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Something that happens to me a lot is that I have more projects I want to work on than I have time to work in. It isn’t really possible to take time away from work if the bills are still going to get paid. There are other things that have to get done every day – meals, transit, exercise, time with family … we all have our own specific limits on our…
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
