A collaboration between PRAKSIS and Art Encounters Foundation (RO)
1–2 November 2023
Online. Held in English
Free of charge and open to national and international candidates
Sign up by sending an email to contact@artencounters.ro
PRAKSIS and the Art Encounters Foundation invite you to engage in four workshops over two days led by Nicholas John Jones, artistic director of PRAKSIS, and Kristian Schrøder, programme manager at PRAKSIS.
These workshops aim to generate dialogue between art students, artists, cultural mediators, and thinkers at all career stages and across diverse cultures, disciplines, and publics. Through exercises in mapping the scenes in Romania and Norway, the workshops foreground collective activity and exchanging ideas, skills, and information. The resulting maps will be included in a handbook – with acknowledgment of all contributors, of course!
You are welcome to join as many of the workshops as you wish to.
Sign up by sending an email to contact@artencounters.ro
Day 2, part 2: What to ask when reaching out?
2 November 2023, 10-12 CEST
What should contemporary arts organisers think about when curating, communicating or creating educational programming? Can we identify a series of questions that help establish good practice? This workshop will begin with an open discussion about creating relationships between contemporary art and publics, and aims to collectively develop a series of questions as guidelines for those thinking about building relationships between art and publics.
PRAKSIS and Art Encounters welcome your voice as we seek to collectively map out issues and strengths of the art field. This session will identify areas of operations and the strengths and weaknesses of grassroots, small-and-mid sized organisations, and large scale institutions working with art. The workshop aims to develop an overview of institutional practices across the sector and collectively identify progressive ways of working.
Day 1, part 2: How should we reach out?
2 November 2023, 13-15 CEST
This workshop aims to map existing good practices for working between art and publics and hopefully propose innovative ways of reaching new audiences.
About Art Encounters
Established in 2015, the Art Encounters Foundation aims to deliver an institutional model tailored to the needs of the local context and which is equally engaged in contributing to the international art scene. Founded by art collector and entrepreneur based in Timișoara Ovidiu Șandor, the Art Encounters Foundation is an initiative aiming to enrich and support the development of the contemporary art scene in Romania. Its core mission is to foster dialogue, learning, research, and experiment.
The Foundation's activities are carried out over the following main directions: organising the Art Encounters Biennial in Timișoara and the exhibition program taking place at its permanent space in Timișoara or other sites; fostering education and audience development through public programs; developing a solid series of artistic and curatorial residencies. In conjunction with the permanent programs of the Foundation, the private art collection of Ovidiu Șandor, president of the Art Encounters Foundation, functions as an open resource for exhibitions, institutional collaboration, and research.
