Composer Meriç Artaç and director Sjaron Minailo will discuss alternative and contemporary ways of creating opera performances. They will dive into the creation process of their own opera ‘The Arrival of Mr. Z’ as a casestudy of a non-hierarchic process where the creative-team work both collectively and independently and the different art forms within the performance are of equal importance and co-depended. How does such a non-linear creation process work when text, music and image are created not successively but simultaneously? What kind of artistic relationship does it ask for from the creators?