PRISMA FORUM Mexico 2009:

OAXACA CITY: June 27 – July 4
MEXICO CITY: July 5 – July 12

An international forum where artists, promoters, curators, critics, researchers, scholars and organizations from all over the world will meet to think art from within to re-imagine our world.

Dance, theater, music, performance.  TODAY’S performing arts question and transform; they generate new perspectives and bold innovations.

Various contexts, different realities, multiple codes, values, methods, and aesthetics. An intercultural effort which implies crossing barriers and escalating limits. A framework that allows for recognizing differences and yet, enables equitable interaction.

The topics that will be addressed at PRISMA include diverse aesthetics and methodologies for the creation of contemporary art; new codes: the artist-spectator relationship; media and technology; migration and transculturalism in the arts; audience development strategies; alternative artistic education and production models; the arts as a social and political tool; best practices and new cultural public policies.

PRISMA is not a Festival. The Forum format implies promoting alternative ways of relationship and self-education using diversity as a catalyst. It is an artist-centered initiative where participants from a wide range of disciplines, trajectories and experience will have the chance to meet and learn from each other.

Each participant is responsible for designing his or her own participation according to their interests.

You decide how to navigate through PRISMA and what you will contribute to this shared experience. PRISMA looks forward to shortening the gaps between organizers and participants, between experienced and emerging artists, between cultures and professional fields.

As some of our participants have already expressed:

“Art is not a product to consume, but an opportunity to participate"
"PRISMA: We build it together, we all make it possible"
"We can't get into collaboration without the principle of generosity"