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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 11:09:01
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Subject: Letter From The Residents
resource for teachers | library of collaborative methods | by Eyebeam
residents Caroline Woolard and Or Zubalsky
A collaborative letter
from the residents
Re: September
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Resource for Teachers | Library Of
Collaborative Methods
Dear teachers and students of collaboration,
As residents at Eyebeam, Or Zubalsky and I have been
developing an open access library of collaborative methods. With
support from the New York Foundation for the Arts, today we are
launching The Study Center for Group Work.
We hope that teachers, art spaces, collectives, worker-owned
businesses, art classes, and working-groups will use this online
library of collaborative methods that have been recommended by
artists. These methods often embrace the unknown, encouraging
people to listen deeply enough to be transformed. We invite you
to learn about collaborative methods, to access teaching
resources, and to see the schedule for upcoming events and jobs
related to collaboration.
For example, here are some methods for:
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group functioning (Asset Mapping) (Diagram Hacking)
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decision-making (Voting and Ranking)
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role clarification (Threeing) (Questions for Schematic Theater)
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healing and care (Support)
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shared leadership (Leadership Compass)
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communication (Intergroup Dialog) (A Field Guide to Spatial
Intimacy) (Hand Signals)
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conflict resolution (Shark, Owl, Turtle, Teddy Bear, Fox)
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reflection (Three-Line Matrix) (Group Self-Assessment)
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analysis of images and systems (Project 404) (Mirror/Echo/Tilt)
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and speculative futures (Objects as Fictions, The Alternative
Unknowns)
The artists who have contributed to this resource include:
Leonard Nalencz, Shaun Leonardo, Robert Sember of Ultra-red,
Project 404, Sick Time with Canaries, Judith Leemann, Kenneth
Bailey and the Design Studio for Social Intervention, the
Extrapolation Factory, taisha paggett and Ashley Hunt, Jean
Gardner and the estate of Paul Ryan, Asha Iman Veal Brisebois
and Adelheid Mers, Christopher Robbins, Aaron Landsman, Cori
Olinghouse, Melanie Crean, and Chloe Bass, as well as curators
Danielle Jackson, who facilitated a retreat for the group
earlier this year, and Stamatina Gregory, who curated an
exhibition at Cooper Union in 2016 that led to this site. You
can see a video of that, here.
If most people have no experience of democracy at work, at home,
in school, or online, how can we learn to collaborate? How do we
develop a musculature of shared decision making and of shared
work?
A few years ago, we began to notice that many visual artists had
developed methods of listening and group work. Yet they did not
have a way to share their work with one another or with the
public. Just as dancers take classes throughout their lives,
more and more visual artists are committed to group work through
daily practice. We ran a pilot program that took the form of an
exhibition called WOUND: The Study Center for Group Work,
curated by Stamatina Gregory, at Cooper Union in 2016-2017. The
Center was written up in The New York Times, Art in America, and
Artforum; we knew it needed to continue. We are excited to share
this online library of collaborative methods, and to announce
that we will be working with Spaceworks at the New York Public
Library to provide trainings throughout the year.
Here is an upcoming workshop you can attend:
Saturday, September 30, 5:00PM
How can we support ourselves and each other? This workshop looks
at the ways in which we meet our needs for wellbeing in order to
dream, practice, and work on any project. Support extends beyond
the life of our projects, often shaping the ways in which we
navigate the contradictions of living and working on independent
projects. Join us for a ?brain massage? and mutual connection.
3-5pm at Spaceworks @ Williamsburgh Library, 240 Division Ave,
Fl 2 Brooklyn, NY RSVP
If democracy is an endless conversation, then The Study Center
for Group Work aims to cultivate behaviors that allow groups to
work together. To get in touch with us, or suggest a
collaborative method, please email us at
i...@woundstudycenter.com. To join the mailing list, please
enter your email here.
In cooperation,
Caroline Woolard and Or Zubalsky
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