visioni urbane: the basilicata creative scene
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Visioni Urbane project. My presentation prepared for the December "Technology enabling creativity in Basilicata" workshop with Bruce Sterling - December 2007TRANSCRIPT
- 1. Visioni Urbane The Basilicata Creative Sceneas Seen by a Traveller Alberto Cottica
2. 3. Disclaimer
- The following is only a rough, oversimplified sketch of the Basilicata creative scene. However, it has been run before the community and approved by it
- VU's ideology: the market is not evil. It is a major locus for cultural communication. This does not necessarily represent the scene's generally accepted view
- Photos are courtesy of the Basilicata creatives
4. 5. Who are the Basilicata creative people?
- Meetings and interviews (June-November 2007)
- A virally compiled database
- about 50 interviews, 90 sightings
- www.visioniurbanebasilicata.net/creativi-lucani/
6. 7. What do they do? 8. 9. Where are they? 10. 11. More theater in Potenza? 12. 13. More ICT/audiovisual/literature in Matera? 14. 15. Good news
- Good attitude to cooperation
- Fairly good skills on organizing cultural events (some have been going on for many yaears)
- Strong ties between Basilicata creatives and high-profile artists (Abbado, Kiarostami...)
- Very strong ties with the land itself, seen as engine of the artistic experience
- The returnees move back to Basilicata, bringing fresh air, vision and relationships
16. 17. Bad news
- difficulties to access cultural markets
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- Most events are free: difficult to extract revenue from attendees
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- little involvement of private sponsors
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- insufficient demand analysis
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- little drive to reducing dependency from public sector grants
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- only very few art orgs have NOT quoted public sector grants as a very important financial source
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- cultural training activities are a little more private demand driven
18. 19. More bad news
- little scene awareness
- The relationships between Basilicata creatives and cultural movers and shakers are point to point
- Some of them have been opportunistic and driven essentially by the availability of public grants
20. 21. What creatives are saying:
- There is no real cultural strategy for Basilicata
- There is no integration between the cultural and other policies (tourism, region marketing...)
- So, culture is not viewed as part of the region's strategy
- There is a shortage of venues/production spaces
- There is a shortage of certain key skills
22. 23. Lucania's blogosphere: a resource
- In Basilicata blogs and online fora have become a locus for public debate
- Strongly connected between them and with the outside
- About 15 bloggers on the VU community, among which 2 of Italy's top 50
- A bloggers association to establish an offline presence
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