These are the main areas and examples of what the interviewees answered: People The main positive surprise was the people: there were extraordinary people involved in the project: professionals and artists: inspired, motivated, enthusiastic and engaged. Setting up new friendship and changing personal lives as a result of established contacts during the project. Project’s concept, [Read more...]
The questions posed to the interviewees were “Has your organisation (team) changed or became different as a result of being involved in SEAS? If yes, in what sense?”. Here are some of the answers given by the interviewees: Without this project, it wouldn’t be possible to tour and see different places. It contributed to understanding [Read more...]
Gaining knowledge and experience internationally is maybe the most important outcome, mentioned by all interviewees. Other answers: Ongoing artistic collaboration outside of SEAS. Increasing artistic visibility after the project. More activities happenning as a result of SEAS. New friendship. ”Cascade” effect: one visit leads to chain of more collaborative projects. Numerous invitations outside SEAS project. [Read more...]
Not for fame and not for money. Most culture professionals get involved in the international cultural cooperation projects primarily out of curiosity, to meet interesting colleagues and be inspired by them. They hope that getting to unknown places and immersing themselves into foreign cultural constellations has a stimulating effect on them. Professional development and professional [Read more...]
Quite a few. For the participants who fulfill different roles (artist, expert, producer, presenter, funder, trainer, technician, communication person…) it is not always easy to grasp the entire complicated project, especially as it is a dynamic undertaking, so that components, arrangements, locations, programs, budgets and even intentions change in the course of time, evolve from [Read more...]
In a multilateral project, especially one that lasts over 3 years, such as SEAS, every participant becomes aware that own routines and habits are not universal standards, shared by all. Everyone faces different modes and ways of running a project and re-examines own preferences and predilections. With globalization, EU integration and mobility there is a [Read more...]
One of the goals of SEAS was to create an International Technicial Team. The aim was to raise the knowledge on transdisciplinary works and technical needs for the kind of works that SEAS presented. Presenting a project like SEAS in unfamiliar places presents huge challenges technically. SEAS consisted of projects as diverse as sound, video, [Read more...]
