Forum d Avignon
04.05.2012
Éric Serra, 52, is a well-known musician and composer - even if you might not find his name in the charts. Yet every cinema fan knows his film music: Even more than his dark, technoid and thus controversial Bond soundtrack for "Golden Eye", we know his congenial soundtracks for Luc Besson
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27.04.2012
We enjoy life in a free country with a lot of culture, be it sophisticated or off-beat. Gallery owner Urs Meile dissects this idyll in a highly intelligent, entertaining conversation with painter Andreas Golder. Both playfully reflect on the subtle methods of censorship, talk about the Chinese art
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20.04.2012
It's a known fact that investing in culture helps the economy, the industry and social politics. At last, we have to disband the old-fashioned model of classifying important and unimporant sectors. This applies to prioritising the different areas in politics such as the nimbus around economy
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12.04.2012
The study Kurt Salmon presented at the Forum d’Avignon Ruhr in Essen is on «Cultural Investment and undertaking : from intuition to decision-making». We talked to the deliverers of the study in interview. This is the second part of it (to part one click here). How can
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06.04.2012
The study Kurt Salmon presented at the Forum d’Avignon Ruhr in Essen is on «Cultural Investment and undertaking : from intuition to decision-making». We talked to the deliverers of the study in interview. Anne Magnus is Senior Consultant and joined Kurt Salmon Brussels
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30.03.2012
The digital revolution controls us all. This permanent availability via computer in the internet or on mobile phones does something to us. Will we all become indifferent consumers directed by a flood of information and commercials? And how will we tell that to our children? The best to do is what
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23.03.2012
"Economy versus Culture? Such pigeonhole thinking was a bad habit of the nineteenth century “. (Bodo Hombach, Moderator of the Initiativkreis Ruhr) In the context of the Forum d'Avignon Ruhr 2012 - a unique European-wide dialog and action platform, which is a French-German
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21.03.2012
Artist and professor Jochen Geerz led a bitter baseline story of reality into the field at Forum d'Avignon 2011: Today, culture is mainly threatened in its existence by three main factors - risk, fear and administration.Jochen GerzWith regards to today's work reality of artists, professor
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16.03.2012
On 8th and 9th March, Forum d'Avignon Ruhr took places in Essen - the heart of the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010. The cultural think tank met at the UNESCO Wold Heritage Site Zeche Zollverein at the renowned SANAA building on the Folkwang University campus. An international audience of
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09.03.2012
Can I make a living from this? Art and creativity should also be profitable. Together with the Forum d’Avignon, French president Nicolas Sarkozy fights for good and legal conditions for art, culture, and science, and a fair payment for jobs in those fields, thus bringing up the big
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