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Fora do Eixo – How do music festivals in Brazil cooperate – using their own currency for greater independence from outside economic structures, exchanging equipments and musical projects? What can we learn from their experiences? Circuito Fora do Eixo (Out of the Axis Circuit) is a network created in the end of 2005 by cultural producers from the north, south and west regions of Brazil. It started with the collaboration between producers from Cuiaba (Mato Grosso), Rio Branco (Acre), Uberlandia (Minas Gerais) and Londrina (Paraná), aiming at stimulating the circulation of musical projects, production technology exchange and the trade of products.
The network grew and the market relations became even more favorable for small music related initiatives. Introduced by the ever-growing access to information, the musical industry’s new challenges, laid fertile ground for small initiatives to grow, especially those that had collaborative structures.
Initiatives like the Cubo Card from Cuiaba – a system of complementary currency revolving around cultural services – , or the grand number of music festivals produced by the members of the network have shown that it is possible to produce in a sustainable scale, emphasizing the direct contact between producers from all brazilian states, through a network of information and under the logic that together we can achieve more.
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Samstag 05.11.2011 | Kater Holzig Galerie | 15:30 - 20:00
DIY OR DO-IT-TOGETHER? Moderation: Ela Kagel | freie Kuratorin | Free Culture Incubator | Supermarkt
15:30 - 17:00 1. Künstlerkollektive und -netzwerke //Q+A [english]//
__A Headful of Bees | Singer Songwriter Collective, Berlin **Eric Eckhart (Musician)
__Fora do Eixo | Festival Network Brasil
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Ela Kagel ist freie Kuratorin, Produzentin und Medienaktivistin. Sie leitet den Aufbau des SUPERMARKT, eines neuen Kunst- und Veranstaltungszentrums mit angrenzenden Co-Working Studios in Berlin. (http://www.supermarkt-berlin.net).Darüber hinaus ist Ela Initiatorin der Free Culture Incubator Workshopserie, die sie gemeinsam mit der transmediale und dem Kompetenzzentrum Kultur-und Kreativwirtschaft des Bundes ein mal pro Monat organisiert. (http://www.transmediale.de/fci). Ela ist Vorstandsmitglied von Public Art Lab e.V. (http://www.publicartlab.org), hält regelmäßig Vorträge auf Konferenzen und Festivals und arbeitet mit Partnern im In-und Ausland an der Entwicklung neuer digitaler Kulturformate.
Carol Tokuyo – is a cultural manager who graduated in Social Comunication from the Federal Universityof Sao Carlos, General Coordinator of the Caminho das Artes Association, wich means “Ways of theArts Association”, she is also the head coordinator in the cultural cluster Independência ou Marte -Conexões Solidárias (Independence or Mars – Solidary Conections), wich was awarded in Free MediaAwards in 2010. Also a member of the Circuito Fora do Eixo (Off Axis Circuit) acting in two units of thiscircuit, Universidade Fora do Eixo (Off Axis University) and the Sustainability and is also a collegiatecoordinator of the Marcianos Exchange System, credit system of social currency; Marcianos, developedin Sao Carlos within the productive chain of culture. She worked in the production and managementof events like: Grito Rock, Sanca Hip Hop, Noites Fora do Eixo ( Off Axis Nights), SEDA (AudivisualsWeek), Festival Fora do Eixo (Off Axis Festival), Observatorio Fora do Eixo (Off Axis Observatory),Cine Sao Roque ( Sao Roque Theatre), in addition to other activities. Supporter of the solidary economymovement, she also acted in the Municipal and State Forum of Social Economy, besides participating inthe Regional, State and National Conferences as part of the organization and communication team.
Felipe Altenfelder – He now works in the national management of the Circuito Fora do Eixo (Off AxisCircut), in the Conection to Latin America area. He was manager of the State network of the Off AxisCircut in Sao Paulo; he was also founding member of Massa Coletiva (Collective Mass)- CooperativeCenter of Communication and Culture, which acts as an official Point of the Off Axis network in SaoCarlos/SP since 2009, and also as founding member of Independência ou Marte- Conexões Solidárias(Independence or Mars – Solidary Connections). He conceived the Independence or Mars. He served asspeaker and audio operator in Rádio UFSCar, besides participating in the process of implementation ofthe FM station and also online. He was curator in the Grito Rock in Sao Carlos in its first 3 editions. Hedirected 2 short films. He graduated in Image and Sound from the Sao Carlos Federal University.
Eric Eckhart is a Berlin-based, American DIY/DIT singer-songwriter and co-founder of ‘A Headful of Bees’ artist collective. Eric specializes in alternative approaches to living sustainably as an artist.
