Pre ResourceCamp
From Critical Practice Chelsea
20th March 2008
We met at Ian's place:
We are all brought up to speed, about the ResourceCamp and about the idea of the pre-meeting.
Sam - the finance officer in research at Chelsea was due to talk aboout his role. At the last minute, he was not able to come and so Neil filled in as best he could
Neil described his understanding of CP's finance. The relationship between Critical Practice and Chelsea, and Chelsea and the University. Sam is the financial interface between Critical Practice and the University, he manages our budget.
We discuss the RAE, research funding, and get a bit bogged down.
We struggle to remember why we are having the pre-meeting.
The we kick of a discussion about the incomennsurability of generosity and financial renumeration. CP thrives on the generosity of its participants. What is this economy? how can we model it? how to get a grip on it?
There is no obligation to particicipate and yet tremendous committment.
This is a timely debate, why are we not better connected?
This debate is raging elsewhere and why are we not in more networks - we discuss our lack.
How to get people to engage,
Cinzia thinks it would be useful even if the ResourceCamp is a discussion within CP - it could be the first link in a chain of other discussions. The ResourceCamp is discursive and the guidlines come after, a distillation of the event into 100 words or so.
Cinzia will mail everyone and we will all be very pro-active - we should aim at Human Resources HR people, people in receipt of public funds, Arts Council people, British Council people, vplunteer organizations and NGO's
Marsha asks how do you access the ResourceCamp budget. people should just claim expenses from the budget on the page.
The discussion shifts to our panel discussion
Saturday 29th March 2008 1130-1300
The View From Here: after Open Congress for Disclosures
Should we all be on 'the stage' or off' - We realise we are being asked to address specific issues:
The speakers will introduce the basis of their project and describe their own position within it. They will also outline where the project has taken its cue from, from the perspective of recent media and contemporary art history. Led by Marina Vishmidt, the discussion that follows will attempt to outline questions that were yet unresolved at the end of the described projects, with particular scrutiny on the involvement of contemporary art institutions and methodologies.
so we decide that:
Ian and Trevor will introduce the idea of the Chelsea wiki and the origins of Open Congress
Neil and Corrado to talk about Open Congess itself
Marsha and Michaela will address the historicization of Media practice?
Cinzia will (and perhaps Manuela? address the relationtonship to art institutions
action Neil to get images from Corrado of out hacked Open Congress site
we will make a 20min slide show (action Cinzia to check how long we have) - slides by Thursday, each of the four themes will have to speak as the slides appear in a pecha kucha stylee.
Trevor and Cinzia will represent be on the stage as the self-representation working group, and the rest of the speakers speak from the floor.
The meeting closes at 8.46
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