SWOT-Analysis of Halle 14 in the Cotton Spinning ... - Central Europe

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Status of the public culture sector as well as the intermediary sector as well as networks One new yet seemingly already important network is the German government’s Cultural and Creative Industries Initiative, the aims and strategies of which are: • To strengthen the competitiveness of the cultural and creative industries • To exploit the potential for creating jobs • To improve the earnings of small cultural businesses and freelance artists (by making them more professional and raising their potential) • To simplify contact with official bodies • To provide advice (guidance, self-perception, networking, sharing experience, helping people to help themselves, help with applications for financial support) • Feedback to the German government These aims are implemented through various activities, a centre of excellence, regional offices and financial support. This network could be very useful for not just the registered association HALLE 14 e.V. but also individual artists. West Leipzig Quarter Management can be regarded as both a disseminator and a network. It is located in the Leipzig district of Lindenau, an ERDF area, and is a general point of contact for local actors such as societies, businesses and the general public etc. As well as public services, it also provides information on state subsidy programmes (e.g. for the leisure-related infrastructure). Moreover, the West Leipzig Forum offers a platform for all actors in the area where ideas and experience on business and employment, urban spatial qualities and social qualities can be shared. More than 300 people took part in the most recent cultural forum in February 2010. 5.4 Cultural networks, profiles of art related organisations, informal networks, creative scenes The networks of cultural and creative industries are diverse und mainly well defined. The networks relevant to Halle 14 and the areas they cover are described below in order of proximity to Halle 14. An informal network exists among the individual actors at the Leipzig Cotton Spinning Mill in the sphere of contemporary art which so far has been almost exclusively limited to organising the open days there. This network could shoulder additional tasks – but for this purpose its activities and profile would have to be intensified. Other formal and informal networks extending outside the Leipzig Cotton Spinning Mill site have only so far been tapped to a very limited extent by Halle 14. IG Kultur West (West Leipzig Culture Interest Group) is dedicated to networking in order to preserve and expand culture in the western districts of Plagwitz and Lindenau. Most of the artists from DesignQuartier Leipzig/Werkstatt West 6 along Karl-Heine-Strasse are represented in this group. The group’s partners range from performance venues and design labels to associations and alternative housing projects. One of IG Kultur West’s best known members is the registered association Westbesuch e.V., which organises the Westbesuch arts and district festival a few times every year. Synergies could be generated with Tapetenwerk Leipzig (like the Leipzig Cotton Spinning Mill a disused industrial building – a wallpaper factory – converted by the creative industries) by means of greater mutual exchange and concrete cooperation projects. The mixed use at Tapetenwerk Leipzig includes workshops, art galleries, studios, exhibition rooms, offices, hospitality and housing. Expanding events like the Leipzig Cotton Spinning Mill open days to encompass Tapetenwerk could generate great publicity. 6 Terms used by koopstadt. 18
Status of the public culture sector as well as the intermediary sector as well as networks Turning our gaze to activities in the visual arts throughout Leipzig as a whole, other institutions should be mentioned which are organised in a sort of informal network and which sometime work together as important actors on drawing up strategies for the city (e.g. the Culture Development Plan, the Directors’ Conference, cultural education, and Museums at Night). These actors are not yet formally joined together. According to the experts interviewed, collaboration among these institutions needs to be intensified and developed into a network. One of the most interesting actors is the GfZK Gallery of Contemporary Art. In many respects, GfZK has a similar concept to that of Halle 14. For example, as well as specially curated exhibitions, it works closely together with private collectors, who present their collections and hence act as patrons. Financing is partly provided by a foundation specially set up for this purpose. Other common features include a library and archive, a grant programme for international artists, and the hiring-out of rooms for functions and other events. Cooperation between these two institutions would be conceivable, especially in the areas mentioned. Joint series of events and sharing experience would create new momentum for both sides. By no means viewing each other as competition in Leipzig, Halle 14 and GfZK believe they mutually augment each other in the sphere of contemporary visual arts. According to GfZK, cooperation with Halle 14 would be especially desirable in order to tap new sources of funding. At a national level, mention should also be made of the possibilities harboured by the ADKV Consortium of German Art Societies (to which Halle 14 is already connected) for mutual exchange and joint organisation The project koopstadt provides a good platform for ideas on dealing with disused industrial sites and practical examples from the creative industries. Within this project, an exchange network based on concrete projects in Bremen, Leipzig and Nuremberg has been initiated under the National Urban Development Policy. As far as the cultural and creative industries are concerned, possibilities for exchange also exist for Halle 14 with the projects Vision Weststadt in Nuremberg and Freihandelszone (‘Free Trade Zone’) in Bremen. Apart from the EU project SECOND CHANCE, in which the registered association HALLE 14 e.V. is a project partner, other international networks that should be mentioned are the EU projects Creative Cities and the EUROCITIES Culture Forum. Creative Cities is a Central Europe programme for the development and establishment of the cultural and creative industries in five European cities. Leipzig is intensively involved in this programme and is creating the infrastructure requirements and conditions required for the continued positive development of cultural and creative industries in the city (see 5.3). For instance, a culture advisory board is to be set up in Leipzig specifically to deal with the concerns of the cultural and creative industries which it would be desirable for Halle 14 to join. In addition, new knowledge and expertise could be generated by the international exchange of experience and the scholarly assessment of the project. The objective of the EUROCITIES Culture Forum is to involve local authority concerns and in particular the cultural policy requirements of cities into the EU’s decision-making processes via EUROCITIES. Furthermore, the Culture Forum performs traditional networking functions such as the sharing of experience (for instance in connection with bidding for and hosting the European City of Culture as well as the cultural conversion of disused industrial sites), international cooperation in the arts, supporting the search for partners for international project applications, and the collection, sharing and in some cases publication of information, data and good practice examples on arts-relevant topics (e.g. youth culture and intercultural dialogue). According to the registered association HALLE 14 e.V., in particular Trans Europe Halles plays a very valuable role by bringing actors from the independent arts scene together from all European countries. Most of the members work on or near previously industrial locations. Although HALLE 14 e.V. has not yet formally joined Trans Europe Halles, informal contact already exists. A number of interviewees mentioned the difficulty of maintaining networks. The problem is that setting up and maintaining networks takes quantities of time and resources which are available to hardly any of them. 19
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