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The ‘How to Work Together?’ podcast series is a culmination of the first collaboration between PLATFORM X Museum of Impossible Forms in 2020. These podcasts and conversations, under the umbrella of collaboration, are infused with the possibilities and limits of location identity and practice. They discuss desires of working together, outline ecologies of collaboration, and para-institutional community-led praxis as a primary aim and processual goal.
"The word collaborate comes from Latin roots. Words beginning with the prefix col- means together, implying doing something together. The root word laborare, also from Latin, gives us many of the English words used to talk about careers and work. In fact, the word labour comes from this root word. Putting the two Latin parts of this word together, the word literally means ‘to work together’.
Today, Collaboration is at the core of any artistic, curatorial, choreographic, literary, or activist work, fundamentally transforming the ways in which we think of each of these fields of work both individually as well as collectively. This is especially true of the Finish arts and cultural fields, where a collaboration oriented ecology is actively constructed, one that favours community-based and community-led practices over individual or studio-based working methodologies.
And yet, many of us whether separately or collectively, have confided, shared, or spoken out, about the difficult and precarious conditions in which most of us as artists and cultural workers continue to work. Most often our working conditions are exacerbated rather than relieved by the conditions of competition that frame the ecology of our art and cultural fields, whether competitions of resources, attention, spaces to exhibit, or grants. These conditions of competition exist across visual, literary, music and sound, cinematic, conceptual/ contemporary, and other forms of arts, as well as within social, political, and activism based workings; and in many ways ties us together as fellow-competitors, despite our collective wish to work together as friends, collaborators, and like-minded individuals.
These twin conditions of working together, yet pitted against each other as competitors for resources and recognition is a distinct feature of the Finnish Art world and require further discussion."
*These podcasts are a series of discussions between Ali Akbar Mehta and the artists-in-residence of the 2020 PLATFORM residency, as well as with members of the Museum of Impossible Forms and PLATFORM; and is launched during the 20 years of Platform festival.
Museum of impossible Forms: https://www.museumofimpossibleforms.org/
PLATFORM: http://www.platform.fi/
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