Cluster meeting
Cambridge dictionary definition for Cluster is a group of similar things that are close together, sometimes surrounding something. Cluster is an eight-contemporary-visual-art organization net located on the periphery of capital cities (it cannot be overlooked Holon, located in an industrial area outside Tel Aviv). Cluster started in June 2011 in order to facilitate internal and public exchange of knowledge about how these types of institutions function and also to establish further collaborations between them. After the cluster meeting, it will take place an encounter-presentation from each of the member which will start an open discussion.
Cluster members include Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht; CAC Brétigny; Les Laboratoires D’Aubervillers, Paris; Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, The Showroom, London; CA2M Centro Dos De Mayo, Madrid; The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon; and Parasite Museum of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana.
During the CA2M meeting, it will be brought up several issues related to Center working strategies as well as their response to a new institutional frame, conditioned by remarkable adjustments from the public financial support, and, in parallel, by a questioning of the management of our forms of government. Attention would be mainly focused on the answers generated from discussion, rather than on the change of typology from the projects highlighted by a reduction in resources. May be generated a critical response to this situation from culture? Can a Contemporary Art museum be a place to put into practice other institutionality forms?
This forth meeting between the Cluster member, follows the ones taken placed in London, Utrecht, Aubervilliers (Bretigny) and Stockholm.
Participating: Maria Lind and Ulrika Flink, Tensta Konsthall; Julien Duc- Maugé,CAC Brétigny; Binna Choi and Sanne Oorthuizen, Casco Utrecht; Barbara Coffy, Les Laboratoires Aubervilliers; Emily Pethick, The Showroom London; Ran Kasmy Ilan, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon.