Nordic Culture Fund's Globus Programme has launched a digital platform to explore and share insights on current challenges and potentials within transnational artistic and cultural collaborations.

”How does working as a cultural practitioner within a global, complex, and constantly evolving environment shape collaborative artistic practice - and what can be learned from this?”

The research is based on the inputs and documentation provided by the grantees of the Nordic Culture Fund's Globus programme during 2023. The knowledge is specific to the 14 projects that attended the process and builds on the situated experiences expressed by the various practitioners and experts.

The key insights are presented through four central dimensions, each of which include a set of pathways and opportunity spaces that have been identified:

• Challenging unequal structures

• Fostering the human foundation of equal collaborations

• Shifting to sustainable values and practices

• Enabling change through transnational art practices

These are meant as a source of inspiration and reflection that can guide and inform future practice, programmes and initiatives that seek to work within transnational artistic and cultural space.

The dimensions address prevailing issues in cultural policies and existing funding programmes that might stand in the way of more purposeful and reciprocal collaborations. Additionally, they outline a new narrative that emphasises the importance of long-term, process-based and flexible approaches to supporting cultural and artistic collaborations.

Nordic Culture Fund is organising an online event on Wednesday, 20 March 2024 at 15:00 (CET), to introduce the new digital platform, share knowledge and insights from the the Fund’s Globus programme.

The webinar is open for all but the presentation will primarily be directed towards foundations, funding agencies and other supportive actors and policy institutions.