Report from a conference in Bucharest, Romania, September 6-7, 2003, organized by the European Council of Artists (ECA) in cooperation with the National Alliance of Creators’ Unions (ANUC) and the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs of Romania, and supported by the European Commission and local sponsors Inforom Consulting Ltd and Majestic Hotel. i
There were the following speeches/contributions:
• Light in the Darkness, a film by Torben Glarbo, director and photographer, Denmark
• Networking in the Fields of Art and Culture by Anne Marie Autissier, professor, University of Paris XIII, France
• Building Cultural Strategies for the Enlargement Countries - Myth or Reality? by Phillip D. Dracodaidis, cultural advisor, Greece
• The Experiences of the Culture 2000 programme as a Tool for Unifying Europe by Catherine Boothmann, coordinator, Cultural Contact Point, Ireland
• The Influence of Financing Strategies by Dan Dediu, composer, Romania
• European Identity, Regional/national Identities and the Arts, by Razvan Theodorescu, Minister of culture, Romania
• Artists Operating in the Urban Context Where Cultural Frontiers are on the Move by Gijs Müller, visual artist, Netherlands
• Visual Artists and Architects Working Together in Environment and Community by Kerstin Bergendal, visual artist, Denmark
• Appendage Europe. National Artists' Umbrellas between Networking and Not Working by Ludwig Laher, writer, Austria
About 60 artists, representatives of the European Council of Artists, academics and politicians from all over Europe attended the conference which was chaired by the Danish journalist Georg Metz.
The report contains short summaries of each contribution and the discussions together with the speeches and texts, the conference program, the list of participants and information on the European Council of Artists. The report has been prepared by Finn Frandsen and Orla Vigsø.
The report "Artists Sharing without Frontiers" can be ordered from ECA office. The price for sending it within Europe is 12 Euro.