Notes

¹ Or, even less formal: why do we keep on bothering our friends with work stuff while we have coffee / a walk / a breakdown together? 






³ (L:) This paragraph, I would really like to talk to you about, in general...there’s interesting questions coming up for me. Maybe we can go deeper into them at some point?

² (L +V:) Halleluja!  No to justification, no to defending, no to mentoring.









^{Photo by Jana Mila Lippitz}

~ Some Thoughts

In the Performing Arts, we often get feedback that happens along the pathways of personal affiliations: whether it’s inviting befriended artists as an outside eye¹, working with dramaturgical collaborators, or making showings for test audiences. Doing these sharings usually relies on a somewhat ‘presentable’ material, or you being further down the road of creating already.
But with regards to striving far beyond your network of common collaborators, beyond the short and random, but highly important conversations after a show, or the widely dreaded short pitch with curators and programmers, there’s very little opportunities to be found for engaging in mutual exchange over those ideas that aren’t materialized enough to showcase them yet.

TakeMoreCare is an initiative that hosts feedback meetings with space for all of the above:
pre-created materials, ideas that are just in the making, knots and ties of your working process where it’s not moving further, open questions you’re dying to ask, the need to gather references and resources, or working methods you are currently developing and wish to talk to someone about. We create a space to share all of this without the need to justify your art².


We are convinced that artists are highly dedicated to developing the processual methods and discourses of their art making³. This might not always come in the way one expects it to, or in the regularly established ways of articulating. We are aiming to make space for a broad range of ‘discourses’ and artistic languages, entry points to creative working processes, and ways to present an ongoing performative approach.