Centre Soleil d’Afrique was the organization that Más Arte Más Acción had to interview. While Jonathan woke up Rocca to be interviewed. I was trying to talk with Hama and I say trying because my english is not the best however between laughter, ojek’s noise and an unusual breakfast, we did it.
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The potential for longing in the practice of organizing
What did you get from the assembly?
Chantal asked me this question on the last day of assembly. My answers at that time were quite cliche. I said that I felt very happy to find shared practices with many organizations within the Arts Collaboratory network and I wanted to collaborate with them. Later at night, I kept thinking about my answers. Indeed, it was very exciting to meet people from different places, specific context, and also at the same time, we shared the same passion. Yet, it was not always ‘rainbows, butterflies and unicorns’ kind of experience.
There were plenty moments with lack of sleep, anxiety, and even guilt, especially when unpleasant things had occured. As part of the organizing commitee, it’s another challenge to focus on the working group discussion. Especially, when it was being held in Jogja, part of schedule in which I was fully responsible for. In one of the working group session, I was joining the discussion in the last 10 minutes because I spent an hour for rearrange the bus schedule for Borobudur trip and together with Barto, we tried to find Patrick who had change his room without our knowledge.
So, the practice of organizing including hosting, facilitating and hospitality, are filled with discomforts. It is an act of giving, rather than getting. Although, copying Mrazek’s words, the experience of organizing also made me feel nostalgic. The nostalgia was produced not because of what I got during the assembly, but because of the possibilities that might had been happen to the participants and it was happened because of my role as one of the co-organizer. I’m longing for my constant act of giving which might enable others to gain something.
Why am I longing for this giving? Perhaps because through giving, I was gaining a sense of purpose and urgency as a person. Or perhaps because it’s an important act to form virtues? Can we use this practice of giving and nurturing as modalities in curatorialship?
Syafiatudina (Dina), KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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The first Arts Collaboratory Assembly co-organized by Casco, Sticheing Doen, Hivos, ruangrupa and KUNCI Cultural Studies Centre, brings together the twenty-four participating organizations of the network in Indonesia for a week-long series of encounters.
ruangrupa space, Jakarta
The main objective for this Arts Collaboratory Assembly is to lay the foundation of concrete collaboration amongst AC participants for the future. The Assembly focuses on a series of working groups addressing a variety of topics including crisis and post-crisis sites, alternative pedagogies, urban intervention, re-writing histories of organizations, ethics & aesthetics, commons, and developing curatorial tools. The intimate meetings focus on the present and past projects by the participants addressing these concerns. Our hosts raungrupa and KUNCI have arranged for visits to a number of local art spaces and public talks. You are invited to share in the encounters through this space and join our public moments, welcome!