IETM Munich: videos

Under the theme Res Publica Europa, IETM Munich has gathered 467 performing arts professionals for a collective exercise of reimagining the European project. Among many other urgent issues affecting the performing arts today, we reflected on how the European idea relates to various identities existing within, across and outside the continent, discussed the role of art in enhancing civic participation and new forms of citizenship, and exchanged ideas on how to better advocate for the arts. The video recordings of the two Talks of the day from Friday (2/11) and Saturday (3/11) are now available for on-demand viewing:

Talk of the day: They call me an artist with Liwaa Yazji and Ramzi Maqdisi

How can there be meaningful work on a diverse society if ensembles and programmes don’t reflect the diversity of the societies they are a part of? How can artists make any knowledgeable statement about their society, if their teams are not as diverse as society is? How do we stop casting or programming of migrant artists only because of their migrant backgrounds? Artists just want to be artists. Or should they use their specific origins to an even greater extent to make their voices heard?

Talk of the day: Eurocentrism is the new colonial with Fabio Roberto Tolledi and Nora Amin

Whether European artists and professionals struggle against it or play along with it, Eurocentrism - in other words, post-colonialism - is undoubtedly influencing artistic production and shaping art dissemination networks. Will Europe overcome its colonial past and think outside its box? Can Europe be part of the world and not consider its values and aesthetic as universal? Can Europe relate to other cultures by different means other than exotism and cultural appropriation?