Report from a conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, October 6-8, 2005, organized by the European Council of Artists (ECA) in cooperation with the Lithuanian Association of Artists with support from the Lithuanian Culture and Sports Fund and the European Commission.
About 35 artists, representatives of the European Council of Artists and researchers academics and politicians from all over Europe attended the conference which was chaired by Lithuanian poet and essayist Eugenijus Alisanka and German visual artist Joachim Kettel.
The report contains the following contributions:
• The Eros of Listening, by Sarunas Nakas, composer, Lithuania
• Narrative Strategies on Body and Image in Contemporary Art and Massmedia, by Joachim Kettel, visual artist and professor at the School of Education in Karlsruhe, Germany
• Reality as Film by Max Kestner, film director, Denmark
• From Mimesis to Reality Show: The Eternal Quest by Kirill Razlogow, director of the Russian Institute for Cultural Research in Moscow, Russia
• The Status of the Artist in Europe by John Smith, UK, musician and president of the International Federations of Musicians
• On the Status of Artists and their Organisations in Lithuania, by Vaclovas Krutinis, sculptor, Lithuania
• The Romanian Experience with the Status of the Artist by Monica Lotreanu, architect and executive director of the National Alliance of the Creators' Unions in Romania
The report has been prepared by Simon Pellar.
The report "Border between Art and Reality" can be ordered from ECA office. The price for sending it within Europe is 12 Euro.