Arts & Encounters

Cultural institutions increasingly see themselves as places of encounter. They serve the exchange between different age groups, cultures and socialisations. Participation practices are firmly anchored as formats and artistic strategies in the concept of the production houses and endeavour to build long-term relationships with their diverse visitor groups in the respective site-specific environment. Ideally, cultural access is created in different directions and barriers are broken down. The diversity of projects that develop new forms of participation reflects the complexity of the field: they range from artistic practice, in which performative strategies of participation and collective authorship are tested, to publicity and audience development measures.