CONTENTS 6 FOREWORD By Haugaard & Kilsmark 8 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS By Haugaard & Kilsmark 11 ART AND DEVELOPMENT QUESTIONNAIRE By Haugaard & Kilsmark 21 KIND REGARDS… By Haugaard & Kilsmark 54 THE DONOR TRIBE By Steven Sampson — About the nature of donors and the donor countries’ approach to international development and the values and hidden structures that govern development projects. 60 WELCOME TO AIDLAND By Steven Sampson — About conditions and “conditionalities” in the developing world. 64 DEVELOPMENT AS A GIFT By Steven Sampson — About the conditions for donating – and receiving donations in the context of international development. 69 WHITE By Haugaard & Kilsmark 100 MODALITIES OF PRESENCE – MORE ABOUT VISUAL RESEARCH By Carsten Juhl — About four modalities of presence and a visual deal to people from the Occident and from the Orient. 104 CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT: BETWEEN DE-COLONIZATION AND ECOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION THE STORY OF HOW CREATIVITY, DIVERSITY AND CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE SOLUTIONS HAVE BECOME BEACONS FOR DEVELOPMENT By Olaf Gerlach-Hansen — About culture as a factor in international development and the role of culture in a global historical perspective, from the cold war and colonialism to the present challenges – economic growth and climate change. 114 ART AND ACTIVISM Interview with K. P. Soman By Nikolaj Kilsmark — K. P. Soman is artist and activist. The interview is about art in relation – and comparison to activism and about the role of political – and community-based art in India. K. P. Soman examine different reasons for Indian artists to do political and community-based, collaborative, public artworks. 120 FOREIGN AID AND BENEFICIARIES A NEPALI RECIPIENT’S PERSPECTIVE By Ganesh Gurung — About the role of foreign aid in the Nepalese society and about “donor – beneficiary relationships” seen from a Nepalese perspective. Ganesh Gurung writes about how different groups/parts in the Nepalese society is influenced by foreign aid and by international NGO´s working with development in Nepal. 124 DIFFERENT VOICES By Lasanaa & Women Down The Pub — About the transnational art project Different Voices – a platform for production and dissemination of gender-debating artworks in public spaces. 147 ELECTION CAMPAIGN By MS Nepal Information & Advocacy Unit/Haugaard & Kilsmark – Develop ment Workers in the field of visual documentation — About democratic values and equality between different groups and ethnicities in the Nepalese society. 162 BRIEFING DOCUMENT By Jamie Stableton — About the reality faced by local NGOs in developing countries when meeting the international world of development and its eventual donors. This text is the last part of a briefing document Jamie Stableton made as a consultant for a Nepali organisation which was in the process of defining itself and starting up its activities. 170 THE LANGUAGE OF DEVELOPMENT By Steven Sampson, Nynne Haugaard & Nikolaj Kilsmark — About words and language commonly used in international development. 173 ART4CHANGE By Haugaard & Kilsmark 174 BIOGRAPHIES COLOFON