Live Conversation: Archipelago of Artistic Practices

Eavatea is a dynamic, ever-changing artistic form for developing, visualising, presenting, archiving and interconnecting research-based artistic practices. Often unfolding in situ, Eavatea aims to incorporate these nomadic, collective, ephemeral and trans-disciplinary practices. It offers an active form of ‘counter-mapping’, taking into account the experience of physical space, the passage of time, the encounters between people and the stories they share. Eavatea is defined as a relational infrastructure that highlights connections between practices, documents and organizations, in this way generating new unexpected links and possible interdependencies. Eavatea aims to function as an agora, encouraging new modes of collective research that could be developed through using the tool as a digital meeting place, but also as a catalyst for physical gatherings. As a collective mode of curating, the tool triggers the creation of a growing and always shape-shifting collection of knowledge archipelagos, which can be made visible for a live audience or that can be consulted or re-activated later on.

Spaces for artistic work are crucial for artists and precious for ecosystems of cultural life. Their availability, affordability and quality differ heavily and are ever more under pressure in neoliberal contexts. With Eavatea, Jubilee initiated such an infrastructure for development and collaboration, even if its basis is online. How can different kinds of environments for artistic work be shared, maintained, used sustainably, collectively and generatively?

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Live Conversations are part of Eavatea’s co-initator nadine’s curated activities in dialogue and in collaboration with artists and or partners. The conversations focus on a specific topic or artistic practices affiliated with nadine. This fourth Live Conversation is organised in the context of Jubilee’s Archipelago of Artistic Practices, a Research Summit organised by Jubilee and M HKA. The programme and exhibition are built around Eavatea, a digital infrastructure for mapping research-based and transdisciplinary practices. During this live conversation Eavatea’s partners reflect on ways in which an extended community of actors can create an economic model for Eavatea, using their own versions of the tool.