FOOTNOTES

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76. Since 2030 the tacit agreement of learning institutions around the globe seems to have been to assume the responsibility of rendering art education “more accessible, less resource-intensive and more critical of its own productive capacities”. How could this be used as an excuse to close public school buildings in favor of a neoliberal rent-extraction scheme?

102. Remember when learning was not segmented into isolated slivers of time, but an ongoing process of exchange and experimentation? I spend half of my study time sending applications to appeal to finance committees for resources to fund self-initiated projects.

116. Why does everyone always speak of contributing to societal changes, but never about what kind of change is desirable, or the conditions under which it should manifest?

135. What role does art even play these days? I feel that in our time of economical precarity, art has become either pure luxury or a coping mechanism. The Learning Platform has created a global exchange of knowledge that has been unprecedented, but the tools and techniques that we are building need to be applied to local contexts and communities. It is true that this requires meeting places.

156. I heard that some of the science campuses now offer studios to artists for free! The facilities seem great but I am afraid that my work will become too ‘tied up’. Does anyone have experience with these startups?

175. We are Red Tongues, we organize weekly workshops and sharing sessions in homes and open cantines and hear this is happening in more and more places. If you know of an organization or want to be connected to a group in your city send us a mail: contact@0ct0p0s.net

221. Hey, Good Nerves here, we are formulating demands to revise the platform script. We are also closely linked with a group that is collecting alternative practices of cultural production that have emerged since the 30s.

234. Art surely is a practice of unlearning. But to ‘revise’ does not necessarily imply the total deconstruction of previous knowledge. There surely are parts that can be resurrected. Their order might, however, need to be broken up, reshuffled, reassembled, or molded differently…

331. Hey sorry I couldn’t log in for a while since we were out of electricity last week, but I love how we’re taking over Footnotes. Still need to scroll through some more, but really feel heard with most of what you’ve been chatting about here. Let’s make this a habit, let’s plot and scheme and seep and leech into these bodies of organized scripts.

389. We should do something like Wikipedia Editing Workshops. It’s something they used to do back in the days, to sit together and edit entries together when they felt something was too biased, prejudiced or discriminatory

402. That sounds cool. Maybe we should dedicate some time to do that.

434. I would suggest 29th of August to 1st of September 2022, I know some people who can get us access to the former Campus of Zurich University of the Arts. And we can use the Footnotes here to involve everyone who can’t be there in person.

450. I made a little transcript of everything. There’s also a link so everyone who’s interested can sign up