The government against the Culture ... and you felt? One could almost rejoice and exclaim, at last the Government proceeds to the strengthening and rationalization of state funds and the many bodies on the culture, to make intervention more effective and facilitate private participation. Unfortunately not. This is just indiscriminate cuts are justified by a creeping populism as the saying "but what are they? These things are meaningless and useless. " The same pattern occurs for school, university and research. The cuts are driven by pure accountancy, without thinking of the consequences for the future. The cleaver government affects not only state institutions but also those who operate outside and threatens so many skills as the future of many young people in cultural, artistic and entertainment are spending their own projects.
a glimpse behind all this underlying ideology (single thought) that now pervades our society, in which the economic profit that will prevail in any field, including culture, depriving it of autonomy, smothering it in utilitarian bottlenecks that make it worthless. Television seems to be the only reference and the most that can be granted to the culture and entertainment.
There are different levels of culture: the knowledge, relational, reflection and criticism, cohabitation and the relationship with the otherness that can not be simply reduced to the economic sphere or flattened by the pervasive system of communication.
I think that the autonomy of the cultural values \u200b\u200bmust be defended in the name of research related to the exercise of free, independent and disinterested. We must pull together and understand that both the institutional thinkers as outsiders are producers of cultural, symbolic values \u200b\u200bthat safeguard the public interest. For this, however, everyone must contribute critical and proactive, out of corporate logic, without falling into nihilism melancholy.
must denounce the risks of type cultural and say forcefully that culture alone can not succeed, it needs the intervention of the state, but does not claim mere welfarism.
We come to power and Basilicata. My association, Basilicata 1799, which for years has worked in this field for a long time to put the center in our region who need something to change the culture and in relations between cultural actors, both in political and institutional. The projects that we made, the last of the City Festival 100 Scale and Arts in transit. Urban Landscape and Contemporary Art , made to power, have sought to build networks among different actors involved in the cultural life of our region and our city, rationalize investment, broaden the participation of people outside the institutional plaster containers.
Paradoxically, we can say that there is too much of the audience and excessive dispersion of funds. The administrative policy and the equipment tends to directly manage the majority of space assets choking the growth of those working in the field. Or, sometimes, you meet the political I think culture should serve merely to the care of their image. What happens in reality.? Despite even the best intentions, many funds are consumed across departments and regional or municipal departments without any logic of convergence, everyone goes their own and so many projects and initiatives are topped with spectacular type activities or cultural. Everyone does everything, not always the best. Also, often, the abuse does not allow bureaucratic institutional projects that have potential for the right thickness and continuity to succeed over time.
Maybe it's time to really think of a new law on regional culture, which is opportunity for real discussion and debate about what to do. Few brief indications from our side to guarantee the autonomy of the above: to encourage the development of networks through the aggregation of cultural entities for the development of their skills, ensuring independence and continuity; discriminate positively on the quality of projects and to coordinate and centralize the various funding sources put in the field of clear rules and transparent access to funds, encourage private participation in projects designed and rewarding.
asking too much. Maybe. Without this is not going anywhere. We must resist, do and propose.
Ulrich
... velvet theater Atri were opened June 18 on a subject that is close to my heart, the time saved, and we were there to discuss it with Calvenzi Giovanna, Francesco and Roberto Bonetti string. Discussion 
