EARZOOM FESTIVAL 2-5 0CTOBER 2010

TRACES Roundtable @ Earzoom

Alternative Cultural Resources & Technologies of Survival

TRACES roundtable explores a range of research, artistic and practical strategies for cultural survival and resistance, the challenges of building alternative organisations, and insights for ongoing creation.

Cultural Interfaces: innovation – sound – research – technology - alternative structures

The discussion seeks to articulate methodologies from diverse backgrounds in order to share and transfer acquired knowledge with interested culture professionals and wider audiences. A collective questioning with a critical debate, networking artistic and curatorial approaches to build working models based on our actual practices and experiences.

Looking critically at experiences in building alternative institutions, inventing strategies to survive – and the specific conditions of the local situation and context. The discussion takes place in a spirit of questioning, debate and manifestation, on how to form a different vision of globally connected local cultural conditions, why do we do what we do and how?

Adapting our collective skills and resources to other forms of cultural technologies to ensure our creative and artistic survival. Tracing the process and finding methods to transfer our specific understanding into a broader field, while offering philosophical and practical resources to those seeking to build new cultural paths.