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In the Umeå meeting we will focus on "Open"; opening up the art institution, and most of all open our process to an audience. We will do a larger number of the activity called The Price of a Coffee than in the previous meetings. We would like to challenge the idea that meeting an audience must mean presenting something or feeling ready, but instead create the possibility to use the institution/theatre/space of artistic process as a social, public space for meeting, sharing and producing without prestige or specific expectations. To focus on the doing/production rather than the presenting/representation.

Opening up the institution is not to be read as critique towards NorrlandsOperan, but comes from a general sort of institutional fortress architecture, wether it be University College of Dance, The Royal Opera, Dansens Hus etc; the doors are locked most of the day of there is not a specific activity, and it is not very much encouraging initiatives "from the outside" if we think of it as a place of working and process rather than representation. How could art/dance/theatre spaces open up and be a place for hanging out, discussing, reading, trying out? Open can also mean opening up for relations within an organisation and it's different departments, levels and spaces.

Our primary working space is the Black Box, one of five stages/spaces in the house (concert hall, big stage, Black Box, White Cube and studio stage). As a parallell space we will sometimes work at the artist-run gallery Verkligheten (Reality), ten minutes walk from the opera.