How To Keep Bouncing? Illustration by Studio vanbeek
How To Keep Bouncing? Illustration by Studio vanbeek

How to keep bouncing?

On Thursday 18 March 2021, an online meetup took place for participants of the Tandem network. Arda van Tiggelen initiated the meeting (Tandem Cultural Capitals 2019, curator at art initiative VHDG in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands), because she felt curious to share experiences and insights with cultural professionals working on international projects.

How To Keep Bouncing? Illustration by Studio vanbeek
How To Keep Bouncing? Illustration by Studio vanbeek

This Tandem community call brought together cultural professionals to share their experiences with working on international collaboration projects during the Corona pandemic in 2020.

New senses, by Marileen Oosterveld
New senses, by Marileen Oosterveld

We discussed questions and topics such as:

What practical or valuable solutions did you come up with to deal with travel restrictions, lockdowns, different and changing measures in different countries?
How have you dealt with the demand of being increasingly flexible, adaptive, creative, patient?
How do you bounce back, keep the flow, and keep your spirits high in times of uncertainty?

Illustration by Marileen Oosterveld
Illustration by Marileen Oosterveld

Now we are sharing an impression of the conversations through these visual notes two illustrators, Gerco van Beek (Studiovanbeek) and Marileen Oosterveld made of the meeting.

Illustration by Marileen Oosterveld
Illustration by Marileen Oosterveld

We look back on a successful meeting that was actually fun!
In the spirit of the Tandem community, best practices were shared, new connections were made and new ideas sparked.

Many thanks to: Tandem for Culture and MitOst, Jenneken Aarssen, Silvana Naguib, Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie.