Name: Shift/Work: Speculations
Start: 2017-03-03T10:00:00Z
End: 2017-03-04T17:00:00Z
Location: Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop

Shift/Work: Speculations

SHIFT/WORK //// Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop //// 25 Hawthornvale, Newhaven, Edinburgh, EH6 4JT +44 (0) 131 551 4490www.shift-work.org.ukShift/Workreconfigures workshop-based approaches to artistic learning that are theoretically informed, practical and participatory. Shift/Work has established a collective ontology for art practice though an autotelic paragogy in which participants design, playtest and reflect upon their learning processes. Key to this is an open engagement with practice (work) as a means of both generating and transferring new knowledge (shift). This experiential knowledge facilitates new practices and open educational resources for artists and educators to adapt and implement.

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<DIV>Speculations is a two day Shift/Workshop. <I>Speculations</I> will be collectively composed and play-tested at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop on the 3rd and 4th of March 2017, a participatory action-research workshop ordained to fabricate speculative artistic research methods. </DIV>
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<DIV>Friday 3rd 10am-5pm</DIV>
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<DIV>Saturday 4th 10am-5pm</DIV>
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<DIV><I>What will we be ‘composing'?</I></DIV>
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<DIV>We will compose a workshop in which participants develop, learn and apply speculative artistic research methods. It is crucial that the genesis of this workshop is, in its own right, <I>speculative</I>. Our speculative process encourages artistic practices that cannot be held, observed‌ or enacted without taking risks or experiencing their consequences. To this end, Shift/Work: Speculations will be collectively composed.<BR><BR>Speculative methods may include, but are not limited to: <I>abduction, syncretism, forecasting, futurism, divination, becoming-rites, probing (making and employing actants), paradisciplinarity, ‘pataphysics, hyperstition, theory-fiction, mythopoesis, fabulation, fictioning, (mis)management, gaming / playing, versioning, licensing, servicizing, technés / technoetics, extended cognition (ExC), imaginative propositions, paper architecture, thought experiments, proposing, lateral thinking/feeling/knowing, weird-ing, speculative realism, mangle-practice….</I><BR><BR><I>Who are the Shift/Workers?</I></DIV>
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<DIV>A <I>compagon</I> of ‘composers’ - comprising artists, curators, designers, musicians, producers, educationalists, social anthropologists, philosophers and futurists - will join us at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop in March 2017 to scribe and audition <I>Speculations. </I>Working in three groups, participants will compose three iterative workshops. The three groups will then rotate, each participating in the workshops composed by their peers. Our post-workshop re-calibration of the three workshops will translate them into <I>one</I> workshop. Shift/Work will direct <I>this</I> ‘calibrated’ workshop at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale at the end of March 2017. www.kochimuzirisbiennale.org</DIV>
<DIV><BR>At the time of writing, we may only speculate on the form <I>Speculations </I>will take. We speculate that the workshop will enable participants to compose, experience and evaluate an iterative, action-based, peer-to-peer learning experience that is both theoretical and practical. We expect they will learn how their speculations (and their attendant risks and uncertainties) are co-affective upon the experiences of their peers. Like previous Shift/Workshops, <I>Speculations</I> will enact relevant discourses, practices and models of artistic paragogy to enable and inspire participants to adopt speculative methods <I>and</I> implement their own workshops.<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV>We hope that you can come to ESW to take part in the composition phase of this workshop.</DIV>
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<DIV><EM>NB: If you are able to particpate for only <SPAN>one</SPAN> day, please contact us to let us know.</EM></DIV>
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<DIV>IMAGE: <EM>Weirding Die</EM> by Jake Watts (2017)</DIV>

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