Contracting and Collaborating as Vulnerable Subjects
Contract clauses from a 'visual contract' created for the University of Sheffield's Centre for Equity and Inclusion.
Photo credit: Tan Jack Ky
venueBlack Box, 42 Waterloo Street
DATE22 Aug, Sat
TIME5.30 - 7.30pm
AdmissionFree with registration at citrusfest2026.peatix.com
SynopsisMany partnerships and work agreements in the arts are often uncompassionate and even punitive, because they take the starting point that everyone around the table is healthy, resourced, and ‘invulnerable’. But human beings are by nature vulnerable subjects that navigate harm, trauma and change. So how can we create working relationships in the arts that take into account everyone’s needs and vulnerabilities, while providing an acceptable level of legal certainty?
Drawing on Martha Fineman's Vulnerability Theory as a lens, artist Tan Jack Ky will facilitate a workshop supported by festival curator Chong Gua Khee, to dissect collaboration riders and inclusive contracts. Then, they will support you in putting together your own take, so that ultimately we can better reframe ourselves as resilient vulnerable parties for more mutually nurturing working relationships.
Please note:
Jack Ky will facilitate the workshop virtually, while Gua Khee will be present in person.
There are no prerequisites to participate. However, should the workshop be oversubscribed, we will select a broad group of participants from different disciplines, backgrounds and interests.
We will confirm your participation by 17 Aug, and will send any materials and further information then.
About the Arts Workers
Tan Jack Ky (he/him)
ArtistTan Jack Ky is a UK-based interdisciplinary artist working across performance, sculpture, installation and institutional critique. His practice is an ongoing exploration of social justice that blurs the boundaries between, art, law, governance, and consultancy. His work attempts to rethink our entanglement with the human and more-than-human worlds, and looks towards alternative ways of living and working.
Photo credit: Tan Jack Ky. 'Art School Surgery' part of How To Do Things With Rules solo exhibition, 2016. ICA Singapore. Wall text handpainted and reproduced from "Corita Kent’s Rules & Hints for Students and Teachers" (lettering by David Mekelburg), https://www.corita.org/tenrules.
Chong Gua Khee (she/her)
Director and DramaturgChong Gua Khee is a director and dramaturg based across Singapore and Helsinki/Finland. She is endlessly curious about so many things, but especially about how your everyday experiences are shaped by societal factors–and how you in turn shape the world around you!
Photo credit: Antti Rintala
