Workshop with Danae Theodoridou

• Institutions as traps?
• Frustration of art in relation to its political force
• Art: only an attempt?
• Community withdrawal: need for community?
• Immediate community: returning to the materiality of the event
• Relation to others and common decision-making processes
• Emotionality: crying, helplessness, caving inside, withdrawal
• In order to return to emotionality and forces of community that capitalism has alienated us from: we have to spend the time of crying
• Curation as a process of commoning
• "The guts to give in" - bravery and giving in
• Giving in as political action
• When is something not an action? 
• Hannah Arendt's definition of action

Question game:

How can curation work as a process of communing?
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What exactly is a process of communing?
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Why do we need to define something in order to do it?
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How can we do something without defining it?
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Who is defining what we’re doing?
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Who has the correct answers?
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How can we produce our own answers?
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What if we start thinking about honesty?
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How to provide a hierarchy of multiple perspectives?
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How to work with multiple perspectives?
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How to shift one perspective to another?
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How can I listen to perspective to someone else without forgetting my perspective?
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How can I have more than one perspectives?
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How do I approach working with others as not a frame an agreement?
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How do I stand on my ground?
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What is the power of giving in?
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What happens when I don’t give in, but don’t agree?
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How much time is needed in order to decide whether I agree or I give in?
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Why is it important to make fast decisions?
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How do I feel like I have time?
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What sort of pace do I use the most?
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What is the difference between the actual time given and the experience of having time? Or How is it possible to have half an hour and feel like that you have time, and have half an hour and feel like you don’t have time?
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What if procrastination is not procrastination?
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What are the gradients of not doing?
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How can laziness be productive?
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Can we name laziness as nesting something?
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What if nastiness was nasty nest? What happens when we change a nest to a nest?