Working Groups
Various sites
2018 – ongoing

Since 2018, my practice has been mobilized by designing and coordinating sustained working groups as sites of collaborative knowledge production and organizational experimentation. Operating often as off-shoots and ‘runaway objects’ from existing exhibitions, projects, and programs, these groups assemble in various sites as teams of artists, curators, and thinkers, adopting and examining a specific topic, while at the same time actively recalibrating and inventing modes for working and thinking together. Through my steering, these entities centre an understanding of ‘scenes’ as highly malleable contexts, where participants have an opportunity to cultivate a common grammar through which to (re)shape the environments and habitats where they perform research and produce knowledge. In other words, organizational processes are reflexively taken up in these sites as a matter of continuous experimentation, as the teams borrow from and blend methods of co-operative inquiry and paragogy to test out customized modes of peer-learning, and experience the adventures of a shared inquiry.

These groups also operate within and as an ecology of ‘organizational remix,’ where workshop scores or collaborative systems of one group will often be repurposed and rearranged by another. Further, these groups also work as a method of educational research for my teaching work, as elements of assignment structures in my university courses will enter these more informal sites of learning, where they will be mutated and strengthened, before re-entering the classroom.

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