instead of a traditional keynote speech, the Forum will host three focus sessions in the afternoon of the first day. These sessions aim to address, explore, and negotiate challenges, visions, and opportunities for artistic research in contemporary society. In particular critical issues and questions that relate to: - the ethical dimensions of artistic research and the responsibilities when navigating this complex area. How should ethics ‘look like' for artistic research, and who and how should they be managed and implemented? - the spaces, places, and contexts of artistic research:  What should a progressive and responsive research environment for artistic research and artistic researchers on all educational and career levels look like? - the challenges and opportunities of artificial intelligence for artistic research(ers): How and when does artificial intelligence create new directions for artistic research? What supports or hinders artistic research and artificial intelligence to coalesce and collaborate mutually and productively? Fontys and SAR invite both established experts and emerging voices in the field of artistic research to actively participate, share their insights and practice, and imagine the central role of artistic research in addressing the societal challenges of our time. Newly formed connections and the building of community relationships will shape the future of and for artistic research. More information on the Forum programme and registration options: https://lnkd.in/dvYT2cXz

PhD student Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir not only has a background as a director, writer, theologian, life coach and actor. When she started her PhD in Lund, she was also an academic dean in her native Iceland. With the question 'How little is enough?' she has explored how little it really takes to create an artistic, transformative experience. Tomorrow is the day of her defence. #2030agenda #agenda2030 #transformation #sustainability

Day #4 of the Art + Culture & Museums American Evaluation Association Blog week: If you are engaged in evaluation, philanthropy, and/or socially engaged programming and you're not familiar with Justin Laing, MPM, now is your time to change that. Clearly, I'm a bit biased as his Co-Chair with the Arts + Culture & Museums group with AEA, but this 2-min read is an outstanding introduction to reflecting on the ubiquitous term "culture," and how it relates to arts/museums programming.

This year's journal is now up on our website. Over the next few months we will be spotlighting the work of our contributors. This week we are looking at 'Levelling Up and (not) placemaking: are we there yet? '. The article was written by artist, writer and curator Judith Stewart. "This contribution to Engage is informed by my politics and involvement over the past 30 years with arts organisations as an artist, curator, researcher and academic. In it I want to consider the ways in which our desire within the sector to make culture accessible to all is frustrated by institutional values and the ways in which the subtleties of language trap us into habitual ways of working, making us complicit in ensuring the perpetuation of the status quo." Communities and care is a response to the UK Government’s ‘Levelling up’ agenda connected to a perceived lack of culture or other infrastructure. At its core, is the idea of engaging communities, most often used in the professional arts sector to refer to collective groups working together, defined by a distinguishing factor across a shared experience. Take a journey through visual art practice, engagement and participation in the era of placemaking and levelling up, simultaneously exploring the uses of the word care in relation to this work. Login with your member details to read our journals:

Mischa Kuball’s if walls could tell transforms public spaces across Europe into participatory art installations, challenging the role of museums in fostering societal engagement. ARS AEVI Mischa Kuball #mischakuball #arsaevi #arsaevisarajevo #contemporaryart #art #dailyart #artnews #dailyartnews

Meet my latest proyect: Mediterranean Bits Wind 🌬️ The terrible story of things that are meant to have a purpose. It seems impossible to exist without a purpose. Here's the idea: we start our creative journey without worrying about who we are; just enjoying the ride and doing things for fun gives us hints about ourselves. But, from the beginning, we're pressured to decide what we'll be forever, committing to something we're far from. Being too rigid makes us annoying.   Deciding what we want to be and making big choices should be flexible and light. That's why this mobile goes against the idea of being fixed and deciding who we are before even starting. It challenges the idea of ceramics being heavy and rebels against strict rules.   In the end, building ourselves means trusting that the balance between things we can't control (like the wind) and things we can control (like matter) will put us in the right place.   We weren't always what we are, and we won't always be what we were. By the way, if you want to go see this piece in person, you can do so at the González Martí National Museum of Ceramics and Sumptuary Arts (in Valencia, Spain) where it's exhibited until the 18th of February. You can find more information about the project here: https://lnkd.in/dZHcZq3H

#HollandFestival #FelixMeritis An afternoon that dives deep into the topic of climate justice through an intersectional lens, with a presentation by artist, curator and art director Georgina Johnson, a panel discussion with choreographer Ana Pi (The Divine Cypher) and Kyu Choi (artistic director Seoul Performing Arts Festival), workshops, film and performance. Dymphie Braun will be host of the event. programme: Presentation Georgina Johnson Panel Discussion with Ana Pi and Kyu Choi Break out: 1: Film screening: I Am the River, the River is Me 2: Workshop: Decolonizing art & earth by Chihiro Geuzebroek 3: Workshop: Water as thought by Weaving Realities Collective This program, made by Holland Festival and Felix Meritis, is an invitation to apply intersectionality to environmentalism and to imagine (artistic) strategies of decolonization within the ecological crisis we find ourselves in. How can we as individuals and (inter)national performing arts festivals take responsibility for decreasing our ecological footprint while also providing space for (internationally) unheard voices? What inequalities do we create or perpetuate, whether wittingly or unwittingly, in the name of sustainability? What role does creativity play in imagining future ecologies and changing current systems? #art #climatejustice #systemchange #creativework #environment #imagination #socialize #confrontation #climatebreakdown #ecocide #genocide #water #decolonize #intersectionality #collective #healing #futurism #ecology #culture #institution #relationshift #powershift https://lnkd.in/eRBvQnqS