Conflict in collaboration will address the practical aspects of working together. This day will bring together different questions to create the basis for the weekend. Why do artists often work collectively? How do we work towards creating healthy and sustainable collective relationships? How do collectives currently work within (often) individualistic structures?
We will discuss the circumstances, intentions, desires and struggles that drive collective work. We will do this by partnering with the new temporary course Lumbung Practice convened in partnership between De Appel, Gudskul and Sandberg Institute. And we are welcomed by Unsettling Rietveld/Sandberg to run two workshops in the morning which act as a tool kit for collective, collaborative, and cultural work. We do this by inviting Sekai Makoni to lead an active listening workshop, to learn to listen across differences collectively and individually. In which we will think about what healthy collective work can look and feel like. Next to that we will ask Yun Lee to conduct a session on coalition building, exploring and honouring differences between and within unlikely partnerships.
In the afternoon session, there will be a lecture by Reem Shilleh who is a guest tutor in Lumbung Practice at Sandberg will be speaking about the importance of collective work and assembly taking the case of filmmaking and solidarity networks in relation to Palestinian filmmaking in the 1970s and 80s, as well as working together today.
After that we open up the discussion with Lumbung Practice (Sandberg Instituut) to the audience and reflect upon the topics harvested within the workshops. The temporary master’s in Lumbung Practice at Sandberg Instituut is building on the knowledge and experimentation gained in Lumbung-documenta fifteen. Participating collectives will practise and learn about lumbung, self-organisation, and sociopolitical artistic and curatorial practice, as well as producing alternative art institutions and economies for the future. With them, we will dive deeper in the questions: what are the benefits and struggles of collective work? What issues need to be addressed more? Do we need new structures to fairly support collective work in the Netherlands? And how could we create those? How can institutions learn from artist collectives and work together across differences?
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Friday 8th of November 2024: Conflict in collaboration at Lumbung Practice and Unsettling Rietveld/Sandberg, Fred. Roeskestraat 96, 1076 ED Amsterdam
10:00 → doors open!
Morning 10:30 – 13:00 → Workshops with Sekai Makoni (Active Listening) (taal: Engels) Sign up here , limited space!
Morning 10:30 – 13:00 → Workshops with Yun Lee (Coalition building, exploring and honouring differences between and within unlikely partnerships) (taal: Engels) Sign up here , limited space!
Afternoon 13:30 – 17:00 → (Please RSVP!)
14:00 Introductie Unsettling Rietveld/Sandberg
14:15 Paneltalk by Lumbung Practice
15:30 Talk and discussion by Reem Shilleh on Collective Filmmaking
Reem Shilleh who is a guest tutor in Lumbung Practice at Sandberg will be speaking about the importance of collective work and assembly taking the case of filmmaking and solidarity networks in relation to Palestinian filmmaking in the 1970s and 80s, as well as working together today.
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This day is in collaboration with Unsettling Rietveld/Sandberg, Lumbung Practice Sandberg Institute. Many thanks to Stichting DOEN for making the whole program possible.