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post-RADMIN reflections | post-RADMIN reflections | ||
- | The ember of thinking behind [[https:// | + | The ember of thinking behind [[https:// |
- | RADMIN was devised and delivered over a run-up of 4 months by a core team of two, alongside many others from our larger collectives the long-standing Cube Microplex and the recently formed Feral Business Network. The process embodied a rapid-fire materialisation of some decades of thinking. For me it was a space to lay out a tangle of burning questions, such as, | + | RADMIN was devised and delivered over a run-up of 4 months by a core team of two, alongside many others from our larger collectives the long-standing |
* What can artists do for business? | * What can artists do for business? | ||
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* How to speak back into the spaces of business and enterprise with new business shapes for a genuinely sustainable economy? | * How to speak back into the spaces of business and enterprise with new business shapes for a genuinely sustainable economy? | ||
- | To put these ambitions in perspective, | + | To put these ambitions in perspective, |
* To break down some of the consolidating associations of business and open up this territory to exploration; | * To break down some of the consolidating associations of business and open up this territory to exploration; | ||
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RADMIN was also and specifically a festival in, of and about the Cube Cinema, crucible of much of this thinking. The Cube is programmed, staffed and governed by approximately 150 volunteers and is many different things to each. A founding intention for RADMIN was to open out the infrastructure, | RADMIN was also and specifically a festival in, of and about the Cube Cinema, crucible of much of this thinking. The Cube is programmed, staffed and governed by approximately 150 volunteers and is many different things to each. A founding intention for RADMIN was to open out the infrastructure, | ||
- | A more practical trigger was the Feral Business Research Network (FBRN) an unrealised academic networking project, that despite being unselected for funding, played out across two workshop gatherings in London and Italy in 2018. RADMIN was to be the third and final network-building event in this series. | + | A more practical trigger was the Feral Business Research Network (FBRN) an unrealised academic networking project, that despite being unselected for funding, played out across two workshop gatherings in [[http:// |
Production/ | Production/ | ||
- | The festival format loosely followed a rapid fire or Russian roulette setup wherein a volley of short events would act as diverse triggers for thinking, each event lasting not much over an hour, after which participants could be pinballed in another direction, and with enough surrounding space for striking up conversations. A scattershot approach, opening on the first evening with a Gala Dinner in a mansion, with 3.5 minute dinner speeches to cast the terrain of what might be considered the subject matter of administration wide (in the business school, trade and logistics, monetary experiments, | + | The festival format loosely followed a rapid fire or Russian roulette setup wherein a volley of short events would act as diverse triggers for thinking, each event lasting not much over an hour, after which participants could be pinballed in another direction, and with enough surrounding space for striking up conversations. A scattershot approach, opening on the first evening with a [[https:// |
- | Day Two was designed as a more conventional series of workshops, followed by an evening | + | Day Two was designed as a more [[https:// |
Participation | Participation | ||
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The programme aimed to work both as both a dragnet and a filter: to invite in a broad constituency of interests, and gauge where the concentrations and intensities might lie - and what topics could be fruitfully discarded. In the end, the event primarily self-marketed along ley lines of association as rapid word of mouth ticket sales kept attendance almost entirely within existing networks. This made for a strange constraint, combining the contiguous with the far flung, as attendee tickets were booked by close colleagues and distant friends of friends from Malta, Serbia, Belgium, Switzerland, | The programme aimed to work both as both a dragnet and a filter: to invite in a broad constituency of interests, and gauge where the concentrations and intensities might lie - and what topics could be fruitfully discarded. In the end, the event primarily self-marketed along ley lines of association as rapid word of mouth ticket sales kept attendance almost entirely within existing networks. This made for a strange constraint, combining the contiguous with the far flung, as attendee tickets were booked by close colleagues and distant friends of friends from Malta, Serbia, Belgium, Switzerland, | ||
- | The call for participation was to bring your own business, which was successful in attracting small delegations, | + | The call for participation was to bring your own business, which was successful in attracting small delegations, |
Reflections | Reflections | ||
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I | I | ||
The budget is the content. | The budget is the content. | ||
- | The budget was both an organising input and a featured programme output of the event, printed and distributed as an A3 poster. In accordance with the economy of the Cube, the event was run entirely on ticket sales and substantial personal/ | + | [[https:// |
II | II | ||
- | As a whole, the festival performed a demonstration of a wealth of resources which ran counter to a litany of scarcity that surged through many of the conversations. | + | As a whole, the festival performed a demonstration of a wealth of resources which ran counter to a litany of scarcity that surged through many of the conversations. |
III | III | ||
- | The Viriconium Palace money experiment, which opened the event, inflected procedings more than expected. Reactions a pervasive line of discord through the event. I would assess part of the distrubance was in response | + | The Viriconium Palace money experiment, which opened the event, inflected procedings more than expected. Reactions |
IV | IV | ||
The Business Experiment Raffle | The Business Experiment Raffle | ||
- | The other money game, the raffle, was surprisingly uncontentious. Announced at the gala dinner, a raffle with one ticket available to each delegation, a £2,500 prize, | + | The other money game was the raffle. Announced at the gala dinner, a [[https:// |
Logistics | Logistics | ||
- | Working across two venues served to extend the concept of the Cube, its operations, administration and self-image, well beyond the building. It also stretched our organising capacity and human energies to the limits. The Cube has an inhouse tradition of extreme | + | Working across two venues served to extend the concept of the Cube, its operations, administration and self-image, well beyond the building. It also stretched our organising capacity and human energies to the limits. The Cube has an inhouse tradition of attention to detail. As a determinedly all-volunteer workforce, this work was woven into and around other labours (painting and decorating, lecturing, telephone sales, archiving, public speaking, parenting and not ironically admin roles). Cube ushers took days off well-paid jobs elsewhere to work back-to-back shifts, involving a lot of cleaning. |
- | Questions of how to be handbuilt and powerful were vividly rendered in the sub-project of the printed | + | Questions of //how to be handbuilt and powerful// were vividly rendered in the sub-project of the [[https:// |
- | Delegations | + | //Delegations// |
- | Large-print lanyards made organisational entities vivid to each other across a crowded room. Attending as organisational entities had the effect that afterwards people were referring to each other as TOFU or PlumbMaid, rather than catching names. The programme was the treasure. | + | Large-print |
- | What was learnt | + | //What was learnt// |
From the hindsight of the day-after debrief breakfast the following points came into focus. | From the hindsight of the day-after debrief breakfast the following points came into focus. | ||
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Converging desires, how to still speak to the street, bring in business, not alienate those already 20 years in to the the process and still keep the peripheries open. | Converging desires, how to still speak to the street, bring in business, not alienate those already 20 years in to the the process and still keep the peripheries open. | ||
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- | And a challenge to be less white. | ||
How to engage (or not) with lines of conversation that circled back to ' | How to engage (or not) with lines of conversation that circled back to ' | ||
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The omission to emphasise to all (not just to speakers and workshop hosts) that the programme constituted actual research, not content delivery for an audience. So the process is contributory and where it doesn' | The omission to emphasise to all (not just to speakers and workshop hosts) that the programme constituted actual research, not content delivery for an audience. So the process is contributory and where it doesn' | ||
- | Next steps | + | //Next steps// |
- | Primary that the workshops were too short, the frameworks were just being played with. | + | A switch from a network/ |
+ | Lines of enquiry to include: | ||
- | This calls for a switch from a network/ | + | a) Legal |
- | + | b) Administrative | |
- | The valuable interdisciplinarity here is in bringing these enquiries into the same hosting space / the same page / into physical/ | + | c) Vegetal |
- | + | d) Pscyhological | |
- | a) Legal (teresa' | + | e) Enterprise |
- | b) Administrative | + | f) Creative accounting (not present at RADMIN, but critical) |
- | c) Vegetal | + | g) Activities for translating administrative thinking into other realms |
- | d) Pscyhological | + | h) Artist and tradesperson |
- | e) Representational angle (ellen' | + | i) & critically |
- | f) Creative accounting (not present at RADMIN, but critical. need to find someone to lad it) | + | |
- | g) Physicalising admin (intimacy encryption / heath, administrative postures / guy. translating administrative thinking into other realms) | + | |
- | h) Artist and tradesperson | + | |
- | i) perhaps closely related with h), the role of artist/ | + | |
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An immediate task to organise around, the post-RADMIN reader | An immediate task to organise around, the post-RADMIN reader | ||
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An annual retreat | An annual retreat | ||
- | An annual counter-capital raffle | + | An annual counter-capital raffle! |
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- | keeping open at the edges. the more surface area in the edges, the more can go on. | + | |
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- | Something compelling to articulate in the inversion between handing personhood to a river - a better than nothing anthropomorphising - and the reverse, that a stone can be a business doesn' | + | |
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