SHARING/PUBLISHING ECOLOGY
2022—2023

Down/up-load files here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sqyCIS2iFDHTyviIPAWAi-a0LHAiwC08?usp=share_link

QUESTIONS:
— Why don't we use in urgent matters more often the intelligence that we possess? (Anka)
— How can we put 'printmaking' into participating effect for feministic awareness? cfr. Dear Sister, Futuress https://futuress.org/learning/dear-sister/ (Shirley)

MODES OF HARVESTING & SHARING, session 1:
— INSTRAGRAM ACCOUNT, started by Anka (name: Mushrooms Master 2023, password: Mushrooms2023) Omar makes it private, so we can be more free with uploading and sharing. Each of us uploads a post today.
— Zines (each session one), Issue #1 is set up by Annelys, Miguel and Omar. Issue #2 is edited & designed by Shirley & Miquel, Zine#3 is edited and designed by Miguel & Mahmoud
— Playlist on spotify; with songs we listen when we drink coffee and it's raining outside, started by Mahmoud
— One playlist with dance songs, started by Inge, set up by Omar, shared via whatsapp
— Portrait photo's by Omar, made 29 November
— One cooking sessions hosted by Anka & Inge in their kitchen, date to be confirmed (if possible with recipies from our mothers, sharing food that connects to emotions) — as a prelude to cooking sessions in PAF
— Designing a flag for each session, made by Anka
— Watching/listening list (links to films, lectures, documentaries, etc.), which platform? Google-drive? Other?
- Share all our artistic progress together in one place? -> we could use our SOPOMA-pad for collecting links. Maybe it's very handy to help each other and get inspiration for your own practice in addition to our meetings. (Shirley)


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SEMESTER II - MARCH 2023

TUESDAY 14 MARCH
— Check-in
— Mapping all content
— Reflecting and sorting
— Making working schedule & tasks
— Break
— Intro uncommonsessions
— 2pm Uncommonsessions

Now it’s time to look forward to our next exchanges the coming semester. During these session I would like to focus on the following aspects:

We have a few sessions, and in addition I want to develop a working rhythm, with some intense work-session in smaller teams, with each of you having/taking a particular task:

Editorial team will collect the material, edit it and make the publication 
— Graphic designer of the publication —> MIGUEL & ANKA ??
— Text editor —> OMAR
— Visual editor —> SHIRLEY

Support team
— Joker secures a joyful atmosphere 
— Caterer, providing tasteful side conditions — INGE
— Productional assistant, helps with any productional matters — ANKA

Representational team
— Curator of book launch
— Communication
— Fund-raising

The planning I’d like to propose is:
— Thursday 9 March, zoom: one-hour meeting with editorial team to map all material
— Tuesday 14 March, @ Sint Lucas: morning class (mapping material, conceptualize, making production schedule)
— Tuesday 14 March, @ Sint Lucas: afternoon ‘uncommonsessions’ with students Birzeit University Palestine (focuses on collective writing)
— One day between 28 march and 6 april: at my studio with the teams to edit and make one collective publication
— One day (26 april, to 2 or 4 May): at my studio (or digital) to finalise the publication & prepare curation of final presentation
— 23 May, @ Sint Lucas (or elsewhere): collective estafette writing session on everyone’s practice
— Week 29 May: editorial team finishes the book
— Week 5 June: printing of the book
— 12 June: Soft book launch 
— In the week of 19 June: Public book launch and event during the graduation show

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LISTENING AND/OR WATCHING LIST FOR CHRISTMAS PERIOD 
(Each of us adds one link and a short sentence why)
– Miguel: this album helps me go to through the dark times of winter. Year after year it gives me solace and motivates me to do the things I wish to do https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ipohbylz7Z4&feature=share
Enjoy :)
– Mahmoud: 
– Shirley: Now, I just would like adding a book to our reading list, but I guess that the server of our pad is also enjoying the holidays (it isn’t working for me)… and just in case I forgot: ‘Think Like an Artist’ by Will Gompertz.
– Inge: Dr. Gabor Maté on Trauma, Addiction, Ayahuasca, and More ...YouTube · Tim Ferriss 2 uur, 23 minuten en 45 seconden 7 mrt. 2018. I listened to it during the first lockdown spring 2020, it is a long one, but during sewing or painting or drawing or ironing, ;-), perfect match...
https://youtu.be/H9B5mYfBPlY
And a Dutch Podcast series 'Zwijgen is geen optie' (DeepL: 'Keeping silent is not an option')Olivia Rutazibwa: Racisme dient een doel (DeepL: Racism serves a purpose), but I believe english subtitles ar a possibility...
https://youtu.be/sJf0tb4QeLQ
– Anka: Alec Soth - Somewhere To Disappear -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2T6ANvKpoo - Film made by my stepson Arnaud Uyttenhove - about people who decided to live outside the society and a photographer Alec Soth.
- Omar: Human the movie - one of my favourite documentaries. It's 3 Vols, each exploring different human concepts like love, sadness, happiness, etc in an interview setting with people from different parts and cultures of the world. Very heart-felt with beautiful imagery and cinematography as well.
Vol 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdb4XGVTHkE&t=1661sm 
— Annelys: https://youtu.be/uPlZK-Ymn3A This is a key-note presentation by an afro-american-architect working for social justice through design and architecture. I found her presentation so inspiring in how she appraoches community-work, how design can be a tool for restoritive justice. It's a great presentation that I hope sparkles inspiration for shaping artistic practices otherwise.
- Robin: https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/107176-000-A/crossing-voices/ "Malian filmmaker Bouba Touré tells the story of an agricultural cooperative with archive footage. It was founded in 1977 by West African migrants who had returned from France. Touré examines the working and living conditions of African migrants as well as the ecological and social challenges of such an endeavour."

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Collective sharing/publishing tools (references):

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What is a workshop?
– Collective 
– mutual engagement between host and participants
– a good workshop engages well with the participants
– Engaging
– time pressure
– anyone can become the one talking in the workshop, it is really participative
– workshop is someone telling something how to do; but this is not a good workshop
– workshop  = delaying work
– Impact
– Democratic process of making
- Discussions, collaborations
    
What is not a workshop?
– Individual
– One-way (e.g. lecture)
– authoritative 
– White old straight men talking
– No outcome 
– a public event 

Skills/knowledge you can share:
– Cooking :-)
– Calligraphy 
–Design knowledge
– Creative writing 
– Photography 
– Traditional cooking and making coffee
– Reading/discussing old maps
– Walking in the nature 
– Sharing experiences
- Embroidery, sewing...(manual work with textile) = inge (but self thaught)

Skills/knowledge you want to gain:
- carpentary
- painting - abstract
– film-making
- Patience
- meditation
-Ceramics
-Typographics
-Sharing books
- Exhibiting in front of other (professional) artists
- dancing
– Dabke workshop
- Calligraphy
- writing (in a non pretentcious way)
- instead of meditation then, do something with the written new Pluriverse prayer, invent a simple movement, image or a chant or saying or whispering that goes with it, to start the day or thank for the day (sorry if this sounds too soft...)

Week in PAF:
    
    MONDAY
    – arrival, around 2pm
    – checking-in
    – Intruduction and start patchworking, start letters to each other, introduce the prayer
    – Joining the dinner
    
    TUESDAY
    – morning free (Shopping for dinner)
    – 2 - 5 pm UNCOMMONSESSIONS-WORKSHOP with Annelys (for those who subscribed for this, it's with the students from Palestine)
    – Peer-reviews on each others projects. Suggestion for other people's project. Working on other people's work. Stealing each other's idea's. 
    - 3pm Lacing between trees, textile workshop,  During christmas holiday I go and have an introduction lesson in lace making, Liesbeth (who gives it to me) weaves also-mainly, maybe we could invite her?
    - Socio-political-dinner, by Chef Miguel, and socio-political-sous-chefs, and dessert by Anka (and video by Shirley?)

    WEDNESDAY
    – Invitation for Bread making ?
   - Photography workshop by (Shirley) (Inge inherited an old Hasselblad camera with negative 6/9 and will also bring this)
    – Dancing & Dabke session (by those who can dance)
    – Mushrooms playlist (for disco)
   
    THURSDAY
    - (Morning) meditation sessions by Shirley
    — Zine-brainstorm-session with Annelys
    - See a very clasiic theatre show in Reims (KVS 'Bovary' adaptation of Madame Bovary) and talk about the dramaturgy. 
    FRIDAY
    - Pluriverse prayer (in the broadest sense), documentend in a small video, like a 5 minute visual essay? Directed by Shirley, with camera of Omar/Anka.
    – Departure
    
    CONTINUOUS
    – Patchworkflag making, each gets a square piece of textile and is invited to make embroidery on it, by Anka, a word framed by Omar
    - Outside games -> maybe come up with one? ( UNO? I'm a beast on it ;-) ) (guess names with gestures/game), bring boardgames.

 - Input collective journal?  Zine#4?
 – Output Arabic calligraphy workshop
 – Questions
 – Output of photo-workshop


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zine#3
Deadline for uploading content 31 December. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sqyCIS2iFDHTyviIPAWAi-a0LHAiwC08
– MIGUEL —
Make a collage, layered image (feelings, colors, moviestills, words, arrange objects etc....) that you want to evoke with you year's output. A broader vision/visuality of what you would like to preceive with your project. Final size for the zine: A4 landscape direction
— Mahmoud —
1. Every list the worst movie they ever watched, that they don't like. We make one paragraph together with these names.
2. Favorite film of someone who is very dear to you.
— Omar –
Remember a moment, something that prompts us to look back. Letters to the entire group, to someone or to ourselves, or to a stranger. Text, photographs, a song, a film... anything!
— Anka –
Under 'Name it*' I want you to write down an important word for you that you think should be named, or that means something to you. One word.
– Shirley –
Writing a letter to yourself when you were 16.
— Inge –
Pluriverse prayer (how???)

1-10 January; making the zine by Mahmoud & Miguel

LAUNCH 11 January = groupphoto & dresscode ('90, ktich singers & dance, like the group glue)

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Session 13 December 
– Everybody upload their artistic process on notion, and we will look at it. Questions for notion: ask Shirley!

This session I’d like to focus more on making, sketching, visualising and working — building upon the input of the first two sessions, and less on talking. In order to build a richer atmosphere of spontaneous making and building dialogues through and with design (in its widest sense). I’d like to practice giving small workshops, hosting activities, as a warm-up for our week in PAF in February. I suggest small exercises by each of you, which output will be the input for the next zine. But feel free to adjust the suggested approach, see below.

Anka has been so kind to open her magnificent house once more, so we will meet there at 10am (do arrive on time!). If I am right Inge and Mahmoud aren’t in Belgium, but if there is a chance  you can join 1 or 2 hours on-line (in the morning?) it would be amazing.

This is the proposal for the programme Tuesday:
10.00 hrs. @ Depot des Arts, aka Anka’s place
— Welcome & check-in
— Launch Zine#2
— Reflection and input for zine #3 —> by Omar & Anka
— Waving new flag by Anka
— Visit every-ones notion-page
– Announcement of Uncommonsessions-series


— Short calligraphy/typography exercise by Omar (based upon words of zine#1&2; would that be ok?)
— Short drawing exercise by Miguel (based upon the chosen words; would that be ok?)

LUNCH-TIME —> Potluck

— Short exercise on photography by Shirley (would that be ok?)
— Short exercise on mapping (or collage?) by Anka (would that be ok?)
— Text on, and discussion of workshops, what is a workshop?
— Brainstorm for programme PAF
— Collecting material for Zine#3

Bring with you the following:
– smartphone or camera
– sketching material
– Zine#1 
– An example of how to exhibit flags (as references for Anka’s flags)
– something to share for lunch
– Your laptop and acces to your notion page

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TUESDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2022
We will be meeting each other for our second collective sharing-publishing session. This time Anka has opened her house for us and will also offer a lunch :-)

Last time I gave you all two books (Design Dedication and Durable Discussions), and I hope you’ve had the opportunity to read some of the texts in it. For next week I want to ask you all to select one paragraph that has specifically resonated with you, and that you feel has valuable entry points for approaching your own work. And write a short paragraph (or word-cloud, or poem or another textual format that suits you) to articulate the connection (or friction or questioning) between the selected text and your work. 

PROGRAMME

10am – 1pm
— Welcome at Anka’s house: Frankrijklei 104 (close to Antwerp Central Station)
— Sharing the selected and written paragraphs with each other
— Wave our new flag (by Anka)
— Launch Zine#1 by Omar & Miguel

CONTENT ZINE#2, edited by Miguel and Shirley
– copy of the chosen paragraphs
– texts by each in relation to the paragraph
– drawings/illustrations by each citation, by Miquel, Shirley and/or Inge
– Portrait photo's by Omar, with each person's name calligraphed in Arabic
– Pictures of the session


1–2 pm
— Lunch by Anka

2–3pm
— City walk & talk

3pm
— Review and update sharing/publishing-ecology: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/SOPOMA_2223_Annelys
— Build & collect content for Zine#2 (based on selected and written paragraphs)
— Update instagram account
– Activate playlists

5pm
— End


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PROGRAMME 25 OCTOBER 2022
For our first full day together, tuesday 25 October, I would like to invite you at my studio and farm in Sint Pieters Leeuw — which you can reach with bus 144 from Brussel Midi station (or by car or bicycle if you prefer). The focus of this day will be to experiment with ways of sharing and publishing our collective threads — and I hope that last weeks presentations have also brought some inspiration.

The outline of the programme is:
As references for next week, check these links as examples for platforms of collective dialogues:


As for preparation, can each of you to bring: