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Scaffolding Becoming Autonomies Ungovernable

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Scaffolding / Becoming / Autonomies / Ungovernable is a series of workshops and iterative publication. 

Scaffolding / Becoming / Autonomies / Ungovernable invites audiences to explore personal processes of building up solidarity economies and tearing down oppressive instituions. These two threads are considered as simultanouse, interwoven practices of autonomous world-building. The project is centers on two workshops:

Publishing as an Organizing Tool: Tactics in Becoming Ungovernable

Presented by X-TRA and Active Cultures as part of Total Landscaping Reading Group
August 12, 2023, Los Angeles, CA
A poster reads “Publishing as an organizing Tool, Sat Aug 12 X-tra xx laabf, Tactics for becoming Ungovernable! Active cultures” atop a blurry black and white image of a crowd. The poster centers simple white line drawings of overlapping hands and the right edge of the poster is lime green and reads in smaller vertically oriented text “center for liberatory practice & poetry// facilitated by kimi hanauer.”
“Freedom is the process by which you develop a practice of being unavailable for servitude.” –Avery F. Gordon, paraphrasing Toni Cade Bambara

Publishing as an Organizing Tool: Tactics for Becoming Ungovernable gathers participants around a collection of materials that engage publishing practices as forms of resistance to state power. The workshop acts as an invitation to think with and explore the critical dimensions of ungovernability as a language that “reflects an intuition that modes of living together beyond government, pursued through collective acts of refusal and negation could… provide lines of flight out of the hopelessly striated spaces of our contemporary social, political, and economic existence.” [1] Through an intentional process of personal reflection and group discussion, participants will co-create a shared manifesto, Tactics for Becoming Ungovernable. In gathering a library of works of theory, personal writing, artworks, and independent publications, this workshop invites participants into nonlinear collective learning and conversation around abolitionist anarchist perspectives on media-based organizing.

[1] “Becoming Ungovernable: A Reassessment” by Nikita Shepard.

Scaffolding Autonomies: Scores for Daily Rehearsal

Presented by ICA LA and Printed Matter
August 13, 2023, Los Angeles, CA

Scaffolding Autonomies: Scores for Daily Rehearsal (Virtual)

Presented by Mandeville Art Gallery at University of California, Los Angeles as part of How We Gather
November 4, 2023, San Diego, CA
A poster scribes in handwriting and printed text “Scaffolding Autonomies, LAABF, ICA LA, Printed Matter” atop a blurry black and white image of a crowd. Moving diagonally across is a quick off-white drawing of a hooped and gridded structure. The right edge of the poster is bright purple and reads in small vertically-oriented text “center for liberatory practice & poetry// facilitated by kimi hanauer.”

Scaffolding Autonomies: Scores for Daily Rehearsal gathers participants to chronicle and rehearse infrastructures for collective care and solidarity that emerge from the encounters of our everyday lives. Through an exploration of artworks, poetry, theory, and political projects, participants are invited into score-making as an artistic practice that moves us toward a horizon of autonomy and collective self-determination. Grounded in the framework of mutual aid, this workshop explores the overlaps between practices of collective care that sustain social movements and daily bodily motion, experience, and presence.

A black and white printed zine lays open to a spread of a photo titled undoing borders and guiding principles texts. It lay atop many colorful zines circling it. A collection of masked people gather around a long table paging through zines and political flyers. Workshop reader lays open on a table to a risograph print which says, "start to cave in? Have you also reentered this place so permanently transformed?" Participants read zines and look through printed matter at the workshop. A book is open to a scanned handmade poster that says, "A revolution is not a spectacle! There are no spectators! Everyone participates weather they know it or not." The workshop reader lays open on top of other readers piled on a table. Markele and Sophie are masked and gaze into a large open newsprint together. Markele, who is a Black Baltimorian, holds the folded newsprint up and open for them both. Sophie, who is a white person of Greek and Ashkenazi descent, sits next to them and reads along. A birdseye view from above a diagonally positioned table shows participants writing and reflecting across different colored sheets of paper. Two participants lean into looking at a book together on top of a table strewn with printed material. One of the participants wears a bright orange mask matching their tube top. A wooden table is strewn with multi colored workbooks, masks, zines, posters and a phone. White chart paper is scribed with “social /collective/ movement/ transformation” above a cropped venn diagram filled with green and blue post-it notes. A group of adults collects standing and talking in pairs in a workshop lit by string lights. Adults joyfully move around a workshop space in front of a line of chairs. A table of organized overlapping zines and printed political matter is positioned diagonally through the center of the photo. A yellow and black and white zine is open to a spread that reads “Publishing as an organizing tool!” including an open venn diagram titled “building up” and “tearing down.” The zine lays open across many colorful zines spread under it. People stand in pairs facing one another with hands meeting in a workshop space. A black and white photo printed on faint blue paper images a vast mass of protesters under a streetlight. A typed caption interjects the photo with the words “Be realistic, demand the impossible! How the events of 1968 transformed French society. C J Poluchroniou.”
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