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9 April 2004 ART COUNCIL: NO MORE SUPPORT FOR WORLD WIDE VIDEO FESTIVAL |
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The Arts Council (Raad voor Cultuur) has advised the State Secretary of Culture to stop subsidizing the World Wide Video Festival from 2005 on. The advice has been made public on Monday 19 April.
The Council feels the World Wide Video Festival is unimportant. If this advice is followed the World Wide Video Festival will lose its main subsidizer and this will no doubt trigger a chain reaction. The financial support by the City of Amsterdam will most likely be stopped too then. This would mean that the 21st edition of the World Wide Video Festival starting 10 June would also be the last. This negative advice is completely at odds with the opinion of other committees who have appraised the festival’s content, such as those of the Mondriaan Foundation, the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and Doen Foundation: all organisations that support the festival financially in addition to the structural funding by the Ministry of Culture and the City of Amsterdam. We are of the opinion that the World Wide Video Festival serves as an international platform, consistent in its approach, and with a high profile. An annual event that takes place in a time when Biennales are commonplace. An event where content decides the selection. An event that combines the various manifestations of contemporary media art, ranging from single screen work to installations, to live events, to interventions in public space. An event that is indeed world wide. An event that instinctively acknowledges that the world is larger than just the western world. An event that combines reflection with innovation. An event where the audience can meet the artist. An event where we are inspired. An event with twenty one years worth of knowledge of media-art. An event with a huge international network. An event that should stay! |
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