What is apap and Performing Europe?

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Created on Monday, 04 February 2013 09:26

Written by SZENE Salzburg

apap - advancing performing arts project / Performing Europe 2011-2016

apap is a European network, which was founded in 2000 and has since then turned out more than 100 artistic projects. It focuses on the exchange between artistic activities, cultural workers and their know-how. apap connects international and local aspects of contemporary arts.

Performing Europe, the newest apap programme, connects eight European organisations and supports the development of contemporary performing arts and their impact on European societies. This includes producing, presenting and distributing artistic works, as well as concentrating on attaining new audiences and seeking new ways of mediation. Performing Europe brings together artists, curators and experts from different fields.

Organisations
szene salzburg (AT), Arts Centre BUDA Kortrijk (BE), BIT Teatergarasjen Bergen (NO), Centrale Fies Dro (IT), Fundacja Cialo/Umysl Warsaw (PL), Maison de la Culture dʼAmiens (FR), Student Centre Zagreb - Culture of Change (HR), Tanzfabrik Berlin (DE)

Performing Europe (2011-2016)

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Created on Monday, 09 January 2012 13:02

Written by SZENE Salzburg

apap has produced over 100 artistic programs and has created a European network to exchange artists and artistic projects, cultural workers and know-how in the last 10 years. It has successfully introduced programs to connect the international and the local aspects of contemporary arts and created new presentation forms and means of intermediation between the arts and audiences.

now apap introduces a new program: Performing Europe (2011-2016)

Performing Europe is interdisciplinary and comprises the fields of production, presentation and distribution of artistic works and focuses on attaining new audiences and researching new ways of mediation.

Theatre, dance, performance, visual arts, design, media and film are elements in the development of new performing arts. The aim of the program is clearly to develop exemplary artistic projects of highest quality that will have an impact on the contemporary art world and its appreciation. The network unites different organisations and experiences, developing joint curatorial competence, cultural mediation work and the exchange of artistic work, information, know-how and workers in the art sector.

The performing Europe program includes established and emerging artists and a board of influential and renowned international mentors to install an ongoing dialogue between three generations of artists from different work fields and different cultural backgrounds. In several laboratories artists, curators, experts and audiences meet to work on relevant questions. The network will open a permanent workspace in Berlin for artists from all over Europe to work and meet. The "libero" project of performing Europe includes organisations and artists from outside the EU into the program. Know-how transfer workshops for cultural workers will help to achieve a new quality in European collaboration.

apap - advancing performing arts project

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Created on Monday, 09 January 2012 13:06

Written by SZENE Salzburg

When apap (advancing performing arts project, supported by the European union - education and culture) was started the aim was primarily to join forces in supporting emerging artists to produce and present their work in Europe. The strength of the project is the composition of the partners and the diversity of artistic and cultural possibilities: places to research, document, rehearse, produce and present in different European cultural environments from metropolis to villages.

The development of artistic projects in the network and their implementation in the different surroundings forced apap to raise and answer questions for the arts and the artistic mediation: questions on the relations between artistic creation and local environments as well as themes of the local in relation to the international.

In this research the apap programs became more specific and enabled the network to go deeper as a functioning body in its collaborations, exchange, shared responsibilities as well as in reflection and evaluation. Diverse programs in different directions and areas deepened investigation of new approaches and creation of new forms. In its nine years of existence apap has become a solid structure that is able to offer much more to the artists and the public than the organizations alone would be able to achieve. The network has set standards of collaboration and artistic development in Europe. apap feels fit for moving ahead. It is intriguing to work towards the aim of producing recognizable state of the arts - results in the next decade.

This website gives an idea of who we are, what we did and what we are planning to do and which artists are currently involved in the program.

please feel invited to share our experience!

Michael Stolhofer (general management)
Koen Kwanten (artistic coordination)