2020 LB1 Collaboration, Conflict & Consent

Welcome! We will be using this pad for organising during the workshop: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/2020-09-28LB1

Rhodes statue: proposals

Please paste a link to your proposal here:

1. Out_of_stone

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yYQkJCFZBX6HGkInrfu6Q3J3t5L7IpG5jPho0rGeKf4/edit?usp=sharing

Links & references

Day 1

1.1 INTRO

• Rhodes statue
  • https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-53487991#:~:text=The%20controversial%20statue%20of%20Cecil,see%20the%20statue%20taken%20down.
  • https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jun/17/end-of-the-rhodes-cecil-oxford-college-ditches-controversial-statue
• 'Gay cake' scandal
  • For analysis, see:

https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-and-opinion/judgment-in-gay-cake-case/5067886.article

• ‘No Platforming’ controversy.
  • UK National Union of Students policy: https://www.nusconnect.org.uk/resources/nus-no-platform-policy-f22f
  • In defence of no-platforming (6min):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmCpKDgj7Mg- A critique of no-platforming:

https://www.newstatesman.com/sarah-ditum/2014/03/when-did-no-platform-become-about-attacking-individuals-deemed-disagreeable

1.2 INTRODUCTIONS

1.3 THE TROUBLE WITH GENIUS

• Theories of authorship
  • For references see: Greenhalgh, E. (2010) ‘Open Wide’ dissertation http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/images/3/3b/OpenWideDissertation.pdf
  • And: Daniel Defoe, quoted in: Rose, M. (1994). Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard
• Paternity
  • Image: memorial painting of William Lee (d.1637) and his 197 descendants: one of the earliest known ‘family tree’ paintings. In St Helen’s church Abingdon-on-Thames. Photo: Rex Harris, Flickr

Day 2

2.1 DECISION-MAKING SYSTEMS

• Some examples of decision making systems
• Activity: testing out different decision making systems

2.2 THE GROAN ZONE

• Theory of consent-based decision making + critiques of 'final outcome'
  • For project examples, see http://eleanorg.org/art
  • For theory, look up Seeds for Change web resources: https://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/consensus
  • For writing on consent, see Yes Means Yes (2018) incl Millar's essay 'Towards a Performance Model of Sex' https://ducttapedance.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/toward-a-performance-model-of-sex-by-thomas-macaulay-millar/

• Democracy in the art world
  • Upcoming conference in Belgrade on democratizing the arts: https://www.anotherartworld.org/

Additional references on holistic approach to art/mental health:

• Joan Halifax: 'Shaman, the wounded healer' book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shaman-Wounded-Healer-Art-Imagination/dp/050081029X
• Introduction to therapeutic shamanism https://vimeo.com/443866205?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=therapeutic_shamanism_free_video_talk_by_paul_francis_and_new_course_dates&utm_term=2020-08-05
• Archaeology of shamanism book: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ukpeAvyjHmIC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Day 3

3.1 PSYCHOLOGY OF POWER & CONFLICT

• Theory: the need to consider operations of power & roles in groups.
  • Reference: Freeman, J. (1970) The Tyranny of Structurelessness.

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/528558

• Theory: Transactional Analysis
  • Video & discussion: analysis of role-playing

- History today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEQcsuXnnnc

-John Bercow ‘Order’ compilation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY7EIZl4raY

- Young ones Cornflakes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLwc9lbJlIQ

- Rebecca’ (film version) Clip (starts 3:24): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH2vljLgNvU

-‘50 Shades of Grey’ (film version). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFK5SV1-Pzg

• References:
  • On adult/parent/child modes: Harris, A. ‘I’m OK- You’re OK’.
  • Article: intro to parent/adult/child roles

https://medium.com/@NataliMorad/how-to-communicate-better-with-transactional-analysis-d0d32f9d50da

• Theory: Attachment & infant needs

Some useful references on attachment & infant needs, met & unmet:

• • Ainsworth, M.: ‘The Strange Situation’ experiment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_6rQk7jlrc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTsewNrHUHU

• • Horney, K. ‘Our Inner Conflicts’
  • Rebecca Solnit on Donald Trump: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/08/trump-coronavirus-pandemic-dishonest-cruel
  • Horney, K. ‘New Ways in Psychoanalysis’
  • Bowlby, J. ‘Attachment
  • Easy intro to attachment styles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP-nPJbTgTs’

• Working together during Corona

- Essay analysing video conferencing as a tool in groups & why it is so exhausting https://jer.openlibhums.org/article/10.16995/jer.67/ - Tools: Jitsi, Slack, e-Consensus, Loomio