Contemporary Art Days Summit – Digital Pre-summit

During the digital pre-summit, art professionals from across Sweden are invited to contribute towards the formulation of the urgent themes that will be explored in the October summit. You will also get a preview of the plans for October, meet local partners, and the networks Visual Arts Association Sweden and the Collective Brain.

Guiding questions for the pre-summit are:

• What is the current reality in which your art organisation works? What does it look like, what does it feel like, how well do you understand it?
• What are some key challenges you have faced in the past year, as an arts organisation or in the field of contemporary art more widely?
• What do you want or need to strengthen about your arts organisation?
• What role do you want or need your arts organisation to play in the near future?

Biography Jeanne van Heeswijk

Jeanne van Heeswijk’s work emerges from specific local contexts and unfolds over extended periods of time, allowing relationships, shared knowledge and agency to develop. Collaborators are invited to reflect on their own positions, histories, and belongings, and to collectively question existing power structures while practicing alternative ways of living and working together.

Grounded in methods from community organizing, pedagogy, storytelling, and spatial practice, Van Heeswijk’s projects facilitate what she describes as “training for the not-yet”—a process of preparing ourselves, together, for a more just future that has not yet been realized but needs to be collectively imagined and enacted.