AMASS
AMASS invites organisations, collectives and individuals working within the cultural sector and creative industries to contribute by presenting past experiences, present practices, and future ambitions concerning mutual aid, pooled knowledge, networked infrastructures and modes of self-organisation. These case studies can be drawn from personal experiences in various sectors, geographical locations both provincial and international, or through accounts of historical manifestations. Through these exchanges we wish to collectively investigate our strategies, successes, and failures, considering the obstacles and potentialities for the development of the commons. Following the event, all materials will be collated into an open online archive, which will serve as a generative research database for future endeavours.
OPEN CALL
We welcome case studies concerning organisations, projects and initiatives from cooperatives, autonomist groups, gift economies, open source projects, new pedagogical models and others. Those who cannot attend, but would like to contribute interviews, text, or films, can email their submissions, which will be presented and discussed during the event. Please email a brief description of your experiences, along with your location, comments, links, and contact details to: [email protected]
AMASS brings together:
DOXA, an international research collective that seeks to explore new possibilities for supporting and developing culture in times of global crisis and change. More: www.doxacollective.org
The Amateurist Network, a network of artists and practitioners based in London that seek to explore issues within the conditions of cultural work, precarious labour and informal modes of self-organisation. More: amateuristnetwork.wordpress.com
…ment, a new quarterly online journal for contemporary culture, art and politics based in London and Berlin. More: www.journalment.org
Anthony Iles, a writer and editor based in London. He is a contributing editor to online and quarterly print magazine, Mute. See: metamute.org
The event is supported by Openvizor, an international organisation and platform that initiates and supports critical exchange of ideas in arts and cultural practice and the active development by practitioners of partnerships and projects around the world that engage people, places and the forces of change from the ground up. More: www.openvizor.com
