**Inspired by the 2016 handbook on how to ‘Become the ideal cultural worker in 86 steps’ – a performance-text that was part of Choreographing Calculation (2012) that premiered at the CoFestival in Ljublijana, Slovenia.
Group 1 contributions:
1 – No shame.
2 – Mistakes are allowed.
3 – Cooperation.
4 – Decide which part(s) of your practice(s) could be realized w/out monetary exchange.
5 – Try out the gift economy.
6 – Circle economy.
7 – Focus on intergenerational exchange.
8 – Make the economic system art.
9 – Take a piece of land.
10 – Think you are one of the runners of the system.
11 – Have a garden together.
12 – Make it a choreography.
13 – We can make everything a choreography.
14-30 Dance More.
* Light a fire!
15 – Keep the pressure … and dance more.
16 – Make rituals … and dance more.
17 – Have a rave once in a while – to receive grace … and dance more.
18 – Find new ways of measuring time … and dance more.
19 – Let things grow … and dance more.
20 – Hands off … and dance more.
21 – Grow roots … and dance more.
22 – Degrowth … and dance more.
23 – Keep on dreaming … and dance more.
24 – Stop looking for the answers … and dance more.
25 – Keep asking questions … and dance more.
26 – Practice the practical … and dance more.
27 – Have a baby … and dance more.
28 – Donate a portion of your success … and dance more.
29 – Recognize interdependency … and dance more.
30 – Give space for:
… and dance more.
Group 2 contributions:
1 – 1x performance art production per year for EVERYONE (kids in school, adults on paid leave).
2 – Provide artistic events in the work place.
3 – Somatic experience spaces for free in public spaces (docked to libraries).
4 – Sharing knowledge about producing art is imperative.
5 – Measure art with art.
6 – ALL art is important.
7 – Culture/Dance inhabits a legitimate, liminal space.
8 – Multi-culturalism is embraced diversity.
9 – Daily naps is normalized.
10 – Decentralize artistic practice/production. (To rural spaces?)
11 – Rotate artistic practices. (and administrative practices?)
12 – Universal Basic Income.
13 – Take a break.
14 – Special privilege for risky art practice.
Group 3 contributions:
1 – Universal Basic Income.
2 – 100% inheritance tax.
3 – Equal ground distribution.
4 – Reichensteuer.
5 – Basic human necessities are secured – don’t work to live, live to work.
6 – Space for sharing!
7 – Space for exchange! Daily open training.
8 – Space for practicing together!
9 – Space for dancing together!
10 – Space for not-producing, antispace, being! Breath.
11 – E.G. juries to be representational, anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-ableist.
12 – Manifested by E.G. quotas.
13 – Recycling of production (perform more)
14 – Longterm production process.
15 – Sustainable production.
16 – Mindset of slower and less consumption.
17 – Global safety and facilities to secure peace. (psychological / at work place / safety).
Thirty plus fourteen plus seventeen equals sixty-one (61) steps!
Ever a work in progress…