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10 years Prince Claus Fund Prince Claus Fund for 1996–2006 Culture and Development Fondation Prince Claus pour la 2006 Prince Claus Awards Culture et le Développement Prix Prince Claus 2006 Fundación Príncipe Claus para la Cultura y el Desarrollo Premios Príncipe Claus 2006 Foreword first year of the Fund’s existence and – like many other laureates – he was to remain both its advisor and collaborator. Els van der Plas, Director of the Prince Claus Fund Gerardo Mosquera participated in the very first event that the Fund organised, which was held in May 1997 at Paleis Noordeinde in The Hague. The conference, which attracted smart minds from throughout 10 years Prince Claus Fund, 10 years Prince Claus Awards. The Fund the world, provided an initial opportunity to discuss the Fund’s objectives and the Awards have been linked right from the beginning. They stimulate and ideals. This resulted in the policy plan that still directs the Fund’s and inspire each other. This book reveals their mutual influence, content. It was here that Mosquera launched the concept of the ‘Zones provides insight into the objectives of both the Fund and the Awards, of Silence’: areas that are ignored either intentionally or otherwise, and and reflects on both past achievements and future developments. include subjects, regions and disciplines that normally receive little or Our tenth anniversary celebrations were held on 6 September 2006 no attention. Mosquera was also one of the participants who argued for at the Rolzaal in The Hague, the location where the Fund was also an ‘Amnesty for Culture’. These two concepts – the ‘Zones of Silence’ inaugurated in 1996 as a present to hrh Prince Claus of the Netherlands and an ‘Amnesty for Culture’ – continue to guide the policy of the Fund for his 70th birthday. It was during the tenth jubilee that hrh Prince to this very day. Constantijn gave a superb summary of the dilemmas facing the Fund: As always, the Prince Claus Fund works in areas that are economically political dilemmas, dilemmas about the relation between culture and and politically complex, and which are characterised by poverty, unrest, development, ideas concerning how to measure cultural activities’ and unstable government. These conditions can prevent culture from results along with the effects and impacts of all that the Fund does. flourishing, and they can obstruct those working in the cultural field from A book may be financed and published, but the real issue involves the developing or even expressing themselves. But the Fund would not be extent of the influence that is exerted by its contents. the Fund if it did not highlight those exceptional people who, against all Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You, the Chair of the Prince Claus Fund’s odds, still succeed in setting up innovative cultural initiatives that facilitate Board, spoke at the same event about the direction in which the Fund beneficial social change. Therefore, I am proud that, in our anniversary would like to expand. With all its knowledge and expertise, the Fund year, the Fund is honouring four women and is focusing on Palestine, regards itself as being a modest knowledge centre for culture and develop- Afghanistan, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, ment that wishes to share its profusion of networks and information with Haiti, Mali, Lebanon and Iran. everyone, both in the Netherlands and elsewhere. By reflecting this idealism, the Fund is observing another world Adriaan van der Staay – a Board member right from the Fund’s alongside the cliché-ed confines of politics and the media that project inception, who also chaired its international Awards Committee for negativity, misery and sensation. The Fund helps to create a world seven years – explores the selection and consequences of these prizes of hope and trust, and it reveres the people who shape this world in a in depth. What did the jury stress during those first few years? Which positive way. In short, it concentrates on those who bravely initiate perspectives did it wish to reinforce and which regions were emphasised? extraordinary and challenging cultural activities. Three laureates describe their reactions to the awards that they have The Prince Claus Fund would like to give sincere thanks to all the received. Bruno Stagno – a 1997 Prince Claus Laureate who subse- laureates, nominators, advisors, artists and intellectuals the Fund has quently served as a jury member – describes this eloquently: “The Prince supported and collaborated with, the members of the international Claus Award made it possible for me to turn a long-cherished dream advisory council and the international network, the sponsors, people into reality: the first Encuentro de Arquitectura Tropical, which was held in at the embassies and all the many individuals and organisations who 1997. We invited ten architects for discussions on tropical architecture. have so generously contributed to achieving the Fund’s objectives to All of us lived in the tropics and we soon realised that we had much to stimulate cultural awareness and to promote exchange between culture share and many things in common. In personal terms, perhaps the most and development worldwide. important aspect was establishing a close relationship with the Prince Claus Fund. Through this, I met people and made contacts that I could never have achieved on my own.” Stagno received his award during the 2 2006 Prince Claus Awards 2006 Prince Claus Awards 3 Contents 2 Foreword 86 2006 Prince Claus Laureates 2006 Els van der Plas, Director of the Prince Claus Fund Report from the Prince Claus Awards Committee 98 Reza Abedini 8 The Prince Claus Fund, 10 years Creating a Unique Persian Visual Dialect by Rick Poynor Address by hrh Prince Constantijn, Honorary Chairman of the Prince Claus Fund 104 Lida Abdul Memory, Place and Imagination by Anthony Kiendl 18 2006‒1997 Global Map of Prince Claus Laureates 108 Erna Brodber Celebrate Black Space by Carolyn Cooper 24 Giving Shape to a Vision 112 Henry Chakava Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You, Chair of the Board of the Prince Claus Fund The Courage of a Practical Visionary by Ngugi wa Thiong’o 116 cora 34 The Genesis of the Prince Claus Awards The Committee for Relevant Art ( ) A Stampede of Dynamic Enthusiasm and Action by Chika Okeke-Agulu Adriaan van der Staay, former Chair of the Prince Claus Awards Committee (1997‒2003) 120 Frankétienne 48 Interview with Gerardo Mosquera (Cuba) Between Dusk and Light by Marcel Duret and Edwidge Danticat member of the Prince Claus Awards Committee 1998‒2001 124 Madeeha Gauhar Sandra Jongenelen Creative Rebel With a Cause by Asma Jahangir 128 Al Kamandjâti 56 Architecture has a Responsibility in the Sense that Turning Cultural Privileges into Cultural Rights by Amira Hass it Defines the Human Habitat 132 Michael Mel Bruno Stagno, Costa Rica, 1997 Prince Claus laureate Bridge Between Two Worlds by Caroline Turner 136 National Museum of Mali 68 Culture is a Conscious Way of Living and a Source A Site with a Special Radiance by Germain Viatte of Respect and Dignity 140 Christine Tohme Yovita Meta, Indonesia, 2003 Prince Claus laureate A Difficult Path where Critical and Experimental Artistic Practices are at Stake by Catherine David 78 Culture Includes a Society’s History and Traditions, Its Past and Therefore Its Future 144 Rapport du Comité des Prix Prince Claus 2006 Abdul Sheriff, Zanzibar, 2005 Prince Claus laureate 153 Informe del Comité Premios Principe Claus 2006 162 The 2006 Prince Claus Awards Committee 164 Contributing Authors 168 Ceremonies prince 170 Acknowledgements MM 172 The Prince Claus Fund claus 174 Laureates of the Prince Claus Fund 2006‒1997 V 1 awards 4 2006 Prince Claus Awards 2006 Prince Claus Awards 5 “We still talk about poor and rich countries, and we make the distinction largely on the ground of economic criteria. This is rather a one-sided way of looking at things ... The division into rich and poor probably does not use the most important nor the most worthy criteria… the amount of money or property that someone can call his own is not the most noble criterion by which to categorise people. Why, then, do we use it in the case The Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development was founded on 6 September 1996 to mark the 70th birthday of His Royal Highness Prince Claus of the Netherlands. It was presented by the Dutch Government, represented by Prime Minister Wim Kok, as a gesture of appreciation for the of countries or nations?” Prince’s many years of active contribution to ideas and policy concerning development cooperation. hrh Prince Claus,18th World Conference of the Society for International Development, Rome, 1985 6 2006 Prince Claus Awards 2006 Prince Claus Awards 7 As an inspector in the field and as a consultant at the Ministry, it was The Prince Claus Fund, 10 years my father’s task to point it out. He also saw that the symbolic and socio-economic value of cultural projects was seriously underestimated. Address by His Royal Highness Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands, This, too, he repeatedly brought to the attention of others. He some- Honorary Chairman of the Prince Claus Fund, given on times sensed support, but often felt like a voice crying in the wilderness. the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Prince Claus Fund It was an amazing opportunity for him to be able to use the Prince Claus Fund to explore and shape the convergence of culture and development on 6 September 2006, Rolzaal, Binnenhof, The Hague in practice. Besides a gesture of acknowledgement and appreciation, the establishment of a Fund for Culture and Development also proved to be a visionary step.
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