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Dialogues

This is an archive of the Transformer Malta project website. The dialogues below follow TRANSFORMER INFORMAL, a discursive programme of interviews, commissioned texts, discussion and events held during the TRANSFORMER Artist-residency and Artist Run Organisation project, Valletta, 2017–2018.

What you need to work together – Interview with Kibrit and NACMM

Listen back in full: As part of this series of discussions into the different models of organizing art, we spoke to Pau Cata and Francesca Masoero of CeRCCa and Le18 about

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Re-wrapping the histories of Malta – an Interview with Kosmas Nikolaou

Listen back in full: In a break from installing and rehearsals for his intervention at Villa Bologna, Kosmas Nikolaou and I took a moment to discuss some of the ideas

... continue reading.

How to bring people together to change the city – Interview with Valletta Design Cluster

Listen back in full: As part of the Transformer project, we have had the opportunity to consider a range of organisational models and what they offer to the arts organisations

... continue reading.

Mohamed Fariji – Le Musée Collectif: Community participation in the square 3 – 6 September

Residents are invited to take part in a community art project that aims to tell the history of Hamrun. Part of Mohamed Fariji’s project: Le Musée Collectif.

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Interview with Blitz – Process, Legibility, Diversity and Infrastructure Building

Listen back in full: This interview with founder and director of Artist Run Organisation (ARO) Blitz, Alexandra Pace, was an opportunity to both discuss how transformation was affecting the ARO

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Interview with 3137 – Organisational Experimentation, Infrastructure and International Networks

Listen back in full: For this interview with two of the three co-organisers of 3137, one of the Artist Run Organisations of the Transformer project, Paki Vlassopoulou and Kosmas Nikolaou

... continue reading.

Transformer Informal #2 – 18 January 2018 – Mohamed Fariji, Laila Hida, Fenêtreproject – Listen Back

Mohamed Fariji and Laila Hida

Listen back in full: Two days before the launch of Valletta 2018, Malta’s European Capital of Culture programme we sat down for the second Transformer Informal Panel discussions. Preparations for

... continue reading.

Transformer Informal #1 – 30 November 2017 – Ro Caminal and Kosmas Nikolaou – Listen Back

Listen back in full: In the first of two panel discussions with the artists participating in the Transformer project, we began with the work being done by Ro Caminal and

... continue reading.

An interview with Transformer editor.

“It’s important for spaces of art to be able to be different. Some of the most interesting and innovative displays don’t look much like galleries any more.” We recently discussed

... continue reading.

An Introduction to Transformer Dialogues

The Transformer project brings together artists and Artist Run Organisations (AROs) from around the Mediterranean to Malta to discuss instituting alternative and independent spaces for art, and to ask how

... continue reading.

Dialogues

This is an archive of the Transformer Malta project website. The dialogues below follow TRANSFORMER INFORMAL, a discursive programme of interviews, commissioned texts, discussion and events held during the TRANSFORMER Artist-residency and Artist Run Organisation project, Valletta, 2017–2018.

What you need to work together – Interview with Kibrit and NACMM

Listen back in full: As part of this series of discussions into the different models of organizing art, we spoke to Pau Cata and Francesca Masoero of CeRCCa and Le18 about

... continue reading.

Re-wrapping the histories of Malta – an Interview with Kosmas Nikolaou

Listen back in full: In a break from installing and rehearsals for his intervention at Villa Bologna, Kosmas Nikolaou and I took a moment to discuss some of the ideas

... continue reading.

How to bring people together to change the city – Interview with Valletta Design Cluster

Listen back in full: As part of the Transformer project, we have had the opportunity to consider a range of organisational models and what they offer to the arts organisations

... continue reading.

Mohamed Fariji – Le Musée Collectif: Community participation in the square 3 – 6 September

Residents are invited to take part in a community art project that aims to tell the history of Hamrun. Part of Mohamed Fariji’s project: Le Musée Collectif.

... continue reading.

Interview with Blitz – Process, Legibility, Diversity and Infrastructure Building

Listen back in full: This interview with founder and director of Artist Run Organisation (ARO) Blitz, Alexandra Pace, was an opportunity to both discuss how transformation was affecting the ARO

... continue reading.

Interview with 3137 – Organisational Experimentation, Infrastructure and International Networks

Listen back in full: For this interview with two of the three co-organisers of 3137, one of the Artist Run Organisations of the Transformer project, Paki Vlassopoulou and Kosmas Nikolaou

... continue reading.

Transformer Informal #2 – 18 January 2018 – Mohamed Fariji, Laila Hida, Fenêtreproject – Listen Back

Mohamed Fariji and Laila Hida

Listen back in full: Two days before the launch of Valletta 2018, Malta’s European Capital of Culture programme we sat down for the second Transformer Informal Panel discussions. Preparations for

... continue reading.

Transformer Informal #1 – 30 November 2017 – Ro Caminal and Kosmas Nikolaou – Listen Back

Listen back in full: In the first of two panel discussions with the artists participating in the Transformer project, we began with the work being done by Ro Caminal and

... continue reading.

An interview with Transformer editor.

“It’s important for spaces of art to be able to be different. Some of the most interesting and innovative displays don’t look much like galleries any more.” We recently discussed

... continue reading.

An Introduction to Transformer Dialogues

The Transformer project brings together artists and Artist Run Organisations (AROs) from around the Mediterranean to Malta to discuss instituting alternative and independent spaces for art, and to ask how

... continue reading.