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| post-RADMIN reflections | post-RADMIN reflections |
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| The ember of thinking behind [[https://cubecinema.com/pages/radmin|RADMIN]] was not so much a curatorial project as throwing up a tracer or perhaps lighting a bonfire. A wild sign to illuminate what is out there, &/or who/what would be drawn to the prospect of a festival of Administration. The topic of administration represents only a sub-category of a larger enquiry around how we might do business differently. But by nature being urgent, common, everyday (yet curiously segregated when it comes to creative practice), enveloping of both individual and collective situations (while going often unspoken / unacknowledged in each), socially awkward and determinedly anti-spectacular, it seemed like a good place to start. https://libarynth.org/ibex/radmin?do= | The ember of thinking behind [[https://cubecinema.com/pages/radmin|RADMIN]] was not so much a curatorial project as throwing up a tracer or perhaps lighting a bonfire. A wild sign to illuminate what is out there, &/or who/what would be drawn to the prospect of a festival of Administration. The topic of administration represents only a sub-category of a larger enquiry around how we might do business differently. But by nature being urgent, common, everyday (yet curiously segregated when it comes to creative practice), enveloping of both individual and collective situations (while going often unspoken / unacknowledged in each), socially awkward and determinedly anti-spectacular, it seemed like a good place to start. |
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| 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 [[http://cubecinema.com/about|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 [[http://cubecinema.com/about|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, |
| 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://cubecinema.com/programme/event/radmin-gala-dinner-the-shares-a-meal-hosted-by-the-viriconium-palace,10229|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, hitchhiking, heritage, plumbing and radical art history). | 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://cubecinema.com/programme/event/radmin-gala-dinner-the-shares-a-meal-hosted-by-the-viriconium-palace,10229|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, hitchhiking, heritage, plumbing and radical art history). |
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| Day Two was designed as a more [[https://cubecinema.com/programme/event/radmin-convention,10584|conventional series of workshops]], followed by an [[https://cubecinema.com/programme/event/radmin-office-party,10585/|office party]] at the Cube; with Day Three opening out into delegate-generated content with the [[https://cubecinema.com/programme/event/radmin-professional-development-bonanza,10586|Professional Development Bonanza], radio show, raffle and Trade Show at the Cube, and [[https://cubecinema.com/programme/event/radmin-100-ushers-feature-film-tbc,10587/|staff training session]] before closing with the reassuringly familiar format of a feature film. | Day Two was designed as a more [[https://cubecinema.com/programme/event/radmin-convention,10584|conventional series of workshops]], followed by an [[https://cubecinema.com/programme/event/radmin-office-party,10585/|office party]] at the Cube; with Day Three opening out into delegate-generated content with the [[https://cubecinema.com/programme/event/radmin-professional-development-bonanza,10586|Professional Development Bonanza]], radio show, raffle and Trade Show at the Cube, and [[https://cubecinema.com/programme/event/radmin-100-ushers-feature-film-tbc,10587|staff training session]] before closing with the reassuringly familiar format of a feature film. |
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| Participation | Participation |
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| 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. Quite literally: a feast, several repositories of cash, a mansion, the richness of innumerable projects and lives' works. An observation that life rather than money loomed over the event as the scarce resource. A number of largely health-related shocks meant a swathe of last minute cancellations as delegates were felled by illness, family and a sobering shadow of bereavements. Conversely, two vivid days of sunshine set the scene well beyond our ability to stage-manage. | 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. Quite literally a feast, several repositories of cash, a [[https://feraltrade.org/radmin/radmin_ashton_court.jpg|mansion]], the richness of innumerable projects and lives' works. I would observe that life rather than money loomed over the event, as the scarce resource. A number of largely health-related shocks meant a swathe of last minute cancellations as delegates were felled by illness, family and a sobering shadow of bereavements. Conversely, two vivid days of [[https://feraltrade.org/radmin/radmin_convention_lunch.jpg|sunshine]] set the scene well beyond our ability to stage-manage. |
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| III | III |
| IV | IV |
| The Business Experiment Raffle | The Business Experiment Raffle |
| The other money game was the raffle. Announced at the gala dinner, a [[https://blog.cubecinema.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/nggallery/radmin-2019-1/RADMIN_33.jpg|raffle]] with one ticket available to each RADMIN delegation. Entry was gated by requirement to be present at the draw and deliver a proposal for a business experiment, the £2,500 prize [[[[https://feraltrade.org/radmin/RADMIN_Raffle_winning_ticket_39.jpg|issued]] with no strings attached. The format of a pitch with the ambiguity of no reporting/accounting conditions for the winner, and a random draw. | The other money game was the raffle. Announced at the gala dinner, a [[https://blog.cubecinema.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/nggallery/radmin-2019-1/RADMIN_33.jpg|raffle]] with one ticket available to each RADMIN delegation. Entry was gated by requirement to be present at the draw and deliver a proposal for a business experiment, the £2,500 prize issued to the [[https://feraltrade.org/radmin/RADMIN_Raffle_winning_ticket_39.jpg|winning ticket]] with no strings attached. The format of a pitch with the ambiguity of no reporting/accounting conditions for the winner, and a random draw. |
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| Logistics | Logistics |
| //Delegations// | //Delegations// |
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| Large-print [[https://blog.cubecinema.com/2019/02/18/radmin-2019-documentation/nggallery/thumbnails/page/6|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 [[https://feraltrade.org/radmin/RADMIN_Delegations.pdf|programme]] with all these entities assembled together was the main treasure. | Large-print [[https://blog.cubecinema.com/2019/02/18/radmin-2019-documentation/nggallery/thumbnails/page/6|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 [[https://feraltrade.org/radmin/radmin_plumbmaid.jpg|PlumbMaid]], rather than catching names. Assembled together in the [[https://blog.cubecinema.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/nggallery/radmin-2019-1/RADMIN_9.jpg|programme]] this was the main treasure. |
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| //What was learnt// | //What was learnt// |
| g) Activities for translating administrative thinking into other realms | g) Activities for translating administrative thinking into other realms |
| h) Artist and tradesperson | h) Artist and tradesperson |
| i) & critically the role of artist/practitioner in all this. how to i) be resourced and ii) have agency. bringing together scarcity and abundance. | i) And critically the role of artist/practitioner in all this. How to both be resourced and have agency, which brings the scarcity and abundance questions together. |
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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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