A new knowledge-sharing model

A new knowledge-sharing model promotes fast networking and offers light-speed career opportunities. The method minimizes ‘rejection stress’ and facilitates an exchange of views between professionals in record time of just 8 minutes.

The idea

Speed dating is a way of meeting a considerable number of new people within the space of a few minutes. Each ‘speed date’ takes from 3 to 8 minutes. At the end, the participants make a list of people whom they would like to meet again. If two people have put each other on their list, they exchange phone numbers. The method of speed dating, devised by Rabbi Yaacov Deyo from Los Angeles in 1998, undoubtedly saves time and frustration. Apparently, women are able to judge whether someone would make a good husband or boyfriend within the first 30 seconds. Can decisions made in a fraction of a second bring happiness? How can we identify our ‘unconscious preferences’? Speed dating for artists, curators & other professionals is a method specially adjusted for the world of art. It protects the proffesionals against the temptation to spend long hours at boring opening receptions, protracting studio visits and prevents unsuccessful and frustrating research. The method minimizes ‘rejection stress’ and facilitates an exchange of views between the artist and the curator in record time of just 8 minutes. Speed dating promotes fast networking and offers light-speed career opportunities. The event will end with a party with the participants.  A Creative Commons project idea.

First edition 25th March 2012, Warsaw

Organized by: Cricoteka (Joanna Zielińska), Polish Institute in Tel Aviv (Arieh Rosen), a.i.r. Laboratory (Marianka Dobkowska), supported by IAM in Warsaw.

Participants: Maya Briner (dancer, choreographer, video artists from Tel Aviv), Łukasz Chotkowski (dramaturgist and director from Warsow), Anna Maria Karczmarska (visual artist, stage and costiume designer from Cracow), Lewis & Taggart (visual artists from Bergen), Moshe Kepten (artistic director of the Israel Festival Jerusalem from Tel Aviv), Noa Knoler (artistic director of the Dimona Theatre Culturelab from Dimona), Natalia Korczakowska (director from Warsow), Yonatan Levy (writer, director, designer from Israel), Saar Magal (choreographer from Israel), Kasia Marszewski (visual artist from Berlin), Halifa Natur (director from Israel), Małgorzata Pianowska (choreographer, dancer, director of Ciało Umysł Festival from Warsow), Shai Pitowski (playwriter, director and actor), Ania Szwajgier (performer and contemporary music composer from Cracow), Itay Wizer (director from Israel).