Contracting and Collaborating as Vulnerable Subjects
Workshop on collaboration riders and inclusive contracts
LOCATIONBlack Box
DATES22 Aug, Sat
START/ END TIMEs5.30 - 7.30pm
AccessibilityStep-free etc.
AdmissionsSynopsisMany 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.
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. Looking toward alternative knowledge systems, Tan interrogates the legacies of empire with a particular interest in Southeast Asian and Tropical epistemologies of resistance. 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: Shirlene Loo
