A Theater Director’s Perspective on Intervening - Presentation and staged reading at "Interventions that Tilt Organizations: Opportunities and Leadership Challenges" panel symposium, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 2015 in Vancouver (Invited speaker)

• Presentation Summary: A Theater Director’s Perspective on Intervening As an example of the artist’s perspective and use of artistic competences in organizational interventions Brattström highlights the aesthetic inquiry mode she used as an actor and director during an intervention project with municipal managers. She focus on an episode when participants started to lose confidence and question the project, and compare this critical moment with a scene in a play just before a significant turning point in the story. The critical moment presented a situation where she, in her role as facilitator, had to improvise based on her professional experience. In order to take a analytical stance she theatricalized the situation by framing the critical moment as a scene in a play just before a significant turning point in the story, that is, a situation where decisions taken and subsequent actions will have a profound influence on the future direction of the story. This fictionalization of the situation before taking actual actions to “solve the problem” created a space where scenic imagination and acting experience could be used to gain more thorough understanding of the situation and hence to interpret relevant circumstances at play. To initiate the discussion she presents a staged reading of an autobiographical narrative in the form of two scripted scenes. The first scene, describing the situation of the participating managers questioning of the project is followed by a scene displaying stages of her cognitive process as actor and director attempting to comprehend the underlying reasons for the participants’ questioning. The two scripted scenes are interspersed with commentary in a voice-over that traces her reflections and intuitive actions during this process and compares them with work strategies used by actors and the director during a rehearsal at the theatre. This retrospective inquiry shows how she dealt with the participant’s doubts and questioning by drawing on theoretical constructs and practical skills acquired over time in her artistic practice and training.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Konst -- Scenkonst (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts -- Performing Arts (hsv//eng)

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Hälsovetenskap -- Hälso- och sjukvårdsorganisation, hälsopolitik och hälsoekonomi (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Health Sciences -- Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Ekonomi och näringsliv (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Economics and Business (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Acting

Directing

hybrid artist

artistic research

artistic inquiry

artistic interventions

arts-based initiative in organisations

artistic competence

acting training

transferable skills

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