Workplaces Of Care
Re-Imagining the Cultural Entrepreneur
A OFEN Co-Arts course designed for university students that explores how to infuse care into the cultural industry. This program invites participants to rethink the workplace, fostering a supportive and inclusive environment for all.
Course Highlights:
• Interactive Sessions: Each meeting includes time for proposing performance tasks, engaging in discussions, reading, writing, and group collaborations.
• Mentorship and Feedback: Participants will receive both written and verbal feedback to enhance their learning experience.
Objectives:
- Explore innovative artistic practices that prioritize human needs over traditional models.
- Discuss the dynamics of power and leadership within the cultural sector.
- Address the challenges of precarity and vulnerability faced by diverse groups.
- Foster peer support to create a collaborative rather than competitive environment.
- Develop a group manifesto and individual artistic statements.
Key Topics Include:
- Rethinking artistic practices beyond conventional frameworks.
- Non-capitalist processes in the arts economy.
- The performer’s body as an archive of experiences.
- Leadership and power in the context of global challenges like climate change and public health crises.
Course session outline
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Module 1:
Introductions and Getting to Know Each Other
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Module 2:
Practicing Care and Levelling Hierarchy-Feedback, Support and Universal Access
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Module 3:
Re-Thinking Artistic Practice
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Module 4:
Non-Capitalist Processes
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Module 5:
The Performers Body as an Archive
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Module 6:
Speaking Text – Recorded Voice as Communal Reading
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Module 7:
Developing Boundaries with Working Conditions – Contracts, Payments and Intersectional Quotas
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Module 8:
Utopian Visions in Dystopian Times
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Module 9
Manifesto as Future Guidance
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Module 10:
Performing Performativity
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Module 11:
Discoveries and Conclusion