cultural economics /économie culturelle

How can art foster intercultural interaction? How can art change one's valuation of otherness? Looking at 2 Intervention Art projects, interviewing artists and participants, I found an empirical basis to test the insights from the model of Conventions: According to this model, the artist must become an entrepreneur playing with Conventions, in order to be able to bring participants to a new, intercultural level of conversation in which new conventions arise...

Comment l'art peut-il développer les interactions interculturelles? Comment l'art peut-il transformer la valeur de l'altérité? En analysant en détail deux projets d'Intervention Art à Rotterdam, j'ai repris le modèle dit des 'Conventions' (Gomez). Appliqué ici, le modèle met en lumière la nécessité de transformer les conventions d'interaction sociale pour permettre une 'conversation' interculturelle. Or l'artiste a parfois la capacité de devenir un 'Entrepreneur en Conventions'... (Le Mémoire est en anglais.)

Those interested will also like to visit the website of Wochenklausur, a most interesting Intervention Art group. / Les amateurs de tout ceci peuvent aussi visiter le site web de Wochenklausur, groupe autrichien au travail très proche du concept d'Artiste Entrepreneur en Conventions...

I wrote an academic article on 'Performance Indicators for the performing arts, Pros and Cons'. This article being currently reviewed by an academic journal, I will soon inform you of its availability.

Je viens de soumettre à un journal académique un article sur 'les indicateurs de performance pour les arts du spectacle, le pour et le contre'. Je vous informerai dès sa parution (et/ou le publierai sur ce site web sous réserve d'accord avec le journal).

I am currently working on a book together with Dr. Hans Abing, cultural economist and visual artist (who wrote lately : Why are artists poor ? ). The upcoming book will cover some exciting issues in the socioeconomics of the arts... As soon as publication is planned, this website will offer more details... /

Je prépare en ce moment avec Hans Abbing, économiste de la culture et plasticien, un livre qui abordera des aspects controversés de la socioéconomie des arts... Vous serez les premiers informés dès qu'une publication sera en vue...

This section contans a number of book reviews, articles and essays which I wrote as student in the MA program in Cultural Economics and Cultural Entrepreneurship of Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. I guess they will be of interest for some visitors, at least for current and prospective students in this field. (It's all in english)

Cette page recèle des notes de lectures, articles et autres rédactions réalisées lors de mes études de Master en économie de la culture et entrepreneuriat culturel à l'Université de Rotterdam. Il seront utiles pour certains visiteurs du site (les textes sont tous en anglais).

Review and criticism of 2 books of Claude Mollard relating to his concept of cultural engineering

Notes critiques de lecture de 2 ouvrages de Claude Mollard portant sur son concept d'ingénierie culturelle...

(le schéma ci-contre est extrait de L'ingénierie culturelle aux éditions Que Sais-je, 1999 ) -->

The book above is a good read, but the following review deals only with the issue of copyright. See also the essay I wrote on alternatives to copyrights.

In Arjo Klamer's seminar on Cultural Organizations and Cultural Entrepreneurship, students are asked to write provocative essays. Well, this is for the inquisitive reader... (the essays sometimes refer to oral sources from sessions in the Seminar, feel free to email me if anything is not clear) :

On Organizing Culture/Creativity

On Culture and Organization

On The Form of Organization

On Creativity in the Organization

On September 10th 2005, I presented a paper at the Arts Sociology Network of the ESA (European Sociology Association) Conference in Torun The paper is entitled "The artist and social change: Entrepreneurship in Conventions". Following the conference, the paper will be reworked and proposed to a journal.