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http://hdl.handle.net/1942/40670| Title: | Interview Questions Collective | Contributors/Performers: | DE JONGE, Katinka | Issue Date: | 2023 | Abstract: | The interview Questions Collective took place online. Questions Collective is an arts Collective based in Amsterdam. This interview is part of a series of conversations conducted as a basis for a scenario, entitled 'About Us'. | Keywords: | collectivity;interview;artcollective | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/40670 | 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. 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: | Questions Collective | Category: | AOR | Type: | Artistic/designerly creation |
| Appears in Collections: | Artistic/designerly creations |
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