SALOON TOKYO


"Ecology is a science that deals primarily with the way in which beings and populations come into relationship. The risk of the relationship, which transforms individuals into prey, predators or resources in any given circumstance, is what makes these beings interesting. In ecological terms, the way in which a human practice occurs in exterior, and in particular in how it proposes to enter into a relationship with the general public, is part of its identity. (...) My concern in giving to different types of practices a legitimate existence, beyond hierarchy, is a political concern (...) And if, for each practice, we tried (...) to recognize and celebrate each new successful risk, each additional link created with the world? ​"



Isabelle Stengers - interview published in La Recherche No. 297 - April 1997 [available online at larecherche.fr]



INTENTION



New interactions between art and society: a change of paradigm



The world is more than ever confronted with unprecedented social, economic and environmental challenges today. Every business sector - with all the actors which constitutes it - is committed in this processing, and so has to renegotiate its conditions of existence.
This transformation process turns to be more and more pregnant on the cultural sector. Simultaneously the public and private markets widen in an exponential way, change their nature, and modes of regulation. Cultural policies once uniquely impulsed by nation states see each other unable to compose with the transnational and international dimension of markets and the new cultural practices of actors and citizens.

In this context, where public sector of cultural policies and private sector of transnational markets are seemingly taken in a common process, the making of the art, the conditions of the creation and its distribution or even sharing are renewed. Thus this change of paradigm, lead to a change artistic practices which have to renegotiate their interaction with the society.



Invent new transversal models



In spite of a new environment in constant movement, the system of the cultural production does not escape the logics of segmentation of work market, nor more generally the compartmentalization of our societies, which limit considerably flows and weaving of transverse links.
The set of our models of creation, production, mediation, as the critical spaces and of representation, are to be redefined and look for adaptations towards an adequate contemporary organization, in echo in the new stakes and the lines of tension which cross the markets.
So we need, in dialogue with all the actors concerned by the sector and in articulation with practices of the other sectors, to develop new tools allowing the adaptations to our environment.



Open up the creation in movement: sharing / mutualize tools and time of research



To gather the conditions necessary for the evolution of our practices, we think that it is at the same time essential and stimulating to open practice based on research , for the artistic teams as for our jobs of mediation.
We wish to foster situations of mutualization regarding prospective development which are often too much lacking in the sector of the live performance (Indeed the capacities of innovation and creativity are strong somehow being part of know-how of the artistic teams). We need spaces where to mutualize/ share tools and time required to think of more transverse radiuses of action and generate new partnership dynamics.



Finally, we wish we can work so on the mobilization of networks to favor the emergence of interdisciplinary projects, and activate trans-sectorial connections; these will allow us to weave another meshing and eventually to develop new models responsible for artistic and cultural projects, and sources of social innovation.



Saloon tokyo



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