Seminar
Seminar 8: Work in the Cultural Economy We Want: Cooperatives
Nov 8, 2021
1:00–2:30pm ET
Cooperative and worker-owned enterprises in the arts and culture sector are gaining traction (again). In the last financial crisis of 2007/2008, the number of worker cooperatives doubled. The oldest Native co-op in the country, Qualla Arts and Crafts, is led by culture-bearers. The first democratically managed investment fund in the country, the Boston Ujima Project, places BIPOC arts and cultural organizing at the heart of its work. The oldest non-extractive venture capital firm in the United States, The Working World, was started by artists. The system culture-bearers and artists want is not only possible—it already exists and can be strengthened and cultivated with intention.
Convened with artist Caroline Woolard of Art.coop, this seminar brings together cultural cooperatives in a conversation about protocols that build shared political, economic, and cultural power. Computer scientist, game designer, educator, and co-founder of Emma Technology Cooperative Ramsey Nasser leads participants in a collaborative game designed for the seminar.
Participants:
Those registered and
Pia Mancini, co-founder & CEO, Open Collective
Ramsey Nasser, computer scientist and game designer, co-founder of Emma Technology Cooperative
Daniel Park, U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives
Convened with Caroline Woolard, artist, Co-Founder, Project Development & Research Steward, Art.coop
As for Protocols Seminar Series
Led by Vera List Center faculty and staff, each monthly seminar in this year-long series is convened with a partner organization, collective or independent curator to examine a particular aspect of protocols, among them those relating to aerial surveillance, platform cooperativism, and jazz and modernism, enacting protocols and ethics for collaboration. Building on last year’s collaboration with The New School faculty and conversations started in previous sessions, each seminar is centered by an art project and accompanied by readings. It is presented as part of the Barbara Jordan Lectures: The State of Democracy series.
The Vera List Center is committed to ensuring that our programs are accessible to and inclusive of all. As part of that commitment, this event features close captioning subtitles and ASL interpretation. Please let us know when registering if you need these or any additional accommodations.
The Fall 2021 programs of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School are generously supported by members of the Vera List Center Board, individual donors as well as the following institutional funders:
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Boris Lurie Art Foundation
Dayton Foundation
Ford Foundation
Kettering Fund
Native Arts and Cultures Foundation
Pryor Cashman LLP
and
The New School
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Seminar Overview
As for Protocols Seminar Series
Sep 14, 2020–May 16, 2022
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Seminar 1: Protocols as Language and Communication
Sep 14, 2020
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Seminar 2: Protocols for Community and Equitable Networks [as applied to education]
Oct 19, 2020
Panel, Screening
Seminar 3: Bring Forth the Body: Biopower, Protocol, and Plagues
Nov 16, 2020
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Seminar 4: Reimagining Protocols: Reclaiming, Challenging, and Queering Surveillance
Feb 8, 2021
Seminar
Seminar 5: Protocols of Revolutionary Feminisms to Re/make the World
Mar 8, 2021
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Seminar 6: Lab Work – Art of the Experiment
Apr 5, 2021
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Seminar 7: Drones and the Bird’s-Eye View
