Workplaces Of Care

A OFEN Co-Arts Platform course proposition for university students

Outcomes

Each session will involve designated time for

Proposing, performance tasks

Discussion, reading, writing and group discussion

Mentoring, written and verbal feedback

Objectives and Accomplishments

Workplaces of Care : Re-Imagining the Cultural Entrepreneur

Please refer to session outline below

Topics for discussion

Re-thinking artistic practice outside the square
Arts economy built around human needs
Power vs leadership
Considering precarity and differentiated vulnerability within intersectional groups
Peer support replacing competition

Contemplating work by Whistle While You Work and Engagement and international equivalents

Group task as manifesto and singular artistic statements

Performing for Freedom – elevating the pressure of product in order to access creativity and presence

Course session outline

Module 1:

Introductions and Getting to Know Each Other
Module 2:

Practicing Care and Levelling Hierarchy-Feedback, Support and Universal Access
Module 3:

Re-Thinking Artistic Practice
Module 4:

Non Capitalist Processes
Module 5:

The Performers Body as an Archive
Module 6:

Speaking Text – Recorded Voice as Communal Reading Alone Together
Module 7:

Developing Boundaries with Working Conditions – Contracts, Payments and Intersectional Quotas
Module 8:

Utopian Visions need Dystopian Models – Leadership, Power and Hard Choices in a Time of Climate Change and Coronavirus
Module 9

Manifesto as Future Guidance
Module 10:

Performing Performativity
Module 11:

Discoveries and Conclusion