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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021, SCREENSHOT OF 25 HOURS ZOOM HOURS LOGGED AND COUNTING
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: SCREENSHOT OF GOOGLEDRIVE THUMBNAILS OF RECORDED THINK TANK ZOOM SESSIONS IN A 3 BY 5 DIMENSION. COHORT MEMBERS ARE FEATURED IN SMALL VIDEO-CHAT SQUARES.
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: SCREENSHOT OF GOOGLEDRIVE THUMBNAILS OF RECORDED THINK TANK ZOOM SESSIONS IN A 3 BY 5 DIMENSION. COHORT MEMBERS ARE FEATURED IN SMALL VIDEO-CHAT SQUARES.
What is this?
Invitations Toward Re-Worlding collects our citations of institutional/administrative formations we seek to change; names particular forms that require sustained interrogation; and sketches programmatic scores—prompts for ourselves and/or others—to generate, design, and lead their own transformations.
We lead from the premise that the distinction between artistry and administration is tenuous, if not entirely illusory.
CAVEAT: We are not pre-determining the eventual forms that may emerge, but we are offering specificity that cannot be ignored.
What is a “Programming Score”?
WTF are we talking about? By “programming,” we mean the process of planning the conditions to engage with others. By “scores,” we mean notation or instruction of procedures to enact, embody, or acknowledge.
We might consider a musical score. It is a record of the relationships between vibrational elements that is only connected to the material or ontological dimensions of those elements by theory or desire. Musical performance is irreducible to its score and yet very often cannot occur without it.
We recognize that these expanded programming scores are always unfinished because they strive to reflect a future we seek. They are necessarily collaborative between time and space. We call on you to perform these scores within your own work/workplace. There are many more scores to consider. We encourage you to create your own.
About Creative Time
Continuing the organization’s commitment to operating at the intersection of art and social justice, developed through programs like the decade-running Creative Time Summit, the first Think Tank was convened in 2021 toward further centering the voices of artists in the development of tactics for political and social transformation.
Lead program support for the Think Tank was generously provided by the Open Society Foundations and Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
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