Agora Collective`s Summer Program for Collaborative

Agora Collective’s Summer Program for Collaborative Artistic Practices
Agora Collective’s Summer Program for Collaborative Artistic Practices
AFFECT is a self-organized program where the participants share their projects in order to
challenge themselves within the inputs of other artists - the process is facilitated by Agora
Collective.
7 artists from different backgrounds are placed in the same space to affect each others
work .
“I have finally finished my greatest work
and I am proud to say that not a single
idea in it is mine.” Confucius
Agora Collective’s Summer Program for Collaborative Artistic Practices
Agora Collective’s Summer Program for Collaborative Artistic Practices
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PURPOSE
to challenge artistic projects within a collaborative context
PRINCIPLES
AFFECT is a skill-sharing program based on collaborative artistic practices
developed by and for young professionals who want to challenge a specific project
CONCEPT
7 artists from different backgrounds are placed in the same space to affect each
other’s work
STRUCTURE
Period of 4 weeks Art Space at Agora’s top floor – 120 sq. meter in a industrial building in Neukölln
Berlin
7 artists are selected through open call
4 variety of interventions with 2/3 facilitators per week.
WEEK ONE // BODY OF WORK – Contact Improvisation / group dynamics /
Exercises
How to create situations that encourage collaboration?
How to experience a group composed of different backgrounds individuals?
WEEK TWO // MIND OF WORK – Reading session / Theory / Project Sharing
How to compose collaborative actions within individual artistic practices?
WEEK THREE // NETS OF WORK – References / Skill – sharing
What could provoke a consistent partnership between people?
What are the questions connecting a group of people? WEEK FOUR // PRACTICES OF WORK – Practice / Outcome
From experience to practice.
Agora Collective’s Summer Program for Collaborative Artistic Practices
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PEOPLE
Conceived by Agora Art Collective - A small group of artists and thinkers coming
from many disciplines and backgrounds and while it retains a small, core group
from project to project Agora Collective is also constantly inviting new members to
meet the challenges of a new work
Diego Agulló // Video-performance artist. www.diegoagullo.com
www.paragullo.com
Marcela Donato // Dancer, Choreographer and Agora Collective’s Artistic Director
Renata Har // Visual Artist www.renatahar.com
Renata Har // Visual Artist www.renatahar.com
Clemence de La Tour du Pin // Visual Artist, curator at Kunst Shot and L’Atelier
Kunst (spiel) Raum
www.clemencedelatourdupin.com
Judith Lavagna // Art Curator
Rodrigo Maltez-Novaes // Visual Artist, researcher at Vilém Flusser Archive at
Universität der Künste Berlin
www.posteverything-neonothing.com/ Dmitry Paranyushkin // Performance Artists, founder of Nodus Lab
www.deemeetree.com
www.paragulllo.com
Caique Tizzi // Visual Artist, Founder of Agora Collective
www.caiquetizzi.net
www.agoracollective.org
Agora Collective’s Summer Program for Collaborative Artistic Practices
the program
the objective
Affect refers, to the influence, a change has
on something else. It is not from today that
artists are influenced and inspired by the
relationships and encounters experienced
throughout their lives. Interferences and
interactions between persons can create
special circumstances that are crucial for
artistic development and certainly affect the
way one relates to production.
is to challenge artists in an active process of work to
develop their projects in a collaborative context potentially putting this work to a new level of
presentation. Focused on artistic development, this
program is conceived for young professionals who
wish to bring new inputs for a specific project/
question/research - within a model built for
exchanging knowledge.
AFFECT is a program designed by Agora
Collective based on collaborative practices Agora’s artists open for this summer 2012
their art space for 7 international artists - from
all field of arts - who aim to challenge and
incorporate new layers to their own projects.
The program proposes a skill-sharing format in which
Agora Collective intends, as a catalyser, to cause/
propose/create a review of perspective mainly
through discussions, exercises, reading sessions,
workshops and living collectively.
For Agora Collective the program shows itself as a
potential opportunity to formalize daily situations
experienced in the space. Agora Collective, acting
since one year in Berlin, opens its space and its
experience for a new group of artists.
Agora Collective’s Summer Program for Collaborative Artistic Practices
the format
is structured with a group of seven artists, selected
through an application process. Each artist arrives to
the work frame with an own project in development
and are placed to work together during a time frame
of 4 weeks in Agora’s top floor studio.
Throughout the weeks, Agora Collective members
will provoke smalls interventions to the group related
to their domain of research, in order to build bridges,
generate inputs and propose working tasks to the
participants and their projects. conceived to work as a self-organized program,
Agora Collective members act in AFFECT as
facilitators that intend to immerse the residents in their
own and on each others works, inspiring and
nourishing each other’s processes. It is important to
mention that collaboration will not be a demand,
what we propose is to review one’s project and
question how it could relate and maybe gain from
others interactions. Collaboration is not a must, but
encouraged.
the elements
. project sharing // each artist presents their
project for the program having Agora Collective
as mediator
. skill sharing // each artist shares
knowledgement, skills and strategies for artistic
practices
. exercises // Agora Collective brings exercises
and proposals for the group
. references // each artists and Agora
Collective bring references and inspirations for
the group
. agora collective’s methods for collective
perception // Agora presents the on-going
project “To Perform a...” to the residents
. reading sessions // mediated by Agora
Collective a session dedicated to theory and
reading texts related to collaborative artistic
practices.
. Agora Collective’s facilitators interactions // 2
facilitators per/week
They can propose a workshop, reading a
book together, viewing films, show or discuss
your work in progress or anything else you
would exchange, share.
. visiting the out side world // visit to galleries,
performances, museums.
. outcome: organized by the group // Final
presentation - which can take any format - for
public on the last evening of the program at
Agora.
Agora Collective’s Summer Program for Collaborative Artistic Practices
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Specifications for the program
4 weeks/program - from 1st August until 30th August 2012
Applications:
This program is developed for artists of any field that are interested in
immersing themselves and their projects into a collaborative situation.
To apply // please send an email to [email protected] with
the following documents:
. A description of the project to be developed in Agora (max. 2500
characters with space)
. Sample of previous work - PDF, links, website, cds, dvds, etc.
Deadline for application: 15th July 2012
Results on 20th July 2012 per email
fee: 280 euros includes 24/7 studio space / all elements of the program / contact
and facilitation with and by Agora Collective / discount at Agora Café
Agora Collective’s Summer Program for Collaborative Artistic Practices
AGORA,
our space.
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Agora is a multi-disciplinary space, founded in June 2011 and situated in Berlin. Agora’s mission is to
empowers individuals through collaborative creation. Our activities and structure were designed to enable
connections between entrepreneurial and artistic initiatives. As a house of resources, Agora unites people from several backgrounds in a space that encourages
professionals to collaborate and network.
Agora offers in its physical space - a gathering space with a charming café, a co-working space and an art
space.
Agora means “now” in Portuguese - the language of its founders - and in Greek refers to the public space
for trade, exchange. Agora aims to support projects that are relevant and dialogue with today’s context.
Agora Collective’s Summer Program for Collaborative Artistic Practices
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AGORA ART COLLECTIVE
Agora Collective is the art collective of
Agora. A small group of artists and thinkers
coming from many disciplines and
backgrounds and while it retains a small,
core group from project to project Agora
Collective is also constantly inviting new
members to meet the challenges of a new
work.
With each new piece and new group
Agora Collective concerns with finding
territory
where
questions,
skills,
experiences, and range of interests can
find common ground, an entity of work.
The process is based
on constantly
putting free-form thoughts into action and
then building from and reworking the
unexpected results. While this manner of
working can be at times circuitous, the
experience of collaboration thus remains
as exciting to us as the moment the final
work is released.
www.agoracollective.org
Mittelweg, 50 12053 Berlin
Contact: [email protected]