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http://hdl.handle.net/1942/40669| Title: | Interview Post Collective | Contributors/Performers: | DE JONGE, Katinka | Issue Date: | 2023 | Abstract: | Since 2018 The Post Collective has been an autonomous platform of co-creation, co-learning and cultural activism created by and for refugees, asylum seekers, sans-papiers and accomplices. It introduces a range of artistic, cultural and employment opportunities and provides an environment of commoning for its members regardless of their legal status. The collective aims to develop creative alternatives beyond the dominant systems of control and exclusion it is facing. This means facilitating the position where one does not struggle to be assimilated, but instead rethinking and re-conceptualizing critically a future together as a community. The Post Collective develops relationships of kinship, solidarity and co-elaboration with other artists and institutions in Belgium and from various diasporas. find out more The Post Film Collective, born in 2020 upon the invitation of Robin Vanbesien, elaborates on the work and experiences of The Post Collective into the realm of cinema. The Post Film Collective are Mahammed Alimu, Marcus Bergner, Hooman Jalidi, Sawsan Maher, Mirra Markhaeva, Robin Vanbesien and Elli Vassalou. At Beursschouwburg, The Post Film Collective will continue developing their polyphonic cinema practice with On Recreation, a film that takes its cue from the poem “Recreation” by Audre Lorde, with its connotations of play, reciprocity, care, repetition, and regeneration. In this work and research The Post Film Collective gathers various languages, expressions, and rhythms as a way of preventing the film production from nesting neatly, and preserving relational geographies of connected struggles, imaginaries, and resources. On Recreation is produced by timely (Brussels); co-produced by Kunstencentrum Vooruit (Ghent), Beursschouwburg (Brussels); supported by VAF (Flemish Audiovisual Fund), Kunsthal Gent, Netwerk Aalst, ARIA (Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts), Sint Lucas Antwerpen. https://postfilmcollective.org/ | Keywords: | collectivity;artcollectives;interview | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/40669 | Discipline: | multidisciplinair | Research Context: | The research project 'Dialogical Landscapes, A speculative research on common ground(ing)' investigates and problematizes the boundary between the artistic and the organizational domain within the arts, and the role of artistic imagination and collaboration within this. From this research framework I am currently developing a form of conversation as an artistic and performative gesture, for groups between 4 to 12 participants, who are currently part of a collaboration (ie they are connected to each other as an organization or collective). It functions as an imaginary organizational structure (or a collective) that is established and disbanded in the course of the performance. The roles of different players can shift, and the group is challenged to think about their own cooperation. What brings/holds us together? The basis of this conversation performance consists of a script that is still changing, based on many interviews I did with existing self-organization collectives in Belgium and abroad (including KAK, The Post Collective, Volksroom, De Pandemisten, De Zwarte Zusters, Questions Collective (nl) and Level Five). I mainly focused on specific themes that play a prominent role in these organizations (e.g. authorship, care or the use of space), which were then transformed in different ‘roles’. How do certain terminologies change meaning when an organization uses them? By selecting and mixing quotes from these interviews, a generic script is created that reads like a manifesto (‘About Us’) from an organization that never existed. This script forms the starting point of the dialogical performance, and is read throughout the performance, critiqued and finally adapted by the group, in various 'rounds'. The ultimate goal of the performance is that the participants learn to look differently at (aspects of) their own organization by means of this script, and a shift occurs in the way in which people speak in the group. The quotations provide a catalytic effect that enables a group of participants to question their own collective through the words of other collectives. Tryouts of the performance are organized in various organizations, including the collectives I have already worked with, but also De Kunsthal Gent, De Koer, VierNulVier and WP Zimmer. All this is currently still in a testing phase, but through various tryouts I hope to find out which strategies work to have a fundamental conversation about collaboration which flows into an adaptation of the script. 'About Us' balances itself between a dialogue and a performance, an imaginary and a daily reality. | Related Info: | The Post Collecive | Category: | AOR | Type: | Artistic/designerly creation |
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