IETM – International network for contemporary performing arts is a network of over 450 performing arts organisations and individual members working in the contemporary performing arts worldwide: theatre, dance, circus, performance, interdisciplinary live art forms, and new media.
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- #MeToo in the Arts: From call-outs to structural changeThrough research and main observations, this SHIFT publication starts by nuancing some preconceptions about the status quo of Gender and Power Relations in the arts while taking into consideration the diversity of contexts in Europe.
- SHIFT Annotated Bibliography on Gender and Power RelationsThis publication is part of SHIFT’s research into gender and power-relations and focuses on sexual harassment in the culture and creative sectors.
- Gender & Power Relations: SHIFT Key FindingsThis document aims to share and put into discussion some first major takeaways from the SHIFT project’s work on Gender and Power Relations.
- International Producing Organisations: Soon the End of the Competition(?)This session in IETM Munich brought together performing arts producers and their structures from different countries to share examples of cooperation, good practices and explain their business models and structures. This report summarises the findings from the three roundtables held during the session on hierarchical models within producing organisations, the relationship between the artist and the producer, and stories of success and failure regarding international cooperation.
- Beyond Curiosity and Desire: Towards Fairer International Collaborations in the ArtsIn collaboration with On the Move and DutchCulture, IETM has published a new Toolkit for fairer international collaborations, written by Mike van Graan. The publication explores why and how artists and cultural professionals can adopt a more equitable approach to international and intercultural collaborations.
- Life Off-stage: Survival Guide for Creative Arts ProfessionalsThere is a wealth of resources available, both online and offline, to inform, advise and support artists and cultural professionals on how to pursue their careers without neglecting their role as individuals, parents, partners and citizens, and on how to reflect their (artistic) values. Harder to find, though, is one’s path among all those resources.For this reason IETM has joined forces with FIA and UNI MEI to enlist questions most frequently asked by professionals in the sector and gathered comprehensive replies in an accessible language, based on sound theoretical knowledge combined with practical experience of the field.
- Look, I'm Priceless! Handbook on How to Assess Your Artistic OrganisationEvaluation’ - one of the key words in national, European and international cultural policies - is considered with mixed feelings by practitioners: as a burdensome and pointless process, as a meaningful tool for self-improvement, or as something in-between. This IETM toolkit aims to guide you through the key steps of evaluation, whether you have chosen to do it yourself or if a funder or decision-maker asks you to do so and provides you with preconceived tools.
- Platform: East European Performing Arts CompanionThis book explores questions concerning both the common historical experience and the organisation of theatre life in Central and Eastern Europe, tapping into an incomparably broader topic: does something like a Central European identity exist? Published by EEPAP, it counts with three chapters focusing on Romania translated to French by IETM.
- Art for the Planet's SakeIETM, international network for the performing arts, shares its new publication Art for the Planet’s Sake that looks at how contemporary arts tackle environmental issues in terms of artistic contents, managerial practices and venues management. A publication in partnership with COAL, Coalition for Arts and Sustainable Development, Paris.
- Everyday Innovators, Innovative Work Practices in the Cultural SectorEveryday Innovators is a free online publication commissioned by IETM and researched by La Belle Ouvrage. It brings up practical examples of innovative work organisation practices in the cultural sector in Europe.
- Artistic activism in situations of ‘extreme conflict’: the challenge of evaluationThis dossier was commissioned by IETM in order to help artists and cultural operators involved in artistic activities in situations of extreme conflict look at their own work with an evaluative eye.
- I showed her my work and so she started to know meCase studies of international collaborations within and with the Med region. Commissioned by the European Cultural Foundation.