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Fed by curiosity and beauty - Remembering Myrsine Zorba

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Speech at the conference in the memory of Myrsine Zorba.

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Fed by curiosity and beauty What Culture? Culture for what? Maria Vlachou, Sapienza Università di Roma, 31.5.2024
“How do I manage to waste hours and days looking at the world and still be fed by curiosity and beauty? Where is the prudent desperation? Where does my darkness hide, so deep that it disguises as light?” 1.8.2022
“The raw material of our democracy is individual creativity and collective imagination. At a time of immense atomization, we need to shift the culture of our nation back and toward its basic ideals - and our cultural institutions must lead the way.” Deborah Cullinan Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2017)
? the promotion of book and reading ? cultural heritage ? artistic creation ? the promotion of cinema and the audiovisual ? decentralisation ? internationalisation
What have we got to do with this?
“(...) it is increasingly clear that new approaches to many of the UK’s political processes require urgent and radical attention. This includes how cultural policy operates – and who and what cultural policy is for. Questions about how culture is made and by who, and which creative activity gets recognised and supported, are matters in which we all have a profound and ever more urgent interest.”
“(...) a substantial social freedom to create versions of culture; real, concrete freedoms to choose what culture to make, as well as what culture to appreciate.” (...) Opportunities to see and hear things; new things, old things, strange things, beautiful things, fun things and ferocious things; things that mobilise, confuse and move; things that comfort, and things that inspire.”
Fed by curiosity and beauty - Remembering Myrsine Zorba
By 2030, we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish, and where every one of us has access to a remarkable range of high-quality cultural experiences.
By 2030, we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish, and where every one of us has access to a remarkable range of high-quality cultural experiences. ? A country transformed by culture. ? Bringing us together, happier, healthier. ? To excite, inspire, delight. ? To enrich our lives.
“While we must obviously preserve and extend the great national institutions, we must do something to reverse the concentration of this part of our culture. We should welcome, encourage and foster the tendencies to regional recreation that are showing themselves; for culture is ordinary, you should not have to go to London to find it.”
Fed by curiosity and beauty - Remembering Myrsine Zorba
The guardians of culture ? Cultural snobs ? Neo-mandarins ? Neo-cosmopolitans John Holden, Culture and Class
The day-to-day culture Luís Ferreira, 23 Milhas, ?lhavo
"I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build a state that is - regardless of how unscientific this may sound to the ears of a political scientist - humane, moral, intellectual and spiritual, and cultural.“ Václav Havel
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Fed by curiosity and beauty - Remembering Myrsine Zorba

  • 1. Fed by curiosity and beauty What Culture? Culture for what? Maria Vlachou, Sapienza Università di Roma, 31.5.2024
  • 2. “How do I manage to waste hours and days looking at the world and still be fed by curiosity and beauty? Where is the prudent desperation? Where does my darkness hide, so deep that it disguises as light?” 1.8.2022
  • 3. “The raw material of our democracy is individual creativity and collective imagination. At a time of immense atomization, we need to shift the culture of our nation back and toward its basic ideals - and our cultural institutions must lead the way.” Deborah Cullinan Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2017)
  • 4. ? the promotion of book and reading ? cultural heritage ? artistic creation ? the promotion of cinema and the audiovisual ? decentralisation ? internationalisation
  • 5. What have we got to do with this?
  • 6. “(...) it is increasingly clear that new approaches to many of the UK’s political processes require urgent and radical attention. This includes how cultural policy operates – and who and what cultural policy is for. Questions about how culture is made and by who, and which creative activity gets recognised and supported, are matters in which we all have a profound and ever more urgent interest.”
  • 7. “(...) a substantial social freedom to create versions of culture; real, concrete freedoms to choose what culture to make, as well as what culture to appreciate.” (...) Opportunities to see and hear things; new things, old things, strange things, beautiful things, fun things and ferocious things; things that mobilise, confuse and move; things that comfort, and things that inspire.”
  • 9. By 2030, we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish, and where every one of us has access to a remarkable range of high-quality cultural experiences.
  • 10. By 2030, we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish, and where every one of us has access to a remarkable range of high-quality cultural experiences. ? A country transformed by culture. ? Bringing us together, happier, healthier. ? To excite, inspire, delight. ? To enrich our lives.
  • 11. “While we must obviously preserve and extend the great national institutions, we must do something to reverse the concentration of this part of our culture. We should welcome, encourage and foster the tendencies to regional recreation that are showing themselves; for culture is ordinary, you should not have to go to London to find it.”
  • 13. The guardians of culture ? Cultural snobs ? Neo-mandarins ? Neo-cosmopolitans John Holden, Culture and Class
  • 15. "I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build a state that is - regardless of how unscientific this may sound to the ears of a political scientist - humane, moral, intellectual and spiritual, and cultural.“ Václav Havel