Never Mind the Balance Sheet: The Dangers Posed by Public-Private Partnerships in Central and Eastern Europe (2008)
Filed under report | Tags: · central europe, commons, east-central europe, eastern europe, finance, public-private partnership
In recent years public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been heavily promoted in central and eastern Europe (CEE), often giving the impression that where infrastructure is concerned, PPPs are the only game in town. Yet behind the plethora of conferences, workshops and publications, few CEE countries have implemented more than two or three PPP projects, and even fewer truly successful projects.
As George Monbiot, UK author and investigative journalist, says of the Private Finance Initiative, the British variant on PPP: “The reality is that PFI, or public private partnership as the government now prefers to call it, is a scam. (…) Far from introducing market disciplines, it has become an official licence to fleece the taxpayer. Far from reducing the public sector borrowing requirement, PFI is, as the Accounting Standards Board has noted, simply an an off-balance sheet fiddle. Most alarmingly, the ministers I have spoken to simply do not understand how it works.”
Research and writing: Fidanka Bacheva-McGrath, Eliska Cisarova, Akos Eger, Pippa Gallop, Zvezdan Kalmar, Vera Ponomareva
Publisher CEE Bankwatch Network, November 2008
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License
60 pages
The Hidden Costs of of Public-Private Partnerships online resource
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Sound Exchange: Anthology of Experimental Music Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe 1950-2010 (2012) [English/German]
Filed under book | Tags: · central europe, czech republic, east-central europe, eastern europe, electroacoustic music, electronic music, estonia, experimental music, germany, hungary, latvia, lithuania, music, music history, poland, radio art, slovakia, sound art, sound recording
“The long traditions of experimental music cultures in Central and Eastern Europe are diverse and multifaceted, but have been difficult to access until now. With contributions from selected music, media and cultural studies specialists from eight countries, this anthology bundles together elements of unearthing material locally and documents current positions and historical finds by protagonists, as well as musical aesthetic qualities in the history of musical experiments in Central and Eastern Europe. The anthology pursues commonalities and singularities and discusses their relationship with the international history of experimental music.
The often barely known musical and artistic positions portrayed here show a wide stylistic and aesthetic spectrum of electro-acoustic music, composed and improvised music, musical media art and audio art from 60 years of experimental musical culture in the context of decades-long political repression and an atmosphere of increasing openness and international networking following 1989.”
With contributions by Antoni Beksiak, Balázs Kovács, Daiga Mazvērsīte, Gerhard Lock, Hans-Gunter Lock, Māra Traumane, Martin Flašar, Michal Rataj, Miloš Vojtěchovský, Monika Pasiecznik, Pavel Klusák, Slávo Krekovič, Tautvydas Bajarkevicius, Viestarts Gailītis.
Edited by Carsten Seiffarth, Carsten Stabenow, and Golo Föllmer
Publisher PFAU, Saarbrücken, 2012
ISBN 9783897274877, 3897274876
400 pages
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Gábor Hushegyi, Zsolt Sőrés: Transart Communication: Performance & Multimedia Art Studio erté 1987-2007 (2008) [English, Slovak, Hungarian]
Filed under book | Tags: · 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, art, art history, east-central europe, hungary, multimedia, performance, performance art, slovakia
“Monografia dokumentuje dvadsaťročnú činnosť legendárneho umeleckého združenia Štúdio erté v anglickom, slovenskom a maďarskom jazyku. Skupinu založili József R. Juhász, Ilona Németh, Ottó Mészáros a Attila Simon v roku 1987 v Nových Zámkoch. Počas svojho pôsobenia sa združenie preslávilo organizovaním festivalov alternatívneho, experimentálneho a multimediálneho umenia, umením performancie, výstavnou, ale aj edičnou a edukačnou činnosťou. Aktivity zoskupenia nie je možné vnímať mimo spoločensko-politického kontextu strednej Európy v 80. a 90. rokoch minulého storočia. Práve spoločenská realita totalitného systému a menšinového geta boli príčinou ich vzniku. Činnosť skupiny v knihe priblížia texty Gábora Hushegyiho a Zsolta Sőrésa a rozsiahla obrazová dokumentácia.”
Edited by Gábor Hushegyi, József R. Juhász, Ilona Németh
Publisher Kalligram, Bratislava, 2008
ISBN 8071499757
296 pages
Transart Communication on Monoskop wiki
Jozsef R. Juhász on Monoskop wiki
performance art in Slovakia on Monoskop wiki
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