Collaborators or friends?

Jan 14

One of the issues that one needs to clarify primarily within themselves, is the type of relationship they have with people around them.

Is it a friendship?

Is it professional?

Is it both?

This will help you have clear and honest intentions about them, let go of any guilt-related feelings, and feel free to be as you intended in the relationship.

In the case of friendship, there are degrees in proximity. How comfortable you feel in the presence of the other and also what type of friendship it is. Ideally, a healthy friendship would make you feel comfortable being yourself and not performing what you think the other expects from you.

In the case of professional relationships, I would say make sure you know what you can offer and what you would like to receive. Before you begin working, I cannot stress enough to have written agreements. Maybe it’s an email or a recording on your phone after a mutual agreement to record or any other type of proof.

Entering collaborations with friends can be tricky if you do not protect it. Many times, this is because friends working together think that they do not have to have agreements written down, and this may often result in misunderstandings.

Hug huge

Lia

Lia Haraki

Lia Haraki is an interdisciplinary performer, maker and practitioner working across performance, devised theatre, choreography, song, spoken word and what she calls repetitive poetry. As a creator, she is occupied with issues related to identity, community and value and she beleives in the power of art as a medium that can trigger shifts in perception towards a fairer world.

Lia usually works with the moving and sounding qualities of the human body, in order to speak about its sociopolitical position, by challenging notions of normality associated to it. Beginning from self-sarcasm and working with satire, she enjoys finding performative ways to crack socially constructed narratives and reveal the illusion we have of them as ‘real’. In her pieces vulnerability and empathy are celebrated as human super powers and act as threads that connect the performer with the audience.

Her work in general takes the shape of staged works, site-specific pieces, one on one experiences, sound installations, standup shows, music bands and performances in shops.

At the same time she is proud to have developed several practices through the collaborative artistic research of the past twenty years in the forms of workshops, coaching and artists’ mentoring. In general she considers inspiring others and triggering creativity awakenings especially in younger artists is her most sacred of services !

https://www.liaharaki.com/

Collaborators or friends?

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