Equal exchange when working abroad

Working internationally is often self-evident in the cultural sector. Working across borders is inspiring and enriching, but also complex, time-consuming and expensive. At DutchCulture we help you to access information, connect to networks and find funding opportunities to help you on your way.

While doing our work we signal difficulties with working internationally. Therefore we are hosting a session on mobility and reciprocity. For example, when working abroad: how do you not only work for your own advantage but also give back to the community you are visiting? How can this visit be a co-production based on reciprocity and what are concrete examples of this? What is holding us back from co-creating and working on a basis of equal exchange?  

We will look at this topic from the perspective of the individual artist to large festivals and funding bodies that deal with the same questions.

Date: Thursday 17 February 2022
Time: 15.00 – 16.30, followed by a network opportunity
Location: De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
Language: English

• Jennifer Muntslag, performance artist, moderator and matchmaker at Fonds Podiumkunsten, Fonds Cultuurparticipatie and VSBFonds

• Sumi Anjuman, visual artist and activist based in The Hague
• Dilara Jaring-Kanik, manager of exchanges at Prince Claus Fund
• Paula Chaves Bonilla, Colombian artist based in Amsterdam
• Margje de Koning, artistic director Movies that Matter
• Josien Pieterse, co-founder and co-director at Framer Framed, Amsterdam
• Abhishek Thapar, theatre-maker, performer, puppeteer and artist based in Amsterdam
• Natasja van ’t Westende, artistic and managing director of Dancing on the Edge
• Eline van den Berg, curator Asian Ceramics at Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarden