Making Cultural Infrastructure : Can we design the conditions for culture?
John Bingham‐Hall, Adam Kaasa · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2017
These fields are defined in full in the relevant sections below, but are worth introducing here for clarity.Performance is understood to be a mode of cultural production in which a series of actions are presented as an event that unfolds in time, whether purely bodily or with and in relation to instruments, props, and spaces.Performers are artists that present work in this way, and rehearsal is understood to be the process through which performances are tested and refined.So whilst the roundtable was framed broadly in relation to performance, which is a mode of public display, it was often rehearsal that was discussed.The performance roundtable was weighted towards dance and music in discussion.Making is understood to be a form of cultural production in which materials are manipulated with tools and hands to create objects, whether they be functional, decorative, or fine arts.As making refers to the productive process itself, display is used as a general term covering situations in which the end products are presented publicly, whether that be in a gallery or a shop, for example.Artists working in this way are referred to as makers, and the participants were largely artists, craftspeople, and gallerists.The final roundtable theme, the virtual, is a less common term for a group of artistic practices.We understand virtual culture to be any form of cultural product that can be both produced and consumed via a screen [Cont p13]