«The sentence above is the working title of a PhD project by Lonneke van Heugten, focusing on the programming network House on Fire (in which BIT Teatergarasjen is a partner), the artistic cooperation project Karaoke Europe and the perspectives of the theatre scene in the Republic of Macedonia.
The European Culture Programme can be seen as a “curator” in the theatre world - meaning that it spatializes and creates conditions for the visibility of cultural production. It increases the incentive for co-production, networking and subsidization beyond national borders, while theatre is also negotiating artistic needs and local demands. Cultural policy provides scenarios for the role of art in society, while the subsidized projects and performances are also actors that translate and challenge those roles. This PhD research asks in what ways cooperation projects subsidised by the European Culture Programme 2007-2013 fill in the roles and the blanks of European policy. How do programmers, artists and performances assume or critique European cultural politics?
We invite you to an informal conversation with Lonneke, accompanied by a selection of fruit and bisquits.»
