Discussion
Artists vs. Creatives?
Detail from “Der Besuch der Freunde”, 2011 © Katrin Plavčak
Metropolises around the world regard their art-, music- and club-scenes as a factor of economic growth. In cities like San Francisco, New York, London, Amsterdam and Berlin, the start-up scene has become a catalyst of new economic growth. At the same time, more and more artists make use of new digital technologies, particularly in music and photographic art.
Under the label of “creative industries”, start-ups are flourishing in these big cities – supported by targeted business development policies – while artists are faced with an increasing shortage of space and rapidly rising rents. Artistic sub- and counter-cultures are especially afflicted by this precarious situation: Protagonists of the independent scenes, initiatives, project-spaces and artists’ cooperatives are losing affordable venues and thus the foundation of their work.
In a two-part panel discussions, actors from the fields of art, politics, science and the private sector will come together to discuss the opportunities and dangers of this development.
Programme
Aspects of urban development in times of creative industries
18:30
Keynote
Soenke Zehle (media theorist, HbK Saar, Saarbrücken)
19:00
Global Panel – Creative Classes and Big Money
Eva de Klerk (artist and initiator of the NDSM wharf initiative, Amsterdam)
Mat Dryhurst (musician and entrepreneur, gray area, San Francisco / Berlin)
William Chamberlain (social entrepreneur, CreativeWick, London)
Moderation Markus Bader (Raumlabor Berlin)
In English
20:00
Performance: “o.T.” (Harald Berger / Markus Krämer & bbm)
20:30
Local Panel – Berlin’s way between shelter and bottom-up initiative
Klaus Lederer (DIE LINKE, mayor and senator for culture and Europe, Berlin)
Werner Landwehr (regional manager GLS Bank, Berlin)
Daniela Brahm (visual artist, Ex-Rotaprint, Berlin)
Florian Schmidt (BÜNDNIS 90 / DIE GRÜNEN, counsellor for construction Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, former studio representative, Berlin)
Moderation: Christoph Twickel (journalist, Hamburg)
In German
Initiated by Postberlin e.V. in cooperation with Berliner Festspiele, Rat der Künste, Bildungswerk Berlin der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, AbBA Allianz bedrohter Berliner Atelierhäuser
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