Tag: Project
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LYSSNA
Certain aesthetic traditions are offered a lot of grace. Others are not. LYSSNA starts from a structural observation: Swedish media does not give rappers, beatmakers and music producers enough room to speak at length about their work. The LYSSNA format gives artists and producers working within an aesthetic orientation based on appropriation – sprung from…
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Gallery.wav
Music production is one of the fastest growing cultural practices in Europe. However, the way we congregate around music is not diversifying accordingly. Dominant policy responses have been based around the advocacy for nightlife and live venues: spaces that play a significant role in the development of contemporary music culture, but which increasingly fixate development…
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DIY Cultural Diplomacy
Cultural diplomacy is typically understood as a professional field concerned with the institutional management of cultural representation: the ways states construct national identity and conduct international exchange through officially sanctioned cultural forms. Yet in practice, many of the relational functions associated with diplomacy – mediation across difference, the coordination of translocal networks, and the negotiation…