"Real progress is not being progressive, but progressing." (Bert Brecht)
A
progressive Europe emerges as a dynamic concept - geographically as well as
ideologically. Progressive cultural politics develops within permanent
conflictual debates about the preconditions of such a dynamics, within the
creation of critical public spheres, within a continuous exchange of
differences.
The European Institute for Progressive
Cultural Policies is concerned with intensifying networking among actors in the
cultural field. It participates in their transversal practices of cooperation
and develops their processual discourses on the arts and on the instruments of
cultural policies.
The activities
of the institute comprise
- creating new public spheres against the conservative hegemonial discourse of
cultural identity and representation
- effectively introducing issues of cultural politics into discussions on
democratic politics
- reflecting and developing exemplary artistic practices.