FROM IETM GALWAY

The IETM Galway Satellite meeting tackled one of the most urgent topics of our time: Climate Action. It explored relationships between artists, the arts ecosystem and the planet. Many of the resources collected during this Satellite remain useful for the IETM Aarhus Plenary Meeting 2023, and can be explored below. 

Preliminary notes by Ben Twist, Creative Carbon Scotland

In preparation for the IETM Galway Satellite meeting in 2020, we asked all of the participants to read the preliminary notes prepared by Ben Twist from Creative Carbon Scotland, to define the terms that will be explored during the meeting and put the conversation into perspective.

Climate action and the performing arts

This report presents some of the reflections and discussions on the relationships between performing arts and climate action held during the digital IETM Galway Satellite Meeting in December 2020.

ON ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY

Perform Europe Insights: Sustainability through innovation

This report brings together the main learning points which we drew from the Perform Europe process.

Guidelines for a just transition towards environmentally sustainable economies and societies for all

These guidelines are both a policy framework and practical tool to help countries at all developmental levels manage the transition to low-carbon economies.

FRESH PERSPECTIVES 4: Art for the Planet's Sake. Arts and Environment

This IETM publication looks at how the arts can tackle environmental issues and includes interesting examples of greening practices and projects.

IETM Brussels Opening Keynote Speech: Art in the age of populism

During his keynote speech at IETM Brussels, Eric Corijn used a holistic approach to embed climate change in his talks on the position of the arts in the age of populism. 

ON DECOLONISATION, TRANSLOCALITY AND TERRITORY

Translocality in the arts (video)

In this session held online on 22 October 2022 in the context of the IETM Lyon Plenary Meeting, Dutch philosopher, writer and poet Maarten Doorman talked about the concept of translocality in the arts, followed by reactions from art professionals from Australia, Poland and Lebanon.

Opening keynote speech IETM Porto ‘Other centres, paths, perspectives, practices’

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, the Brazilian anthropologist, known for his attempt to decolonise thoughts, is the author of the opening keynote speech from IETM Porto, which was delivered in the format of a lecture performance by Fernanda Silva, founder of the activist Metaphor Teatro Galpão in Parnaíba, Brazil, and by Alvaro Domingues, Portuguese writer and geographer with a specific interest in the geography of social inequalities.

While Viveiros de Castro in his text “Os Involuntários da Pátria” denounces the condition of the Native Americans in Brazil—uprooted from their indigenous presence in the Americas, colonised by the Europeans, and excluded as full citizens—Domingues leads us to central questions of the Anthropocene: who are the “excluded” of today and what new or old worlds do they inhabit?

FRESH PERSPECTIVES 2: Shifting Scales and Sceneries. Arts, Globalisation and Territories

This publication from IETM’s Fresh Perspectives series deals with performing arts and territories, touching on global issues such as economic stress, environmental challenges and migration flow.

FRESH PERSPECTIVES 9: Arts in rural areas

This new Fresh Perspectives highlights the valuable contribution that the contemporary arts have in non-urban areas, and brings the views of three experts on sustainable ways to improve conditions for artists working in those areas.

Fields of Vision. Other voices, rural places, global stories

IETM Satellite Wales deepened some of the conversations initiated during our plenaries in Brussels and Porto around the theme of working outside of the big centres and in rural areas.

Relocalising Artistic Practices

This IETM Brussels report seeks new opportunities to rethink the local outside the nationalistic paradigm and to reinvent the international without the unification of the globalised culture.

Olivia U. Rutazibwa - Decoloniser

With her call to 'Decolonise the western Minds', Prof. Olivia R. Rutazibwa enriches the debate on diversity and development both in the West and the Global South in this TEDxTalk.

Meanwhile in the Countryside

This report from IETM Brussels highlights some experiences, practices and methods of undertaking art projects in rural areas.