Rewatch – A Fair New World?! Talk #2
For a year now, the corona virus has been among us. When and how will the arts restart? What do we want for the arts field of tomorrow, post-pandemic and beyond? And how can we get there?
Melat Gebeyaw Nigussie (Beursschouwburg), Josefien Cornette (Engagement), Nixie Van Laere (Werktitel!) and Rachida Lamrabet (Sociaal Fonds Podiumkunsten) went in discussion, moderated by Abbie Boutkabout.
Rewatch the public talk (in Dutch)
“Artists work in hybrid forms; if you force them to be boxed in, you cut off imagination and creativity. Especially now: we are in a pandemic that forces them to work differently.”
Rachida Lamrabet
Rewatch the whole talk below (in Dutch). Prefer to read? Find the transcript (in Dutch) and a summary with some take-aways (in Dutch).
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Speakers
Josefien Cornette is an artist, author, art historian and activist. In their practice, they work around a radical interpretation of caring. As a queer person with disabilities, they often work on the margins of the normative scene, sometimes by choice but even more so by discrimination. They recently won the DiverGent Thesis Award with a master’s thesis on narrativity and people with disabilities
Melat Gebeyaw Nigussie has been director of Beursschouwburg since September 2020. Previously, she coordinated Next Generation, Please for BOZAR.
Rachida Lamrabet is an author and lawyer. In 2020, she received the Culture Prize and an honorary medal from the Human Sciences Group of KU Leuven, and an Ultima for her book Vertel het iemand.
Nixie Van Laere seeks access to parallel universes, revolutionary celebrations, socially unwanted fun, celebrating loss and mourning gain. Nixie is a founding member at Werktitel!, one of the initiatives that applied for A Fair New Idea! Werktitel! is looking for new ways to create and share art through experimentation, caring, community dependency and joy.
Moderator
Abbie Boutkabout is a writer and screenwriter, she hosts the podcast This Is What I Read and is a consultant for the arts sector.
A Fair New World?!
Since the corona crisis, Flanders Arts Institute’s project A Fair New World?! has been exploring ways in which we can collectivelyshape the new world.
We do this through gathering knowledge, encouraging experimentation, involving people in conversation on how to organise ourselves more effectively in the arts.
