Simona (Adri's notes)
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Inbal
It weird how it was easier for me to imagine the 25 years mark, more than the 1 year mark. In general I have been thinking about foundation as a physical thing - being rooted in place and time. In 25 years we don't know how the world will look like. Maybe ARC somehow will create this space between the academy and the self-initiated. Art/Science laboratory or something. Artistic research oscillates between the art and the science which can be confusing. In 25 years it could be a place, but it can also be a body of people that do stuff and take root in different places and wherever they are they connect to a local network. I hope in 5 years we will at least be rooted in a physical space where people can come and connect to us. Like a library - but not a library. Where people can come and encounter. In one year, who knows. Maybe have more seasonal events. Twice a year or more to know it's there and it will happen and we will find our way there.

Adri
Was nice to do. At some point things came. I was imagining the coming year in the things we already started and worked on last year. That they somehow continue - the not-knowing will manifest in the next year, maybe a new symposium. Also the working together there. Also the ARC being more connected to local organisation, doing projects together. An artistic residency or a working period. Being more connected. To try it out and make an interesting program. That's where I started to take off, thinking about five years, that we manage to be really connected to local and regional organisations. Social or environmental in a more structural collaboration. To help somehow. To really bridge this artistic research with other contexts. Also a deeper connection to the university and also the students, so that they can be a more natural part of the community, like residencies. I also see something like an annual symposium where all projects come together to show how artistic research can be a part of society. 25 years was more difficult - to see how we changed organisations with an attitude that breaks down walls between organisations, showing how you can do things together, more bottom up.

Anna
I experience that some people are easier to imagine the shorter term, for others far future is easier.

Agustin
Thinking a little bit back in connection to the first year. Towards one year thinking about formation/blossoming place. With very much this idea or drive for reach out - nearing this year. Already with quite a few activities. Coming more towards 5 year period of connection and expansion. More concrete - luna(?) has masters program - connection to students. In our case more a residency instead of exhibition. Accompanying and doing together as ARC ethos. 25 years I was thinking about how ARC becomes member of interplanetary artistic research network.

Anke
It evolved in my head while listening to everybody. What I like about ARC we are in a circle, we have different networks around us and we bring them in. Working around issues, continue - we have a specific way of working around it. How we work, we should clarify. In five years we are famous for a way of working. Gentle approach, open, if you come there you are involved. Bring in people not artists. Is what we share, like Agustin in his approach, bringing in not-artists. Now I understand what our publication should be about. In 25 years I am 85 I will need your help with the house in France. You can bring your children and grandchildren to France.


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Questions:
- What change proces do you want to be part of?
S: Ways of working together (edit>>)- embracing uncertainty - intervening in different contexts and empowering (as) communities. (For me particularly in relations to algorithmic literacy)
Anke: concretely also bring in issues of own practice - like people being locked up in institution
Inbal: Moving between institutions and being part of creating that space - and facilitating in that space. Conceptualising programs that invite others in the space.
Agustin: twofold - investigation how to bring artistic interventions into other field. Secondary how in those interventions how the arts can bring matters of literacy and sovereignty to the forefront.
Henry: I resonate with Inbal. Have structure outside of institutions. Changing the conversation completely.
Anke: We believe in certain approaches. Challenge structures and approaches. Challenging dominant power structures within universities and the academy.
Adri: I relate to the rest. Sense there are similar urges. They ways arts and artistic research are used to intervene in institutions or create a space in-between like Inbal says. To me its also about re-... the role of artistic research in society. We don't want to stay in the bubble. It's really about crossing these borders. Also like Agustin says to create structural interventions not only artistic interventions. Make really accessible and show how easy it is.

Organise another meeting and continue

Dear ARCers,

This year we wish to begin a  collective process that will lead to an ARC 'publication'.
On the first week of December, we will meet to Brain-storm and Imagination-sparking over this topic - 
asking -
What can an ARC publication be?
Why are we interested in having one? ( or more :)
and Who wants to work on it, conceptually and/or practically?

Have a nice autumn-avond 🍵  
Inbal & Anna

An exciting update from the Not Knowing Core! We had the idea to organize a small event in the week when Emma Cocker is in Groningen for a workshops specially for ARC (14 November, more info will follow)  and an ARC-talk coming November 14 to 18. There was already an idea to invite fellow artists and researchers, collectives, research labs, but also everyone who is specifically interested in Not Knowing as a method and attitude in the fields of arts and the social context.

When we all came back from our holidays we came together and developed a plan for a small hands-on symposium about Not Knowing on 17^th November in which we invite artist and researcher Emma Cocker(UK), performance artist Ernest Truely  (FI/US ), Slow Research Lab(NL) and Stroom (NL) to create a hands-on symposium program together with us for about 50 participating guests. The location of the symposium will be the abandoned indoor swimming pool in Backbone050. We wrote a funding proposal for the Kunstraad and handed it in on the 15^th of August. So now we need our fingers crossed!

You can read the proposal through this link.  https://cryptpad.fr/file/#/2/file/aBDg2v9S-uEvdZ7hbYebdHwI/

If you have any additions or suggestions please don’t hesitate to reply!. Also when you would like to be involved in organizing in any form, please let us know. All the help is very welcome!

Best wishes the NK Core,

T.S. Anna, Simona, Kevin and Adri

Who is and who is not joining? I know some people are away from Groningen, does that mean that you would like to join online or that you will not join at all?

Judith van der Elst would also like to join this meeting. She is taking care of the Art+Technology research line in 'Image in Context', and more specifically the Elsa Lab (AI project in relation to healthcare+art). She could tell us about some possibilities and her intentions. I have suggested that she joins at 11:30.

Here is a document for the agenda. Please do add items you find important.

I made some changes in the About page of the website. The reason is that I applied for an ANBI label for the ARC one of the obligations is that we need to publish relevant information about the foundation and that needs to be easy to find. For now I got rid of the membership part and expanded the foundation information and put it on top of the page. 

Cheers

Adri

The previous meeting minutes are here.