Artists On Creative Administration: A Workbook from the National Center for Choreography, edited by artist/cultural strategist Tonya Lockyer and published by The University of Akron Press.

Artists and arts workers from across the U.S. reflect on how they challenge and create new approaches to the business of art. Through first-hand stories, the book pairs big topics with actionable tactics, addressing themes like agency, equity, activism, design thinking, process, leadership, collaboration, family, ethics, and care. Provocative and candid essays and interviews expand our view of what creativity, leadership, and administration can be, as each chapter closes with experiments for the reader to try and adapt to their own thinking, work, and life.

I wrote a chapter titled “Choreographing Relationships and Support - Recognizing Practices of Managers/Producers" that draws on my work with Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, and profiles the work of amazing peers across the field including Nora Alami, Chelsea Goding, Miranda July, Aaron Mattocks, and Marýa Wethers.

A publication crafted by Inland Academy, an independent postgraduate program sculpted by the Spanish collective Inland, which offers tools, theoretical bases, and expertise to define and develop projects that examine and reinvent power dynamics around rurality and contemporary art.

The book is a harvest of reflections that renders tangible time spent together in the year-long Academy, long-distance partnerships, and shared hopes for ongoing collective creation. Rather than solely a record of experience or a concluding project, the collection is a seeding of process, learnings, and questions. Dammers was part of the editorial team, and contributed several texts.

The publication was launched at foodculturedays, a biennale focused on art and ecology in Vevey, Switzerland. Books are available for purchase online and at select stockists.