Dear participants of the conference, Thank you for inviting me to this conference. Culture, as a field, is a dynamic one – full of confrontations and negotiations, Not unexpectedly Within it, a particular kind of power is at stake, namely “the power to define, to give meaning to things” (Hall 1982)....
1. The Left's relationship with culture has experienced a gradual decline. Although members of the Left had great expectations from the government in this field, these have been largely unfulfilled. Why did this happen and how can it be reversed?. I don't share the view that there has been a decline...
We are in the habit of speaking about museums and their function almost exclusively in terms of cultural creation and promotion. What exhibitions they are organising, what educational programmes they are running, what is the narrative each of them upholds. In recent years we have been gradually inc...
After a 40-day period which we devoted to briefing, planning and collaboration, we are today in a position to present our strategic orientation for the upcoming period. In the dialogue between the Ministry of Culture and other institutional agencies, independent creators and cultural-production comm...
