Self-organized: alternative economies

Self-organized: alternative economies
Name	Self-organized: alternative economies
Location	de appel
Date	2024/11/09
Time	14:00-17:00
PeopleOrganisations	Kate Rich, Benjamin Earl, Kuba Szreder
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A meet-up series about self-organization

We are inviting you to the third of a series of informal [re]work sessions that explore how self-organized communities involved with cultural work continue to develop and sustain themselves. We are particularly interested in exploring together with peers actionable tools that enable and/or hinder our collective work.

The three thematic [re]work sessions are roughly dedicated to {(1)} administration of care related to different cooperative models, {(2)} intersectional inspections of [digital] infrastructural labor organization and {(3)} development of terms and conditions toward alternative economies.

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[Re]work session {(3)}: Self-organized: alternative economies

Join us on Saturday November 9 at the de appel, Tolstraat 160 1074 VM Amsterdam, for our third [Re]work session.

During this session, we invited guests from different collectives to reflect on the session's theme through their personal experiences, approaches and modalities of their work within/as collectives and alternative economies. We would like to imagine together different ways of configuring labor, care and infrastructure that nourish communities and strengthen allied networks.

We'd like to invite collectives and individuals to join in on the conversation that feel connected to this topic and have specific cases they'd like to bring to the table.

Guests

Kuba Szreder

Kuba Szreder is a lecturer at the department of art theory at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Graduate of sociology at the Jagiellonian University (Krakow), he received PhD from the Loughborough University School of the Arts. He combines practice-based research with curating interdisciplinary projects and political engagement. He has worked with many artistic institutions and collectives in Europe. In 2009 he co-initiated Free / Slow University of Warsaw, with which he completed several inquiries into the political economy of contemporary artistic production, such as Joy Forever: Political Economy of Social Creativity (2011) and Art Factory. Division of labor and distribution of resources in the field of contemporary art in Poland (2014). In 2010 he started to cooperate with Critical Practice, a London-based research cluster, with which he conducted several research projects about the modes of being in public (2010-2011), and the social process of evaluation (2012-2016). Since 2012 he has worked with the Citizens Forum for Contemporary Art in Poland, with which he has campaigned for the betterment of conditions of work in the sector of contemporary art. In 2018 together with Kathrin Böhm he co-initiated the Centre for Plausible Economies, a research cluster devoted to reimagining economy by using artistic means. In 2020 he co-established the Office for Postartistic Services, the aim of which is to employ artistic competences in support of progressive social movements. He is editor and author of several catalogues, books, readers, chapters, essays and articles, devoted to social, economic, and theoretical aspects of the contemporary art. Current research interests include interdependent curating, new models of artistic institutions, postartistic theory and practice. His book The ABC of the Projectariat was published in 2021 by the Manchester University Press. (2021)

Time table

14.00 Welcome and introduction by H&D

14.10 Introduction round of participants

14.30-15.30 Presentations

14.30 Kate Rich

14.50 Benjamin Earl

15.10 Kuba Szreder

15.30 Short break

15.45 Collective exercise 'pod-mapping,' individually and in pairs to discuss

16.30 Regroup & conversation

17.00 End

Sign-up

This session is co-organized with Platform BK. Please find information about signing up on platformbk.nl/en/collaboration-station-day-2/

Accessibility

The session is taking place in person at de appel, which has some limitations when it comes to physical accessibility. Please send us an email to share with us what your access needs are so we can do our best to reduce barriers.

The session will be held in English. A live transcription and translation to Dutch will also be made available to listeners.

Code of Conduct

Please consult the Hackers & Designers Code of Conduct before joining the event in person.

Documentation

Photos and an audio recording of the session will be made available here shortly after it takes place. Here is the bi-lingual transcript of the sessions.