In the past two and a half years of its existence, Reset!'s monthly newsletter has become one of the network's advocacy tools, documenting over the years the attacks on artistic and informational freedom and cultural independence. In order to reflect on how to make this content live better over time, and to recognise the scale of the threats facing cultural and media players in Europe, Reset! is now publishing a compilation of the 2024 newsletters entitled Reset! Chronicles.
Archiving and compiling the network’s documentation efforts has several aims: to inform, to raise awareness, and to keep track.
Indeed, remembering the changes that have taken place over the past year, with the distance that time gives, allows us to refresh our critical vision of political events. This document is then a way of going through the Reset! newsletters as an effort of remembrance—a European information walk through time, month by month.
“Trying to influence and change the EU policy framework so that it is more in line with the challenges of the independent scene is one of Reset!’s missions, and this compilation will help in doing so by grounding the network’s advocacy efforts in the concrete situations described and analysed here.”
-Reset! Chronicles 2024: Into Europe's Threats to Cultural Independence and Artistic Freedom
Discover Reset! Chronicles 2024 and Europe's threats on cultural independence and artistic freedom month by month:
February
Crisis in Culture and Media: France's Struggle for Independence
March
Ukraine: Cultural Paradoxes
of War
April
Election Fever: Bulgaria's Cultural Landscape Amidst Political Upheaval
May
Georgia at the Crossroads:
Defying the ‘Russian Law’
and the Battle for Democracy
June
Spotlight on Europe:
Independent Culture and
Media Amidst 2024 Elections
July
Ongoing Repression of the Independent Serbian Cultural Scene: Funding and Competitions in the Turmoil
September
Germany at the Crossroads:
Budget Cuts in Culture, Independent Cultural Sector as Target
October
Austria at the Crossroads:
Far-Right Comeback and the
Fight to Protect Cultural Diversity
November
Georgia and Moldova Facing Elections: Cultural Resistance or Nothing
Contributors
In order of appearance
Manon Moulin ∙ Tetiana Pushnova ∙ Maradia Tsaava ∙ Vesna Milosavljević ∙ Vitalie Sprinceana
Interviewees
In order of appearance
Clément Lopez ∙ Théo Majcher ∙ Pavlo Makov ∙ Victor Yankov ∙ Desislava Pancheva ∙ Alexander Vladimirov ∙ Giga Bekauri ∙ Zura Vardiashvili ∙ Lika Antadze ∙ Salomé Jashi ∙ Ioseb Bakuradze ∙ Ana Shalikiani ∙ Laura Naum ∙ Petrică Mogoș ∙ Dylan Ahern ∙ Mika Hallbäck Vuorenpää ∙ Tiago Sigorelho ∙ Kalina Dukovska ∙ Marijana Cvetković ∙ Laurens von Oswald ∙ Harry Glass ∙ Jonas Petry ∙ Amelie Neumann ∙ Cymin Samawatie ∙ Heinrich Horwitz ∙ Gregor Hotz ∙ Frederik Marroquín ∙ Smaranda Krings ∙ Irakli Kupradze ∙ Eka Tsotsoria ∙ Iva Pezuashvili