I want this space to be collaborative somehow, in an ever evolving way, agile in its embrace.
The methodology of Disorganising West Space, Liquid Architecture and Bus Projects developed where “in the context of numerous challenges to our organisations and communities...came together to discuss a collective response... How, as independent organisations, might we refuse to compete with each other for resources, and the attention of audiences, artists, stakeholders?” This omission of siloing of being magnets power shifts the institutional hierarchy liberating its burden by disseminating its gifts.
“Disorganising means, wherever possible, shifting knowledge, resources and opportunities from existing organisational silos into the common spaces that present conditions demand.”
(Bus Projects: Disorganising)
Thank you for reading to the end: I now present a gift, if you wish you can now edit this page, please however only add to rather than take away, let this be a discursive space.
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I have experienced in so many small institutions where everyone is overworked but we find it so hard to ask for help because we know how tepid the funding is and how devastating it is to lose parts of your team.
How do we stabilize our institutions via caring for their material needs or outgoings?
Perhaps it's simpler than we imagine perhaps the distance we feel is not physical and can be bridged:
“J shows me an image of two men standing on a roundabout, blocking the passage of a semi-trailer. In the face of this enormous vehicle they are unwavering, firm, staunch. J says getting organised is easier than we might sometimes think, that our organisation might necessarily take the form of disorganisation.
I turn to the person next to me and hatch a plan.
If listening is a site for the organisation of politics, then how do we listen to and for a politics of disorganised organisation?”
(Astrid Lorange and Andrew Brooks, Ground work, Snack Syndicate)
So what does it look like to ask you to help me or join me in asking for help, hoping for a reciprocity of help. Maybe it’s just letting people in. (see bottom)