Preparations
FS + WVW enjoyed working on this together; complementary energies and tasks
Great to have Dona organising in the background (cooking, fees, hotels, WBI, ...)
WVW: inhoud, voorbereiding was vooral vooraf - zowel praktisch als inhoudelijk. Netwerk opbouwen, vooral in Brussel. Dat had effect!
Heel veel tijd besteed; soms moeilijk om precies aan te geven hoe dat korter kan ... een dag met Julien en Blender ... van Hacklab naar Hackerspace ... duurde lang om mensen en machines aan de praat te krijgen.
Tof: met Vera - An - Rebekka - Delphine naar de hackerspace.
Participation Phil in preparations was essential to bring necessery depth to intuitions. FS enjoyed those conversations a lot.
Anne S: Great to have her on team. Link Pink Screens, Laurence S and also Nathalie great; sometimes not easy to find a way to work together in hectics of this type of preparations. In the end it worked out. Freyja: Nice energy but sometimes hard to depend on; seemed to miss point at essential moments (feminism, floss, copyleft). Think of how to work with her better.
Beurs: many rules; still possible to work with
Week
budget very tight
WVW: niet te technisch; er was echt inhoud (zelfs als scannen/printen veel aandacht vraagt)
evenement - publieke avond: over nadenken; niet ideaal.
Public Archive worked even better than expected as interface/landing point.
FS: preparation essential for inviting people, thinking through.
Practical preparation of such an archive also takes time - it is important (it made the archive approachable, vibrant) but do not underestimate; even if we had also extra help: 2 days Michael + 1 day Martino. Yeah for Olimex!
Long days ... Persoon die avond draait 's ochtends vrij
Excursion right moment, right place; follow-up? Wendy takes it on (send BlenderNation)Afwisselen van 'verantwoordelijkheid'? Even with great support, Wendy/Femke not able to do any work during the session. Maybe just way it is?
Participants: good mix, good size, would have been great to have more of Nathalie, Phil
Specific: Mark? Alix?
Zeljko input in general speciallly first days: important; for kickertable progress ... not sure it really worked in here -- see for workshops after.
also good to have a resident artist in Beurs
Lots of new and renewed connections, many of them in Brussels: hurray
Guests worked out; mainly Pierrick (yeah!)
Nic good for scanning/printing
Appartments would have been better; but hosting worked well again and helps pulling wider Constant network in.
Cooking great!
Beurs: many rules; still possible to work with. Lieve, Cleaners, ... super tof.
Nice to work with Beursshouwburg Frank (laconiek but alright)
FS: no input/interest whatsoever from Tom Bonte during week (or before). Peter calls to evaluate.
We were part of the programme, but also not ... Communication weird
also: we ourselves maybe need to be more strict with times/places/ -- have one person end responsible for communication
Budget
Geen plek/tijd/budget ingepland voor documentatie achteraf; moet wel!
Quite tight ...
not many artists got paid for their contributions to archive due to FS only e-mailing a few (still do that?)
Erna
Nieuwsgierig of post-Samedies gaat lukken? Ref. Ms Balthazar na Ellentriek ... not sure.
w-o-l-k-e
foto's op Lulzbot blog met licentie
FS would like to make a small booklet / publication, based on http://gb.pad.constantvzw.org/p/guide and including:
*Rebekka: Blendernation report
*Nathalie GrandJean: text
*Ask Phil?
*Magnus Eriksson: Revised version of http://www.blay.se/2014/11/22/Gender-Blending-and-the-Limits-of-Queer/
But when?
... Need to still to report to WBI before end of year
Dreaming of an opportunity next year to rebuild archive including guide/booklet with new works, in a relevant context, with a bit of time and money