09.30: Arrival, coffee/tea

10.00: Welcome by the Museum Director Anne Louise Sommer

10.15: Foreword, Director of Danish Arts Agency, Poul Bache

10.30: Program intro: The Nordic constellation by moderator Tone O. Nielsen

10.45: Presentation: Art Institutional Policies in the Nordic Region: National, Multicultural, or Intercultural? - by ass. Professor Anne Ring Petersen, University of Copenhagen

11.30: Presentation: Cultural Diversity – Responses and Responsibilities by Tessa Jackson, chief executive of INIVA, London

12.30: Lunch in the café

13.30: Short artistic feature

13.45: Presentation by Hedwig Fijen, Director of the Manifesta, The European Biennial of Contemporary art

14.45: Presentation: Arts Institutions and the Intercultural Challenge: Rhetoric and Practice by Professor Yudhishthir Raj Isar, The American University of Paris

15.45: Break

16.00: A new format, panel discussion between the speakers and the audience

16.45: Closing remarks and conclusion by the moderator

17.00: The conference closes

Arrangør: Statens Kunstråds Interkulturelle Rådgivningsprojekt

Spørgsmål vedrørende arrangementerne: Interkulturel konsulent Khaled Ramadan, khaled@kunst.dk, tel. +45 33 74 45 86

Tilmeldinger foretages inden den 28. oktober på www.kunst.dk/interkultur – det er muligt at deltage i mere end et arrangement. Deltagelse er gratis.

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CONFERENCE: Nordic or Global Visual Culture?

Visual art sometimes followed its prescribed root, other times it revolted against its rationality – Rasheed Araeen

The conference Nordic or Global Visual Culture attempts to diagnose and reflect on the position of Interculturalism in relation to visual culture in Denmark and the wider Nordic region. (Interculturalism refers to the existence and equitable interaction of diverse cultures and the possibility of generating shared cultural expressions through dialogue and mutual respect. UNESCO Convention).

In the Nordic region, Interculturalism is still not articulated or seen as having a valid relationship with Internationalism, nor is it perceived as a progressive category with great potential and worth.

The few artistic intercultural initiatives that have occurred across the Nordic region have managed to address Interculturalism primarily as a dilemma related to socio-economic affairs. This conception has positioned the intercultural aesthetical experience in a difficult situation.
Therefore, intercultural aesthetics as a category is trapped between socio-political demands and puzzled cultural institutions.
Keynote speakers:
Anne Ring Petersen, ass. Professor, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen
Tessa Jackson, CEO of INVIA, International Institute of Visual Arts, London
Hedwig Fijen, Manifesta Director, Holland
Yudhishthir Raj Isar, Professor of Cultural Policy Studies, The American University of Paris
Moderator: Tone O. Nielsen

Date: Copenhagen on Friday 4th of November 2011 9:30 AM to 5 PM.
Venue: Nordic or Global Visual Culture - located at Design Museum Denmark, Bredgade 68, 1260 Copenhagen C. 
Sign up: before 28th October at  www.kunst.dk/interkultur

Andre inspirationsmøder i samme serie:
Aarhus 24. oktober og Odense 28. oktober