carte blanche artist exchange

From 7 - 10 November 2024 Dansehallerne in collaboration with Andrea Zavala Folache and Adriano Wilfert Jensen and EDN will host the EDN Carte Blanche Artist Exchange: Dancing While Writing While Changing A Diaper: A practical reflection on how artistic practice and childcare could reorganise each other.

This Carte Blanche Artist Exchange is a 4-day collective residency open to 20 national and international artists, choreographers and other dance professionals which aims to encourage collective reflection and action when performing (im)possibilities in the simultaneity of artistic practice and childcare.

Taking childcare responsibilities is easily referred to as an obvious and gendered impediment to artistic practice. How can institutions adapt to make this less so? How can childcare and artistic labour adapt? Who has access to artistic practice and childcare in the first place?

Bringing artistic practice and childcare into cohabitation, we propose to gather around these questions: How can artistic practice inspire doing childcare differently and how can childcare reorganise artistic labour?

Our intention is to co-create a space where professionals and children can engage, think and move poly-rhythmically together. This artist exchange involves score writing, dancing, talking and cooking together.