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Working in the performing arts requires stable and sustainable conditions, as well as time and space for thinking and experimenting that does not always direct to production-oriented ends. Cultural organisations can be important partners in supporting these process-oriented structures and in addressing artists’ needs. What do artists need to work, where are they developing their artistic experiments, and what are their needs in terms of funding cooperations and support? This panel’s aim is to bring together artists and art workers to discuss their experiences and expertise within the field of process-oriented work structures.


This is a video recording of the second panel of the conference Ecologies of Care in Performing Arts.
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For some time, more and more cultural organisations and funding institutions have offered artists the opportunity to apply for open-ended work processes without the urge and need to complete a full production. Art residencies especially offer the chance to find time for artistic research, open thinking and creative development.

How do these new work conditions influence the artists’ work individually and the arts landscape in general? How do cultural organisations and performing artists support and learn from each other in these changing work processes? And how are these new work conditions result of more and more pressuring financial constraints within the arts or resistance against them? This conference sheds light upon the changing work conditions within the performing arts.

The one-day international conference “Ecologies of Care in Performing Arts”, organised by Materia in Łódź and STUDIO2 of the International Theatre Institute Germany (ITI) in Berlin, is hosted at Academic Design Center of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. It is conducted in cooperation with the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute, Warsaw. The conference is part of the residency project “zwischen__räumen // między__miejscami”, conducted in 2023. The conference is funded by the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation.

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