CTM project #shares: 2024 Reflection Workshop in Tartu
What is CTM project?
Cultural Transformation Movement (CTM) project is a context-based process to diversify artistic production and its destination starting from within the organisation. It is led by Trans Europe Halles with four of TEH members, Brunnenpassage from Austria, VIERNULVIER from Belgium, Zo centro culture contemporanee from Italy, IZOLYATSIA. Platform for Cultural Initiatives from Ukraine. With the Cultural Transformation Movement project, we are taking real steps, making genuine commitments and openly sharing experiences with the other TEH members about how to make social justice a priority in arts, culture and creative industries. Funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, the Cultural Transformation Movement project is designed for four years (2023-2027) and aims to transform the participating cultural organisations, so they include and reflect the full range of backgrounds and perspectives to be found in European society today.
What is Reflection Workshop?
Collective Reflection Workshop is an essential part of CTM project. Taking place twice a year: during TEH Annual Conference and TEH Camp Meeting, Reflection Workshop is facilitated by Laura Camacho Salgado, CTM Artistic Transformation Facilitator, and aims to provide a platform for CTM artists/agents-of-change (called #AoCs) from participating centers-of-change (called #CoCs) to meet together, reflect on their experiences with the local context and share their impressions, notes and major findings from the encounters with the local communities of the participating #CoCs in Italy, Belgium, Austria and Ukraine.
Reflection Workshop is a chance for #AoCs to learn from each other and develop collective approaches to proactively engage with the local context throughout the cultural transformation process towards social justice & across borders.
What was the Reflection Workshop held at 2024 TEH Conference 97 'Arts of Survival' about?
Through a collaborative process facilitated by Laura Camacho Salgado and the agents-of-change (#AoC), participants of the 2024 reflection workshop titled Lost in Translation? Cultural Transformation Under Construction were invited to explore the role of translation as both a creative and political act in the cultural sector.
The workshop shed light on how linguistic and non-linguistic translations can dismantle power hierarchies and elevate underrepresented voices. Participants engaged in an open reading of a polyphonic artistic statement and were encouraged to translate sections into their preferred language or medium - whether verbal, visual, or performative.
Through collective sharing and creative reinterpretation, the workshop enabled each participant to reflect on their local context and explore the potential of translation as a tool for fostering diversity and inclusion within the arts and cultural sectors.
Interested in the intersections of translation, diversity, and social justice in the arts? Curious to explore methodologies that challenge the global #anglophone status quo? Read more about what was discussed during the 2024 Collective Reflection Workshop of the Cultural Transformation Movement (CTM) project.
