ART OF EXPERIENCE
Strong personal experience is one of the essential sources of artistic creation. Practitioners of various fields are constantly looking for ways to transform personal experience through their work and share it as art. Theater Conference JAMU 2025 is a platform for the exchange of practices, insights and methods in work with personal experience in artistic creation.
Together with you, we will try to go beyond the usual conference format towards creating a (safe) space for the mutual exchange of not only knowledge and know-how, but also questions and feelings. The conference includes lectures of different kinds as well as workshops/masterclasses.
We offer three ways to participate in the event, as a presenter, a community member, or a visitor. For each of these, you can register separately. If you are interested in participating both as a presenter and a community member, please, fill in both application forms.
PRESENTERS
Become part of the conference program. Here is the list of formats in the alphabetical order:
Send us your proposal by 12 December 2024, via the application form for Speakers.
COMMUNITY MEMBERS
Do you have a specific practice of transforming experience into an artistic output that you want to share in depth with a close circle of other artists? Are you interested in the experiences and practices of others? Do you want to develop the ability of collective thinking, sensing, and doing? Become part of a close community of practitioners that will accompany and reflect upon the conference program.
The community platform provides a dedicated, autonomous space tied to the conference but open for exploration. Over the course of three days, as a community member you will explore the questions posed in a collaborative, creative environment, using methods like situational interactions, interpersonal dialogues, shared experiences, and artistic expressions to reflect on the conference themes in fresh and meaningful ways. The mode of existence will be shaped by unique group dynamics, and the design of activities will be entirely and exclusively in the hands of the community members.
Members of the community will meet online in January and February 2025 to prepare their topics and activities. In person, they will meet the day before the conference and then in between the program sessions. The group will be accompanied by a facilitator. Meetings of the community may include pre-arranged joint activities (e.g., a movement lesson, guided meditation, walk, etc.) developed by its members or offered by the facilitator. The Conference Board offers space and a time framework for concentrated collective work and topics to think about. However, the content and form of the community meetings and their participation in the conference are up to its members.
The community is expected to shape the program of the closing event of the conference - a dinner for presenters and visitors (provided by the organizational team).
Send us your motivational letter by 10 January 2025, via the application form for Community members.
VISITORS
Join the conference as an audience member and participate in discussions and masterclasses. Let us know about your participation via the application form for Visitors.
