Visioni Urbane: The Basilicata Creative Scene

Visioni Urbane The Basilicata Creative Scene as Seen by a Traveller Alberto Cottica

Disclaimer
The following is only a rough, oversimplified sketch of the Basilicata creative scene. However, it has been run before the community and approved by it
VU's ideology: the market is not evil. It is a major locus for cultural communication. This does not necessarily represent the scene's generally accepted view
Photos are courtesy of the Basilicata creatives

Who are the Basilicata creative people?
Meetings and interviews (June-November 2007)
A virally compiled database
about 50 interviews, 90 “sightings”
www.visioniurbanebasilicata.net/creativi-lucani/

What do they do?

Where are they?

More theater in Potenza?

More ICT/audiovisual/literature in Matera?

Good news
Good attitude to cooperation
Fairly good skills on organizing cultural events (some have been going on for many yaears)
Strong ties between Basilicata creatives and high-profile artists (Abbado, Kiarostami...)
Very strong ties with the land itself, seen as engine of the artistic experience
The “returnees” move back to Basilicata, bringing fresh air, vision and relationships

Bad news
difficulties to access cultural markets
Most events are free: difficult to extract revenue from attendees
little involvement of private sponsors
insufficient demand analysis
little drive to reducing dependency from public sector grants
only very few art orgs have NOT quoted public sector grants as a very important financial source
cultural training activities are a little more private demand driven

More bad news
little scene awareness
The relationships between Basilicata creatives and cultural movers and shakers are “point to point”
Some of them have been opportunistic and driven essentially by the availability of public grants

What creatives are saying:
There is no real cultural strategy for Basilicata
There is no integration between the cultural and other policies (tourism, region marketing...)
So, culture is not viewed as part of the region's strategy
There is a shortage of venues/production spaces
There is a shortage of certain key skills

Lucania's blogosphere: a resource
In Basilicata blogs and online fora have become a locus for public debate
Strongly connected between them and with the outside
About 15 bloggers on the VU community, among which 2 of Italy's top 50
A bloggers association to “establish an offline presence”

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Visioni Urbane: The Basilicata Creative Scene

by Alberto Cottica on Dec 14, 2007

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