VISION AND VALUES
agora
- A space to meet [ancient Greek]
- now [modern portuguese]
We are a global movement which celebrates radical artists as galvanising forces at the centre of society.
We make spaces that are centred on the needs of artists and communities across the world. Our spaces operate on principles of co-creation and co-ownership: inclusive, safe, experimental, activist and alive to possibilities of all kinds.
As we put our values into action, we aim to encourage bursts of ambitious, creative energy that are transformative when unleashed. And in doing so we want to find a pathway to new models of financing performing arts and independent artists. Join us today.
Awareness
Diversity
Resistance
Experimentation
Co-ownership
SILVER SWAN
2021
Clod Ensemble at Tate Modern
Photography by Hugo Glendinning
WHAT WE DO
Inspire and deliver a new model of slow residencies for performing artists that forge bonds with local communities and local neighbourhoods.
Create interdisciplinary hubs for enquiry and international relationships
Explore new ways of financing performing arts and independent artists
Empower artists to have more control of their economic and producing environments
WHERE WE DO IT
We are a global movement with members across 49 countries, alongside more than 30 worldwide organisations and partners, all with the joint purpose of creating a network that shares experiences via our hubs and spaces. Our European Pavilion project, Liquid Becomings, will sail boats along four of Europe’s greatest rivers, meeting and interacting with people from the 13 countries that the boats will pass through.
“A project like this, where international partnership is in its bedrock and where spaces in different countries and cities are being created or transformed in order to embrace a common “philosophy” of shared artistic practices, is something completely different and will contribute to generate other kinds of knowledge and sensibilities.”
Vitor Roriz, artist (Portugal)