Join us for a global exploration of creative entrepreneurship! With paper presentations from China, Singapore, New Zealand, the UK and Finland, this session showcases the tensions and challenges in how creative entrepreneurs balance their artistic and business identities. 

 Yutian Ren will address creative incubation in China’s film industry, through the lens of paradoxes. Sue-Fern Hoe will discuss a community-driven artistic space in Singapore (The Theatre Practice) as it navigates the expectations of state-controlled spaces. Canan Keles discusses artistic reclaiming of post-industrial spaces, drawing on ethnography from a former factory in Helsinki(Kaapelitehdas). Malinda Groves uses social bricolage to examine how opera-workers in New Zealand generate opportunities for value-creating work in tough economic conditions. Robert Pearce argues for a recentring of artist’s own language against the traditional entrepreneurship discourse, in search of more supportive environments. 

9:15 – 9:45       Be Water or Be Stone: How Cultural Entrepreneurs Manage the Paradoxes (Yutian Ren, PhD Candidate, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)          

9:45 – 10:15    Making Space, Holding Space in a World on Fire: Understanding Creative Infrastructures as Care in Singapore Su-Fern Hoe (Assistant Professor of Arts and Culture Management, Singapore Management University, Singapore) 

10:15 – 10:30  Break   

10:30 – 11:00 The Trialactic of Value: Entrepreneurial Vision, Spatial Memory, and Consumer Experience in Post-Industrial Creative Spaces (Canan Keles, Doctoral Researcher, Aalto University, Finland)           

11:00 – 11:30 Examining the forms of value created through entrepreneurial opera-work (Malinda Groves, PhD Candidate, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

11:30 – 12:00 Emergent Dialects: Language to Express and Enact ‘Expressive Enterprise’ (Robert Pearce, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, Creativity & Innovation, University of Exeter, UK)