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ALMOSTYOU

Igor Dobricic is dramaturg en criticus en als programmeur verbonden aan de European Cultural Foundation (ECF) voor het interculturele artistieke samenwerkingsproject ALMOSTREAL4.Onder het thema Gast≠Vrij valt ook het project waarbij hij als Blauwe Huis bewoner de gastvrijheid en flexibiliteit van de ECF test en oprekt door Het Blauwe Huis daar binnen te brengen en daarmee de neutraliteit van de subsidiegever openbreekt. Onder de titel ALMOSTYOU wisselen Igor Dobricic en Blauwe Huis oprichtster Jeanne van Heeswijk iedere woensdag van plaats en wordt hij werkzaam bij Het Blauwe Huis, de woningcorporatie voor de geest. Doel is om te kijken wat een andere blik kan betekenen voor beide organisaties. Wat als een opdrachtgever deel uit gaat maken van een kunstproject en wat kan (en mag) de kunstenaar doen wanneer hij opeens de plek van de subsidiënt in neemt. Hoe gastvrij zijn deze organisaties en andere betrokkenen eigenlijk in de praktijk?

De uitwisseling vond plaats van november 2007 tot augustus 2008. Kunstenaar en Blauwe Huis bewoner Daniela Paes Leao heeft hierover een korte film gemaakt genaamd: The Freedom to question (sponsor and sponsored in conversation).

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• ALMOSTyou
• Trailer: Freedom to question by Daniela Paes Leao

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ALMOSTyou: ‘Office swap’ between Blue House and European Cultural Foundation

by Wietske

From Wednesday 7 November 2007, artist Jeanne van Heeswijk and ECF arts programme officer Igor Dobricic will start their office exchange and swap office locations. For a period of around 6 months, Jeanne will work every Wednesday in the European Cultural Foundation office, Amsterdam, while Igor will work in the Blue House ‘housing association for the mind’ in Ijburg. The swap is titled ‘ALMOSTyou’ and is being realised for ALMOSTREAL 4th stage which is explores hospitality and how art can inspire new understandings and practices of hospitality.

Exchanging office positions is not only about swapping locations but also about changing roles, attitudes and decision-making responsibilities. At base, the office swap aims to come to grips with the ethical implications of hospitality between artist and arts funder and to challenge the conventional funder-funded relationship.

Will Jeanne’s experience and ‘outsider’ input in the daily dynamics of ECF change anything? and vice versa, from his perspective as an arts officer, what will Igor lean during his working time inside an arts organisation?

Stay tuned for the first exciting episode of ‘ALMOSTyou’…

Every week on Wednesday, Jeanne will continue with her work related to the Blue House but will also take on the role of arts programme officer by exercising her perspective and ideas with other colleagues working in the ECF. Likewise, Igor will transfer his office environment to the Blue House where he will continue to operate the arts programme while also contributing to the development of activities ocurring within the Blue House such as M2M (Migrant to Migrant) — a weekly radio programme broadcast from the Blue House and organised by radio maker Jo van der Spek.

This office-residency & hospitality exchange is intended to challenge the usual distinctions between guest and the host, in particular between artist and cultural funding programme: raising questions such as what happens when a ‘funding’ officer becomes part of an artistic environment and when an artist has the opportunity to practice her work in the rooms and company of others working within the sphere of funding and cultural administration?

“…This (ex)change of physical working environments… is an experiment to see to what extent Jeanne can be influential in the running of the ECF arts programme and its decision-making policy…Here, the cultural practitioner becomes a guest, observing the institution from inside…to share, to recognise, to question and maybe even to clash.” — Igor Dobricic

http://www.almostreal.org/blog/category/almostreal-4/