Working with colleagues in the Netherlands, this symposium will explore the dynamic relationship between artist, curator and organisation; looking at how collaborations on new projects and commissions allows for institutional methodologies and processes to be challenged and changed. Organised by East CVAN.

Featuring contributions from guest speakers and members of the East Midlands’s network,
this event will explore the notion of making things happen; how and why things happen,
who makes things happen, how artists (can) make things happen and will pose the question "What is happening and what needs to happen in the East Midlands?".

This study day will examine some of the issues around the increasingly public and mainstream nature of nudity, stripping and burlesque and the body as a site for dance led experimentation.