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| //Organising through a RADMIN lens// | //Organising through a RADMIN lens// |
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| The container of RADMIN had the fun side of rendering many of the usual stumbling blocks and dull administrative grooves into sites of special interest, even if often just a performance to ourselves. This included getting caught in each others' spam filters, the online ticket-seller software hardcoding Valentine's Day into the event description, and our out of business hours email habits tripping a wealth of out of office autoresponses. | The container of RADMIN had the fun side of rendering many of the usual stumbling blocks and dull administrative grooves as vivid or poignant sites of special interest, even if just a performance to ourselves. This included getting caught in each others' spam filters, the online ticket-seller software hardcoding Valentine's Day into the event description, and our out of business hours email habits tripping a wealth of out of office autoresponders. |
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| Questions of //how to be handbuilt and powerful// were vividly rendered in the sub-project of the [[https://feraltrade.org/radmin/RADMIN_READER_FINAL.pdf|RADMIN reader]], a zine-like collection of short texts and a DIY endeavour by design. Graphics students from the University contributed the design and layout as part of their professional practice module. However when it came to print, fold and staple, not passing the 70-unit job over to University Print Services (a design decision, not budget-driven) caused an operating logjam played out in the art department printer queue, where I spent almost two entire days negotiating with (supportive) IT support technicians, network log-in protocols, office supply enclaves, line-management protocols, institutional hierarchies, beneficial staplers and the whole situated process of production which was really the entire point. | Questions of //how to be handbuilt and powerful// were vividly rendered in the sub-project of the [[https://feraltrade.org/radmin/RADMIN_READER_FINAL.pdf|RADMIN reader]], a zine-like collection of short texts and a DIY endeavour by design. Graphics students from the University contributed the design and layout as part of their professional practice module. However when it came to print, fold and staple, not passing the 70-unit job over to University Print Services (a design decision, not budget-driven) caused an operating logjam played out in the art department printer queue, where I spent almost two entire days negotiating with (supportive) IT support technicians, network log-in protocols, office supply enclaves, line-management protocols, irate institutional hierarchies, beneficial staplers and the whole situated process of production which was really the entire point. |
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| //Logistics// | //Logistics// |
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| 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. 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. | 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. As a determinedly all-volunteer workforce with a proud tradition of attention to detail, this work was woven into and around other occupations (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. |
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| //The Money// | //The Money// |
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| As a whole, the festival performed a demonstration of a wealth of resources which ran counter to a litany of monetary scarcity that surges through many conversations in the arts (as elsewhere). Quite literally this included a feast, several repositories of cash, a [[https://feraltrade.org/radmin/radmin_ashton_court.jpg|mansion]], the richness of innumerable projects and lives' works. In fact life, rather than money, loomed over the event as the scarce resource. A slew of largely health-related reasons caused a number of last minute cancellations as delegates were felled by illness, family and a sobering shadow of bereavements. Conversely, two days of brilliant winter [[https://feraltrade.org/radmin/radmin_convention_lunch.jpg|sun]] 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 monetary scarcity that surges through many conversations in the arts (as elsewhere). Quite literally this included a feast, several repositories of cash, a [[https://feraltrade.org/radmin/radmin_ashton_court.jpg|mansion]], the richness of innumerable projects and lives' works. In the end, life rather than money loomed over the event as the scarce resource. A slew of largely health-related reasons caused a number of last minute cancellations as delegates were felled by illness, family and a sobering shadow of bereavements. Conversely, two days of brilliant winter [[https://feraltrade.org/radmin/radmin_convention_lunch.jpg|sun]] set the scene well beyond our ability to stage-manage. |
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