REvisiting Borders

28-30 January 2021

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 REVISITING
BORDERS
Sub-themes

REsilience
REinterpret
REimagine

ACMC 2021 is taking a critical look at its format and thematic

scope from previous years by delving deeper into virtual
realms & expanding the borders of the event’s audience
reach, topics and conversations.

What new practices & questions are emerging as the

discourse around borders continues to change & evolve?
What are some ways the arts, culture & natural heritage
sectors are working to transcend notions of boundaries,
both as a matter of course & as a reaction to the
coronavirus pandemic & global antiracism protests?

With Revisiting Borders — and subthemes of REsilience,

REimagine & REinterpret — we recognize that innovative
thinking & challenges to the status quo are necessary for
cultural institutions to not only survive but be inclusive,
antiracist & environmentally sustainable in their practice.
PARTICIPANTS

Localized Hubs

Bucharest, Romania
College of Communication & PR
Cottbus, Germany
Brandenburg University of Technology
Groningen, The Netherlands
Groningen Winter School
Kolkata, India
Jodi Bolo Rongin cultural trust
Manchester, United Kingdom
University of Manchester

Individual presenters from

Europe
North America
Central & South America
Australia
South Africa
India

Poster exhibition & blogs

Marta Szadowiak Maria O'Brien & Nick Weber
Alan Lynn Andrea Martínez Fernández
Anna Maria Rottmann Jeanne Mulot
Kolkata Localized Hub Tomas Chochole
 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Lluís Bonet is Director of the Cultural Management Program and Professor of

Economics at the University of Barcelona, Spain.
28 January 2021 - Opening keynote speech on the main theme (REvisiting
Borders).

Savina Tarsitano is artist, mentor, curator, artistic director and co-founder

ESPROCENDA Institute of Art & Culture in Barcelona, Spain.
28 January 2021 - ‘Towards New Alliances after Covid19: Rethinking the role of
the artist in the society’ (REsilience)

Steven Hadley is Research Fellow at NUI Galway, Ireland, and Visiting Lecturer
at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany.
29 January 2021 - ‘Audience Development, Culture-as-Vocation and Democratic
Cultural Policy’ (REinterpret).

Amy Whitaker is Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Administration at New York

University.
30 January 2021 - ‘Inventing Point B: Reimagining Collaboration and Restitution
Using Blockchain Technologies’ (REimagine).
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

REvisiting Borders

Author of numerous publications and research analysis of the cultural sector, has
lectured in more than forty countries. He was president of ENCATC and of the
Jury Prize for research in cultural policy of The European Cultural Foundation.

He has been vice-president of AAAE, board member of the Association of

Cultural Economics International, and jury member of the ENCATC Research
Award on Cultural Policy and Management and of the Roca Boncompte Cultural
Studies Award.

REsilience

For her commitment as artist in projects of change and social integration, culture,
heritage and education in 2012 has been nominated: Ambassador of the Third
Paradise project of Michelangelo Pistoletto and Cittadellarte, in 2014
International coordinator of the Peace project Kids-Guernica, in 2008 member of
the European Culture Parliament, in 2020 mentor of the Future Generation of the
European Culture Parliament, from 2005 founder of the Creativity in Motion
project for a social integration and from 2020 co-founder of Hearts to the Earth,
Art for Sustainability, peace and solidarity.

REinterpret

An internationally recognised expert on audience development, Steven is Policy

andReviews Editor for Cultural Trends and an Associate Consultant with The
Audience Agency. Current research focuses on the relationship of arts
management to ideology and cultural policymaking at a national level. His book,
‘Audience Development and Cultural Policy’ is published by Palgrave Macmillan
https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030629694

REimagine

Holding an MFA and an MBA, Amy studies the frictions between art and
business and proposes new structures to support economic sustainability for
artists. Stemming from Amy's longstanding engagement in the social practice of
teaching business to artists, this research has contributed new methods of art
market analysis that center artists and archival materials. These structures, in
turn, inform policies of economic redistribution in democratic societies.
 January 28 #REsilience
CET/GMT+1

10:45 - 11:00 - ACMC 2021 Team & ENCATC: Official Opening

11:00 - 11:45 - Lluís Bonet - Keynote speech

11:50 - 12:20 - Freya Keam - Presentation

Storytelling as a tactic in local heritage advocacy: a case study of
‘Save our Sirius’ and ‘Save the Palace’

- Proiti Seal Acharya - Presentation

<de>confine: Creating a South Asian Media Art Festival

- Cheryl Kwok - Interactive presentation

'Rethink, Reskill, Reboot’: Building Resilience in the Cultural and
Creative Industries Through Education

12:25 - 12:55 - Emilia Sánchez González - Presentation

Amplifying Marginalized Voices in the Arts & Culture Sector.
Experiences from Indigenous Communities in Mexico

- Arbresha Ibrahimi - Presentation

Museumorphosis - Social Friday, a sustainable democratization
of museums

13:00 - 13:45 - Emmanouela Charatsi - Panel discussion

Panelists: Nerina Cocchi, Joshua Serafin, Ula Sickle
Artists of immigrant origin in Belgium. A panel discussion on their
professional and cultural participation in Brussels, a multicultural city.

- Hariklia Hari - Presentation

Territorial Cultural Management Networks and Forms of
Cooperation with Local Communities

- Jodi Bolo Rongin, Kolkata Localized Hub - Panel discussion

Changing Strategies: How the Bengali Cultural Sector is coping
with the pandemic
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13:45 - 14:00 - Break

14:00 - 14:45 - Savina Tarsitano - Keynote speech

Towards New Alliances after Covid19: Rethinking the role of the
artist in the society

14:50 - 15:35 - Glenda Masters - Presentation

How Launching an Arts and Culture Week Celebration “Lit a Fire”,
Reigniting One Community’s Arts Sector Blown Out by COVID.

- Natasha Padilha & Bruna Castra - Presentation

The Duna Project: crossing borders, crossing realities.

- Michael Pritchard, Gabriela Shutt, Julia Atkins - Panel talk

Navigating Access to the Arts During Crisis: A Case Study of the U.S.
2008 Great Recession

15:45 - 16:25 - Anna Kolosova - Workshop & Artistic performance

Synaesthetic Action Painting
- Solène Marié - Presentation
Resilient, collaborative and innovative cultural practices in
Brazilian borderlands: the example of the Fronteiras Culturais
movement throughout the 2020 crisis

16:30 - 18:00 - University of Groningen Localized Hub - Panel discussion

University of Groningen's Winter School: Re:visiting Cultural
Leadership in the context of Crisis and Creativity

- Poster exhibition - open drop-in session

- Networking - open drop-in session

 January 29 #REinterpret
CET/GMT+1

10:00 - 10:05 - Welcome to day 2

10:05 - 10:50 - Jodi Bolo Rongin, Kolkata Localized Hub - Panel discussion
Panelists: Saibal Basu; Pratyay Raha Folk arts in India

- Marija Ristić - Presentation

Digital borders: The phenomenon of originality in illustration as
an artistic discipline

11:00 - 11:45 - Steven Hadley - Keynote speech

‘Audience Development, Culture-as-Vocation and Democratic
Cultural Policy’

11:50 - 12:35 - Dicle Gülşahin - Presentation

Crisis Mode On: Artist Residencies Facing A Pandemic

- FCRP Bucharest Localized Hub - Panel discussion

Ioana Alexandra Bogaciu and Anamaria Barangă: M.I.N.T.A.L

- Jodi Bolo Rongin, Kolkata Localized Hub - Panel discussion

Changing Strategies: How the Bengali Cultural Sector is coping
with the pandemic

12:40 - 13:10 - Hana Kohout - Presentation

Influential power of voice - Significance and contribution of text-
based art in contemporary women’s practice

- Eglė Kryžanauskaitė - Presentation

Long-term impact: measuring the measureless

13:15 - 13:45 - Ekta Chauhan - Presentation

Dilli ki Khirki: oral heritage of the Khirki village in New Delhi India

- Elisa Ganivet - Presentation

Border Wall Aesthetics

- Alan Lynn - Presentation

What is constitutive of Cultural Management’s subjugation
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13:45 - 14:05 - Break

14:05 - 14:35 - Meetali Gupta - Presentation

The role of communities in conservation and management of
‘Baolis’ (step wells) in India

- Carlos Pinto- Presentation

Breaking the Fourth Wall: The emergence and affirmation of
artistic programming as art in Portugal in the last decade

14:40 - 15:25 - University of Groningen Localized Hub- Workshop

Helene Timm: Beyond the leader: reinterpreting the term
‘leadership’ for the cultural sector

- University of Groningen Localized Hub - Panel discussion

Cristina Peregrina Leyva (Mexico) with panelists Lea Jakob
(Germany), Oriana Racciatti (Argentina), Margit Kajak (Estonia):
Cultural relations between Europe and the Latin America-Caribbean
region: reshaping the conversation

15:30 - 16:15 - Jodi Bolo Rongin, Kolkata Localized Hub - Panel discussion
Panelists: Srikanta Acharya (Music: Vocals); Pt. Subhankar Banerjee
(Music: Instrument); Shantilal Mukherjee (Theatre); Baisakhi
Bhattacharya (Co-founder, Bengal Web Solution)
Performance and the Digital Space: Negotiating with the new
normal (session delivered in Bengali and subtitled in English)

16:30 - 19:00 - Poster exhibition - open drop-in session

- Jodi Bolo Rongin, Kolkata Localized Hub - Performance

Bilingual Cultural Performance by members of Jodi Bolo Rongin

- Networking - open drop-in session

 January 30 #REimagine
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11:30 - 11:40 - Welcome to day 3

11:45 - 12:20 - Oladele Ayorinde - Presentation

The ‘complex whole’ called Arts and Culture! Towards an African
Model for Inclusive Festival Organization and Management.

- Sonia Alcaina Gallardo - Presentation

Fine Art Contemporary Photography: A New Imaginative
Approach to Cultural Heritage

12:25 - 12:55 - Kathryn Nelson - Presentation

Culture, climate, and change: the world reimagined

- Jovana Jankov - Presentation

Was giving up ever an option? (example of Festival of
International Student Theatre in Serbia)

13:00 - 13:30 - Kagiso Kekana - Interactive virtual, musical and dance

performance
“Kwasukasukela – A need to belong”

- Amilcar Vargas - Presentation

New potential scenarios for the reimagined visit at Casa Batlló, a
World Heritage property in Barcelona

13:30 - 13:45 - Break

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13:50 - 14:35 - BTU Cottbus Localized Hub - Interactive presentation

Shari Bone: Digital Sustainability: a Heritage Studies Perspective

- University of Manchester Localized Hub - Presentation

New ways of operating in a post-COVID-19 cultural landscape:
perspectives from Manchester and beyond.

14:40 - 15:10 - C. Andrew Coulomb - Presentation

Let the Great Experiment Begin: Reimagining Visitor Services for
the Future

- Federico Escribal - Presentation

Cultural rights and impact assessment: a possibility for cultural
policies to cease being irrelevant

15:15 - 15:45 - John Whall - Presentation

Participant-Led Engagement and the Reimagining of
Exhibitions and Collections using Immersive Technologies

- Loredana Rita Scuto - Presentation

Free, prior and informed consent: reflections on its applications in
the heritage field

- University of Manchester Localized Hub - Presentation

New ways of operating in a post-COVID-19 cultural landscape:
perspectives from Manchester and beyond.

16:00 - 16:45 - Amy Whitaker - Keynote speech

Inventing Point B: Reimagining Collaboration and Restitution
Using Blockchain Technologies

16:50 - 17:30 - Closing Remarks

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