Open and Humble; Leadership Qualities of Artists

Let's Create: Do We Know How To?

In this episode Naomi Alexander talks to Ned Glasier about the quality of being Open and Humble; how artists as leaders of co-created art embody this in their work. Ned reflects on how being open manifests in the room and in the body of the artist leading the room. They discuss how an artist's body is almost porous in order to receive and respond during the creative process.

Ned reflects on how important it is to be genuinely open, to genuinely not know the answer when exploring a question creatively with a group of young people. Alongside this sits a humility to be influenced and shaped by the people in the room. Part of the discussion covers what happens in an artist's body in order to absorb other people's ideas and where in the body this happens.

What do artists need to do for themselves to get into a flow state in order to be open and humble? How do artists prepare psychologically to hold an open state of being when leading a creative process? And how do artists manage the moment of collision between being open to people's ideas and the need to make decisions in order to make a show/work of art? Why is it so important to be open and humble when leading co-creative practice?

Naomi Alexander is the CEO and Artistic Director of Brighton People's Theatre. Her AHRC funded research Let's Create: Do we know how to? identified 20 qualities, skills and responsibilities that are important for artists leading co-creative practice. The report and illustrations are available here.
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Ned Glasier is the former CEO and Artistic Director of Company Three. He now works freelance. To find out more about his work visit his website here: http://nedglasier.com/
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