7:15 - 8:15 PM
Everything I Make Comes Back Home to Live with Me
Caroline Woolard
(keynote)
Since the 2007/2008 economic crisis, I have been organizing platforms for solidarity art economies where satisfaction might be based upon mutual respect rather than individual accumulation. In this keynote, I will speak from personal experience about the contradictions and promises of online networks as well as the emergent place-based initiatives I take part in. I will speak about a range of approaches I have taken, from facilitating a barter network (http://OurGoods.org) in New York City to co-creating a barter based learning space (http://TradeSchool.coop/story) in 30 cities internationally, from an advocacy group dedicated to raising awareness about art student debt (http://bfamfaphd.com) to an emerging NYC Real Estate Investment Cooperative (http://nycreic.com). Throughout the talk, I will reflect upon the “work stories” I am telling, as well as how these shift when the entire supply chain is included in the narrative. I will ask: What if meaning is made not only in the initial encounter with a work of art, but in the laborious hours of production, dissemination, and deconstruction?
Caroline Woolard is an artist and organizer whose interdisciplinary work facilitates social imagination at the intersection of art, urbanism, architecture, and political economy. After co-founding and co-directing resource sharing networks OurGoods.org and TradeSchool.coop from 2008-2014, Woolard is now focused on her work with BFAMFAPhD.com to raise awareness about the impact of rent, debt, and precarity on culture and on the NYC Real Estate Investment Cooperative to create and support truly affordable commercial space for cultural resilience and economic justice in New York City. Caroline Woolard’s work has been supported by MoMA, the Rockefeller Cultural Innovation Fund, Eyebeam, the MacDowell Colony, unemployment benefits, the curiosity of strangers, and many collaborators. Recent group exhibitions include: Crossing Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY; Maker Biennial, The Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY; and Artist as Social Agent, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. Woolard’s work will be featured in Art21’s New York Close Up documentary series over the next three years. Woolard is a lecturer at the School of Visual Arts and the New School, is an Artist in Residence at the Queens Museum of Art, and was just named the 2015 Arts and Social Justice Fellow at the Judson Church. carolinewoolard.com
Todo lo que hago se viene a casa a vivir conmigo
Caroline Woolard
(conferencia magistral)
Desde la crisis económica del 2007/2008, he estado organizando plataformas para economías de arte solidarias donde la satisfacción puede radicar en el respeto mutuo más que en la acumulación personal. En esta presentación, hablaré desde mi experiencia personal sobre las contradicciones y promesas de las redes virtuales como también de las iniciativas emergentes de lugares específicos de las que formo parte. Me referiré a una gama de acercamientos que he tomado, desde la facilitación de una red de trueques (http://OurGoods.org) en la ciudad de Nueva York a la co-creación de un espacio de aprendizaje basado en el trueque (http://TradeSchool.coop/story) en 30 ciudades internacionales, desde un grupo de apoyo dedicado a crear conciencia sobre la deuda del estudiante de arte (http://bfamfaphd.com) a una emergente NYC Real Estate Investment Cooperative [Cooperativa de inversión en bienes raíces de Nueva York] (http://nycreic.com). A lo largo de la presentación, reflexionaré sobre las “historias laborales” que estoy contando, como también cómo estas cambian cuando toda la cadena de abastecimiento es incluida en la narrativa. Preguntaré: ¿Qué pasaría si pensamos que el significado surge no sólo en el encuentro inicial con una obra de arte, sino que en las laboriosas horas de producción, diseminación y deconstrucción?