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“Today a true artist is only the artist who can say, ‘for everything else, please address my manager’.

In such contrasting, antagonistic, and variable attempts to remove money, labour, and labour relations from the stage of art representation, there are obvious consensual efforts to explain that art cannot be understood as business as usual, as labour or work – but rather as something completely different. At this point, money appears as creative shame. [...]

However, [...] what will we find if we try to get closer to economic reality of ‘workers’ active in the ever expanding ‘world of art’ in all its domains of (self-)critical negations, transformations, excesses, inclusions, and exclusions only to focus on the very moment when projects and collaborations come to life? How does art-as-ideology inhabit speech used on such occasions?”

Vesić, J. (2016, September 29). »Administration of Aesthetics« or: On Underground Currents of Negotiating Artistic Jobs; Between Love and Money, Money and Love. Retrieved from schloss-post.com.

Join us for our Saturday keynote speech, where we will reflect on the discourse around love and money in the arts.

Speakers

Jelena Vesić, Independent Curator, Writer, Editor and Lecturer, Serbia

This session will be captioned and broadcasted online.

What are the practical ways to deal with burnout? What tools do we need to do so on a daily basis?

According to a 2021 survey, over two thirds of artists have experienced a burnout at least once in their career. This shows us that it is crucial to be able to understand its causes from an individual perspective, and to recognise the signs early on.

This session will tackle strategies and techniques for burnout prevention and recovery with a certified professional, a graduate in psychology at the University of Belgrade with a masters degree in Counselling Psychology from McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Facilitator
Olivera Živanović, psychologist, Serbia
 

The Participatory and Immersive Creation group (PIC) aims to provide a space for IETM members to tackle the central issues we have in creating, presenting and producing this genre of work, through open discussions, experience sharing, and creative exchanges.

On this occasion, participants will engage in an interactive session that will carry the meeting’s main topic of “Work Hard, Live Harder!” through to their experiences and future perspectives. The session will be facilitated by Simón Adinia Hanukai, Artistic Director of Kaimera Productions, and Isadora Bigazzi of Effetto Larsen.

Moderators

Nicky Tsianti, Kaimera Productions, Belgium

Isadora Bigazzi, Effetto Larsen, Italy

Paolo Pezzana, On Srl Impresa Sociale, Italy

Patrizia Cappelletti, On Srl Impresa Sociale, Italy

How can a position of power influence our ability to make changes? Are we ready to give up the position of power in order to create something democratic, diverse, participative? What are the alternative models of management in culture, and how can feminist theories guide us into finding a new approach?
 

Moderator
Markiza de Sada, Independent curator and Drag Artist, Serbia

Speakers

Isa Köhler, nrw landesbuero tanz, Germany

Ksenija Đurović, Bitef, Serbia

Lisa Marie DiLiberto, Theatre Direct Canada, Canada
 

This session will have live captions in English.

In this workshop, Ana Dubljević invites us to view (feminist) dramaturgy - not only how it produces a meaning on stage, but also as the common practice of thinking and feeling within the process of creation, organisation, production and dissemination of a performance.

If in our relationship with the audience, we leave the authority of a central viewing point, can the feminist dramaturgical thinking help us to also leave it in the working process, both intentionally and simultaneously? How can we lead processes based on the practices of pleasure and care? How can we lead processes not with efficiency, but through co-existing in disagreement and with those that provide space for uncertainties despite the fear, because they see space as freedom? Can those different processes produce different shows, and if so how? 

Participants are invited to reflect and share examples of their own artistic and cultural practices and map the problems and possibilities of this type of approach.

This session will be based texts from the book by Ana Dubljević - “The Feminist Pornscapes. On Feminist Dramaturgical Thinking in Dance and Performance Practice”

This workshop has a limited capacity of 20 participants. Registrations are first come, first served.

The exact same session will be held on Friday 30 September and Saturday 1 October.

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Facilitator

Ana Dubljević, Choreographer / Dramaturge, Serbia

How do we lack, experience or fail to create safe(r) spaces when working in the arts? What are the difficult conversations that need to be had, and how do we create an environment of trust in which we can have them? What does it mean to have a concrete appreciation for each other's aspirations, identities and integrity? What are the ideal expressions of safe(r) spaces, and how can we practically create one in our work environment?

This will be a participatory session which will draw from each other’s experience of safe or unsafe spaces while working in the arts.

Moderator
Sedina Fiati, Artist-Producer & Facilitator, Canada
 

Labour unions are losing ground in the arts. Less and less artists are becoming members of unions and are rather opting for  self-organising methods. Self organised methods come with their own challenges, and in some regions, being part of a union is not an option. How can we as artists and artistic workers reclaim our position and work on policies for improved labour conditions within our sector? This session will attempt to answer this question, as well as offer participants a comparison of union activities in different local contexts.

Moderator

Vida Knežević, Kontekst, Serbia

Speakers

Kasia Wolinska, Choreographer, Germany

Fabiola Fiocco, Arts workers Italia, Italy

This session will have live captions in English.