Laboratory on Feedback in Artistic Processes 3

Introduction
RESPONSES
How do artists organise feedback and how do they process feedback?
Who do they want feedback from and what are the different
roles the feedback givers can take on? What is the relationship
between artists and feedback givers and how does feedback shape
the artistic work and our thinking about artistic work?
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These were the initial questions addressed in the third and last
edition of the series <strong>Laboratory</strong> on Feedback in Artistic Processes,
which took place at the Uferstudios in Berlin on 18th and 19th
January 2018.
The 2014 feedback laboratory examined different feedback methods
and approaches within artistic processes, which were introduced,
practically tried out, reflected upon and discussed. In 2015,
public feedback and its value for the artists as well as for audiences
was tested and debated in varied formats. Additionally, three
Feedback Labs Go Public in collaboration with the Tanztage Berlin
festival and Tanzbüro’s module Mapping Dance Berlin (2015, 2016
& 2017) experimented with new feedback formats for the audience.
For the last edition of our feedback lab series we wanted to go
back and take a closer look at the place of feedback within the
artistic process itself, readdressing and discussing questions and
topics that had emerged repeatedly during the previous labs. Feedback
has become such an important and powerful tool in the arts
(and beyond), in educational contexts as well as in the professional
field, that it seemed worthwhile to explore its complexity and
often subtle implications. Special attention was given to the very