on collaborative cultural work: open forum & workshop

In the open forum The Tower's Bridge, we investigate the radical potential of establishing a cooperative, collective and collaborative structures in arts institutions. Our guests explore new ways of working collectively, whether in institutions or in artists collectives. The forum is open to everyone to actively participate by sharing their own experiences.

With One Field Fallow, the Bare Minimum collective, Danielle Van Zuijlen and Tim Bryon from Kunsthal Gent, Maryam K. Hedayat (argos / collective of female film directors WANDA / Studio Sarab) and Katia Rossini (argos / Cinema Nova).

The Fool’s Journey workshop is an exploration of how the archive and its imaginative possibilities serve as a form of divination, and how this manifests in our collective consciousness. We will use The Tower, The Empress and The Magician tarot cards as a framework for examining what artistic invention and collaboration can look like outside the restrictions of institutional hierarchies. In most esoteric systems, the major arcana in tarot are a metaphor for The Fool’s Journey - a cosmic invitation from the universe to do away with what we thought we knew. This is what we will ask of you: to rethink the previously unthinkable and imagine the unimaginable. The workshop will use somatic interventions, critical fabulation and archival techniques to urge participants to see the archive as an interlocutor, as part of the collective, and consider how we can use the materials of everyday life to transform the mundane into art.

The workshop is conceived and facilitated by Bare Minimum.

schedule

13:00 - 13.30 welcome coffee and tea
13.30 - 15.30 open forum The Tower's Bridge
15.30 - 16:00 break
16:00 - 18:00 workshop The Fool's Journey (carte blanche to Bare Minimum)
18:00 - … drink