This symposium brings together researchers and practitioners who wish to share ideas relating to the problems particular to working in groups: the challenges of collaboration, the disagreements and community-led conflict resolutions, the difficulties with acting professionally, and the desires to keep working together, despite it all.
What are the strategies that art, science, politics and theory might offer each other for navigating - possibly circumventing - the demise of relationships? If the working relationship breaks down, could the end of the group be considered a constitutive aspect of that group? These are questions about institutions as much as they are about interdependence on personal and planetary scales.
In response to the ecstatic energy of contemporary power to maintain a sense of constantly deepening crises, this event seeks to imagine a position where the discourse of crisis is overcome by an incorporation of difficulty into a different world. This confrontation with difficulty, neither positive nor negative, would circumnavigate pressing trends that avoid what is most important by pretending it does not exist, and worse, inventing new problems that prevent whatever group might still exist from being able to problem-solve. A way forward might be to consider, in a new group of people put together for this event, new perspectives on how division and dissolution, perhaps even non-alignment, might build solidarity. The event will include a discussion about the work that has been shown, with a hope to develop new strands of research and practice and end with a wine reception.
Further information is available on the practice-based PhD programme webpage.
22/11/2017 16:30
22/11/2017 19:30
Europe/London
Dissolution or Division: Conscious Uncouplings and Collaborative Collapse
This symposium brings together researchers and practitioners who wish to share ideas relating to the problems particular to working in groups: the challenges of collaboration, the disagreements and community-led conflict resolutions, the difficulties with acting professionally, and the desires to keep working together, despite it all.
What are the strategies that art, science, politics and theory might offer each other for navigating - possibly circumventing - the demise of relationships? If the working relationship breaks down, could the end of the group be considered a constitutive aspect of that group? These are questions about institutions as much as they are about interdependence on personal and planetary scales.
In response to the ecstatic energy of contemporary power to maintain a sense of constantly deepening crises, this event seeks to imagine a position where the discourse of crisis is overcome by an incorporation of difficulty into a different world. This confrontation with difficulty, neither positive nor negative, would circumnavigate pressing trends that avoid what is most important by pretending it does not exist, and worse, inventing new problems that prevent whatever group might still exist from being able to problem-solve. A way forward might be to consider, in a new group of people put together for this event, new perspectives on how division and dissolution, perhaps even non-alignment, might build solidarity. The event will include a discussion about the work that has been shown, with a hope to develop new strands of research and practice and end with a wine reception.
Further information is available on the practice-based PhD programme webpage.
Caryl Churchill Theatre,Rehearsal Studio 2