Input Geberin: Nimi Ravindran
When: 9. December 2024, 14:00 - 16:00 Uhr CET
Where: online via Zoom
Language: English
Target group: The workshop is aimed at freelance producers, managers, agents and representatives of production offices who (want to) carry out international projects and / or (want to) work with artists / organisers from abroad.
Registration form: You can register here.
about the input session
This session is the second out of three public input sessions within the frame of the digital companionship programme: transnational contexts & relations, that is organised and hosted by Kreativ-Transfer, a project of Dachverband Tanz Deutschland and produktionsbande. In the companionship programme, one companion with transnational expertise supports one participant in the development and expansion of their own transnational working practice as a producer in the independent performing arts.
In this session we shall attempt to dig deep into the idea of what constitutes hospitality in the arts, especially while we tour. Touring brings together cultures and communities that might be vastly different with unequal resources and opportunities, keeping this in mind, we will try to do a deep dive into the how, what and why of navigating and negotiating our differences and similarities. Together we shall critically examine both our formal and informal structures, as well as the benefit of shared wisdom across cultures. We will also use our time together to try and form informal connections for future collaborations.
Speaker: Nimi Ravindran
Nimi Ravindran is a writer and theatre practitioner with over 20 years of experience in the theatre working in various capacities. She is based in Bangalore, in Southern India and is also the co-founder and Artistic Director of Sandbox Collective, a feminist artists' collective working at the intersection of art and gender and the initiators of the Gender Bender festival (currently in its 10th edition). She also serves on the advisory board of two arts organistations based in India and she holds a senior fellowship in Theatre from the Ministry of Culture, Goverment of India.
Working Internationally with transnational cohorts has always been an incredible learning experience and yet fraught. The more we work with individuals and organisations that are unlike what we're used to, the more we build transnational solidarities and a non-negotiable space for art and artists. And, while such collaborations are almost always intertwined within a web of complexities reeking of inequalities based on our social-political realities, I still believe that the only way forward is through discussions, navigations and negotiations. If we believe in a better world, we can only build it together, not in silos and this is a dream worth pursuing, we can't give up on this simply because some of us don't have a choice, and some of us don't believe in giving up.
