Visiting Arts encourages links between UK artists and promoters with their counterparts overseas, especially from countries that are undergoing a significant transition. In such countries, developments in the arts is often the most eloquent commentators and evidence of change.
In Spring 2003, Visiting Arts began a small research project in Afghanistan, under difficult conditions, to monitor the reconstruction of the cultural system by the Interim Administration. Linda Mogul, Visiting Arts’ researcher, arrived in Kabul in December 2002, and began travelling widely, interviewing arts officials, compiling a cultural overview, identifying the current situation in each art-form and highlighting the opportunities and the gaps that exist.
Visiting Arts’ aim for the project is to provide objective information on the progress of the cultural re-building in order that artists, institutions, promoters, and curators in the United Kingdom could begin to engage with Afghanistan in appropriate ways. The report will contain examples of current UK-Afghan cultural exchange projects.
The British Council has provided funds to publish the Afghanistan Cultural Profile on this website.
Click here for the Visiting Arts Afghanistan Cultural Profile
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