West London Story Forums Summaries: Participate – Experiment, Collaborate, Equality, Inclusion, Innovation(18th Feb, Compass Theatre)
Leader: Carina Cross/ Poulomi Desai
ccross@hillingdongrid.org/ poulomi@usurp.org.uk
Key points of discussion:
1) Using experimentation to collaborate with artists and work across boundaries of structures/ taking risk
2) Definition of experimentations- exploration of structure and lack of structure/ imposing less from the top, being non-practical, embracing failure
3) How to overcome the conflict between government/ local authority agendas and artists’ vision
4) Process, platforms and publicity – audiences as active participants to create the work, not just as spectators. Venues, alternative spaces/ support
5) Differences between resources and history in the boroughs – i.e. the difference between Harrow and Hillingdon and Brent and Kensington & Chelsea.
Key Actions
1) To artists and policy makers now: take risks which will explore experimentation, new unlikely partnerships
2) Respect the artist’s vision and encourage artists to action their vision
3) To make an explicit commitment to experimental work to widen artistic creativity for Western Wedge now!
4) To make clear how all of this will relate in tangible terms to 2012
5) Looking at the bigger picture
6) Free venues and spaces – enabling artists to use the spaces