European Lab forum hosts wide-ranging debates in Lyon
- 9 years ago
Electro and indie music festival “Les Nuits Sonores” in Lyon, France, has become a showcase for emerging music trends as well as being one of Europe’s most fun gigs. A parallel event, The European Lab forum was also held from 12th to 15th May.
Questions that forum guests discussed included financing. In the context of budget cuts, how can we preserve artistic ambition? What will the arts sector look like in the future?
Polish journalist Agata Pyzik has a critical view of the current situation: “Today, problems include for instance issues of globalization and homogenization, commercialization and the new media channels which make publishing art more easy but simultaneously make artist’s lives more difficult, with less money. The processes of culture are shifting towards the source of the money, resulting in lots of people not even contemplating a career in art.”
Agata Pyzik works in London. In 2014 she published ‘Poor But Sexy: Culture Clashes in Europe East and West’ in which s
Questions that forum guests discussed included financing. In the context of budget cuts, how can we preserve artistic ambition? What will the arts sector look like in the future?
Polish journalist Agata Pyzik has a critical view of the current situation: “Today, problems include for instance issues of globalization and homogenization, commercialization and the new media channels which make publishing art more easy but simultaneously make artist’s lives more difficult, with less money. The processes of culture are shifting towards the source of the money, resulting in lots of people not even contemplating a career in art.”
Agata Pyzik works in London. In 2014 she published ‘Poor But Sexy: Culture Clashes in Europe East and West’ in which s