Artivistic in residency at Skol this summer!

Thanks to Skol, we will be in residency from June to August 2011 in order to work on our publication project Promiscuous Infrastructures: experiments in art + information + activism.

Promiscuous Infrastructures is an aspirational assemblage. You might say it’s an admirable if incomplete manifestation of our wildest desires: to build and inhabit states of collective autonomy through art, thought and activism. “Infrastructures” because we realize only we can gather the material and social means required to achieve what we yearn for; and “promiscuous” for the playful, loving, and uncompromising exchanges of mutual self-determination. With these fantasies in mind, the collective will be in residency at Skol over summer 2011: scheming, searching, and sharing with others.

During our residency at Skol, we will conduct research towards the production of our book and make visible the process which is our object of focus. Vital signs will likely include: public interviews with people that have experimented with means of achieving autonomy in some way shape or form; thoughts gathered from our own experiences, collaborations and history from the last seven years of producing large-scale gatherings; documentation of strange and wondrous occurrences that beg the questions “how did they organise that? How do they put bread (and especially wine) on the table? How could we do that (with them)?”; and potentially, if need be, we may provide convincing if incorrect answers to questions that are too easy to ask.

Public events will be announced shortly here and on Skol's website.

The research residency is supported by Skol and the Soutien à la consolidation des organismes de la relève et de soutien à la relève artistique de Montréal program.