SKITe/Sweet and Tender Porto 2008

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Contents 1 Summary 2 Projects 3 Events and activities 3.1 Casa Aberta / Open House 3.2 Laboratory 3.3 Running performance: re:run 3.4 Fragments of Experiences 3.5 Site-specific projects 3.6 Debriefing period 3.7 Diffusion of Fragments of Experiences 4 Objectives 4.1 Short term 4.2 Long term 5 Project context 6 Participating artists 7 SKite/S&T Collaborations Programa 8 Production, partnerships and support 9 Logos 10 Contact

[edit] Summary

Following the project held in PAF - Performing Arts Forum, in 2007, this second edition, co-launched by the Association SKITe and Sweet and Tender Collaborations, gathers 40 young artists from 26 countries and different performance-related disciplines during a period of a full month.

• Date: August 15th to September 20th 2008
• Place: Porto, Portugal

This project brings together various institutional and non-institutional partners in Porto and opens itself up to a wide range of international collaborations

• Theme: relation between artistic process & product through the creation of an environment based on constant showings and feedbacks.
• Primary purpose: A systematic experiment with modes of artistic exchange, creation and production inside a specific context provided by the hosts (Portugal, Porto)

Participants engage in a practice of exchange and dialogue, open up their research to the others - from the formulation of their ideas to their referential sources, practices and concerns.

[edit] Projects

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[edit] Events and activities

[edit] Casa Aberta / Open House

• What Everybody is invited to learn more about the work in progress
• When 21 August, 23 August, 29&30 August, 6 September
• Where Porto: Monastero de São Bento da Vitória, Teatro Carlos Alberto, In Situ, 555, Maus Hábitos
• Details Overview

[edit] Laboratory

• What Artistic experiments, research, workshops, dance classes, showings, feedback sessions, Open house days, ...
• When August 15th to September 13th
• Where Porto: Teatro Nacional São Joao, 555, Maus Hábitos
• Duration One month

[edit] Running performance: re:run

• What Remake of a performance choreographed by Meg Stuart in 1992
• When From August 17th to August 21st
• Where Porto: Mosteiro São Bento da Vitória (Teatro Nacional São Joao)
• Duration Five days

[edit] Fragments of Experiences

• What Public presentations of the work in progress
• WhenSeptember 12th and 13th
• Where Porto: Mosteiro de São Bento da Vitória (Teatro Nacional São Joao)
• Duration Two days
• Details Details

[edit] Site-specific projects

• What Residençial da Praça in the frame of FIMP festival: workshops, sound installations, radio show, ..;
• When September 14th, 15th and 16th
• Where Porto: Praça do Joao I
• Duration Three days

[edit] Debriefing period

• What Evaluation, General Assembly of SKITe/ Sweet and Tender Collaborations participants
• When September 17th to September 20th
• WherePorto: Mosteiro Sao Bento da Victoria
• Duration Four days

[edit] Diffusion of Fragments of Experiences

• What International public presentations
• When February 2009 to May 2009
• Where Barcelona, Paris, Brussels, Oslo
• Duration Long run

To the Day-to-day schedule

[edit] Objectives

[edit] Short term

• Consolidation of Sweet and Tender Collaborations network sustainability in the long run.
• Deepen a collaborative dynamic (sharing resources and initiatives) among young artists from different nationalities and working with various media.
• Involving a local community in discovering how a creative process evolves.
• Testing the validity of an experimental and autonomous project inside a specific context establishing a direct interaction to Porto city.
• Exploring modes of public presentation of artistic works

[edit] Long term

• Openness and deepening of dialogue with certain cultural institutions in Europe to increase the support for emerging models of research and production in artistic creation, and different practices of interaction between artists and art institutions
• European diffusion of the SKITe/Sweet and Tender Collaborations results on a European level through the diffusion of Fragments of Experiences project
• Follow up of the initial proliferation of artistic projects started and nursed in SKITe/Sweet & Tender Collaborations in Porto – their further development.
• Research on European Financing to consolidate the structure of Sweet and Tender Collaborations as an artistic project and as a model of artist-led network organization

[edit] Project context

The project SKITe/Sweet & Tender Collaborations 2008 happens in the city of Porto, Portugal after:

• the 2 pilot editions of SKITe realized in Paris and Lisbon in 1992 and 1994, with 180 young artists essentially working in the choreographic field;
• the new project of SKITe in association with Sweet and Tender Collaborations, in August-September 2007, in Performing Arts Forum (France), with 35 young artists from 26 different countries.
  

Following these projects, two of the Portuguese participating artists of the project Sweet & Tender Collaborations have decided to organize a new edition in Porto. Porto is the second largest city in Portugal. In 2001, Porto was the European Capital of Culture. It was a culturally historical moment that brought the city new artistic projects, structures and supports. In 2007, the Rivoli Theater, hosting theater for dance and music supporting the local artistic community is sold to a private institution by the City Hall.
In Porto, city with a strong architectural inheritance where several theater schools, dance academies, fine arts institutions exist, young artists look for new opportunities and ways to develop and show their work. Small venues such as cultural associations, contemporary art galleries installed in abandoned buildings to realize independent and young cultural projects feeding a unique, experimental and attractive environment internationally considered. Designed in close interaction with the local context and by artists and cultural agents from the city, this project will strengthen Porto's cultural vocation. After SKITe/S&T PAF 2007, where the artistic experimentations happened in an exclusive atmosphere, the challenge now is to confront with the reality of the city, in cooperation with local associations and operators, institutional and "alternative".
On a cultural level, the goal is to promote new forms of artistic creation, connected to what philosopher Paul Ardenne defined as contextual art. The participating artists engage in an experimental working modalities including collaborative productions that are feeding into reciprocal connections and facilitate a collective spirit.
This project proposes, on a social level, a possible model of professionalization of young artists that invest simultaneously in the artistic research and in the mastering of means of production and in the diffusion of such projects.
SKITe/Sweet and Tender Collaborations Porto 2008 seeks also to address cultural institutions and political authorities so that new ways of financing and production can give an answer to the needs of the young artists in a specific territory (local or regional) but also interested in developing an international project of exchange of artistic knowledge.

[edit] Participating artists

Pieter Ampe (BE), Perrine Bailleux (FR), Marianne Baillot (FR), Jenny Beyer (DE), Paula Caspão (PT), Tim Darbyshire (AU), Arvand Dashtaray (IR), Valentina Desideri (IT), Lucie Eidenbenz (CH/FR), Begüm Erciyas (TR), Françoise Feraud (FR), Hajime Fujita (JP), Guilherme Garrido (PT), Monica Gillette (US), Domenico Giustino (IT), Mariella Greil (AT), Mia Haugland Habib (NO), [[Jassem Hindi (FR/Palestine), Georg Hobmeier (AT), António Júlio (PT), Sima Khatami (FR/IR), Pavlos Kountouriotis (GR), Laura Lamas (PT), Sanja Latinovic (Serbia), Min Kyoung Lee (KR/NZ), Christoph Leuenberger (CH), António Pedro Lopes (PT), Nuno Lucas (PT), Thami Manekhela (SA), Marko Milic (Serbia), Catarina Miranda (PT), Anja Müller (DE), Rani Nair (SE), Rita Natálio (PT), Tommy Noonan (US), José Nunes (PT), Isabel Ollé (SP), Montserrat Payró (MX), Uxia Pereiro Vaello (SP), Beby Razafimandimby (FR/MG), Sara Reyhani (IR), Pedro Rosa (PT), Micheline Torres (BR), Koen Vandendriessche (BE), Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias (FR), David Wampach (FR)

[edit] SKite/S&T Collaborations Programa

Versão Portuguesa

[edit] Production, partnerships and support

Co-organization: Association SKITe (France), Sweet and Tender Collaborations, 555 (Portugal)
Executive Production: Maus Hábitos (Portugal) / Saco Azul Associação Cultural (Portugal), Association SKITe (France)
Co-production: Teatro Nacional São João (Portugal), Festival Internacional de Marionetas do Porto (Portugal), Mercat de les Flors (Spain) and Dansens Hus (Norway)
Partnership: Porto Lazer (Portugal) and Câmara Municipal do Porto (Portugal)
Supports: Secretaria de Relações Exteriores - Embaixada do México em Portugal (Mexico), Primeiro Andar (Portugal), CAMPO (Belgium), Flemish authorities (Belgium),CCN Montpellier (France), Victoria University (Australia)
Project financed by: DGartes (Direcção-Geral das Artes) / Ministério da Cultura (Portugal) and European Cultural Foundation (The Netherlands)

Association SKITe is financed by Ministère de la Culture (France),Région Île-de-France(França), Ville de Paris (França).

Many Thanks to Mário Canijo,Daniel Pires, Ada Pereira da Silva, Isabel Alves Costa, Hélder Sousa,Karene Lyngholm,Cristina Grande, Francisco Lopes, Romana Moreira,Ana Montalvão,Mariana L. Ferreira, Companhia Instável,Fábrica de Movimentos (Alberto Magno) mov-s/Galicia 2008 (Toni Gonzalez) Dance Station Zuid (Marc Vlemmix), Damaged Goods

[edit] Logos

[edit] Contact

For more information about this project: Press@sweetandtender.org