with Maaike and Claire | guest workshop by James Parnell and Yun Lee

w3 19/09 Undisciplinarity II

w5 03/10 Collaboration

w6 10/10 Making publics

w8 24/10 Making public

w9 31/10 Trouble shooting

We will explore the tensions and tenets of collaborative inquiry, particularly focussing on the four propositions of the RASL minor: undisciplinarity, collaboration, situatedness, and making public(s). This ‘Unpacking’ track aims to support you in 1) cultivating a methodology-in becoming for your group project and 2) re/composing your own ‘undisciplinary toolkit’. Concretely, we will engage with questions including “how does undisciplinarity take shape in your project(s)?” “how do you position and situate yourself as a researcher/artist/human in networks shared with other researchers, practitioners and (non)-human actors?” “how do you make your work public, and which publics are mobilised through the questions, issues and practices you engage with?”.

w4 26/09 Situatedness (and slowing down)

Individual assignment: send Claire (tio@euc.eur.nl) a passage (max 100 words) of a text of your liking, something that is meaningful to you. It does not have to make perfect sense, it does not have to be an academic text per se. You can also write something yourself, or select a passage from a magazine, a poem, a blog, lyrics, a story for children etc.

Please do so at Monday evening 22:00 latest!

Slides and references:

Prepare:

Prepare:

-> Bring your maps to class!
-> Individual assignment: select at least one example of a
project you consider ‘undisciplinary’

Slides and references:

Prepare:

-> Read the Situating Statement assignment description and write down questions or concerns to discuss
-> Read the article "Art hyphen science" by Wander van Baalen (see below)

Slides and references:

When working in groups, people bring in their different skills, knowledge, and experience, but also different backgrounds and ways of working. Friction and conflict are unavoidable in these situations. So how do we navigate them? This workshop is about exploring and honouring differences within working relationships.

Through various individual and group exercises, we will identify our own working styles and see how our differences can strengthen the projects we work on together. We will also be working through common issues in group projects and practice moving towards generative conflict.

Workshop content:

About the facilitators:

Yun Lee is an all round cultural worker; performing, organizing, and curating. Their work mostly revolves around the following questions: what knowledge is valued and how is it preserved? How is knowledge disseminated and for whom is it accessible? And how do these decisions impact the ways we see and understand the world? 


James Parnell is a Hague-based curator, facilitator, dancer, and zinester who focuses on community building, collective learning, and the conflicts that arise in these practices. He often works in cultures and artistic communities on the margins, such as queer communities, Black communities, and independent publishers.

Workshop content:

In this first session, we will introduce the course and get to know each other better. We will map the perspectives, knowledges, methods, dreams, experiences and ideas you bring with you into the minor, which enables us to see the contours of our individual (undisciplinary) practices and methodologies. This (self)exploration offers fertile grounds for creating a collective undisciplinary praxis in the second session.

Workshop content:

In this session, we will make the term ‘undisciplinary praxis’ more concrete. We will discuss inspiring examples of undisciplinary practices, and sketch the outlines of a collective methodology. There will also be plenty of time to work as a group on your pressure cooker documentation/publication

Workshop content:

In this workshop, we will start thinking about and working on the Situating Statement. Wander will join this session to give a short talk about his understanding of situatedness and his work "Art hyphen science". The rest of the session, you will have time to brainstorm about and work on the situating statement. Claire will host an additional close reading session for those interested in "slowing down" and for those who want to delve deeper into Situated Knowledges

Prepare:

Nothing to prepare!

Slides and references:

Manning, E. (2016). Ten propositions for research-creation. Collaboration in performance practice: Premises, workings and failures, 133-141.

Recommended reading:

Recommended reading:

Halberstam, J. (2011). The queer art of failure. Introduction: Low theory, 1-25.

Wander van Baalen (2023). Art hyphen science.

Recommended reading:

Haraway, D. (1988). Situated Knowledges

Workshop content:

In this workshop, we will zoom in on what making public(s) entails. What is the difference between your audience and your public(s)? What different publics is your project addressing? Which ones are excluded?

We will approach these questions through a bit of theoretical exploration and by doing some assignments in our groups. This will help you think about/work on the making public(s) requirement in a guided way.

At the end of the day, each group pitch their projects and receive peer feedback.

"The publication reflects on the way in which you engaged or assembled related publics (Making Publics session) , through the form and content of the learning experience (Making Public session)"

Making public(s) deliverables

Prepare:

Bring a few pairs of scissors and a glue stick, we will get crafty!

Slides and references:

Slides James and Yun futures of difference workshop

During the last session, we mapped which publics might be interested in or relevant to your projects (who and why) and speculated about ways in which they might be addressed (how). This week we will zoom in on the latter: the how.

Lisa Heinis (Boijmans) will join the first part of the session to talk about how she sees making publics in her practice and which strategies Boijmans adopts in their projects.

In the second part of the session, we will reflect on the try-out presentation and further finetune the ins-and-outs of their learning experience. We will also think about how the projects might manifest beyond the context of the RASL Minor.

Workshop content:

TUESDAY CLASS ON 24/10 IS CANCELLED - SEE INVITATION TO JOIN A TEACH-IN ON PALESTINE-ISRAEL @ EUR IN YOUR E-MAIL

In this last session, we are facilitating a trouble shooting session for those who would like to discuss specific questions related to the themes we have worked around during the Tuesday sessions or about the situating statement. You can also use the time to get together with your group and work on your learning experiences.

We will be at de Hillevliet between 13:00 and 16:00 to help you out. Please let us know if your group is not planning to come that day, so we know more or less how many people to expect.