BE PART (Art Beyond PARTicipation)
- Project Type
- Dance, Festivals, Multi-disciplinary, Music, Performing Arts, Research
- Title
- BE PART (Art Beyond PARTicipation)
- Irish Partner
- Cork Midsummer Festival, Ireland
- Co-Partners
- Santarcangelo dei Teatri (Italy)
- Scottish Sculpture Workshop (UK)
- Artsadmin (UK)
- Association Festival De Marseille (France)
- Kansallisgalleria (Finland)
- Kunstencentrum Vooruit (Belgium)
- L'Art Rue (Tunsia)
- Latvijas Jauna Teatra Instituts (Latvia)
- City Of Women (Slovenia)
- Santarcangelo dei Teatri (Italy)
- Funding Strand
- Larger Scale Cooperation Projects
- Year Funded
- 2019
- Funding Amount
- €1,448,000
BE PART project will create a European network of co-authors, supported by artists and organisations, to collectively foster new approaches and structures for the co-creation and mobility of artworks. It will focus on four key topics - POWER, POLITICS, PLACE, PUBLICS.
BE PART (2019 - 2023) is an audience and organisational development project in the field of participatory art practices implemented by 10 EU and non-EU partners. The project will create a European network of co-authors, supported by artists and organisations to collectively foster new approaches and structures for the co-creation and mobility of artworks.
BE PART is a practical and critical exploration of collaborative art-making and sharing. It goes beyond defining multiple communities as ‘participants’ proposing them as co-authors of the artistic processes with specific knowledges and experiences to share.
The activities of the project will be developed in collaboration with local citizens involved as co-authors. The core activities will include:
- 10 fieldworks as long research processes on participatory art practices by each PP, including artists residencies;
- Complementary public events and workshops;
- 4 international assemblies as large-scale public gatherings focusing on 4 key topics - POWER, POLITICS, PLACE, PUBLICS - to be delivered by multiple communities;
- 10 Public programmes as part of larger festival or autonomous, enabling large local and international audience development and transnational mobility;
- Symposium as international event to place BE PART outcomes into broader performing arts theory & discourse of XXI Century.
BE PART will result in a guide to ethics and economics of socially-engaged practice which will take the form of a series of questions, acknowledging the unique context created when a community, artists and organisations come together.