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Type of initiative, mission and objectives
The Art Bakery is a centre for the promotion of media related
art works/practices in Cameroon and the Central African sub-region.
It aims at providing local and regional artists with the intellectual
and material tools required for a qualitative production of contemporary
art, with a great emphasis on media art projects.
It also aims at fostering exchange of experience and knowledge within
and without the sub-region, through bringing experienced practitioners
and theorists to lead seminars and workshops. And eventually, to
show outsite the sub-region, the Creme de la creme of local productions.
I expect it to contribute to the building of a new image of contemporary
art in the country and the sub-region.
Internal organization of the initiative and human resources
Art Bakery, for legal reasons, will be structured as an association
with a CEO, a Secretary General, an accountant and a tresorer. I should
say that it is quite difficult here to find reliable and willing people
to carry such a project. But Art Bakery will work a lot with other
local organisations on specific projects.
Programme and projection for 2003
A couple of projects are "planned" for 2003:
• training in the basic techniques of camera shooting and video
editing (for visual artists)
• portfolio program offering short residencies to very young
artists for them to exchange and produce a new body of work, far
from the pressures of the family.
• "art daily", a project for a flexible training
of local journalists in art history and criticism. Will last one
whole year.This is by far the heaviest and most complex project
for the year. It is suitable for the discussions, I think.
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