COOP ~ Long Time No See: Forming a new art economy of the commons from Month to Month
Seminar 4: 8 - 10 March 2023
Core Tutor (in person): Binna Choi
Guest tutor (in person): Aline Hernández
Online guest/participation: Annette Krauss and Nuraini Juliastuti
Reading Materials:
Unlearning Exercises ( please download the book at here & browse it through the whole book: The mandatory reading is the essay by Andrea Philips “ ‘The Imperative for Self-attainment: From Cradle to Grave’”)
An easy reading, “Working for the Commons: An interview with Casco( – Office for Art, Design and Theory, on new ways for art institutions to work” (23 NOV 17) on Frieze.
Game:
Projects info:
https://artscollaboratory.org/
Wednesday 8th of March
11:00-13:00: Check-in + “How is the weather?” + Imagining the three-days together
LUNCH BREAK (13:00-14:30)
14:30-16:00 - Talk “Long time no see” (Working for the commons since 2018) by Binna Choi and Aline Hernadez - Situating the Commons dot Art in the Casco and “Nina” pathways
16:00-17:30 - Emergent and informal conversations
17:30-19:00 - Online talk by and conversation with Antariksa over the Javanese “Sumarah” practice from an economic perspective
*After dinner the students meet Nikos and Peter for 30 min about the CO-OP Summit locations.
DINNER (19:00-20:00) followed by SOLO or IMPROVISED TIME
Thursday 9th of March
10 :00-11:30 - Workshop I Game with Caroline Woolard
11:30-13:00 - Workshop II Mapping & Scenario
LUNCH BREAK (13:00-14:00)
14:00-17:00 - Workshop III Recipe-writing
17:00-19:00 - Workshop IV “Unlearning Exercises”
DINNER (19:00-20:00) followed by SOLO or IMPROVISED TIME
*CO-OP tutors dinner
Friday 10th of March
10:00-12:00 - In liaison with NIna bell F. House Museum / SIngapore Biennale 2022
(Online seminar)
Building Nina bell F. House Museum: Why and how to build this?
by Annette Krauss and Nuraini Juliastuti
Artist Annette Krauss (NL/Germany) and researcher Nuraini Juliastuti (NL/Indonesia) will lay the conceptual ground for the questions, learnings and doings that are guiding the Nina bell F. House Museum: namely around the commons, unlearning, instituting otherwise, and archiving.
Nina bell F. as a collective figure first appeared at the Site for Unlearning: Art Organization (2013-2016?). This was a long term collaboration between artist Annete Krauss and the Casco team about institutional habits in practicing the commons. It explored the relationship between an art institution's vision with its cultural production and day-to-day workings that inform administrative and managerial ethos. Especially a discussion about collective authorship and shared admiration for the artistic, Black, feminist and political engagements of Nina Simone, bell hooks, and Silvia Federici had Nina bell F. (pronouns she/they) manifested. This spirit lives on, germinating the House Museum. Krauss will elaborate on the theoretical and artistic underpinnings of unlearning, and the material, artistic and political dimensions of unlearning processes, drawing from her engagement with Sites for Unlearning. Researcher and one of the co-initiators of Nina bell F. House Museum Nuraini Juliastuti will help understand the archiving practice of creative institutions as a living heritage, which will also draw from her ongoing research project on Commons Museums (ICI Berlin Press, 2023). She will discuss the significance of a growing platform to gather archives of independent cultural institutions from multiple contexts and elaborate on the infrastructural aspect of archiving.
12:00-13:00 - follow up discussion
LUNCH BREAK (13:00-14:00)
14:00-17:00 - Workshop V Archival practices
17:00-19:00 - Check-out
DINNER (19:00-20:00) followed by SOLO or IMPROVISED TIME
Seminar 2 & 3: 14 - 19 January 2023
Core Tutors (in person): Yin Aiwen
Guest tutors (in person): Laura Alexander (Prince Claus Funds), Tommi Vasko (Trojan Horses)
Online guest: Klaas Kuitenbrouwer (Zoop)
Reading Materials:
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On Critique (excerpt) by Luc Boltanski
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Seeing like a state by James C. Scott
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What aesthetics? What politics? by Mi You
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FIELD inaugural editorial by Grant Kester
*Optional readings
- Forces of Art: Monitoring and Evaluation as a Situated Knowledge-Making Practice by Laura Alexander and Myriam Vandenbroucke
- Narva as Method: Urban Inventories and the Mutation of the Postsocialist City
- Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 2 (select any chapter that you are interested in)
Projects info:
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Art.Coop report https://art.coop/#report
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The Entanglement by KAISA KARVINEN & TOMMI VASKO
Game to play:
- Parks (explore how ‘resources’ is understood and structured)
- Wingspan (explore ‘radical observation’ as a way to create a caretaking relationship with non-human)
- CO2 - second chance (understanding the institutional structure of global green transition and their challenge)
Saturday 14th
MORNING
10:00 - 13:00: introduction about Laura’s workshop
Aiwen on the Dutch funding landscape + student input of their funding system
contextualization of Laura’s workshop
AFTERNOON
14:00 - 19:00: Laura’s workshop (part I) (result framework)
EVENING
20:00 - 22:00: Game Squad: Parks
Sunday 15th
MORNING
10:00 - 13:00: student initiatives
Lunch break
AFTERNOON
14:00 - 19:00: Laura’s workshop (part II) (budget + reporting + real-life reflection)
EVENING
20:00 - 22:00: Game Squad: CO2 - second chance
Monday 16th
MORNING
10:00 - 13:00: Caroline Woolard - art.coop / open collective
AFTERNOON
14:00 - 19:00: Laura’s workshop (part III) (communication day)
EVENING
20:00 - 22:00: Game Squad: CO2 - second chance OR student initiative
Tuesday 17th
MORNING
10:00 - 10:30 Check in & introduction of the day and Guests
10:30 - 11:30 Screening of Gayuan - Life in the Mountains and chat with Ye
11:30 - 13:00 Free Walks
AFTERNOON (guest panel)
14:00 - 15:00: Face-to-face / decomposing time
15:00 - 17:00: Klaas from Zoop;
17:00 - 18:00: Face-to-face
18:00 - 19:00: Free walks
EVENING
20:00 - 22:00: Game Squad: Wingspan OR share observation notes
Wednesday 18th
MORNING
10:00 - 13:00: Welcome Tommi and share work from Reconfiguring Territories / Institute of Care
AFTERNOON
14:00 - 16:00: mapping the economic glitches and the implied geopolitics based on Reconfiguring Territories and other projects
16:00 - 17:00: Face-to-face
17:00 - 18:00: Face-to-face
18:00 - 19:00: Face-to-face
EVENING
20:00 - 22:00: site imagination (discuss how to use Nida for COOP Summit in June)
Thursday 19th Jan (Aiwen’s away, only Tommi)
MORNING
10:00 - 13:00: Preparing the LARP exercise
AFTERNOON:
14:00 - 17:00: LARP exercise about different speculative funding structures/relationships
17:00 - 19:00: Debriefing the LARP exercise
EVENING
20:00 - 22:00: wrapping up
Seminar 1: 22 - 24 November 2022
Tutors: You Mi, Yin Aiwen, Marianna Takou
Guest tutors: Liquid Dependencies Host Community (Lenn Cox, Johannes Equizi, Hosein Danesh), Zoe Zhao
Material:
-Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities (introduction) by J.K. Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron, Stephen Healy
- Liquid Dependencies Residential Report (The City with Intent, Carefully Close, the Epicentre of Communal Care)
- Huang, Vincent G., and Tingting Liu. 2021. “Gamifying Contentious Politics: Gaming Capital and Playful Resistance.”
- South Korean Board Game About Fighting Sexism Gets China Release https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1005502/south-korean-board-game-about-fighting-sexism-gets-china-release
Tuesday 22nd of November
MORNING:
10:30 - 13:00: Welcome (introduction Casco and COOP plan, getting to know each other, feedback on planning and wish-making)
Lunch break
AFTERNOON:
14:00 - 19:00: You Mi on feminist and solidarity-based economy, close reading of “Take Back the Economy”
EVENING:
20:30 - 22:30: Game Squad - Commonsplay
Wednesday 23rd of November
MORNING:
10:30 - 11:00 Liquid Dependencies preparatory time (no class)
11:00 - 13:00 Liquid Dependencies (first half)
Lunch break
AFTERNOON:
14:00 - 17:00 Liquid Dependencies (second half)
17:00 - 18:00 Group reflection + observation Liquid Dependencies Host Community
18:00 - 19:00 Retroactive mapping (What happened in the “last 30 years”?)
Dinner break
EVENING:
20:30 - 22:30 Group chat: What happened in the “last 30 years”? + Residential Report discussion
Wednesday 24th of November
MORNING:
10:30 - 11:00: Check-in (new thoughts on yesterday)
11: 00 - 11: 15: Group exercise 1
11:15 - 12:00: Hosting Liquid Dependencies (ethics of hosting)
12:00 - 12:15: Group exercise 2
12:15 - 13:00: How to host Liquid Dependencies (Rules and acting)
Lunch break
AFTERNOON:
14:00 - 16:00: “Relationship-centered Design: towards Post-Capitalism” by Yin Aiwen
16:00 - 17:00: “Gamifying a Care Society (working title)” by Zoe Zhao
17:00 - 18:00: Conversation Zoe Zhao & Yin Aiwen
18:00 - 19:00: Q&A
EVENING:
20:30 - 22:30: Game Squad - ‘Li Zhihui’s Life’ & ‘Holding on: The Life of Billy Kerr’