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	Platform BK, Kate Rich, Benjamin Earl, Kuba Szreder
Type	[[]]
Web	Yes
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We are inviting you to the third of a series of informal [re]work sessions that bring together the practices of different self-organized communities. We are particularly interested in exploring 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

This third [Re]work session is co-organized with Platform BK and takes place as part of the Collaboration Station. The session will be held on Saturday November 9 at the de appel, Tolstraat 160, 1074 VM Amsterdam.

The first part of the session will be an introduction of the collective practice of H&D followed by presentations of three guests who H&D invited to reflect on the urgency of [re]thinking and [re]working the economic condition of cultural work. Kate Rich (joining online), Benjamin Earl and Kuba Szreder will each give a presentation about their practices, sharing personal experiences, approaches and modalities of their work with/as collectives.

During the second part of the session we take a more practical approach and invite participants to work with their own experiences and questions around self-organization and alternative economies by means of an individual mapping exercise. The goal of the exercise is that participants get to reflect on and perhaps [re]imagine configurations of labor, care and infrastructure of their personal practices towards a practice that nourishes communities and strengthen allied networks.

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

Guests

Kate Rich

Kate Rich is a trade artist and feral economist, born in Australia and living in Bristol UK. She is co-founder of the Bureau of Inverse Technology (BIT), an international agency producing an array of critical information products including economic and ecologic indices, event-triggered webcam networks and animal operated emergency broadcast devices. The Bureau’s work has been exhibited in academic, scientific and museum contexts. Since 2003 she has run Feral Trade, a long-range economic experiment and underground freight network, utilising the spare carrying capacity of the art world for the transportation of other goods, specifically groceries. Kate is volunteer finance manager at Bristol’s artist-run Cube Microplex, system administrator for the Irational.org art-server collective and a founding member of the European Sail Cargo Alliance. Her ongoing preoccupation is to move deeper into the infrastructure of trade, administration, organisation and economy in the cultural realm. She is currently testing out curriculum for the Feral MBA, a radically different kind of business school where artists, business operators and other researchers would gather to experiment with new shapes for business and enterprise for a fundamentally reimagined economy.

bureauit.org/data/krcv/

Benjamin Earl

Benjamin Earl is a Designer and Artistic Technologist with an interest in the digitisation of everyday life, the rendering and simulation of physical environments, and digital communication and knowledge sharing practices. His work involves looking closely at the material and tangible ruptures of digital culture whilst simultaneously trying to imagine new ways of computing that can be contextual, situated and relational. He is part of several self-organized collectives and creative communities that such as Varia , Good Times Bad Times, and Extra Practice Studio.

https://bnjmnearl.eu/

Kuba Szreder

In 2018 Kuba Szreder together with Kathrin Böhm 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 previous sessions.