To Have and To Need #4

An open discussion about possibilities to act on cultural policy  Monday, June 20th 2011, 20:00 General Public, Schönhauser Allee 167c, 10435 Berlin ‘Based in Berlin’ will pass by, the Berlin state elections in September will pass by – the cultural policy debate on the conditions of production and presentation will stay. Advancing this debate on the part of free cultural producers requires not only a discussion about what constitutes ‘Kunststadt Berlin’ and what is lacking, but first and foremost the consideration and realisation of one’s own possibilities to act: from the formulation of political claims and the dialogue with the Senate Department for Culture, to artistic action and the development of economic models alternative to government funding. Last Wednesday’s event at Salon Populaire established an open exchange on the cultural and urban policy concerns of practitioners from art and architecture. The fourth To Have and To Need soiree, on June 20th at General Public, aims to resume the discussion in that shape as well as to make concrete the ideas and proposals for future action and negotiation. Participants among others: Ellen Blumenstein, Daniela Brahm, Dellbrügge & de Moll, Ulrike Gerhardt, Cristina Gomez Barrio, Raphaël Grisey, Kerstin Karge, Heiko Karn, Bernhard Kotowski, Heimo Lattner, Cornelia Lund, Annette Maechtel, Katrin Mayer, Elke Marhöfer, Wolfgang Meyer, Herbert Mondry, Johannes Paul Raether, Judith Raum, Jan Rohlf, Ines Schaber, Les Schließer, Isabel Schmiga, Frieder Schnock, Heidi Sill, Ute Weiss Leder, Florian Wüst, Inga Zimprich. © Erik Göngrich Moderated by Joerg Franzbecker and Erik Göngrich.