Network will change the cultural landscape of contemporary art in Portugal
Thoughtful arts, this Saturday that the Portuguese Network, which can contribute in a way from September to the director of the cultural landscape of September in Portugal.
“There is now a mechanism, a tool, it is nothing more than that, to develop a circulation of contemporary art works, a collaboration between entities, the production of diverse contents of reflection and investigation”, highlighted the director-general of the Arts ( DGArtes), Américo Rodrigues.
During the opening session of the PARTE Summit, which runs throughout the day this Saturday at the Convento de São Francisco, in Coimbra, Américo Rodrigues explained that this network will allow the promotion of good practices in the participating contemporary art centers.
It will also allow for a training program for human resources working in the participating contemporary art equipment.
“As of September, the network will undergo an irreversible process, similar to what it did with the Portuguese Network of Theaters and Cineteatros, which is in operation with 81 members and 39 facilities across the country”, he said.
The art centers of the director of the DG, which are very relevant, expect the diversity of all relevant equipment to be provided, being the main ones of access and with the artistic dimension of all equipment.
“This network will be what the representatives of the entities formulated it to be”, he added.
The Minister through Culture, this month, issued an order that regulates the membership process, allowing the entity to request membership of the Network already from a reference platform provided by DGArtes.
The Government diploma that created the Portuguese Network of Contemporary Art, published on 11th of last year in Diário da República, defines it as a dynamization platform that will promote the interaction of 120 institutions spread across the country, already identified.
Throughout his speech, Américo Rodrigues also took the opportunity to highlight the importance of the PARTE Summit, an initiative with ambitions for the entire territory, but above all for international promotion.
The PARTE Summit has, on Saturday and in August, its first edition, between the cities of Coimbra and Loulé, in an international meeting with some of the “most influential thinkers in the contemporary artistic milieu”.
Proposition “a new format of reflection and knowledge, which takes as a starting point 12 questions previously formulated by some of the most influential thinkers in the artistic environment, gathered in Portugal at the invitation of the PARTE program”.