BIRMAC and Art Monthly, in association with Electra present a series of four online panel conversations
Participants: Ximena Alarcón-Díaz, Felicity Allen, Carla Cruz, Fabiola Fiocco, Karolina Majewska Guede, Lily Hall, Manual Labours, Kuda.org/Zoran Pantelić, Kirsten Lloyd, Chris McCormack, Gerrie van Noord, Helena Reckitt, Irene Revell, Marina Rosenfeld, Katja Praznik, Abhijan Toto, Jelena Vesić.
All talks will be held online via MS Teams, booking details for each event below.
BIRMAC and Art Monthly, in association with Electra present a series of four online panel conversations.
Current enthusiasm towards collectivity within the artworld, including within prize-giving culture, harbours a certain romanticising of collectives, a simplification of collective practice suggesting that collective work—be it artistic, curatorial, or within an arts organisation—is somehow automatically emancipatory and egalitarian, that collectivity by its very nature preserves the promise of equality and inclusivity. But the reality of working collectively is filled with challenges and those working collectively are no less vulnerable to exploitation than individual cultural workers.
Building on two months of asynchronous collective writing, involving seventeen participants, the panellists consider how we might write, think, read and practice together through other means.
Panel One: Labour, Value and Social Reproduction
Monday 31 October, 7pm GMT
Discussants: Fabiola Fiocco, Katja Praznik, Karolina Majewska-Güde, Kirsten Lloyd, Jelena Vesić, Moderator: Lina Džuverović.
Panel Two: Why collaborate? Network Formation, Reproduction, Access
Thursday 10 November, 6pm GMT
Discussants: Carla Cruz, Lily Hall, Abhijan Toto, Felicity Allen, Manual Labours, Moderator: Lina Džuverović
Panel Three: Is Ephemerality Freedom?
Friday 18 November, 6pm GMT
Discussants: Ximena Alarcón-Díaz, Kuda.org/Zoran Pantelic, Irene Revell, Marina Rosenfeld. Moderator: Lina Džuverović
Panel Four: ‘The Third Hand’—Claire, Bernadette and Friends
Thursday 1 December, 7pm GMT
Discussants: Helena Reckitt, Chris McCormack, Gerrie van Noord, Moderator: Lina Džuverović
Further information about the project can be found here.
Funded by Open Society University Network, Centre for Arts and Human Rights at Bard College.