English Summary
TILLT is a producer of ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS in organisations. An artistic intervention takes place when an organisation enters into COLLABORATION with an artist, such as actor/director/playwright, visual artist/painter/photographer, dancer/ choreographer, writer/poet, composer/musician or conceptual artist.
The aim of this collaboration is to CROSS-FERTILIZE the competencies in the two different worlds: the world of the arts and the world of the organisation. Our work is focused in two directions; on one side we focus on processes of human growth and ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT – artistic competence as a tool to stimulate creativity, innovation, human development, and more. On the other side, we work for increasing the field of work for artists where new art can be born and NEW ARTISTIC METHODS can be developed.
This collaboration basically means that both the organisation and the artist will need to rethink WHAT they do, WHY they do it, and HOW they work/operate which is a key to development. Everybody engaged in this collaboration get to practice the art of changing perspectives, ultimately leading to a development of CREATIVITY and INNOVATION CAPACITY. In short, we create new sources of sustainable growth with the arts as a catalyst, support the discovery of the "hidden" creative potential that resides within all individuals, and enable transfers of skills between different sectors.
Why artistic intervention?
An artistic intervention is a development method that stimulates creativity, personnel development, disruptive thinking, new interactions, and new perspectives – the core of innovation. It is art in its capacity to subvert that is assigned the function to challenge routines, mind-sets and traditional management processes. The unique competencies that our artists carry that are at the core of the artistic interventions we produce are the artists’ abilities to
- think laterally, be imaginative, think ”out of the box”.
- challenge traditional solutions.
- follow non-linear and uncertain processes in order to allow the development of a new vision.
- realise something new out of a vision that is not necessarily functional or dependant on a pre-existing theory or scientific integrity.
Introducing these new competencies in the work place helps people, business and society to develop in new ways.
Why TILLT?
Throughout the entire duration of each project, TILLT acts as a process leader. The process leader supports the creative process initialized and helps to build a platform where learning and development can flourish. The process leader pays regular visits to the work place, conducts in-depth interviews, and holds seminars. The aim of this is to continuously monitor the progress in order to provide the project with the adequate support.
TILLT carries 10 years long experience in creating meetings that provoke established mindsets, and allows different world and ways of thinking to meet and cross fertilize. The presence of the process leader creates a buffer between the artist and the organisation allowing the artist to be provocative without the fear of provoking too much – we constantly monitor what is going on making sure that limits are expanded within the organisation at their own terms and in a such a way that artistic integrity is protected.
The artistic presence in the work place highlights ongoing issues at the workplace in a new ways. At the same time it involves a large group of people in the creative development processes. This has several implications for the organization; it means that more knowledge and competence is involved in the innovation process, making it more holistic and sustainable than it would be otherwise. It also means that the artistic intervention is capable of creating a more profound and long term change in the organisation since it is the members of the organisation that are at the core of the change. But this is not an easy task – that is why the intervention is supported by a TILLT process leader.
Want to know more?
For more information please visit www.creativeclash.eu, or contact us! info@tillt.se
You can also try the automatic translation of our page here or read the article below published in Panorama Magazine (Nr. 29 - Spring 2009 : Creativity and innovation - Driving competitiveness in the Regions) published by EU's Directorate General Regional Policy.
National news clip about one of our projects.