Studio Somewhere Invites…

Public recordings (canada)

What’s Collective? workshop

September 7 - 9 2022 / 1-6pm
Studio Somewhere, Tramway, Glasgow
Free

FULLY BOOKED

Take Me Somewhere are delighted to invite Toronto based performance company Public Recordings to deliver their 3 day workshop What’s Collective?, exploring strategies in collective working within organising & creative practise.

About What’s Collective?

In this ongoing project Public Recordings researches ways and means of making that promote shared agency and authorship. Using the framework of a co-facilitated workshop, What’s Collective? stages an artistic exchange, through which collective approaches to art making can be shared, questioned, and renewed. The result is a gathering in which participants can more deeply consider their own artistic contexts, and develop new questions and ideas in response to the project’s title.

What’s Collective? is co-facilitated by associate artists of Public Recordings. This iteration will take place over three afternoon sessions at Tramway. Participants will explore systems and strategies borrowed from past Public Recordings projects and the personal practices of the facilitators, to uncover common issues of group work. The sessions will include physical practices, sound-making, listening, discussion, reading, writing, and reflection. The goal with What’s Collective? is to hold a space in which participants can reflect on past experiences of group work, better understand and articulate important aspects of collaborative and collective practices, and discover how we can work together better–inside and outside of art making.

Read the full session structure & more information here.

Call for participants (Passed)

This iteration of What’s Collective? will consist of three afternoon sessions, for up to 15 participants taking place in-person at Studio Somewhere (Tramway). We are looking for artists, thinkers & organisers interested or working in experimental performance to participate. Whilst it is strongly recommended to attend the full 3 sessions, if you are only able to attend for one or two that can be arranged.

The workshop is free to attend. We have limited attendance bursaries of £100 for people attending all three sessions who are not in receipt of regular funding or who have other significant income. We do not have an attendance bursary for everyone so please do not put yourself forward for one if you feel financially comfortable.

We have resources to support any access requirements you may have; please indicate these when you register.

Deadline to register: 2nd September 17:00
If you have any trouble will the registration form or any questions please email karl@takemesomewhere.co.uk

About Public Recordings

Public Recordings is an artist-led collective based in Toronto. We develop and present hypotheses about group work using dance, theatre, music, publication and other collective gestures. And our work has been shown and distributed in theatres, art galleries, museums, bars, clubs, civic, outdoor and digital spaces across Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia.

Public Recordings is a non-profit, registered charity. Founded in 2003, the challenges and possibilities of collaboration and shared leadership have been a perennial subject, touching all of the work we do––within artistic projects and in the evolving structure of the organization itself. In 2015 Public Recordings officially adopted its current organizational model: an interdisciplinary collective led by its associate artists, two of whom also work as producers and lead administrators. Working and managing resources collectively, this team supports each other to produce their work together, and help cultivate new projects.

Artistic Producers: Evan Webber, Christopher Willes. Associate Artists: Brendan Jensen, Bee Pallamino, Germaine Liu, Evan Webber, and Christopher Willes. Board of Directors: Chris Dupuis , Lee Henderson, Lauren Vandervoort. Design: Jeremy McCormick. Bookkeeping: Emma Walker. Public Recordings was founded in 2003 by choreographer Ame Henderson and new media artist Daniel Arcé.

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Project Credits

What’s Collective? Was initiated by Liz Peterson, Christopher Willes and Evan Webber. Facilitators: Brendan Jensen, Germaine Liu, Bee Pallomina, Christopher Willes, Evan Webber, Liz Peterson. Print Design: Jeremy McCormick.

Developed with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and The Centre for Expanded Poetics at Concordia University.

Previous presentations: The Toronto Dance Community Love-in (2021), Studio 303 (2020), and the Milieux Institute / LePARC Concordia University (2020).