Annual Meeting 2014 Arts and Culture in Davos 2014 Davos-Klosters, Switzerland 22-25 January World Arts Forum Foundation Board Hilde Schwab, Chairwoman and Co-Founder, World Arts Forum Klaus Schwab, Co-Founder, World Arts Forum, and Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum Alois Zwinggi, Vice-President, World Arts Forum, and Managing Director, World Economic Forum Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Architecture and Design, and Director, Research and Development, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Michael Haefliger, Executive and Artistic Director, Lucerne Festival Georges Muller, Lawyer, BMP Associés Yves Paternot, Foundation Member, World Arts Forum Contents Welcome Message 3 Welcome Message The programme of the World Economic Forum 5 The 2014 Crystal Award Recipients Annual Meeting 2014, under the theme, The Reshaping of the World: Consequences for 14 Art Exhibition Society, Politics and Business, provides an 21 Cultural Leaders and Programme opportunity to examine how the arts and culture influence our daily lives. In an increasingly globalized world, there has never been a more important time to re-engage with our roots, our Hilde Schwab traditions and our cultures. We have an Chairwoman and Co-Founder opportunity to explore how the values World Arts Forum embedded in the arts – creativity, determination, communication and imagination, among others – can provide a renewed framework for how we live our personal and professional lives. Artists and cultural leaders push the limits, see things differently and open up systems; in doing so, they make us more open to exploring reality. The full potential of human beings lies in creativity – and this is what artists can teach us. At the Annual Meeting in Davos, we invite you to join artists and cultural leaders as they share their ideas on issues such as identity, heritage, the future of music and much more; participate in a new series called Inside the Creative Mind with some of the world’s leading artists; enjoy the art exhibitions throughout the Congress Centre; and celebrate this year’s Crystal Award winners: Matt Damon, Juan Diego Flórez, Lorin Maazel and Shirin Neshat. Arts and Culture in Davos 2014 3 Previous Recipients of the Crystal Award José Antonio ABREU Ikuo HIRAYAMA Ben OKRI Founder, Orquestra Sinfonica de la Juventud Painter Author and Poet Venezolana Simon Bolivar Tao HO Julia ORMOND Vladimir ASHKENAZY Architect and Artist Actress and Co-Chair, FilmAid International Pianist and Conductor Jenny HOLZER Krzysztof PENDERECKI Margaret ATWOOD Artist Composer and Conductor Author Ibrahim HUSSEIN Sidney POITIER Shabana AZMI Painter and Calligrapher Actor, Director and Producer Actress and Social Activist JET LI Lord PUTTNAM Amitabh BACHCHAN Actor and Founder Film Producer Actor and Director Quincy JONES A. R. RAHMAN Luc BESSON Producer, Composer and Musician Film Composer, Musician and Singer Filmmaker, Screenwriter and Producer Sumet JUMSAI Lionel RICHIE BONO Architect and Painter Musician Singer Udo JURGENS Mallika SARABHAI Mario BOTTA Singer and Composer Artist and Activist Architect Dani KARAVAN Jorge SEMPRUN Wissam BOUSTANY Sculptor Writer Flautist Amjad Ali KHAN Ravi SHANKAR José CARRERAS Composer and Sarod Player Sitarist and Composer Opera Singer Lang Lang Rodion SHCHEDRIN Yvonne N. CHAKA CHAKA Pianist Composer Singer James LEVINE Anant SINGH CHEN Kaige Conductor and Artistic Director Film Producer Film Director Julian LLOYD WEBBER Wole SOYINKA CHRISTO & Jeanne-Claude Cellist Poet and Playwright Artist-Engineers Yo-Yo MA Frank STELLA Paulo COELHO Cellist Painter Author Amin MAALOUF Oliver STONE Michael DOUGLAS Writer and Historian Director, Writer and Producer Film Director, Producer and Actor Richard MEIER TAN Swie Hian Umberto ECO Architect Painter, Poet, Philosopher and Author Writer, Historian and Philosopher Lord MENUHIN Charlize THERON Hans ERNI Violinist and Conductor Actress Painter MIDORI Emma THOMPSON Ivan FISCHER Violinist Actor and Writer Conductor Nikita MIKHALKOV Mario VARGAS LLOSA Peter GABRIEL Film Director Author Singer, Songwriter and Musician Es’kia MPHAHLELE Maxim VENGEROV Richard GERE Writer Violinist Actor and President, Gere Foundation Vik MUNIZ Elie WIESEL Valery GERGIEV Artist Author Artistic and General Director, Mariinsky Theatre Youssou N’DOUR Benjamin ZANDER Gilberto GIL Musician and Singer Conductor Musician and Minister of Culture NOA Nadine GORDIMER Singer and Songwriter Author Sharmeen OBAID CHINOY Barbara HENDRICKS Documentary Filmmaker Soprano 4 Arts and Culture in Davos 2014 The 2014 Crystal Award Recipients The World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award honours artists who have made important contributions to improving the state of the world. Matt Damon Juan Diego Flórez Lorin Maazel Shirin Neshat Actor and Co-Founder Tenor and Founder Conductor and Musician, Artist Water.org Sinfonía por el Perú Munich Philharmonic USA USA Peru Orchestra, Germany Arts and Culture in Davos 2014 5 Matt Damon Actor and Co-Founder, Water.org, USA Academy Award winner Matt In 2006, as part of the documentary film project, Running the Sahara, Damon founded Damon is an actor, H2O Africa, a charitable initiative dedicated to screenwriter, producer and raising awareness of the global water crisis. In Access to water will be one 2009, H2O Africa merged with WaterPartners of the most critical humanitarian who has International, a non-profit organization garnered international acclaim co-founded by social entrepreneur and challenges of our time. For for his work both on and off engineer Gary White. Together, Damon and me, ensuring that every White founded Water.org, an international screen. Inspired during family non-profit dedicated to ensuring all people human being has access to trips through Mexico and have access to safe water and basic sanitation. safe drinking water and the Guatemala as a youth, Damon Damon plays an instrumental role both in the dignity of a toilet – two has long been devoted to field and on a global stage in Water.org’s work incredibly basic and environmental and social to raise awareness among key influencers. He travels extensively to Water.org programmes inextricably linked issues, including climate around the world, writes frequently on the issue requirements for survival – is and shines a spotlight on the topic through change science, early one of the most urgent and childhood education, fighting media interviews with CNN, Charlie Rose, ABC’s This Week, Bloomberg, Fast Company, pressing causes in the world hunger in America, and ending the Daily Beast, Huffington Post and the today. The good news is that extreme poverty and mass Economist, among others. By educating the public about the existing barriers to safe water there are solutions that atrocities. and sanitation delivery, Damon empowers people to be part of the solution by sharing work. I’m convinced that we their knowledge, influence and resources. In 2005, Damon became passionate about the can overcome the global impact of the global water and sanitation crisis In 2013, Damon co-led the creation of the water crisis in our lifetime. on hundreds of millions of people – particularly Strike with Me campaign, a series of comedic on women and girls – during a trip to Zambia public service announcements designed to and South Africa with the ONE Campaign and interrupt and engage new audiences in the DATA. It was there that Damon first witnessed cause. The experimental campaign garnered how a lack of safe drinking water traps millions over 6 million views on YouTube and over 200 in the vicious cycle of extreme poverty. million media impressions, demonstrating how new forms of creative content and social media can break through. To date, Water.org has positively transformed the lives of nearly two million individuals across Africa, South Asia and Latin America, ensuring a better life for generations to come. For his work as co-founder of Water.org, Damon, along with fellow co-founder White, was recognized as one of the 2011 TIME 100 most influential people in the world, and received the Environmental Media Award from The Environmental Media Association in 2013. 6 Arts and Culture in Davos 2014 Arts and Culture in Davos 2014 7 Juan Diego Flórez Tenor and Founder, Sinfonía por el Perú, Peru For the world’s leading opera Artistic Director Luigi Ferrari offered the part to the 23-year old Flórez. After reading through houses, Juan Diego Flórez is just two pages of the score, he went to Ferrari one of the bel canto tenors of and accepted the offer. Flórez had to rehearse Sinfonia por el Perú is one of even before he had learned the music, with the the things in my life that I choice. His fluid, expressive help of prompts from assistants and pianists. singing and virtuosity make him After a frenetic few days, the eagerly awaited feel most honoured and ideal for operas by Rossini, first night arrived: 13 August 1996. It was a proud of. It reminds me huge hit, and marked the start of his stellar Donizetti and Bellini. His career. every day of how music has operatic and recital changed not only my life, From that moment, opera houses around the appearances have earned him world set their sights on the young tenor, but also the lives of the acclaim of critics and including the famous La Scala in Milan. Flórez thousands of children, audiences alike. made his La Scala debut in December 1996 – on the opening night of the season. Since then, especially those most Flórez has appeared at all the world’s leading vulnerable, offering them a Born in Lima in 1973, Flórez began singing and opera houses, concert halls and music playing Peruvian folk music with his father at a festivals and worked with the world’s best- new future full of hope. very early age. At 17, he began to study at known conductors. Peru’s National Conservatory of Music. Shortly thereafter, Flórez began singing lessons with His repertoire includes 34 operas, especially by Andrés Santamaría and joined Peru’s National composers such as Bellini, Donizetti and Chorus.