Self-organized: Breaking the Organigram
| Self-organized: Breaking the Organigram | |
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| Name | Self-organized: Breaking the Organigram |
| Location | H&D Studio |
| Date | 2024/06/28 |
| Time | 17:00-19:30 |
| PeopleOrganisations | not/nowhere, Taylor Le Melle, NDSM Art City, Sarah Payton |
| Type | Meetup |
| Web | Yes |
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A meet-up series about self-organization
We are inviting you to the first 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 the tools and infrastructures 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 labour organisation and {(3)} development of terms and conditions toward alternative economies.
[Re]work session {(1)}: Breaking the Organigram
For the upcoming session we will be joined by Taylor Le Melle from not/nowhere, an artist workers’ cooperative that programmes workshops, screenings, exhibitions and other events and Sarah Payton who is an artist and community organizer at NDSM Art City in Amsterdam.
Together we will explore the situatedness of different decentralized organizational practices, their interdependencies and reflect through participants personal experiences, approaches and modalities within/as collectives and self-organizations. Through hands-on exercises we will imagine together different ways of configuring labor, care and infrastructure that nourish communities and strengthen allied networks.
RSVP: If you are working in a collective and have cases you want to bring to the discussion, please add in your rsvp
Guests
Taylor Le Melle
…works as a curator (of sorts) and certainly as a writer of ante-modern and anti-modern criticism; off-kilter catalogue essays and fiction of the artistic sub-genre type; as an editor and publisher of several collections of science fantasy, theory and poetry; as a researcher into plants, property and physical experience — bodies, the social kind with reluctance and the flesh kind with enthusiasm — cultivating perception and proprioception through self-experimentation.
…is one of several co-directors of London-based workers cooperative not/nowhere, whose primary occupations is with building a just infrastructure for artistic practice via the circulation and distribution of 8mm and 16mm moving image formats.
Previous presentations include: Deviant Research, Van Abbe Museum (cur. Yolande van der Heide, N Aikens); Research Fellowship (org. F Dodzan/ A Groten), Sandberg Instituut; Amant Foundation Residency, Brooklyn (cur. J Berrios); Text Exercises, Felix Gaudlitz, Vienna (cur. Richard Birkett); Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (cur. A. Sandhu).
Recent Writing: Anthea Hamilton: Mash Up, Triangle Books; Otobong Nkanga: Unearthed, Kunsthaus Bregenz; Renee Green: Inevitable Distances, Hatje Cantz; DNA6: Carrier Bag Fiction, Spector.
Reviews for Tangents.art. Upcoming writing workshop at not-nowhere.org 5pm, 19 June, London
Sarah Payton
http://www.sarah-payton.com Sarah Payton (Detroit, 1967) is an artist, cultural producer and community organizer. She is (co)initiator of the annual manifestation NDSM OPEN, initiator and editor of the artists’ paper NDSM OPEN and co-founder of the Art City NDSM Foundation. She was on the board of Tenants Association the Toekomst (the Future) from 2011- 2014 and has since March 2020 rejoined the board as Secretary. For the coming year she also holds the temporary function Community Organizer for the tenants association.
Time table
17.00 Walk-in
17.15 Welcome by H&D
17.25 Introduction round
17.40 Introduction not/nowhere and Sarah Payton (NDSM Art City) — 10 min each
18.00 Exercise Breaking the Organigram — facilitated by H&D
18.30 Break
18:45 Exercise: Shadow organizing — facilitated by H&D
19.15 Reintroduction
19.30 Drinks
- Spoken language at the event will be English.
- Before joining make sure to carefully read the H&D code-of-conduct.